Not content with letting Intel rest for even a moment with any victory to keep it warm, AMD have barnstomed back into superiority with the announcement of their new 3D V-Cache enabled Ryzen 7 5800X3D desktop microprocesor. A follow up to the highly successful 5900X and 5950X members of the Ryzen 9 Zen 3 based […]
Jim Keller and the State of the Union at Intel
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, […]
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’s massive 32-core Threadripper chip now available for pre-order
It hasn’t been that long since AMD announced their Ryzen Threadripper for the HEDT market. Pricing was a huge factor, along with the obvious amazing performance and huge PCIe lane count. AMD are ready to double that core count with the launch of Threadripper 2. The new line up of chips are made using Zen+ […]
AMD Threadripper will arrive on August 10th
AMD Threadripper has finally gotten a release date. The new HEDT platform from AMD will be arriving on August 10th and pre-order are starting with some retailers already. Let’s take a look at the official line up and see what’s on offer. Starting from the bottom, we have the smallest 8-core/16-thread 1900X. This is meant […]
AMD announce ThreadRipper with X399 chipset and 16-core CPU
AMD’s Computex press conference has just wrapped up, and one of the big announcements was the rumoured Threadripper Ryzen platform. The new series of the devices will launch on the High End Desktop platform (HEDT) and will offer some serious leaps in both performance and features. AMD haven’t detailed any clock speeds, pricing, or officially […]
Intel’s new Extreme Edition CPU and X299 platform boasts up to 18-cores
COmputex 2017 is afinally here and Intel are already taking the wraps off their new Extreme platform, and boy to the core counts just look insane. The new lineup of processors will come under the new X299 chipset with Kabylake-X and Skylake-X series processors; which are made up of 4,6,8,10,12,14,16, and 18-core CPU’s. Yeah, that’s […]
AMD share more details on Naples Server CPU, arriving Q2 2017
AMD have just launched their first Zen core based processors with Ryzen 7 for Desktop computing, but only a few days after gone by and more news is now being shared about Naples; AMD’s attack on Intel’s dominance in Datacenters. AMD have argued that Intel have been sloppy with new hardware, and aren’t providing big […]
AMD Ryzen 7 Pre-Review
AMD Ryzen is finally here, and with it brings some of the best competition and market shifting products we have seen in a long time. This is exactly what we were waiting for and AMD has delivered big time. AMD have been working on the Zen core for a good few years now and there […]
AMD Ryzen 7 officially ships 2nd of March, pre-orders start now
AMD have finally released the full details, including pricing on some of their upcoming Ryzen CPU’s. AMD will be releasing the Ryzen 7 series first, which includes the 1700, 1700X, and 1800X. All 8-core 16-thread processors that are set to being some real disturbance to the CPU market. Product Line Model Base Clock (GHz) Boost […]