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Modern motherboards are able to adapt the voltage given to the CPU, according to how much power is needed during any given time. However, it has been revealed that some motherboard vendors might purposely manipulate boards to give too much power to AMD CPUs for higher performance, at the potential …

AMD has announced that the third generation of Nvidia DGX A100, “the world’s most advanced AI system“, features 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors equipped with 128 cores. The AI system from Nvidia is capable of delivering 5 petaflops of computational performance and is designed to handle “diverse AI workloads such …

Towards the end of 2019, Amazon mentioned that new AMD-powered instances were in the works, and these have now finally debuted in form of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC-run instances. Amazon's 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors run at frequencies of up to 3.3GHz and are the sixth instance family at AWS powered …

Intel has officially revealed the power limits and Tau of its 10th Gen processors...

Intel's Tiger Lake launch appears to be on the horizon. The chipmaker has started to send marketing kits teasing the launch of the 11th Gen mobile processors for this summer.  This is not the first time that Intel has done something like this. Back when Coffee Lake launched, Intel sent …

An engineering sample of an Intel Rocket Lake-S processor has been spotted in the 3DMark database, featuring 8 cores,16 threads, a base clock of 3.2GHz and a boost clock of 4.3GHz...

Intel has announced that it will discontinue its 8th Generation Core desktop processors. The CPU lineup was officially discontinued as of June 1, but it will take some time before it's completely phased out. The announcement from Intel was made through a Product Change Notice (PCN), which reveals that the …

We've still had no official word on the release of AMD's Ryzen 7 4700G and Ryzen 5 4400G, but leaker Apisak has already released figures showing the 3DMark performance of the upcoming APUs. Earlier this year, AMD released the 4000-series Ryzen APUs for laptops. These accelerated processing units (APUs) combine the Zen …

Product listings for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 3000XT processors have appeared on Materiel.net, suggesting these CPUs will bring a bump in base and boost clocks compared to the current Ryzen 3000 processors...

Details about the next-gen Ryzen 5000 "Cezanne" and Ryzen 6000 "Rembrandt" APUs have leaked. These APUs will utilise Zen CPU cores alongside Vega/RDNA graphics, and will be used in both desktops and laptops...

Rumours and leaks have been ramping up at a steady pace about the next-gen of desktop GPUs and APUs. Now it has been announced that Nvidia, Intel and AMD will holds talks at technological symposium Hot Chips, scheduled for August 16-18 this year. Hot Chips has been held in August …

Following on from Intel's recent launch of its 10th Gen desktop processors, there are rumours that AMD might respond with a refresh of its Ryzen 3000 series processors...

A Core i9-10900K overclocked to 7.7GHz across all ten cores.

This week marks the launch of Intel's 10th Generation Core desktop processors and the Z490 chipset for motherboards. We've already seen some memory records broken utilising this new hardware and it looks like MSI's motherboards are turning up some decent CPU overclocking results too. First up is the flagship MSI …

New listings of the AMD “Vermeer” processors, also known as Ryzen 4000, have given us a glimpse of the speeds that these upcoming chips may be able to run at. These two listings show a 8C/16T processor and a 16C/32T processor, both clocked up to 4.6GHz. According to Igor's Lab, …

Leo takes an in-depth look at the performance of Intel's 10-core consumer processor

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AMD has backtracked following its controversial Zen 3 support announcement earlier this month.

The Dimensity 800 SoC was announced in January 2020 and still hasn't found its way into any smartphones that are currently on the market. But things move fast in the world of technology and yesterday MediaTek unveiled Dimensity 800's successor, the Dimensity 820.  On May 18, MediaTek unveiled its latest addition to …

China has shown clear interest in minimising its reliance on foreign technology and as a part of that goal, the Chinese chip maker SMIC has started mass-producing the Huawei Kirin 710A chip.  As per Global Times, the Kirin 710A chip produced by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) has reached an important …

Following on from the paper launch two weeks ago, Intel's 10th Gen Core desktop CPUs have landed in the UK...

Two new Ryzen mobile processors have been spotted on 3DMark, while a separate Ryzen desktop processor with integrated graphics was found in the Ashes of the Singularity database, potentially giving us a glimpse of AMD's "Renoir" APU for the desktop platform...

AMD's Ryzen 3 3100 was designed as an entry-level CPU, offering a good price to performance ratio, but with lower clock speeds than the 3300X. That said, TSIAK, a Taiwanese overclocker, was able to push his AMD Ryzen 3 3100 to 5923.62 MHz. TSIAK was able to push the entry level CPU …

MediaTek has detailed its Helio G85 SoC and one thing is clear, the chip is designed with a focus on gaming performance. The chip is made to deliver high performance for mid-range phones with its 12nm octa-core CPU and 1GHz GPU.   Helio G85 is equipped with an octa-core CPU featuring two …

Today, AMD is expanding its Ryzen 4000-series of mobile processors with the Ryzen PRO family. Aimed at the business notebook market, the Ryzen PRO 4000 series aims to deliver the most cores and threads available in ultra-thin laptops.  As you would expect, the Ryzen PRO 4000 series of mobile CPUs …

How good are AMD's new quad-core Ryzen 3 CPUs?

Although the review embargo for Comet Lake-S is set for May 20th, benchmark results have already made their way onto the Internet. The latest leaked result reportedly shows an overclocked Core i9-10900K clocked at 5.4GHz, scoring over 3000 points in Cinebench R15...

Lenovo's roadmap for its upcoming ThinkPad devices has leaked, and with it, the release of the Tiger Lake and Lakefield processors...

We've been hearing a lot about Z490 and potential forward compatibility with 11th Gen CPUs recently. Now, Intel has released a Linux Graphics Driver Patch and the update log reveals that upcoming Rocket Lake processors will be compatible with 400 and 500-series chipsets. Some investigation is required to understand how Rocket Lake's …

Intel recently announced its new 10th Gen Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and motherboard manufacturers have also unveiled a slew of accompanying Z490 motherboards. While there's still no official word about the B460 and H470 platforms, a leaked slide from ASRock shows a feature that allows non-K Intel CPUs to be overclocked …