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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
The Quiz on CPU 0: Playing Scheduler Wars with AMD’s Threadripper 2990WX
One of the telling conclusions from our original 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX review was that because of the arrangement of cores and memory, performance in most applications did...
74 by Ian Cutress on 10/25/2018
Best CPUs for Gaming: Holiday 2018
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
0 by Ian Cutress on 10/24/2018
The Biostar X470GTN Motherboard Review: AM4 ITX Revisited
Last year Biostar released the first mini-ITX AM4 motherboard and it did its utmost to impress us without too much fluff or unnecessary features - it was a simple...
20 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/24/2018
The MSI B350M Gaming Pro Review: Micro Size, Micro Price
Although most manufacturers have a primary focus on X470 chipset motherboards, AMD has made it clear that the B350 chipset will be sticking around for a long time. The...
18 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/12/2018
The $120 MSI X470 Gaming Plus Review: Only 4-Phase VRM, Not 11-Phase as Advertised
Low budget doesn’t necessarily mean low quality and although there are always exceptions to this rule, MSI looks to break the stigma behind this with their lowest cost X470...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/4/2018
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G Integrated Graphics Frequency Scaling
One of the last poignant questions from our previous Ryzen APU coverage is the way that integrated graphics scales with overclocking. As these low-end Ryzen APUs are all about...
49 by Gavin Bonshor on 9/28/2018
AMD Launches Ryzen 7 2800H & Ryzen 5 2600H APUs for High-Performance Laptops
AMD has quietly added two new APUs into its lineup of products. Based on AMD's existing Raven Ridge silicon, the new Ryzen 7 2800H and Ryzen 5 2600H chips...
18 by Anton Shilov on 9/18/2018
AMD Announces Four New Ryzen CPUs: 2700E, 2600E, 2500X, and 2300X
AMD has announced four new 2000-series processors based on Zen+ which fills out its launch of parts: two X-series processors at 65W focused on overclocking with Precision Boost overdrive...
25 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 9/10/2018
AMD Announces New $55 Low-Power Processor: Athlon 200GE
Everyone likes discussing headlines: the latest mainstream processor, or super 32-core behemoth, are topics ripe for deep discussion. Despite this, a lot more volume occurs in the mid-range and...
44 by Ian Cutress on 9/6/2018
AMD: Jim Anderson Out, Saeid Moshkelani In as “Client Compute Group” General Manager
In a press release sent out this afternoon, AMD has announced a shuffle in leadership for the company’s client computing business unit, the core of AMD’s business and heart...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2018
AMD Slashes Prices of First-Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs: Starting at $300
Following the launch of its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors earlier this month, AMD quietly began to slash prices of its first-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. Right now, the most affordable...
34 by Anton Shilov on 8/27/2018
Hot Chips 2018: AMD APU Optimization Live Blog (Noon PT, 7pm UTC)
AMD is also at Hot Chips, speaking about Raven Ridge and its APUs. The key elements to this talk will be the optimizations made for Raven Ridge, specifically around...
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The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review
If you live by the workstation, you die by the performance. When it comes to processing data, throughput is key: the more a user can do, the more projects...
171 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/13/2018
Lenovo Posts Specifications of AMD’s Ryzen 3 2300X & Ryzen 5 2500X
Proving once again that the only way to keep a secret is to not share it, Lenovo seems to have accidentally published the specifications of AMD’s yet-to-be announced Ryzen...
7 by Anton Shilov on 8/7/2018
More Details About the ZhongShan Subor Z+ Console, with Custom AMD Ryzen SoC
One of the exciting elements from last week’s coverage was the announcement of the upcoming Chinese market PC and Console, from Zhongshan Subor, featuring some AMD custom silicon. Through...
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The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up to 32 Cores
The biggest news to come out of Computex, AMD’s second generation of its Ryzen Threadripper platform, is almost here. Today’s announcement is all amount images, speeds and feeds: specifications...
105 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2018
The ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Motherboard Review: Aquantia 10GbE on Ryzen
With the new X470 motherboard refresh to compliment the release of the Ryzen 2000-series of processors, motherboard vendors have had the opportunity to improve upon their previous X370 models...
44 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/2/2018
The ASRock B450 Gaming ITX/ac and B450 Gaming K4 Motherboard Reviews
With the launch of the new AMD B450 budget focused chipset, we’re taking a look at two gaming branded ASRock motherboards; the B450 Gaming ITX/ac and the Fatal1ty B450...
29 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/31/2018
Analyzing B450 for AMD Ryzen: A Quick Look at 25+ Motherboards
One of the secondary stories from Computex was that AMD and its partners were set to launch a new generation of mid-range chipsets and motherboards with the new lower-power...
62 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/31/2018
AMD Announces Q2 2018 Results: Best Quarter In Seven Years
What a difference a year makes. Yesterday afternoon AMD announced their second quarter results for their fiscal year 2018, and the news is nothing short of stunning, with AMD...
13 by Ryan Smith on 7/26/2018
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