So far, AMD has only released its highest-end RX 7000 series GPUs. We may finally see a new mid-range graphics card from AMD soon though. According to reports, AMD recently informed board partners about the launch schedule for its upcoming RX 7600 XT graphics card. According to Moore's Law Is …
Read More »The Z1 Extreme-powered ROG Ally may launch at $699
So far, the only thing Asus has officially revealed about the ROG Ally's price point is that it will be under $1000. An official announcement is due in May, but a leaker claims to already know the price for the Z1 Extreme version.
Read More »Motherboard makers roll out new BIOS to prevent Ryzen 7000X3D overvolting
Following reports of damage to AMD Ryzen 7000X3D processors and motherboard sockets, manufacturers such as MSI, Asus, and Gigabyte have released new firmware updates to address potential issues. To prevent further harm to the components, the latest BIOS blocks SoC voltage for these chips to protect the CPU and motherboard. …
Read More »AMD announces Ryzen Z1 processors to power new wave of handheld gaming PCs
We've been hearing about the Ryzen Z1 series processors through leaks recently. Today, AMD is making it official, announcing the new Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme processors for a new generation of handheld gaming PCs.
Read More »AMD Zen 5-based Ryzen 8000 mobile CPU specs reportedly leak
We're still some ways off from AMD officially announcing new Zen 5 CPUs and its next generation of Ryzen processors for laptops. However, according to a new report, specs are beginning to leak. A new video from Moore's Law Is Dead reports information about the CPU and GPU architectures for …
Read More »Asus ROG Ally shows up on Geekbench with two different APUs
Asus's upcoming ROG Ally has been spotted on Geekbench. The recently found entries suggest the forthcoming portable console will have two custom AMD Ryzen “Phoenix” APU options with considerably different GPU specs: the Ryzen Z1 and the Z1 Extreme. Benchleaks was the first to share a Geekbench entry of the …
Read More »AMD Radeon 780M RDNA3 iGPU delivers decent gaming performance at FHD
The ASUS TUF system powered by the latest AMD Phoenix APU, Ryzen 9 7940HS, has been reviewed. The Phoenix APU was introduced by AMD at CES 2023, featuring the Zen 4 architecture and an RDNA3 iGPU. While we still don't know everything about the Ryzen 7040HS series, the review sheds …
Read More »MSI Afterburner gets long awaited 4.6.5 update
MSI Afterburner has been a household name in the world of graphics card overclocking for years. Its easy-to-use interface has managed to attract both novice and advanced users alike. However, the tool faced a setback last year due to complications between MSI and the programmer, leading to uncertainty over the …
Read More »Asus ROG Ally is expected to feature a custom Ryzen 7840U APU
The ASUS ROG Ally is set to arrive later this year, offering a more powerful alternative to the Steam Deck, complete with Windows support rather than Linux, which will have benefits for game compatibility. While Asus has said that the ROG Ally will be more powerful than the Steam Deck, …
Read More »AMD Ryzen 7040 series APUs are expected to release between late April and early May
The Zen 4-based Ryzen 7040 processors were announced at CES 2023 in January. Things have been quiet in the months since then, but that should change soon. According to new reports, AMD is gearing up to launch its new generation Ryzen APUs within the next few weeks. According to a …
Read More »AMD engineer confirms 3nm Zen 5 CPUs and 2nm for Zen 6
Some juicy details have recently surfaced about AMD's upcoming Zen architectures, straight from the LinkedIn profile of one of their engineers. This content has since been removed, but as expected from the Internet, someone was fast enough to take a screenshot. According to the engineer's profile (via Wccftech), he was …
Read More »AMD introduces Radeon Pro W7900 and Pro W7800 workstation GPUs
AMD has just announced its latest workstation GPUs. The Navi 31-based W7900 and W7800 will represent the high-end segment of the Radeon Pro series, delivering a remarkable increase in performance compared to the previous generation. The W7900 is a powerhouse, packing 96 CUs and 48GB of GDDR6 ECC memory across …
Read More »Dual AMD Zen 5-based system shown scoring over 123K points in Cinebench R23
Although AMD's Zen 5 architecture is not expected to debut anytime soon, it seems the company is already hard at work developing Zen 5 EPYC processors. In a recent report, an alleged engineering sample of a dual AMD Zen 5 CPU system has been spotted running the Cinebench R23 nT …
Read More »Detailed Dead Island 2 PC system requirements revealed
Dead Island 2 is finally coming out in just over one week. The game has been in development for a decade and has been handed to several studios along the way. The game officially went gold back in February and now, we have PC system requirements ahead of launch, with …
Read More »PowerColor unveils Spectral White Radeon RX 7900 XTX Hellhound
This week, PowerColor unveiled the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Spectral White graphics card, the latest addition to the Hellhound line. As the name suggests, the new graphics card looks exactly like the original Radeon RX 7900 XTX Hellhound GPU, but this variant comes in an all-white colour scheme for …
Read More »MSI-exclusive Enhanced Mode Boost can increase AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D performance by up to 12%
AMD recently launched the Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU as part of the Ryzen 7000 series, compatible with all MSI X670, B650, and A620 motherboards. Simultaneously, MSI introduced a set of new BIOS features to boost the chip's performance, including Enhanced Mode Boost, High-Efficiency Mode, and Memory Context Restore. The Extended …
Read More »You’ll need to check for an orange sticker if you want a Ryzen 7000 ‘Zen 4’ laptop
AMD's Ryzen 7000 series laptop CPU lineup is split with some Zen 4 SKUs and some refreshed Zen 3 and Zen 3+ SKUs. We already knew that the Ryzen 7040 and 7045 series processors used the Zen 4 architecture, but to try and make things a bit easier, AMD has …
Read More »AMD and JEDEC are working on new DDR5 DIMMs that can hit 17600 MT/s transfer speeds
AMD and JEDEC are cooperating to develop MRDIMMs (multi-ranked buffered DIMMs), a new industry standard for DDR5 memory. A first generation of this standard would increase speeds to 8,800 MT/s, but by the third generation, we could get rates of 17,600 MT/s. The ongoing need for bandwidth in server systems …
Read More »Asus’s ROG Ally gaming handheld wasn’t just an April Fool’s joke
On April Fool's Day, Asus unveiled the ROG Ally, billed as a new gaming handheld with a custom Ryzen APU more powerful than the one found in the Steam Deck. Now, Asus has confirmed that this announcement was not a joke, the ROG Ally is real, and it will be …
Read More »First AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT benchmark puts it on par with the RTX 4060 for laptops
AMD announced the mid-range Radeon RX 7000 mobile GPUs a while ago, but we've yet to see many laptops featuring them. With that in mind, we haven't seen many benchmarks for the RX 7000 mobile series, but leaks are starting to come through. Recently, benchmark results for the RX 7600M …
Read More »Gigabyte corrects PR claiming next-gen Ryzen CPUs would arrive this year
Recently, a Gigabyte press release claimed that new-gen Ryzen CPUs would be coming out before the end of this year. This generated some headlines, but the company has now addressed this, confirming it was an error. After contacting Giga Computing (Gigabyte's server division) regarding the PR for the new servers, …
Read More »3DMark FSR 2.2 Feature Test benchmark now available
Back in late 2022, AMD and UL Benchmarks confirmed that an FSR feature test benchmark would be coming to 3DMark in the future. Now just a few months later, that day has finally arrived, with the FSR Feature Test for 3DMark now becoming available. The FSR Feature Test is part …
Read More »AMD may release Ryzen 7000 “Phoenix” chips featuring a hybrid architecture
The AMD processor programming reference has revealed an interesting bit of information regarding the Ryzen 7000 “Phoenix” chips. As per the documentation, the upcoming series of APUs will feature SKUs with a hybrid architecture, meaning they'll pack performance and efficiency cores. InstLatX64 (via VideoCardz) found a Phoenix 2 hybrid APU …
Read More »AMD shares more details about FSR 3 at GDC 2023
At GDC last week, AMD shared some more official details about FSR 3, the next generation of its upscaling technology. FSR 3 is still in early development, but AMD has some lofty goals for the new version, including a 2x frame rate improvement over FSR 2.
Read More »Gigabyte claims AMD will release “next generation” Ryzen desktop CPUs this year
While AMD hasn't announced its next-gen Ryzen processor plans yet, it would seem that partners are already in the know. In a recent press release, Gigabyte reportedly confirmed that the "next generation" of Ryzen desktop processors will launch later this year.
Read More »Latest AMD graphics driver brings optimisations for Resident Evil 4 and The Last of Us
Resident Evil 4 Remake is out and as we've already covered, Nvidia GPU users can already download a new Game Ready driver with day-one optimisations for the game in place. If you are using an AMD graphics card and you plan on picking up the game, you'll want to download …
Read More »Overclocked Ryzen 9 7845HX mobile CPU can match Ryzen 9 7900X in Cinebench R23
The AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX mobile processor is shaping up to be quite capable. We've already seen a few benchmark results of this chip, with AMD's new mobile CPU giving Intel 13th Gen Core mobile chips a run for their money. However, it seems you can squeeze a bit more …
Read More »Raja Koduri is leaving Intel to start his own AI company
Raja Koduri departed AMD and began working at Intel five years ago, marking the blue team's journey towards releasing discrete graphics products. The Intel Xe GPU architecture is now well established and the groundwork has been laid for future generations of graphics cards. Now, Koduri is departing Intel to start his own company.
Read More »AMD pushes back release of Ryzen 7040HS mobile CPUs to April
At CES 2023, when AMD announced the Ryzen 7040HS laptop processors (codenamed Phoenix), the company stated that we would see the first laptops using these chips by March. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case, with AMD pushing the release of the mobile processors to April. In an official statement shared …
Read More »New Radeon R780M iGPU benchmark shows it matching the Radeon RX 5500M
The Radeon 780M iGPU is set to debut in new Ryzen 7000 series laptop processors, but we still don't entirely know what to expect in terms of performance. That is now starting to change through benchmark leaks, the first of which shows the Radeon R780M pumping out similar performance to …
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