We’re only a few days into 2021 and it’s already shaping up to be a year of shakeups. Sony market share in decline in its native Japan, Elon Musk becomes the richest man in the world, and a tectonic personnel change hits Intel. Jim Keller, Guru tier Microprocessor Engineer, a true doyen in the field, […]
Xbox Series X & PlayStation 5 pre-launch breakdown
The next generation of consoles is almost upon us. Both the latest from Microsoft and Sony are set to launch this month and bring their latest and greatest hardware, features and of course the games. We want to take a bit of time to breakdown what the new consoles have to offer and compare the […]
AMD announce RX 6800, RX 6800XT, and RX 6900XT graphics cards
AMD’s Where gaming begins episode 2 has just taken place and with it we got all the details on the launch of the next generation of GPU’s. Dubbed big Navi the next high end graphics card from AMD will launch under the Radeon RX 6000 series and use their RDNA 2 architecture. During the event […]
AMD Zen 3 officially arrives with the Ryzen 5000 series
AMD’s latest Zen architecture is now official and the newest desktop processor line up from AMD has been detailed. The live stream featured CEO Lisa Su, CTO Mark Papermaster, and Director of Technical Marketing Robert Hallock. Zen 3 will launch under the Ryzen 5000 series and will offer the biggest IPC improvements since Zen launched. […]
AMD announces Ryzen 4000 Series Mobile processors
AMD was gearing up for a decent few announcements at CES this year, and most if not all were pretty heavily rumoured before hand. None the less, the fresh details shared during the press conference are certainty exciting news for the mobile world, with the launch of Ryzen 4000 series for laptop/tablet world bringing some […]
AMD’s 3rd generation Threadripper launches November 25th
AMD’s HEDT platform Threadripper is now entering its 3rd generation and will utilizes the companies Zen2 architecture. The new line up eagerly been awaited since the arrival of Zen2 earlier this year. Threadripper series was the first High-End Desktop to offer 16-core/32-thread processors, which brought previously impossible performance to the marketplace. 2nd generation Threadripper managed […]
AMD Ryzen 9 3950x 16-core/32-thread CPU arrives November 25th
AMD’s flagship CPU for their main stream line up as originally meant to arrive in September, but it was pushed to November. Even though the wait wasn’t too long, it would have been worth it either way. The 3950x is now official and AMD are bringing a 16-Core/32-Thread CPU to their AM4 platform on November […]
AMD announce first Navi GPU’s, meet the Radeon RX 5000 series
AMD weren’t short of announcements today Their latest third generation Ryzen processors were also announced, and are set to bring amazing performance gains over the previous generation and offer some serious competition against Intel. Today’s news wasn’t all Ryzen. The first real information for Navi has finally been shared. The first GPU’s that will launch […]
AMD introduce third generation Ryzen processors, Ryzen 9 3900x 12-core/24-thread for €499
AMD’s beg keynote featuring CEO Lisa Su kicked off today and finally the veil on Ryzen 3 or ‘Zen 2’ has been lifted. The leaks and rumors are behind us (mostly) and now the information is out there. The new line up of Ryzen chips uses AMD’s latest Zen 2 architecture and will take AMD […]
AMD announce Ryzen 3, arrives mid-2019
AMD have a good few announcements over CES 2019. First up we had new laptop chips using Ryzen 2, and then we got their latest gaming GPU. The last announcement from AMD was their unveil for Ryzen 3, which features their new Zen 2 architecture on 7nm node. We didn’t get much information, other than […]