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 …
Read More »Intel Rocket Lake-S engineering sample spotted on 3DMark, not coming in 2020
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...
Read More »Intel’s 8th Gen Coffee Lake processors to be phased out by end of year
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 …
Read More »AMD Renoir 4000-series APU 3DMark performance leaked
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 …
Read More »A French retailer has listed the AMD Ryzen 3000XT processors
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...
Read More »AMD Ryzen 5000 & 6000 APU details leaked
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...
Read More »Nvidia, AMD and Intel to talk next-gen GPUs and APUs in August
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 …
Read More »AMD might refresh its Ryzen 3000 desktop processor series in July
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...
Read More »ASUS ROG Maximus XII Apex used to push Core i9-10900K to 7.7GHz
A Core i9-10900K overclocked to 7.7GHz across all ten cores.
Read More »MSI Z490 GODLIKE used to push Core i9-10900K to 7.42GHz on all 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 …
Read More »Engineering samples of Ryzen 4000 “Vermeer” processors clocked up to 4.6GHz
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, …
Read More »Intel Core i9-10900K Review – No Cores For Concern!
Leo takes an in-depth look at the performance of Intel's 10-core consumer processor
Read More »Intel Core i5-10600K Review – Return of the 8700K!
How good is the new 10th Gen i5 - and should you buy one?
Read More »AMD will support Zen 3 on B450 and X470 motherboards after all
AMD has backtracked following its controversial Zen 3 support announcement earlier this month.
Read More »MediaTek announces the Dimensity 820 SoC
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 …
Read More »SMIC is mass-producing the Huawei Kirin 710A chip
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 …
Read More »Intel 10th Gen desktop CPUs arrive in the UK
Following on from the paper launch two weeks ago, Intel's 10th Gen Core desktop CPUs have landed in the UK...
Read More »Three new Ryzen processors, including an 8-core desktop APU, spotted online
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...
Read More »AMD Ryzen 3 3100 overclocked to 5.92 GHz
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 …
Read More »MediaTek intros Helio G85 featuring a 1GHz GPU
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 …
Read More »AMD launches Ryzen PRO 4000 series CPUs for laptops
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 …
Read More »AMD Ryzen 3 3300X & 3100 CPU Review
How good are AMD's new quad-core Ryzen 3 CPUs?
Read More »Overclocked i9-10900K scores over 3000 points in Cinebench R15
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...
Read More »Lenovo roadmap leak shows Tiger Lake & Lakefield releasing in Q3/4 2020
Lenovo's roadmap for its upcoming ThinkPad devices has leaked, and with it, the release of the Tiger Lake and Lakefield processors...
Read More »Rocket Lake set to be compatible with 400 and 500-series chipsets
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 …
Read More »ASRock could support overclocking with non-Z motherboards & non-K CPUs
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 …
Read More »Z490 will support 11th gen Intel Rocket Lake-S
It's not often you hear the words Intel and support for multiple CPU generations on a single motherboard platform in the same sentence lately. Well, that is about to change since it has become apparent that new Z490 based motherboards will support 11th gen Intel Rocket Lake-S desktop processors. Ever …
Read More »2nd generation AMD EPYC processors set to power Oracle Cloud E3 platform
AMD is expanding its arsenal of EPYC powered data centre systems with a new venture in partnership with Oracle that equips the company’s latest Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform with 2nd generation EPYC processors, to bring a new level of performance to Oracle Cloud. The Oracle Cloud “E3 Standard” leverages …
Read More »AMD claims its high-end CPUs have ‘more than 50% share’ of global sales
AMD recently held an earnings call discussing its Q1 2020 financial results. During the call, Lisa Su – President and Chief Executive Officer of AMD – said that the company now has “more than 50% share of premium processor sales at many top global e-tailers”. It's no secret that AMD …
Read More »Intel announces 10th Gen desktop CPUs
Today, Intel is announcing its 10th generation desktop processors, starting with cheap dual-core Celeron processors and ranging all the way up to the Core i9-10900K with 10-cores and 20-threads. The Core i9-10900K is going to take over from its predecessor, the 9900K, as ‘the world's fastest gaming processor'. Under the …
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