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How does Ryzen scale down to a six-core, twelve-thread processor?

Can the 4C8T Ryzen 5 1500X hand Intel's locked Core i5 a beating?

When AMD launched its Radeon RX 480 graphics card it promised to deliver VR for the masses, or at least the computing power to do so. And it did. Fast forward 10 months and while VR-capable graphics cards have become relatively the norm, the software (apps) and hardware (headsets) ecosystem …

Following several weeks of leaks and a tiny bit of conflicting information regarding the GPU used on AMD's upcoming RX 580 and RX 570 graphics cards, we finally have confirmation of Polaris 20 XTX and Polaris 20 XL. Thanks to a driver leak this week, we now know that AMD's …

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awarded its second eSports Audience Award in a ceremony last night, giving the people a vote in recognizing the popularity and importance of eSports and related game franchises. The nominee list, chock-full of AAA-rated MOBA and TDM games like Overwatch, DOTA …

PC Specialist has launched its Fusion Zen PC which is built around the new AMD Ryzen 7 1700X CPU and a GTX 1070 graphics card. KitGuru has been impressed by Ryzen 7 with its eight cores and 16 threads and it is quite mind boggling to consider that Intel charges …

Right now, the Internet is rife with rumours and screen grabs of AMD's latest reincarnation (or rebrand, or rebadge) of its totally vanilla and mainstream RX 400-Series-come-500-Series GPUs. According to one site, someone has been benchmarking the RX 500-Series Radeons on 3DMark and posting their results. The benchmarking event, documented at …

It looks like someone broke the Ryzen 5 street date as a Spanish site this week published an early review for the Ryzen 5 1600 CPU, using a retail sample obtained prior to the official release. The review is fairly comprehensive too, showing AMD's affordable 6-core in a wide range of …

Rumours and leaks over the past month have all led us to believe that AMD's RX 580, RX 570 and RX 560 reveal would be happening by the middle of April. Now, it seems that we are very close to launch indeed as retailers have begun leaking listings for AMD's …

A worthy consideration if you want to extend an AM3+ system's life?

Over the last few weeks, we have been hearing more and more about AMD's upcoming Radeon RX-500 series. These new graphics cards are set to be a refresh of the Polaris lineup and according to what we have heard previously, they are set to be announced in just a couple …

AMD has had quite a lot of success with its new Ryzen 7 processors but one area where the chip does let us down a bit is 1080p gaming. Earlier this month, AMD explained that this was simply due to the way games are currently optimised, adding that the situation …

Titanium styling and an enthusiast design, this is MSI's £300 AM4 flagship.

Does Gigabyte's Aorus AX370-Gaming 5 back up flashy lights with its performance?

A high-end AM4 motherboard with plenty of features on offer.

With the second quarter of 2017 now at our doorstep, it is about time to start counting down the days to AMD's launch of the RX Vega. We've already seen some details through various leaks and demonstrations over the last few months and this week, we learned that the RX …

Every now and then, we like to check in with our readers and see what you guys are running in your gaming rigs, so today, over on our Facebook page, we are running a poll to see which of you are running an AMD or an Nvidia graphics card. We …

Some technical diagrams for the upcoming AMD X399 and a would-be X390 chipset have made a splash on the internet, it seems. A post on an AMD subreddit included some very convincing chipset block diagrams showing off what looks like the X399 and X390 chipsets, and even a board layout …

Back in February, we first heard that AMD had filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC), calling for it to investigate and possibly ban several products sold by the likes of LG, MediaTek, Vizio and Sigma Designs due to patent infringements on graphics technology. Since then the ITC …

It seems that AMD is busy preparing drivers for the RX Vega launch as this week, thousands of lines of updates code were sent out as part of a series of little patches, adding RX Vega support to AMD's Linux graphics drivers. Inside of the code, seven different Vega SKUs …

AMD's next batch of graphics cards are on the way and as we have previously heard, they are set to be based on refreshed Polaris chips. We already knew that AMD had found a way to increase the performance per watt of Polaris towards the latter half of 2016 and …

Mass Effect Andromeda launches this week and as with most big releases these days, that means it is also time to update graphics drivers. Both Nvidia and AMD have released new GPU drivers for Bioware's upcoming sci-fi RPG, though these updates contain other improvements as well. Let's start off on …

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been hearing increasing rumours surrounding AMD's plans for the RX 500 series. Right now, the current rumour is that these new GPUs will launch in April as a Polaris refresh and now, that scenario looks very likely as this week, AMD added …

AMD has announced its Ryzen 5 processors which will be launched and on shelves from April 11th 2017 in the form of two 4C8T parts and two 6C12T SKUs. Pricing will range from $169 to $249 USD, with the Ryzen 5 flagship 6C12T 1600X featuring a Precision Boost clock frequency …

An accidental leak, just a day shy of the actual announcement, has revealed AMD's plans for its Ryzen R5 CPU line-up. According to a post on Guru3D.com (now removed), AMD Ryzen R5 CPUs will come in four different flavours – two hexacores and two quadcores – with a clear assault …

An overclockable 8C16T Ryzen 7 for £330. Bargain. You get an RGB cooler too.

Update: A couple of weeks ago, we first began hearing rumours of an RX 500 series coming in April. At the time, the source claimed that the RX 580 and RX 570 would be arriving in the first week of April, with the lower end RX 560 and RX 550 …

As successful and positive as AMD's Ryzen 7 CPU launch was, there has been some controversy surrounding gaming performance, particularly at 1080p. There have been all sorts of theories surrounding why Ryzen might be underperforming at 1080p in some titles, despite AMD's previous efforts to explain the situation. One of …

We've been hearing about RX Vega leaks for a few months now but it looks like we are finally starting to get into more specific details surrounding the GPU. This week, a benchmark database entry for what appears to be an AMD RX Vega engineering sample revision leaked onto the …

Can't find the high end motherboard you want for a new Ryzen processor? You aren't the only one.