Tag Archives: AMD

Closing out its Computex announcements, AMD revealed that its 7nm Zen 2 chips are on track, with its silicon in labs ahead of 2019 launch.

Throughout the past year and a half, GPU availability has taken a hit causing prices to rise uncontrollably. Following Nvidia’s effort in padding out its selection of graphics cards, AMD has announced that its Radeon RX line is available “in quantity” throughout North America. “Over the last few months, AMD …

After eleven months of floating around in the ether, AMD’s Radeon Vega 56 has finally found its way into a laptop- specifically, the new Acer Predator Helios 500. There’s even the option to go all AMD by switching out the default Intel CPU with a 2nd Gen Ryzen 7 processor, …

Intel unveiled its RX Vega-powered mobile processors earlier this year, with the Kaby Lake G-series replacing its own integrated graphics with technology from its rival, AMD. Now, it looks as though Google will be producing a Chromebook featuring the lovechild, under the codename “Kidd”. Kidd was discovered in a Chromium …

You may remember Viglen from way back - we review their £999 Incepta Professional RX PC

There has been a lot of confusion today surrounding ASUS and the future for its AREZ line-up of graphics cards. Nvidia's GeForce Partner Program has come to an end, so when a Twitter account claiming to be an official AREZ profile posted that the recently launched brand would be ‘coming …

A few weeks ago, the first PlayStation 5 rumours began popping up on the web. At the time, it was brushed off due to a few outlandish claims, such as a potential 2018 launch window, but some additional fuel was added to the fire this week. For starters, Sony has …

We've known for a while that AMD is preparing to launch its 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper processors later this year. The current launch window is the second half of 2018, and it looks like we are inching closer as this week, AMD revealed that its new Threadripper chips are now …

AMD has revealed it will sample its 7nm processed ‘Zen 2’ architecture this year, ahead of a full launch in 2019.

Intel has been on quite the hiring spree lately. Towards the end of last year, we saw the chip giant bring Raja Koduri on board to lead work on discrete graphics. More recently, we saw Jim Keller brought in to help out on the CPU side of things, and now, …

AMD’s Ryzen line has already won over the critics as a solid line of CPUs that give Intel a run for its money, but it was the consumers that it truly needed to impress in order to survive. With its earnings results coming to light for this year’s first quarter, …

After spearheading development on AMD's Zen architecture and a brief stint at Tesla, chip designer Jim Keller is heading to Intel.

For months now, graphics card prices have shot through the roof at retail, making it much harder for gamers to upgrade their PCs at reasonable prices. However, we could be seeing a change on that front soon, as reports this week claim that demand from miners is dropping. According to …

Back when AMD first launched the RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56, the company attempted to get the cards into the hands of gamers through bundles. Unfortunately, this system led to a bit of a mess and plenty of confusion when it came to launch pricing. Now, AMD is …

AMD has bolstered its line of APUs, equipping the brand new Ryzen 3 2200GE and Ryzen 5 2400GE chips with Vega graphics technology. While the new processors don’t offer much more in terms of raw performance, the focus this time around is power efficiency as both offer nearly half the thermal design …

AMD hints that its Ryzen 7 2800X will come later this year, depending on what Intel does with its reported 8-core Coffee Lake upgrades.

AMD's Ryzen 2600X is here and it's £210. It's one you really do want to consider for a new build

The Ryzen 7 2700X is here, and we bare all in this full review.

AMD reveals that more Radeon-only GPU brands are on the way to combat Nvidia’s GeForce Partner Program.

With the GeForce Partner Program being a sticking point of discussion recently, we have all been wondering about what plans AiBs may have put into motion for the future. ASUS is now the first company to make its position official, confirming that AMD Radeon RX graphics cards will be moving …

Last week, AMD officially lifted the lid on Ryzen 2nd Gen, revealing key specs, pricing and some of the technical improvements made under the hood. It will be a few days before reviews hit, but it looks like at least one overclocker has already managed to push Zen+ to its …

Leo gets hands-on with the latest processors for AMD as well as some of the newest X470 motherboards from ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI!

AMD's 2nd Gen Ryzen processors are on the horizon- we've got pricing and spec details, alongside some information on what improvements AMD has made under the hood for its Zen+ refresh.

Although much of the attention surrounding Spectre CPU flaws has been directed at Intel, it shouldn’t be forgotten that AMD processors are also affected by the exploit. The ‘Red Team’ has now issued a new patch to further mitigate Spectre Variant 2 attacks, covering products dated as far back as …

Over the last few days, there has been plenty of talk surrounding AMD's incoming RX 500X series. Mentions of the new GPU series began popping up earlier this week and while imaginations ran wild, there doesn't seem to be much to get excited about here. The Radeon RX 500X series …

It looks like AMD is gearing up for a new line of graphics cards in the near future, as a leaked product page for the Radeon RX 500X Series has been spotted over the weekend. It didn’t take long for the rumour mill to start up, with many speculating that …

AMD has officially responded with a technical assessment of the vulnerabilities published by CTS Labs' last week.

We know that AMD's Ryzen 2000 series is set to begin rolling out in less than a month, which means now is a pretty good time to find deals on older Ryzen 1000 series CPUs. This week, AMD began cutting prices for current gen Threadripper, Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and …

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) kicked off this week and we've already had a couple of major announcements. It looks like this year, DirectX 12 is back in the spotlight, with the likes of Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft all working to support Ray Tracing technology. This is a technique commonly …

There has been a media blitz of reports surrounding AMD Zen processor flaws over the last 24 hours. However, the situation surrounding CTS Labs, its research and its disclosure, is suspicious to say the least.