Tag Archives: Ryzen 5000

We recently reported that AMD was considering support for Ryzen 5000 CPUs on X370 motherboards. As it turns out, it didn't take long for these rumours to prove true, as ASRock has just updated its support page for the X370 Pro4 motherboard, adding a new BIOS that supports Ryzen 5000 series CPUs...

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 …

Although Ryzen 5000 series chips are not supposed to be supported by A320 motherboards, it seems Gigabyte and Asus have found a way to make it happen. A new BIOS update seems to enable Ryzen 5000 CPUs on some entry-level motherboards. Evidence of this being possible first popped up around …

This week, Zotac is launching its new line of MEK gaming desktops. The new MEK Hero PC Gaming series will pair AMD Ryzen 5000 processors with Nvidia’s latest RTX 30 series graphics cards and EK liquid cooling.  Speaking on the new MEK Hero PCs, Zotac USA president, Gary Lau, said: …

We're checking out the all-AMD ASUS ROG G15 laptop

Following the rumour about an incoming refresh of the Ryzen 5000 series, AMD made a statement confirming its existence and detailing a bit more about them. Unfortunately, it won't be the kind of refresh we hoped for, as it won't bring any performance improvement.

We’ve had Ryzen 5000 series processors available for quite some time now, but we have yet to see the launch of AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 5000G APU series. It looks like we won’t have to wait much longer, however, as the product data sheet containing the specs for AMD’s upcoming APUs …

We’ve known for a while now that MSI plans to roll out a BIOS update for its motherboards introducing Smart Access Memory (SAM) support to Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. Now, this BIOS update is officially available, adding SAM for older CPUs and some small performance improvements for Ryzen 5000 series …

A new tool to test the settings of AMD Curve Optimizer has been released. Developed by “sp00n.82” from the ComputerBase community, the new tool tests the AMD Curve Optimizer settings by doing multiple 1-core runs of Prime95 and reports any errors that might occur during testing. According to the developer, …

1usmus is back with another update to the Ryzen CTR tool. In the CTR 1.2 update, new features have been added, including Hybrid OC, which switches performance profiles based on CPU load, allowing Zen 3 processors to boost up to 5GHz in some cases.  Besides the P1 and P2 profile, …

When dealing with large quantities of hardware, you’re going to have some units fail from time to time. Normally for CPUs, this failure rate falls into single-digit percentages but according to one custom PC builder, the failure rate for AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X is significantly higher than normal.  The statistics …

We check out the 5980HS mobile CPU in the ASUS ROG Flow X13

The eight-core, sixteen-thread Ryzen 9 5980HS is a performance monster in its 35W TDP mode, but there are some quirky clock speed and throttling behaviours with the Flow X13 laptop. Let’s have a closer look...

The first set of specifications for AMD's rumoured OEM CPUs have come to light...

CES is coming up in just a few days time and we're expecting some big announcements from AMD in particular. Thanks to a last-minute leak this week, we've got a new look at the die for an unreleased Ryzen 5000 "Cezanne" APU, which should be officially unveiled next week. 

ClockTuner for Ryzen is getting a 2.0 version, updating its GUI with a new dark theme and introducing interesting new features such as the Hybrid OC mode and support for Ryzen 5000 series processors. The slides from Yuri (aka as 1usmus) shared by Guru3D describe each new feature and come with …

Ryzen 5000 has launched and both Luke and Leo are impressed by the performance offered up by the chips. Some of AMD's pricing decisions seem a bit bizarre, though, and have let Intel back into the picture with some of their ageing refined 14nm processors. Let's discuss Ryzen 5000, Zen 3, Intel competition, and more availability woes.

AMD is getting ready to launch a new version of Precision Boost Overdrive. Also known as PBO. This tool is often used to overclock Ryzen processors, but with Precision Boost Overdrive 2, undervolting will also be possible. Precision Boost Overdrive 2 behaviour will be based on three aspects: CPU temperature, socket …

EKWB has collaborated with AMD for a new line-up of Ryzen and Radeon specific watercooling components. This includes a Ryzen-themed CPU waterblock, an AIO unit, AMD-themed Vardar fans, and new EK-Quantum Vector blocks for the Radeon RX 6000 series.  The star of the show here is the EK-Quantum Vector RX 6800/6900 …

Despite claims that Ryzen 5000 processors wouldn’t be supported on 300-series motherboards, screenshots of a Ryzen 9 5900X running on an A320 motherboard have been spotted on a Chinese forum. AMD has only officially announced support for Ryzen 5000 processors on 500-series and 400-series motherboards, leaving 300-series motherboard owners out …

To coincide with the release of AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series processors, ASRock is launching a matching X570 motherboard. The X570 PG (Phantom Gaming) Velocita was “designed to meet the needs of high-end gamers” while offering the best price/performance ratio. The wireless and wired network connectivity of the X570 PG Velocita is …

During the recent Radeon RX 6000 announcement, AMD’s chief architect of gaming solutions, Frank Azor, mentioned that the company is working alongside its partners to develop new cooling solutions for the upcoming AMD products. One of those partners, EKWB, has now teased two waterblocks for both Ryzen and Radeon components. …

With the Ryzen 5000 series from AMD now officially on the way, motherboard makers are planning their BIOS updates for older motherboards. In the case of MSI, we have some good news, as the company has announced that all of its 400-series motherboards will support AMD's latest processors.

An AMD slide belonging to the “When Gaming Begins” presentation has leaked, detailing the memory overclocking in Ryzen 5000 desktop processors. As per this slide, “DDR4-4000 is to Ryzen 5000 series as DDR4-3800 was to AMD Ryzen 3000 series”. The slide shared by TechnoPat, details what Infinity Fabric clock (fclk), …

A new tweet posted by software engineer Patrick Schur suggests that AMD will indeed skip the Ryzen 4000 naming scheme for the upcoming Zen3 processors. The decision behind this could be that the company wants to unify the name of the upcoming Ryzen “Cezanne” APUs, which use Zen3 architecture, with …

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...