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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...
AMD Clarifies "Best Cores" vs "Preferred Cores" Discrepancies For Ryzen CPUs
Over the last several weeks there’s been increasing discussions in the AMD enthusiast community about how the company’s new Ryzen 3000 processors interact with Windows, and in particular on...
62 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/21/2019PowerColor Launches Radeon RX 5700 XT Liquid Devil w/ Pre-Installed Water Block
PowerColor has introduced one of the industry’s first custom Radeon RX 5700 XT-based graphics card with a pre-installed water block. The board uses cherry-picked Navi 10 GPUs as well...
16 by Anton Shilov on 11/20/2019AMD Announces Radeon Pro W5700: Navi Gets Drafted to The Pros
Taking a break from their recent run of consumer-focused video card launches, this morning AMD is turning their attention to the professional side of the market. With their new...
14 by Ryan Smith on 11/19/2019Dell’s Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition Comes w/ Ryzen 5 3500 or Ryzen 9 3950X
Dell’s Alienware division has started sales of its Aurora Ryzen Edition desktops. The latest Aurora systems not only put AMD’s processors back into mid-tower Aurora machines for the first...
17 by Anton Shilov on 11/18/2019SimplyNUC Unveils Sequoia: AMD Ryzen V-Series-Based UCFF PC
SimplyNUC, a maker of ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) PCs, has introduced its first PCs that use AMD’s Ryzen Embedded processors. The Sequoia units are rugged commercial systems designed for applications...
33 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2019The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: 16 Cores on 7nm with PCIe 4.0
Deciding between building a mainstream PC and a high-end desktop has historically been very clear cut: if budget is a concern, and you're interested in gaming, then typically a...
206 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/14/2019AMD Adds Radeon RX 5300M To Mobile GPU Lineup
Over the second-half of this year, AMD has been gearing up to cascade their latest Radeon graphics architecture to successively cheaper and more mainstream products. Last month we saw...
16 by Ryan Smith on 11/13/2019Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR Will Be Available in December
Alongside today's 16-inch MacBook Pro announcement, Apple has also confirmed that their long-awaited redesign of the Mac Pro, which has been due this fall, will be launching next month. Apple’s...
18 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2019AMD Q4: 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Threadripper Up To 32-Core 3970X, Coming November 25th
AMD is set to close out the year on a high note. As promised, the company will be delivering its latest 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X processor, built with two...
171 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/7/2019GIGABYTE Enhances Aorus RGB Memory with Aorus Memory Boost Capability
One of the advantages of having a highly-integrated product stack is ability to fine tune performance of your devices when they work together. On the one hand, this allows...
6 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2019AMD Q3 FY 2019 Earnings Report: Party Like It’s 2005
Today AMD announced their third quarter earnings for the 2019 fiscal year, and AMD has not seen revenue like this for a long time – in fact this is...
44 by Brett Howse on 10/29/2019The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Impact: A Sharp $430 Impulse on X570
One of the most interesting unveilings from the X570 launch earlier this year came from ASUS, with the reintroduction of the ROG Impact series of small form factor motherboards...
61 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/25/2019AMD May Be Prepping More 280 W EPYC Enterprise CPUs
Back in September, AMD announced its 64-core EPYC 7H12 processor - a 280 W TDP behemoth with an increased base frequency designed specifically for the high-performance computing market. Based...
22 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019AMD Ryzen 7 3750X with 105 W TDP: Spotted at AMD
AMD has accidentally published its Product Master list - a list with all of its consumer, enterprise, and OEM parts listed. In the latest publication, it reveals multiple CPUs...
34 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019Biostar Unveils Racing X570GTA Motherboard
Adding to its small X570 product stack, Biostar has unveiled its latest ATX sized model, the Biostar Racing X570GTA. While nothing to do with 'Grand Theft Auto', the X570GTA...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/21/2019Details About 3rd Generation Ryzen Threadripper Appear: 24 and 32 Cores, Up to 280 W
AMD has already officially confirmed plans to launch its 3rd Generation Ryzen Threadripper processors this November, but naturally kept all the details to itself. At the time, it stated...
19 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019The Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (15-Inch) Review: AMD Ryzen Surface Edition
This year at Microsoft’s somewhat annual Surface update event, Microsoft surprised everyone by not only announcing a newer and larger Surface Laptop 3, bumping the screen size from 13.5-inches...
91 by Brett Howse on 10/21/2019AMD Refreshes Embedded GPU Lineup, Launches Polaris-Based Embedded Radeon E9560 & E9390
AMD’s GPU division has long had its hands in many businesses. While their consumer GPUs and semi-custom efforts tend to attract the most attention – and more recently, their...
7 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2019AMD B550A System Spotted: OEM Only Chipset, PCIe 3.0
In every motherboard generation on AMD's AM4 socket, we have seen a premium motherboard chipset and a more budget friendly chipset play out in the market. For the latest...
16 by Anton Shilov on 10/15/2019Corsair 16GB DDR4-5000 Vengeance LPX Memory Kit: Built for AMD Ryzen 3000 and MSI
The high-tech industry loves milestones that are round numbers, be it frequency, number of cores, transistor count or something else. It is not that extra 100 MHz – 200...
38 by Anton Shilov on 10/11/2019