Is Intel ready to compete with AMD’s X3D chips?
Ask a smattering of PC gamers combing through the aisles of a Micro Center for the best PC parts whether they’re building an AMD or Intel-based desktop, and most of them will say the former.…
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AMD’s powerful AI chips can finally be unleashed on Windows PCs
AMD’s hardware teams have tried to redefine AI inferencing with powerful chips like the Ryzen AI Max and Threadripper. But in software, the company has been largely absent where PCs are concerned. That’s changing, AMD…
AMD’s RX 9060 XT is a budget beast, if you can find it at MSRP
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, VRAM excluded. And boy, does the market know it. Street prices of the RX 9060XT are quickly climbing. Adam Patrick Murray and Will Smith tested the Radeon RX 9060 RT and…
AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT beats Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti for a lot less cash
If you hang out on hardware subreddits long enough, you’ll hear the joke “Nvidia -$50” tossed around about AMD’s long-held Radeon pricing strategy. Well, AMD managed to buck that trend today, in the mainstream segment…
AMD’s monstrous Threadripper 9000 CPUs pack up to 96 (!!!) cores
AMD’s monstrous Threadripper CPU is back at Computex 2025 with both the Threadripper Pro 9000 WX series and the consumer-friendly Threadripper 9000 HEDT—both boasting a Zen 5 performance upgrade within the same socket and 350W…
This free app unlocks AMD’s FSR 4 for unsupported games
It’s always a big letdown when new performance-boosting technologies come out but aren’t supported in all games. That’s been the case with AMD’s fourth-generation resolution upscaling technology, FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR 4), which remains exclusively…
Tested: AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D absolutely dominates
AMD loves to build to a crescendo. As it’s shown since 2016, when its first Ryzen CPUs launched, the company progresses incrementally but steadily—until Team Red sits all the way at the top. That time…
Tested: AMD’s 9070 and 9070 XT cards are pretty good at ray tracing
Despite Nvidia’s dominance of the consumer graphics card market, AMD’s 7000 series is pretty great… unless you want ray tracing. The advanced lighting techniques are where Nvidia’s cards truly shine, and AMD just can’t keep…
Boost AMD’s Ryzen AI Max performance up to 60% with this memory trick
If you’ve purchased a laptop or tablet with an AMD Ryzen chip inside, there’s a performance tweak you absolutely need to know about. Apply it to AMD’s AI/gaming powerhouse Ryzen AI Max chip, and you…
AMD’s Ryzen 9950X3D launch date leaked: March 12
AMD’s X3D processors are absolutely the best around if you’re building a gaming PC. The extra performance you get from the 3D V-cache is why the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the first of its generation to…