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...
AMD Confirms 20nm Products Moved to FinFET, Warns on Q2’15 Earnings
A little bit ago AMD sent out an announcement updating their official outlook for the second quarter of 2015. Though we don’t typically publish financial projections, the long and...
62 by Ryan Smith on 7/6/2015The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Aiming For the Top
Having launched last week and being reviewed today is AMD’s Radeon R9 Fury X, the company’s new flagship single-GPU video card. Featuring a fully enabled Fiji GPU, the R9...
458 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2015AMD Launches Retail Radeon 300 Series: A Prelude To Fury
Earlier this week AMD held their 2015 GPU product showcase, dubbed “The New Era of PC Gaming.” As the latest stage in AMD’s master plan, AMD held a public...
290 by Ryan Smith on 6/18/2015AMD Shows Off Dual-GPU Fiji Card At PC Gaming Show
Briefly announced and discussed during AMD’s 2015 GPU product presentation yesterday morning was AMD’s forthcoming dual Fiji video card. The near-obligatory counterpart to the just-announced Radeon R9 Fury X...
133 by Ryan Smith on 6/17/2015AMD Demonstrates FreeSync-over-HDMI Concept Hardware at Computex 2015
While AMD wasn’t the first GPU vendor to implement a system for variable refresh, the company has made up for lost time with zeal. Since demonstrating their FreeSync proof-of-concept...
91 by Ian Cutress & Ryan Smith on 6/3/2015AMD Confirms June 16th Date for Upcoming GPU Announcement
After an earlier vague deadline of Q2’15 and more than a few teases in the interim, AMD has finally announced when they’ll be revealing their forthcoming high-end video card. AMD...
41 by Ryan Smith on 6/2/2015AMD Launches Carrizo: The Laptop Leap of Efficiency and Architecture Updates
Perform a small test for me. Close your eyes, and spend 15 seconds considering the state of the laptop market and what devices interest you, are available, or on...
144 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2015AMD Picks Up Jim Anderson from Intel To Lead Computing and Graphics Business Group
Word comes from AMD this afternoon that they have finally found a new Senior VP and General Manager for the company’s Computing and Graphics business group. The group has...
30 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2015The Kaveri Refresh 'Godavari' Review: Testing AMD's A10-7870K
Astute readers will recognize that we recently posted two reviews covering more of the stack of AMD processors with the codename 'Kaveri' which covered the A6-7400K, A8-7650K and the...
140 by Ian Cutress on 6/1/2015AMD Releases Catalyst 15.5 Beta Drivers
AMD has pushed out another Catalyst beta driver update this afternoon, bringing their latest drivers up to Catalyst 15.5 beta. The release notes for this driver indicate that it’s...
18 by Ryan Smith on 5/28/2015The AMD A10-7700K and AMD A6-7400K CPU Mini-Review
In recent months and quarters I have had discussions about why CPU manufacturers offer a number of processors each separated by $7 and 100 MHz. The obvious answer (but...
105 by Ian Cutress on 5/27/20152015 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro’s dGPU (R9 M370X) Is Cape Verde
Earlier this week Apple announced their 2015 15” Retina MacBook Pro. Though Apple didn’t make any CPU changes, they did make some GPU changes on the high-end model, swapping...
109 by Ryan Smith on 5/23/2015AMD Teases Upcoming Video Card
Between Financial Analyst Day 2015, their briefing on High Bandwidth Memory, and now a carefully seeded hardware sample to DICE developer and uber guru Johan Andersson, AMD is making...
75 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2015AMD Dives Deep On High Bandwidth Memory - What Will HBM Bring AMD?
Earlier this month at AMD’s 2015 Financial Analyst day, the company announced that they would be releasing their first High Bandwidth Memory-equipped GPU – the world’s first HBM-equipped GPU...
163 by Ryan Smith on 5/19/2015Newegg Launches Official & Unofficial AMD Radeon R9 Game Bundles
Kudos to the PC Perspective crew for tracking this one down. It looks like Newegg is running a very unusual set of video game bundles with AMD’s higher-end Radeon...
67 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2015The AMD A8-7650K APU Review, Also New Testing Methodology
The staggered birth of Kaveri has been an interesting story to cover but it has been difficult to keep all the pieces right in the forefront of memory. The...
177 by Ian Cutress on 5/12/2015AMD’s Carrizo-L APUs Unveiled: 12-25W Quad Core Puma+
One of the important press releases that came out as a result of the AMD Financial Analyst Day has been some insights into how AMD is approaching the Carrizo...
50 by Ian Cutress on 5/12/2015AMD Announces OEM Desktop Radeon 300 Series
Along with today’s announcement of the OEM mobile Radeon M300 series, AMD has also announced the OEM desktop Radeon 300 Series. This was a rather low-key launch with only...
74 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015Update: AMD Announces Radeon M300 Series Notebook Video Cards
Along with a bevy of roadmap announcements at financial analyst day, AMD has also slipped in a full-on mobile GPU announcement today at the event. Being announced today is the...
37 by Ryan Smith on 5/6/2015