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AMD has just launched the Radeon RX 5300 out of nowhere. Ready to set the “new standard for entry-level 1080p gaming”, the Radeon RX 5300 is the direct rival to Nvidia GeForce 1650. This graphics card is powered by 7nm RDNA architecture and features the Navi 14 GPU paired with …

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 …

The Xbox Series X SoC has been detailed during Microsoft's presentation at Hot Chips 2020. Besides revealing the SoC die, Microsoft also shared new information about the Xbox Series X, including graphical features and optimisations, storage specifications, encode/decode support and more. The die-shot of the SoC shows us that the …

Just yesterday, we went over some of the recent AMD A520 motherboard leaks, hinting at an imminent launch. Now just 24 hours later, AMD has officially launched its entry-level chipset for those looking to upgrade to 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs, based on the Zen 2 architecture.  Today, the AMD A520 …

The SiSoftware database is giving us plenty of juicy news this week. Not only has an entry detailing an Intel Tiger Lake CPU been spotted, but we also have an entry going over an AMD Ryzen 5000 “Cezanne” APU. This will be a successor to the Renoir series of CPUs, …

It looks like AMD has started to do some research on hybrid processor architectures. A new patent filed by AMD describes a technique used to transfer data in a heterogeneous processor that will feature both “high-feature” and “low-feature” processors, similar to ARM's big.LITTLE architecture and Intel Lakefield processors. The AMD …

It has been a couple of months since B550 motherboards first hit the market and this week, there are some pretty good discounts to be had. If you are looking to pick up an AMD B550 motherboard, then it is worth taking a look at MSI's on-going flash sale. Until …

Big Navi hasn't come out yet, but AMD is already working on their future generations of GPUs. Besides the rumour stating that Navi 21 will come in a 16GB and a 12GB variant, another rumour has also surfaced claiming that the company has started development on the Navi 4x series, otherwise …

Mercury Research, known for tracking CPU and GPU market share, published its latest report this week, showing a new record for AMD. According to their stats, AMD's overall x86 CPU share in Q2 2020 was the company's highest since 2013.  Last week we reported that AMD had presented strong Q2 financial …

So far in the Zen 2 generation, AMD has been able to keep on top of demand well, with little in the way of stock shortages. That could change in Q3, with one laptop maker seemingly facing a shortage of AMD CPUs, raising concerns that other companies could also be …

We regularly like to check in with our readers for their thoughts on upcoming tech. Recently, we did a heat check on Nvidia and AMD, seeing whether our readers are planning to buy AMD’s upcoming RDNA 2 GPUs or Nvidia’s next generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards. Having had over 3,300 responses in just one day, we now have a good idea of which way KitGuru readers are leaning.

This week, AMD presented its Q2 2020 financial results, showing significant revenue growth of 26 percent year-on-year. As you may expect, that growth was naturally driven by sales of both Ryzen and EPYC processors.  Things are looking good for AMD. Last weekend the company's stock price overtook Intel for the first …

The competition between Intel and AMD has heated up significantly as of late and now the two tech giants may also be butting heads for production capacity. According to reports, AMD and Intel are vying for more of TSMC's business. Last week AMD was able to overtake Intel in share price …

AMD continues to gain momentum as Intel announces delays to 10nm on desktop and delays to 7nm.

Starting with the new 4C/8T Ryzen 3 4300G, all the way up to the Core i7-9700 beating Ryzen 7 4700G.

AMD 3600XT can overclock to 4.6GHz on all cores, but is it worth buying?

After several weeks of leaks and rumours, last night, AMD officially announced the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3000WX series of desktop processors. As expected, there are four SKUs in the launch lineup, ranging from 12-cores all the way up to 64-cores.  These four SKUs specifically are the Threadripper PRO 3995WX (64 …

We are back with another competition, and this month we have partnered with Seagate to offer you the chance to win a FireCuda 520 PCIe Gen4 SSD, a Ryzen 5 3600 processor, ASUS ROG's B550-F motherboard, and a 4TB IronWolf Pro hard drive!

While there were some rumours claiming that AMD's Zen 3 CPUs could be delayed, the company has stood firm, maintaining that its next big architecture upgrade is still on track. That was reaffirmed again this week, with AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, briefly touching on the subject in a new …

Ryzen Threadripper PRO series processors appear to be on the way...

Last month, AMD officially announced its new 3rd Gen Ryzen ‘XT' series desktop processors, consisting of the Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and Ryzen 5 3600XT. Today, reviews for these CPUs officially went live and retailers were able to begin shipping out to customers, so we've had a look at …

AMD Ryzen 3000XT processors are here - but should you buy one?

It seems that we are edging closer to the release of the Ryzen 4000 “Vermeer” processors. Reports claim that the next-generation of AMD desktop processors are already in “B0 stepping”. On the other hand, the Ryzen 5000 “Cezanne” and “Van Gogh” APUs might still be some way off, given that …

AMD's Big Navi GPU is expected to release later this year, but it seems that the company is already working on its successor. In the macOS 11 “Big Sur” beta, there are multiple references to AMD GPUs and APUs that haven't been released yet, including Navi 21, Navi 22, and Navi 23 …

Back in 2014, AMD set itself the goal to deliver at least 25 times more energy efficient mobile processors by 2020. On June 25, AMD announced that it had not only reached that goal, but exceeded it – achieving 31.7 times improved energy efficiency compared to its 2014 baseline. Most readers …

Tomahawk is back... we review the MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk

This week, AMD announced that its EPYC processors are starting to be adopted in many supercomputers, including “the seventh fastest supercomputer in the world and four of the 50 highest-performance systems”. Twice each year TOP500 releases a list ranking the top 500 supercomputers in the world. The latest update to the …

The upcoming Ryzen 5 3600XT and Ryzen 9 3900XT processors have been spotted in the 3DMark database, reaching their advertised boost clocks. A 3DMark Time Spy score using the 3900XT was also found, giving us a glimpse of what we might expect from the 12-core processor...

AMD Renoir Pro APUs spotted in the 3DMark database have a different naming scheme to what we expected. Based on the information from these listings, the Ryzen 7 Pro 4700G will be named Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G, the Ryzen 5 4400G will be called the Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G, and …

After rumours suggested Zen 3 was going to be delayed until 2021, AMD issued a statement confirming that these reports were inaccurate...