AMD plans to unify the architectures used by its datacenter and consumer graphics architectures in what one company executive is calling a “new DNA,” or a “unified DNA,” that combines its CDNA and RDNA architectures.…
For months, internet rumor mills have claimed that AMD’s next-generation Radeon RX 8000 graphics cards would cede the high-end market to Nvidia’s GeForce lineup, after the GeForce RTX 4090 stomped all over the competition this…
Laptops with new AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 chips have the AI horsepower to qualify as Copilot+ PCs and run the newfangled Windows features tied to that qualification. But they…
Tech YouTuber Roman Hartung (aka “der8auer”) just pointed out in one of his recent videos that elaborate CPU fakes are currently in circulation, and he personally came across a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D that…
Most PC gamers know that a laptop with a discrete GPU from AMD or (most likely) Nvidia is a must-have for playing modern PC games on a portable machine. Yet, despite that, many people find…
AMD’s hotly anticipated Ryzen 9000 desktop processors launched earlier this month, and well, the gaming performance improvements seen by independent reviewers weren’t as hot as expected – or as hot as AMD attested to in…
AMD’s next-gen Ryzen CPUs are huge, and… well, they’re a bit of a mixed bag. The delayed launch of the first chips — the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X — showed strong single-core…
AM4 is the processor socket that just refuses to die. With a couple of new chips debuting in June — an astonishing seven years after the original Ryzen 1000 series debuted on AM4 — it…
It seems like every month or so we hear about a new security flaw affecting tons of consumer-grade CPUs. Perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising, though, since the complexities of modern processors and the PCs around…
Intel is having a bad time lately. The biggest scandal of the past few months has been the apparent hardware flaw causing 13th- and 14th-gen desktop CPUs to fail at high rates (which probably didn’t…