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. […]
Intel announce 8th Gen chips with AMD Vega GPU’s
The rumours of an Intel SOC with AMD graphics were met with huge scepticism last year, with AMD finally giving Intel a run for its money with their launch of Ryzen. Mos figured Intel wouldn’t jump into bed with a company that intends to gobble up some of their market share. This of course turned […]
AMD announce Ryzen Pro workstation processors for enterprise/public sector
AMD have announced a new series for Ryzen processors marketed towards the enterprise and public sector. The new Ryzen Pro series will feature a very similar spec sheet to that of the standard desktop Ryzen that launched a few months ago, but with some additions for the enterprise scene. Ryzsen Pro includes extra security features […]
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 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 […]
AMD Ryzen processors and chipset details so far
AMD’s next series of CPU’s are almost here, but we are still a few weeks away. AMD have yet to share any firm specfics about pricing or complete specs, and since their official announcement, we have been relying on crumbs of information that has managed to leak out from retailers, suppliers and others. Now first and […]
Intel’s 8th Generation CPU (Cannonlake) to continue using 14nm process
Intel’s 8th generation of processors codenamed Cannonlake won’t be making the jump to 10nm as previously thought, but instead will continue to use the same 14nm process that Intel has been using since Broadwell. This makes it 4 generations of CPU’s from Intel stuck on the same process. It wasn’t long ago that Intel changed […]
Intel launch 7th generation processors and Z270 chipset for desktops
Intel have opened the curtain on their latest generation of processors, and with them the newest Z270 chipset. The new Kaby Lake processors have been leaked heavily before their official release, as it generally is with most tech nowadays, but none the less, let’s take a look at what the new processors and chipsets will […]
AMD unveil first RYZEN processor, launching Q1 2017
Finally the AMD RyZen platform has been officially unveiled with AMD’s New Horizon press event in Austin, Texas. Some specs are officially here, and while the reveal was pretty short, we got some pretty solid details before the official launch early next year. The name was unveiled pretty quickly into the event, but leaked many […]