Early retail listings already tipped us off to a March 12th retail launch for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D processors, but now, the company has made things official - complete with pricing details.

AMD has done very well with its hardware game bundles in recent years and that isn't stopping in 2025. This week, AMD has launched its latest hardware bundle, offering up free copies of Capcom's highly anticipated Monster Hunter Wilds. 

Delidding your CPU is often the best way to get the absolute best temperatures and overclocking potential, but the process of doing it is a daunting one and can potentially void warranty. Thermal Grizzly is looking to make it as easy as possible moving forward, with its own series of TG Delidded CPUs and better yet, Thermal Grizzly will assume the manufacturer's warranty, so you'll be just as protected as if you were to buy directly from Intel or AMD.

AMD's Strix Halo iGPU performance sure looks impressive. This high-performance APU, featuring up to 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, is generating considerable excitement, and for a reason. AMD claims its integrated graphics can rival the performance of some discrete desktop GPUs, and according to the …

CES 2025 has wrapped up. We went back over our extensive video coverage from the week to round up the best tech of the show! If you missed out on any of last week's announcements, this round-up will get you up to speed fast. 

At CES today, we stopped by one of two MSI booths to check out all of the latest laptops. Of particular interest are the latest generation of gaming laptops sporting RTX 50 GPUs, which will be available starting in March. 

Acer has plenty to showcase at CES this year. Aside from the new Nitro Blaze gaming handhelds, Acer also has a wide range of new-generation laptops ready to hit the market, utilising the latest CPUs from both AMD and Intel.  The new Acer Copilot+ PCs harness the power of AI …

Today at CES 2025, AMD is launching a range of new processors aimed at the next generation of laptops. Today we see the arrival of Ryzen AI Max and the Ryzen AI Max PRO series CPUs, as well as a range of Ryzen 200 and Ryzen 200 PRO CPUs, which …

2024 has been a busy year. It feels like CES 2024 took place about three years ago and Computex - a mere six months ago - is ancient history. You have to think long and hard to recall that yes, Nvidia 40-series Super did indeed arrive in 2024. This is my video about my recollections of the year and that pretty much boils down to CPUs and motherboards.

It looks like the Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet is getting a serious upgrade with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU. Recently spotted Geekbench entries confirm that the Asus gaming tablet is getting AMD's upcoming flagship APU while also giving us a first look at its CPU and GPU …

Arctic has redefined the concept of a mini-PC (as it uses an ITX board) with its latest creation: an entirely passively cooled system designed to be mounted under your desk. While the idea is certainly innovative, the choice of hardware for the new Arctic Senza PC raises some doubts. The …

AMD's next generation CPU architecture, Zen 6, is already in the works and according to reports, we should see the first desktop CPUs in 2026.

At long last, the 9800X3D is here and it is the king of gaming processors

AMD kicks off the rollout of its 3D V-Cache equipped Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. This is an 8-core, 16-thread chip utilising Zen 5 and AMD's 2nd generation 3D V-Cache technology.

According to one leaker, Ryzen Z2 chips will offer up to 8 CPU cores, paired with 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores. The first Ryzen Z2 devices are coming in 2025.

AMD launched its first wave of Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors earlier this year, but many gamers have been holding off for the X3D-equipped versions. Typically, the 3D V-Cache in X3D processors leads to better gaming performance. Soon, AMD will launch its first Zen 5 X3D CPUs. 

Amazon Prime Day is upon us, but the promotional period is lacking in CPU deals. We've gathered up the few that are available right here.

G.Skill's latest high-speed DDR5 memory kit boasts a 9000MHz overclock profile for X870E and AMD Ryzen based PCs.

KitGuru has done a heap of testing with AMD Zen 5 CPUs and each time we think we have finished we seem to start testing all over again. After our initial CPU reviews we got news from AMD about the impact of Windows 11 24H2 and once we had checked that out we  decided to compare every generation of AMD Zen, starting with Ryzen 7 1800X and coming right up to date with Ryzen 7 9700X.

It has been discovered that certain AMD MSI 600-series motherboards are already receiving the new AGESA 1.2.0.1 firmware. For those who may not be aware, this firmware introduces a feature that allows users to adjust the TDP to 105W for the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X.  Although …

AMD revealed last week that Ryzen CPU owners could expect a performance upgrade in games after updating to Windows 11 24H2, an update that is still currently in testing amongst Windows Insiders. At the time, AMD said it was working with Microsoft to get the new code optimisations into Windows sooner and now, that update has arrived.

We're back with the next wave of Ryzen 9000 reviews, starting with the 12-core 9900X

This week, AMD has launched the latest AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Technical Preview, finally bringing AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 to the masses. AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) is AMD's answer to DLSS Frame Generation for Radeon GPUs. At this time, AFMF 2 is only officially supported on Radeon RX …

The Zenbook 16 OLED from Asus features the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with on device AI processing capabilities

At Computex this week, AMD officially announced its first wave of Zen 5 processors, including the Ryzen 9000 series processors for desktops, and the Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point) APUs for laptops. As a result of new desktop chips arriving, motherboard makers are also supporting AMD's launch with new X870 …

An Aoostar representative might have revealed the release month for the AMD Strix Point CPUs. When asked about the release of its next-gen Ryzen PC, the company's employee answered that it was estimated to be released in October, but bigger OEMs would get them sooner, pointing to August. As noted …

At Microsoft Build, AMD demonstrated its latest advancements in AI computing with several key new announcements. For starters, Microsoft is using AMD's technology, namely Instinct MI300X GPUs and ROCm software to power AI workloads.  The AMD Instinct MI300X has been deployed in Microsoft Azure servers to power OpenAI services like …

Following the spotting of the unannounced Ryzen AI 9 HX170, another leaker now mentions a different Ryzen CPU with the same naming scheme. This new APU is the “Strix Point” Ryzen AI 165. The AMD Zen 5 product series summary shared by Golden Pig Upgrade (via @harukaze5719) provides new details …

Asus recently listed some of its upcoming VivoBook S16 laptops featuring an unannounced 12-core AMD CPU. Based on the information so far, it would appear that AMD is positioning itself to launch a new line of ‘Ryzen AI' processors for laptops.  As shared by @harukaze5719, AMD is apparently altering its …

We've seen plenty of pre-release CPU benchmarks over the years thanks to public benchmark databases. Most recently, the first Ryzen 9050 APU appeared in one such database, giving us a promising look at its potential.  The Geekbench entry spotted by Benchleaks is from an AMD APU with the OPN (product) …