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AMD has today given more details on its upcoming Ryzen 7000 Series - Zen 4 - processors and the AM5 platform. Launching 27th September, the Ryzen 9 7950X flagship is touted as having a 29% faster core for gamers versus Ryzen 5000 Series whilst also enhancing power efficiency thanks to the application of TSMC's 5nm process node. Four chips launch on September 27th alongside DDR5- and PCIe 5.0-capable X-Series motherboards, with B-Series boards to follow-up in October.

It is now official – AMD will properly unveil its next generation Ryzen processors later this month. Today, the company announced a livestream for the occasion, which will include new details on Zen 4 and the AM5 platform.  In recent weeks, rumours have been pointing to a late August announcement …

AIDA64 is used by enthusiasts and professionals alike to benchmark and monitor hardware. Usually a little while before major hardware launches, we'll see the software updated with support for upcoming CPUs and GPUs. With the latest AIDA64 Extreme update, we got exactly that, with support for Zen 4 CPUs being …

A leaker previously known for revealing specs for AMD's next-gen EPYC processors has now shared photos of what appear to be legitimate engineering samples, although they didn't survive very long and apparently burned out as soon as the user tried to boot a machine with them.  Prominent leaker Yuuki_Ans was …

Leakers are claiming to have new information on AMD's next generation of EPYC processors. According to a leaked table, the EPYC 9000 series will feature SKUs with up to 96 ‘zen 4' cores. The specifications shared by YuuKi_Ans (via VideoCardz) shows the EPYC 9654P as the flagship, packing 96 cores …

AMD's annual Financial Analyst Day wasn't only focused on upcoming Radeon products. During the event, AMD also shared a lot of details about its upcoming processors, with new roadmaps for upcoming Ryzen CPUs and APUs.  With the first Zen 4 products set to release this year, we've come to the …

Last night during AMD's Computex 2022 keynote, the company gave us our first peak at next-gen PC components, including new details on Ryzen 7000 processors and Socket AM5 motherboards. Now, the first X670 and X670E motherboards have been revealed, with ASUS and MSI being amongst the first.  AMD has three …

With Zen 4 expected to release later this year, rumours and leaks about the upcoming architecture have become frequent. According to the latest reports, Zen 4 chips will bring a considerable IPC increase over Zen 3, as well as higher clock speeds. Starting with the benchmark entry spotted by Petykemano, …

Intel’s performance offering from the 12th Gen processors is impressive. The gaming crown looks to be back Intel’s hand, and AMD also needs to respond to their overall performance crown being infringed upon. How will AMD respond? And what are the timescales? There’s also the elephant in the room of Apple, with the M1 silicon continuing to make impressive performance strides...

At AMD Accelerated earlier this week, AMD announced its next generation EPYC processors. The next-gen data centre and cloud-oriented CPUs are codenamed "Genoa" and "Bergamo", boasting up to 96 cores and up to 128 cores respectively. 

In celebration of Ryzen's 5th anniversary, John Taylor, AMD CMO, and Robert Hallock, director of technical marketing, discussed the past, present and future of Ryzen processors, confirming some interesting things along the way. 

We've seen a few internal document leaks recently, revealing new information about AMD's upcoming processors and motherboards. In a newly discovered document, we learn that AMD's upcoming Zen 4 processors for the AM5 platform will support integrated graphics.  The leak was first publicised by Chips and Cheese, showing off a …

During AMD's Q2 2021 earnings call, Dr. Lisa Su, the company's CEO, confirmed that the next-gen Zen 4 architecture and RDNA 3 graphics architecture are still 'on track', targeting a 2022 launch.

A new report claims that AMD will be releasing both the first RDNA 3 graphics cards and Zen 4 processors “around the same time”, in late 2022. The report further tells us that RDNA 3 will be taped out in late 2021. According to the release date reported by @Broly_X1, …

It looks like recent leaks regarding AMD's codenamed ‘Raphael' desktop processors have some merit. The team at Gamers Nexus received an internal presentation from March 2020 detailing the upcoming CPU and AM5 platform. Now that other leakers are beginning to verify some of the information, the site decided to share …

Recently, an insider shared the first renders of AMD's upcoming ‘Raphael' processors, using leaked information to put the visual together. Since then, more details have come to light, giving us a new look at the IHS that may cover AMD's next generation of desktop processors. Interestingly, the heat spreader may …

We may still be a long way from getting our hands on Ryzen 8000 series processors, but leaks and rumours have already started to surface. Recently, a roadmap showing Strix Point was posted on social media, giving away the codename of the new Ryzen series — Granite Ridge. The roadmap …

A known leaker recently posted some new information about AMD's upcoming AM5 platform, which will apparently bring about a change from PGA (pin grid array) socket design, where the processor features the connection pins, to an LGA (land grid array) socket platform, where the pins are featured on the motherboard. …

In August 2020, we came across an alleged AMD roadmap introducing multiple new architectures, such as “Warhol” and “Cezanne”. Over time, these names have been revealed as official, bringing some legitimacy to last year's leak. Now in an updated roadmap, we also have some details on an upcoming “Raphael” series …

As we've known for some time now, Intel is planning to launch its 12th Gen Core series “Alder Lake” processors in late 2021. The follow-up won't be too far behind, with Intel confirming the Raptor Lake-S platform, which will presumably launch as the 13th Gen Core series in 2022.  Intel …

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 …

New details have come to light on AMD’s future Zen 3 and 4 architectures, along with a roadmap providing the timeline and key specifications for its next-generation EPYC Milan and Genoa lines of data centre processors. During a recent presentation at the HPC-AI Advisory Council Conference in the UK, AMD …

AMD refuses to slow down as next-gen Zen 3 and Zen 4 architectures are on track.