AMD
Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month, the Ryzen AI 300 series (which we reviewed). Today, AMD is launching the remaining two Ryzen 9000 SKUs first announced at Computex 2024, completing the current Ryzen 9000 product stack. Both chips hail from the premium Ryzen 9 series, which includes the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X, which has 16 Zen 5 cores and can boost as high as 5.7 GHz, while the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 Zen...
PathForward: US Dept. of Energy Awards $258M in Research Contracts To Develop Exascale Supercomputer Technology
Even though the major US national laboratories are just now starting to take delivery of the supercomputers they ordered a few years back, due to the long and complex...
22 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software ReLive Crimson Edition 17.6.1: Improved Performance in Dirt 4 & Prey
Summer approaches and big budget games releases are slowing to a trickle. More importantly, school is closing meaning more gaming time for those not yet entrenched in the workforce...
3 by Daniel Williams on 6/9/2017ASRock Demos X399 ‘ThreadRipper’ Motherboards: M.2, U.2, 10 GbE, & More
At Computex last week, ASRock demonstrated two motherboards designed for AMD’s upcoming ThreadRipper HEDT processors. The new platforms are for high-end workstations and designed to support up to four...
69 by Anton Shilov on 6/7/2017AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX 3100 & WX 2100: Entry-Level Polaris Pro Cards
A couple of months back AMD announced their third (and presumably final) Polaris GPU, the diminutive Polaris 12. Designing for early-level video cards and laptops, in the consumer space...
14 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2017ASRock Gives AMD Ryzen Mini-ITX Treatment, Launches X370 Gaming ITX/ac
ASRock has introduced a miniature motherboard for AMD Ryzen microprocessors, one of a few such motherboards in the industry. Despite being very small, the X370 Gaming ITX/ac offers everything...
40 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2017AMD CPU Updates: 16 Core ThreadRipper w/64 PCIe Lanes This Summer, Epyc Launching June 20th
Wrapping up just a bit ago was AMD’s annual Computex press conference. AMD brings their A-game to Computex, and for a good reason: as a PC focused show, it...
71 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017AMD Vega Updates: Vega Frontier Edition Available June 27th, Vega RX to be launched at SIGGRAPH at end of July
With Computex in full swing this week, AMD’s press conference just wrapped up for the morning. While the bulk of the news in the conference was on AMD’s CPU...
23 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017Computex 2017: AMD Press Event Live Blog
AMD is having a press conference here in Taipei for Computex 2017. We plan to get as near to the action as possible - come back at 10am Taiwan...
31 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2017Dell Launches Inspiron 27 7775 AIO: 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7, Radeon RX 580, 4K LCD
Dell has introduced its first all-in-one PC based on AMD Ryzen microprocessor. The new Inspiron 27 7000-series expands options for those seeking for a system featuring AMD’s latest CPU...
13 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2017Dell Launches 'VR Ready' XPS 27 AIO: 4K, Core i7-7700, Radeon RX 570, 10 Speakers
Dell has launched a new version of their XPS 27 all-in-one gaming PC. The VR Ready flavor of the XPS 27 has the same 4K display and the same...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/27/2017AMD Announces Ryzen AGESA 1.0.0.6 Update: Enables Memory Clocks Up To DDR4-4000
Demonstrating their commitment to keep improving the AM4 platform, AMD has just published a suite of details about their upcoming AGESA 1.0.0.6 firmware. Of particular interest here, the latest...
56 by Patrick MacMillan on 5/26/2017AMD Updates GPU Architecture Roadmap: After Navi Comes “Next Gen”
While the big GPU-related announcement out of today’s AMD Financial Analyst day was the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, as part of his presentation, AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster also offered...
21 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2017AMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: Vega Starts in the Pros
It feels like the build-up to Vega has been just shy of forever. And in a way it has been: AMD first announced the architecture back in March of...
134 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software ReLive Crimson Edition 17.5.1: Prey Release Driver
Only a week out from the release of Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.4.4 and AMD is in for another brief round. This release is arguably on the more...
3 by Daniel Williams on 5/5/2017AMD Releases Q1 2017 Earnings, Confirms Vega and Naples Still On-Track for This Quarter
AMD’s Q1 earnings are in, capping off a very important quarter for the company. For the first quarter of the year, AMD booked $984 million in revenue, a sizable...
37 by Ryan Smith on 5/2/2017AT20 Giveaway Day 1: AMD Ryzen CPUs & Radeon RX 570 Video Cards
For some of our past anniversaries we’ve done hardware giveaways, and for our 20th anniversary I wanted to do the best giveaway yet. It only seemed fitting that as...
1072 by Ryan Smith on 4/26/2017AMD Announces Radeon Pro Duo (Polaris) - Double Polaris for Content Creation
Back in 2016 AMD launched the Radeon Pro Duo, an interesting take on a semi-pro workstation card. As a dual-GPU Fiji card wasn’t going to be viable for the...
36 by Ryan Smith on 4/25/2017AMD Announces the Radeon RX 500 Series: Polaris Refreshed, Starting Today
This morning AMD is taking the wraps off of their next line of video cards, the Radeon RX 500 series. Like past video card lineup refreshes, the RX 500...
54 by Ryan Smith on 4/18/2017The AMD Radeon RX 580 & RX 570 Review: A Second Path to Polaris
Launching today is AMD’s new Radeon RX 500 series. As we’re covering in our companion launch article, the RX 500 series is a refresh of Polaris, bringing about newer...
130 by Ryan Smith on 4/18/2017AMD Acquires 60 GHz Wireless IP and Staff from Nitero
AMD on Tuesday announced that it had acquired millimeter wave radio-related intellectual property and key engineers from Nitero. Nitero specialized in radio technology for the 60 GHz range, which...
19 by Anton Shilov on 4/15/2017