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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 Radeon 7770 Launch Recap
We got off pretty easily with our 7750 launch recap earlier today - with only three cards, it was pretty simple to compare and contrast them and be done...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/20/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7750 Launch Recap
Unlike some of our launch recaps (including the 7770 recap article, which covers a whopping ten cards and should come later today), we have only a handful of cards...
20 by Andrew Cunningham on 2/20/2012
AMD Radeon HD 7750 & Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition Review: Evading The Price/Performance Curve
With the launch of Tahiti behind them, AMD is now firing on all cylinders to get the rest of their Southern Islands lineup out the door. Typically we’d see...
155 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 2/15/2012
AMD's Eric Demers is Leaving the Company
I just found out that AMD's Eric Demers (Corporate VP & CTO, Graphics Division) is leaving the company at the end of this week. He's not going to Intel...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2012
Sony Vaio Z2: Everything is Peripheral
Users who want everything out of their notebook, no matter how ridiculous the demands, are probably more than at least a little curious about Sony's VAIO Z2. There's good...
88 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/13/2012
The Opteron 6276: a closer look
When we first looked at the Opteron 6276, our time was limited and we were only able to run our virtualization, compression, encryption, and rendering benchmarks. Most servers capable...
52 by Johan De Gelas on 2/9/2012
AMD Releases Two Llano Based Athlon II X4 CPUs
AMD has quietly released two Athlon II X4 CPUs, the 638 and 641. These are based on Llano (i.e. Stars+/K10.5 architecture) but lack an integrated GPU. The socket is...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 2/8/2012
AMD Announces Turks Based FirePro V3900
While AMD’s consumer GPU division is well into its deployment of their first 28nm products, the long validation and certification period for business hardware means that AMD’s business GPU...
8 by Ryan Smith on 2/7/2012
AMD: The Flexibility is in the Fabric
A theme of the new AMD is modularity. We've of course heard this before as it has always been a goal of AMD's to bring to market more modular...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/3/2012
Understanding AMD's Roadmap & New Direction
We've been providing live coverage of AMD's 2012 Financial Analyst Day from Santa Clara today, but if you want a summary of the company's strategy under new CEO Rory...
84 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Tablet Architectures: Hondo at 4.5W, Future Sub-2W SoC
In its client roadmap AMD revealed Hondo, a 4.5W APU with 1 - 2 low voltage Bobcat cores and an on-die DX11 GPU built on a 40nm process. Hondo...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD is Ambidextrous, Not Married to Any One Architecture, ARM in the Datacenter?
We've been hammering this point home all day, but AMD just mentioned it again. The company wants to be a solutions provider, one that's ambidextrous and not married to...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's 2012 - 2013 Server Roadmap: Abu Dhabi, Seoul & Delhi CPUs
We've got a server roadmap update from AMD courtesy of its Financial Analyst Day here in Santa Clara, California. The changes to the 2012 - 2013 roadmap aren't all...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's 2012 - 2013 Client CPU/GPU/APU Roadmap Revealed
AMD gave us a quick update on its 2012 - 2013 client roadmap, mostly focusing on new CPU/APU releases although there's a brief mention of Sea Islands - the...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD & Compal Show Off 18mm Trinity Notebook
AMD's Trinity APU, due out near the middle of the year, will combine two Piledriver modules (four "cores") with an even beefier GPU. We've already laid out the general...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
What AMD Views as Important: Tablets, Servers, Notebooks & GPUs
The slide above really puts AMD's focus into perspective. AMD is mostly interested in markets that have high annual growth rates. Looking above you can see that pretty much...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD Nods at Shorter Design Cycles, More Synthesized Designs
The presentations we've seen from AMD thus far today haven't been very specific in terms of numbers, but there's a lot of reading between the lines that we can...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD: Flexible Around ISA
The slide above gives an example of the new agile/flexible AMD as it applies to the datacenter. Again, we're not seeing ARM, but we are seeing that AMD is...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2012 - Mark Papermaster, SVP & CTO Presentation
If you want to follow the CTO presentation we've been quoting from a lot today, check it out in the gallery below.
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
AMD is Open to Integrating 3rd Party IP in Future SoCs
Don't expect AMD to go into much detail on this here at the Financial Analyst Day, but the slide above shows a definite step towards becoming a modern SoC...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/2/2012
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