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A screenshot of a CPU-Z benchmark score of an alleged AMD Ryzen 9 5900X has surfaced. The screenshot shows us both the single-core and multi-core score, compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X, but another image with the Ryzen 9 3900X overclocked to 4.5GHz has also been posted by the same leaker.

MSI latest Beta BIOS for AMD 500-series motherboards adds support for “future AM4 socket processors”. This BIOS update comes with the Combo PI V2 1.1.0.0 which includes other optimisations and fixes for memory and CPU overclocking related issues. For now, only 11 motherboards have received this Beta BIOS update: 5x X570 …

A new rumour suggests that AMD will launch its first Ryzen 5000 processors on October 20th or 27th. A release date for the Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards has also been rumoured, sitting somewhere between November 15th and 20th.  As per Yuri Bubliy, the creator of CTR and DRAM Calculator …

New benchmark gives us an idea of what to expect from AMD's next-gen Ryzen desktop processors.

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Intel is deeply excited about their imminent 11th Gen. Tiger Lake mobile CPU which is due to go on sale at the end of September. We know this because Intel sent us a sample of Tiger Lake in an MSI laptop so we could take a good look for ourselves and also share the benchmark results with our KitGuru audience.

It seems that AMD will use two architectures in its Ryzen 5000U series. Initially, it was thought that “Cezanne” would be the only one used, but some SKUs might feature a different architecture called Lucienne, a refresh of the currently available Renoir. The Lucienne architecture has been previously mentioned by …

New information about the AMD “Rembrandt” (Ryzen 6000) APUs suggests that this architecture will support DDR5-5200 memory, and it will be powered by the Zen3 core architecture using the 6nm process node. Just to remind you, “Rembrandt” is the codename for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 6000 series APUs, the successor to …

AMD has just launched the first “Zen” processors for Chromebooks, the Ryzen 3000C series. Set to be used in Acer, ASUS, HP and Lenovo systems, the new series of AMD mobile processors for Chromebooks will consist of 5 SKUs, offering up to 212% better performance than the previous generation. Based on …

A new tweet posted by software engineer Patrick Schur suggests that AMD will indeed skip the Ryzen 4000 naming scheme for the upcoming Zen3 processors. The decision behind this could be that the company wants to unify the name of the upcoming Ryzen “Cezanne” APUs, which use Zen3 architecture, with …

With Nvidia's ARM acquisition, the company is in a good place to start producing its own CPUs. Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, already hinted at it but only time will tell how this goes. Besides, regulators might prevent the acquisition altogether, but Jensen is confident that the “regulators are going to …

Intel’s corporate vice president of client computing, Boyd Phelps, has confirmed that the company is developing Tiger Lake-H processors with 8-core configurations. These 8-core processors are expected to feature 45W TDP, while the 35W TDP ones should only feature 4-core configurations. In a blog post on Medium, Boyd Phelps confirmed …

A confidential document from AMD showing the specifications of the upcoming Ryzen 4000 “Vermeer” processors has been leaked. Dated from June 10th, the document tells us that the upcoming Ryzen 4000 processors will feature up to 2 CCX with 8 cores each, resulting in a maximum core count of 16 and a …

AMD has a big October ahead with two events planned - one to launch Zen 3 Ryzen desktop processors and another to officially launch the next-generation of Radeon graphics cards.

1usmus, the creator of DRAM calculator for Ryzen and ClockTuner for Ryzen, has discovered some interesting things in the latest AGESA version. Apparently, this AGESA version hints at some upcoming features for Zen 3 processors, including a 10-core Ryzen “Vermeer” SKU, a “Curve Optimizer”, and Infinity Fabric dividers. Despite all …

Allegedly set to release in Q1 2021, Intel Jasper Lake is the successor to the low-power Gemini Lake architecture. Intel Jasper Lake is Intel's upcoming processor architecture aimed at entry-level laptops and mini desktops, and it will be using the Tremont core architecture. Through the use of the Tremont architecture, …

Today, Intel is launching its first Tiger Lake CPUs. Built to be the best option for thin and light laptops, Intel's 11 Gen Core processors are the first to debut Intel Xe graphics and will appear in more than 150 laptop designs.  Intel's latest generation of mobile PC processors promise …

Two videos comparing the Intel Core i7-1185G7 to the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U have surfaced. The first video is focused on gaming with each processor using their respective iGPU, while the second one is focused on comparing performance in productivity and professional applications. The videos have since been removed due to a …

The Intel Core i7-1185G7 and Core i5-1135G7 have been spotted in the Geekbench 5 database. Given that Intel is about to launch the Tiger Lake architecture in just four days, it's possible that these specifications are final. Starting with the Intel Core i7-1185G7, @TUM_APISAK shared on Twitter two entries of this processor on …

New rumours about AMD Epyc Milan suggest that this architecture will offer a performance bump of up to 20% compared to its predecessor. Other improvements should also come with Epyc Milan, including the reorganisation of the L3 cache on each CCX, and an IPC increase over the Epyc Rome. AMD …

With Intel's Tiger Lake launch event coming up soon, the company is sending out more teasers, with the latest revealing a lot of rebranding...

The creator of DRAM Calculator for Ryzen has launched a new utility called ClockTuner for Ryzen. CTR is a tool that can squeeze extra performance from Zen2 processors by undervolting the highest quality CCXs in your processor individually.

Today we are back and pleased to hit the 50-episode milestone for Leo Says! In this Half-Century special, Leo is one again looking closely at Intel and the latest news surrounding the company. There's more discussion about Xe GPUs, Ponte Vecchio, and a look ahead to both Alder Lake and Tiger Lake CPUs...

Despite AMD stating that there was no support for CPU overclocking on A520 motherboards, it seems that a workaround has been found - at least on Gigabyte A520 motherboards.

A reliable source has leaked more of AMD's future roadmap, detailing upcoming APUs. This time, we get some new details on processors codenamed 'Warhol', 'Van Gogh' and 'Cezanne', as well as their respective successors. 

This week, TSMC announced a very significant milestone – the semiconductor officially shipped one billion 7nm chips as of July 2020. That number doesn't include any chips that had to be thrown out due to defects, it is a cool one billion, functional and defect-free 7nm chips.  According to TSMC, …

It is still early days for Apple's next-gen Bionic SoC, but so far, it looks like it will give a laptop 9th Gen Intel Core i9 a run for its money. Geekbench 5 benchmark scores of the Apple A14X Bionic have surfaced, and the results are impressive, offering as much performance …

Intel has revealed more details about its upcoming Tiger Lake CPU architecture. During a presentation at Hot Chips 2020, Intel revealed the die of a quad-core Tiger Lake processor and shared new information on the architecture's specifications and power management. Intel Tiger Lake is the company's latest mobile focused architecture. …

IBM has revealed its next generation of Power processors. The upcoming Power10 CPUs were designed to “meet the unique needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing”, focusing on its performance and energy efficiency across a multitude of workloads. The IBM Power10 CPU is being developed for over 5 years and it …

Intel Architecture Day 2020 has taken place and just as promised, this year, Raja Koduri took centre stage with discussions on Xe graphics and the several forms it will take - from mobile GPUs, to data centre and of course, gaming.