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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...
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The ASRock A320TM-ITX Motherboard: Thin-ITX For AMD APUs
ASRock has introduced its new Thin Mini-ITX platform designed specifically for AMD APUs, the A320TM-ITX. After ASRock officially announced its Intel-based Mini-STX platform back at CES 2019, the AMD...
31 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/24/2019
AMD 50th Anniversary Ryzen CPUs Listed At Retailers (ShopBLT)
Every company loves a good anniversary. It's a time to explain the origin story, show how the company came to the fore, and discuss the next year's of business...
8 by Ian Cutress on 4/18/2019
GIGABYTE to Launch Aorus ATC800 CPU Cooler: A Beefy Tower
An element of GIGABTYE’s CES booth this year was the way the company is pushing the Aorus brand into many different segments that it hasn’t historically played in. We’ve...
5 by Ian Cutress on 4/16/2019
Sony Teases Next-Gen PlayStation: Custom AMD Chip with Zen 2 CPU & Navi GPU, SSD Too
After years of speculation about what could be and what Sony may be up to, the company is finally starting to ramp up the long launch cycle for their...
187 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2019
BIOSTAR Adds Windows 7 Support To Some Intel and AMD Motherboards
With Windows 10 now a primary user requirement for the majority of current generation motherboard models, BIOSTAR has today announced that its latest range of Intel and AMD models...
16 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/9/2019
AMD Launches 2nd Gen Ryzen Pro & Athlon Pro APUs
AMD on Monday introduced four new processors aimed at commercial laptops. The new AMD Ryzen Pro 3000-series and AMD Athlon Pro 300-series processors pack up to four x86 cores...
40 by Anton Shilov on 4/9/2019
EKWB EK-Velocity sTR4: EK’s 3rd Gen Water Block for AMD’s Threadripper
EKWB has introduced its third-generation water block for AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processors. The new EK-Velocity sTR4 uses EKWB’s latest advances in cold-plate design and therefore promises somewhat better performance...
3 by Anton Shilov on 4/8/2019
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su to Deliver Computex 2019 Lead Keynote
With CES 2019 barely in the mirror behind us, the consumer electronics industry is already barreling towards its next major trade show, Computex 2019 in Taiwan. And, as it...
48 by Ryan Smith on 4/2/2019
Amazon Offers More EPYC: M5ad & R5ad Instances
Amazon Web Services this week started to offer M5ad and R5ad Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances powered by custom AMD EPYC 7000-series processors and featuring faster local storage.
9 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2019
EKWB Reveals EK-Vector Water Blocks for AMD Radeon VII Graphics Cards
EKWB has introduced its new water blocks designed for AMD’s reference design Radeon VII GPUs. The EK-Vector series water blocks for AMD Radeon VII will enable owners to use...
10 by Anton Shilov on 3/26/2019
Thermalright Silver Arrow IB-E Extreme Rev. B: An Air Cooler for 320 W
Announcements of new high-performance air CPU coolers tend to get rare these days. On the one hand, many enthusiasts switched to closed loop liquid coolers in the recent years...
30 by Anton Shilov on 3/22/2019
HP Unveils ProDesk 405 G4 Desktop Mini PC: An SFF Ryzen Pro Desktop
Over the past few months we have seen increasing adoption of AMD Ryzen processors by manufacturers of ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) desktops. At present, the number of UCFF systems powered...
27 by Anton Shilov on 3/20/2019
Apple Upgrades iMac and iMac Pro: More Cores, More Graphics, More Memory
Apple has introduced its updated iMac all-in-one desktop computers to use Intel's latest generation processors with up to eight cores plus AMD’s latest Pro graphics, and its iMac Pro...
31 by Anton Shilov on 3/19/2019
Google Announces Stadia: A Game Streaming Service
Today at GDC, Google announced its new video game streaming service. The new service will be called Stadia. This builds on the information earlier this year that AMD was...
147 by Ian Cutress on 3/19/2019
HP Reveals Envy x360 15 Laptops with AMD's Latest Ryzen APUs
HP on Tuesday introduced its new 15.6-inch convertible notebooks based on AMD’s Ryzen Mobile 3000-series APUs. The new HP Envy x360 15 are positioned as inexpensive 15.6-inch-class laptops for...
55 by Anton Shilov on 3/19/2019
AMD Launches China-only Radeon RX 560 XT
This evening – or rather this morning in China – AMD is rolling out a new mid-to-entry level Radeon RX video card. Dubbed the Radeon RX 560 XT, the...
22 by Ryan Smith on 3/12/2019
The ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 Motherboard Review: $250 Sixteen Core Stunner
The ASRock X399 Phantom Gaming 6 hardware is one of the cheapest X399 motherboard currently on the market and brings the Phantom Gaming name to the high-end desktop market...
22 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/12/2019
Best Video Cards for Gaming: Q1 2019
For gaming PCs that push the pretty pixels on the screens, the video card is the most important component. And given the sheer amount of custom options, choosing the...
19 by Nate Oh on 3/11/2019
AMD: 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper in 2019
In a new presentation for investors AMD announced a more precise launch plan for its client APUs and CPUs for desktop, mobile, and server computers. The company is preparing...
59 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019
Arctic Preps Freezer 50 TR: A ‘0 dB’ Cooler for AMD’s Threadripper
At an event for gamers in Leipzig, Germany, Arctic demonstrated a prototype of one the industry’s first partially-passive cooling systems for AMD’s Threadripper processors. The Freezer 50 TR is...
11 by Anton Shilov on 2/20/2019
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