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AMD's entry level Athlon series hasn't made much noise in the desktop space for a while now, but that could soon change, as an unannounced Athlon Gold Pro 4150GE APU has appeared in a benchmark database this week.  The CPU-Z entry found by @TUM_APISAK shows that the Athlon Gold PRO 4150GE is a …

While PlayStation and Nintendo systems get all the attention when it comes to emulator support (due in part to having more non-PC titles), the Xbox 360 still has many worthwhile exclusive games, and so it is exciting to see the system’s leading emulator (Xenia) get even better. Making the announcement …

Last month, Blender received a major update, bringing the software up to version 3.0 and packing some major improvements. In recent weeks, we've noticed some big performance gains while rendering using both AMD and Intel processors, cutting rendering time down considerably. With Blender 3.0, the developers re-wrote GPU kernels and …

Following on from the announcement of Ryzen 6000 series processors for laptops at CES, we've seen a few benchmark leaks ahead of launch. Earlier this week we saw the first results for the Ryzen 9 6900HX and now, we have an early look at Ryzen 5 6600H performance. 

AMD announced the new Ryzen 6000 series laptop APUs during CES 2022, but we haven't seen them in action just yet. Fortunately, some benchmarks are beginning to surface, giving us an early look at performance compared to AMD's previous generation APUs.  The Geekbench entry found by @Benchleaks shows the 8C/16T …

Following on from five straight months of price increases, it seems that GPU prices are finally on the decline again across Europe. According to new data gathered, the average sale price for AMD and Nvidia GPUs has dipped over the course of January, although we are still far from getting …

Recently, Samsung unveiled its new Exynos 2200 chip with embedded RDNA 2 graphics thanks to a partnership with AMD. The company did not give us performance comparisons at the time, but the first benchmarks are now appearing, giving us a look at how it stands up to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 …

The GPU market is in shambles and has been for some time. Graphics card prices are through the roof and 2021 saw an array of lacklustre launches from both AMD and Nvidia, who many accuse of cashing in on the crisis. Fortunately for Intel, however, such events have conspired in their favour as the company is now presented with a monumental opportunity to seize the discrete GPU market. They simply can't miss - can they?

AMD has just introduced three new entry-level workstation graphics cards. We were already expecting the company to officially announce the Radeon Pro W6400, but we got a pleasant surprise in the form of the Radeon W6500M and W6300M mobile workstation GPUs. Aimed at professional users, such as CAD designers, engineers …

The RX 6500 XT has arrived, and it is a complete mess

After over half a year of rumours and even a last-minute announcement delay, Samsung has finally unveiled the Exynos 2200. As previously reported, Samsung's latest SoC is powered by AMD RDNA2 graphics, marking the red team's debut in the GPU phone market. The RDNA2 GPU is named Xclipse, and as rumours …

AMD has hidden a blog post from its own website that, in June 2020, claimed '4GB of VRAM... is evidently not enough for todays games.' This comes ahead of the RX 6500 XT launch at 2pm today, a graphics card with just 4GB of video memory...

At CES 2022, AMD announced two refreshed Radeon RX 6000 mobile GPU series, but there was no mention of new desktop graphics cards aside from the RX 6500 XT. However, a new report claims that, like the mobile series, the desktop Radeon RX 6000 SKUs are set to be refreshed, …

On December 30th, Samsung teased that it would announce its new RDNA 2-powered Exynos chip on January 11th. The day came and went, but the Exynos 2200 remains unannounced, leading many to question what exactly happened. Samsung has now stated that it has rescheduled the announcement, but didn't specify the …

Out with the old, in with the new - Leo upgrades his personal PC

Last week at CES 2022, AMD officially introduced its latest GPU, the RX 6500 XT. Announced with a $199 MSRP, the RX 6500 XT has been positioned as an ‘affordable' RDNA 2-based graphics card. Confirming what we all knew, however, ASUS has announced its own set of MSRPs for the …

AyaNeo recently announced that its Next console would ship with a Ryzen 7 5800U, but things are already changing now that AMD has announced the Ryzen 7 5825U. The AyaNeo Next Advance will remain with the Ryzen 7 5800U, but the standard and Pro variants will now come with AMD's …

With AMD Zen 4 processors planned to come out later this year, it's reasonable to expect the chipmaker has already begun making engineering samples. Two of those samples have now been spotted in the BOINC database, giving the first benchmark results of the upcoming processors. The entries were spotted by …

Many of us have been waiting for AMD to introduce support for Ryzen 5000 series CPUs on 300-series motherboards. Currently, that's only possible through custom BIOS and on A320 motherboards, but AMD is reportedly planning to expand adoption to B350 and X370 boards. That's according to Tom's Hardware, who had …

The AMD AM4 socket has been around since September 2016, and even today, AMD is still releasing processors compatible with it. However, AMD plans to launch a new platform based on the AM5 socket later this year. This announcement led some to question if the new socket would last as …

Out of all CES 2022 keynotes, AMD seemed to have the most hardware-rich presentation, featuring new processors and GPUs for both desktops and laptops. Besides announcing a new Ryzen 3D V-cache processor, AMD also told us more about Zen4 and the AM5 socket, Zen3+ and Ryzen 6000 series mobile APUs …

Nvidia isn't the only one launching a new entry-level desktop graphics card today at CES. AMD has also announced the RX 6500 XT graphics card, coming in with a $199 MSRP versus the RTX 3050 at $249.  Of course, MSRP means little in the current market, with GPU shortages and …

We are calling this the ‘Top 3 Processors of 2021!' however that isn't strictly correct since AMD launched Zen 3 late in 2020. What you really need to know is that Intel 12th Gen is better than we expected and has gone head-to-head with AMD's finest. Game on! Timestamps 00:00 …

We look back over the year and pick our three favourite motherboards across a broad price spectrum

For day 17 on the KitGuru Advent Calendar, we have teamed up with Sapphire to give one lucky reader a brand new graphics card! Today's prize is none other than the Sapphire RX 6800 Nitro+! 

AMD has yet to properly unveil its first processors with DDR5 memory support, but engineering samples of such CPUs are starting to do the rounds. This week, a new benchmark database entry was spotted, listing an unnamed AMD processor with DDR5 memory support.  As first spotted by Benchleaks, the BAPCO Crossmark …

PowerColor listed many new graphics cards on the EEC database recently, from which most are RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 GPUs. However, the listing also shows an unknown SKU named BC-2235, which is claimed to be a mining card. The listing, found by @momomo_us, confirms that both the Radeon …

We've been hearing a lot about the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT recently, with leaks revealing specifications and planned launch dates. Now, Lenovo appears to have confirmed some of these rumours, briefly listing the unannounced GPU and confirming some of its specifications, before correcting the error and removing the listing.  …

GPU prices are still far from returning to normal and it looks like soon we'll see another shift. According to a new report, some MSI RTX 30 series GPUs are about to get a bit cheaper, while some Sapphire RX 6000 GPUs are going to get a price increase. In …

We check out PC performance in Halo Infinite, benchmarking nearly 30 GPUs