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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...
Biostar Announces B550T-Silver Mini-ITX Motherboard For AMD's Ryzen 5000 Family
Biostar has unveiled its latest mini-ITX motherboard for the AMD B550 chipset, the B550T-Silver, which is designed for use with AMD's Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3000 processors. The small-sized...
62 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/16/2021
AMD Ryzen 5000G APUs: OEM Only For Now, Full Release Later This Year
With the high demand for semiconductors causing most companies to focus on their high margin, high profitability components, I wasn’t expecting to see many launches of low-to-mid range hardware...
67 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/13/2021
Microsoft Springs A Surface Launch: Surface Laptop 4 Announced With Custom Ryzen
Microsoft tends to update their Surface lineup on an irregular schedule, not necessarily following the updated CPUs that are generally announced on a mostly annual cadence. Today Microsoft is...
47 by Brett Howse on 4/13/2021
AMD Issues Updated Speculative Spectre Security Status: Predictive Store Forwarding
The mention of Spectre and Meltdown is enough to send chills down any InfoSec spine. A number of these batches of security vulnerabilities deal with speculative execution, and how...
63 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/8/2021
AMD Set To Roll Out AGESA firmware USB Fix For Ryzen, Coming April
Last month, we reported that AMD had been made aware of many users experiencing intermittent connectivity issues with USB ports on its Ryzen 500-series motherboards. Requesting that users with...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/17/2021
AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 comes to Commercial Notebooks
Alongside every launch of AMD’s consumer processors, the commercial offerings for business come along a few months after. Today we see the commercial launch of the Ryzen 5000 Mobile...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/16/2021
The Tour of Italy with EPYC Milan: Interview with AMD's Forrest Norrod
As AMD initiates the official global launch of its 3rd Generation EPYC enterprise processor family, codename Milan, we spend some time with AMD’s Forrest Norrod to discuss the new...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/15/2021
AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review: A Peak vs Per Core Performance Balance
The arrival of AMD’s 3rd Generation EPYC processor family, using the new Zen 3 core, has been hotly anticipated. The promise of a new processor core microarchitecture, updates to...
120 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 3/15/2021
AMD to Launch 3rd Generation EPYC on March 15th: Milan with Zen 3
We’ve known for a while that AMD was set to launch its next generation enterprise EPYC processor family, collectively known by its codename Milan, sometime in the first quarter...
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First AMD B550 With Thunderbolt 4: The ASUS ProArt B550-Creator
From a post by ASUS's Technical Product Marketing Manager (u/ASUSTechMKTJJ) on Reddit, ASUS looks to be readying up a new B550 motherboard based on its ProArt series. The ASUS...
50 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/3/2021
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6700 XT: RDNA2 For 1440p, Coming March 18th For $479
As part of AMD’s latest Where Gaming Begins product presentation, the prolific processor designer announced the next member in its Radeon family of video cards, the Radeon RX 6700...
109 by Ryan Smith on 3/3/2021
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Retail Offering Starts Today
Today AMD is officially going to start offering its Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors at retail, effectively ending the exclusivity deal with Lenovo on the product line. To date, Lenovo...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/2/2021
AMD To Unveil Next Radeon RX 6000 Video Card On March 3rd
It looks like AMD is getting ready to launch the next part in their RDNA2/RX 6000 family of video cards. This afternoon the company sent out a save the...
38 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2021
Lenovo Updates ThinkPads: New Intel and AMD Processors, New Displays, New Designs
Today Lenovo is announcing a slew of updates across a large portion of their ThinkPad lineup, and updating their business-focused products for 2021. Some of the big changes for...
25 by Brett Howse on 2/23/2021
AMD To Probe Potential USB Connectivity Issue on Ryzen Systems
Some AMD users have been posting on social media, including Reddit, about experiencing intermittent connectivity problems when using USB ports on their 500-series motherboards. In response, AMD has reached...
45 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/22/2021
Lenovo ThinkStation P620 Review: A Vehicle for Threadripper Pro
The workstation line of machines from Lenovo have been extremely successful for the company. While ThinkStation might not have as much brand identity as the more recognizable ThinkPad, for...
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Xbox Series X SoC: Power, Thermal, and Yield Tradeoffs
This week at ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), Microsoft presented a talk titled ‘Xbox Series X SoC: A Next Generation Gaming Console’, with hardware engineer Paul Paternoster presenting...
82 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/15/2021
64 Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review
Knowing your market is a key fundamental of product planning, marketing, and distribution. There’s no point creating a product with no market, or finding you have something amazing but...
125 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/9/2021
Hands-On with the ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WiFi
One of the criticisms levied at AMD last year was that it released its new Threadripper Pro platform in September but it was vendor-locked at the time to the...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/29/2021
AMD Reports Q4 2020 Earnings: Analyst Q&A Transcript
At the end of every financial call, invited financial analysts have an opportunity to probe the key members of the company on the numbers, as well as future products...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/26/2021
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