Tag Archives: Ryzen

Today, Acer announced its new Swift X laptop series – a new range of thin and light laptops pairing AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors with Nvidia GeForce discrete graphics. While these laptops will have some power for gaming, they are primarily aimed at ‘creators' and appear to be designed as …

QNAP is back with another AMD Ryzen powered NAS system. The new TS-x73A features an AMD Ryzen V1000 series v1500B quad-core processor, 2.5GbE networking, 8GB of memory and up to eight bays for storage drives. Speaking on the new Ryzen powered NAS, QNAP Product Manager, Jason Hsu, said: “With a …

Since late last year, the PC industry has been dealing with shortages across the board, although graphics card availability has seemingly been hit the hardest. While some industry executives expect shortages to continue until 2022, AMD has a much more positive outlook on GPU availability in the coming months.  During …

KitGuru was recently able to sit down with Frank Azor, Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD. We spoke about the unique position AMD is in as both a CPU and GPU manufacturer and how the company can use that to its advantage, with features like Smart Access Memory and SmartShift. We also get the latest update on the company's highly anticipated FidelityFX Super Resolution feature...

Today AMD is releasing Radeon Software Adrenaline 21.4.1, complete with enhanced features including remote gaming functionality, customisation capabilities and better streaming and system monitoring tools. 

Earlier this week, AMD officially announced the Ryzen 5000G series of processors with integrated Radeon graphics. For now, these processors are only going to be available to OEMs making pre-built PCs, but later this year, the DIY market should be able to get their hands on them too. Following on …

After months of various leaks and rumours, today AMD has officially announced the Ryzen 5000G series of processors. These are APUs with integrated Radeon graphics cores alongside Zen 3 CPU cores for a better all-in-one solution for gaming without a dedicated graphics card.

In August 2020, we came across an alleged AMD roadmap introducing multiple new architectures, such as “Warhol” and “Cezanne”. Over time, these names have been revealed as official, bringing some legitimacy to last year's leak. Now in an updated roadmap, we also have some details on an upcoming “Raphael” series …

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 …

NZXT tries its hand at a B550 motherboard - but is it successful?

The new PassMark CPU rankings are out and a surprising entry has risen to second place. Based on PassMark CPU benchmark results, the Apple M1 is able to outperform AMD's Ryzen 5 series processors and the newly launched Intel 11th Gen Core series with just one exception – the Core …

It has been a couple of years since NZXT first began shipping motherboards, starting with the N7 Z370 in 2018. Since then, NZXT has continued to release Intel-based motherboards, leaving the AMD market untouched. That changes today, with NZXT announcing the new N7 B550, built for AMD Ryzen processors.  Due …

We chat with 8Pack about this new high-end gaming PC and discuss what makes it so special....

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, …

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

We've known that AMD has some new Ryzen PRO series SKUs planned and now, those are beginning to leak. This week, a new Ryzen 5000G Pro CPU was detailed online, complete with 8 cores and 16 threads.  Over on Chiphell (via @momomo_us), a CPU-Z screenshot for this upcoming CPU was shared. …

The biggest announcement from Lisa Su's keynote at CES 2021 was undoubtedly the reveal of the Ryzen 5000 mobile processors. However, we did also get confirmation of the rumoured non-X Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 CPUs. We've been hearing about these non-X Ryzen desktop parts since the end …

After plenty of speculation, Lisa Su today officially announced AMD's Ryzen 5000 mobile processors at CES 2021. These new mobile parts are split between the more performant H-series and the lower-power U-series, scaling up to 8-core/16-thread parts that can push past a 45W TDP...

The creator of CTR and DRAM Calculator for Ryzen has found that some Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 7 5800X processors feature a dual CCD design instead of a single CCD. For now, there isn't an easy way to check if one of these processors has one or two CCDs, …

We go over our picks for the top 5 AMD motherboards of 2020

We go over our picks for the top 5 AMD CPUs of 2020

While the Zen 1 based Ryzen Threadripper line-ups featured a 16-core SKU, we did not get a 16C/32T Ryzen Threadripper 3000 chip. As we look ahead to Ryzen Threadripper 5000, it looks like the 16-core chip will be making a return.  According to Yuri Bubliy, AMD might be working on bringing …

For Day 26 of the KitGuru Advent Calendar 2020, we’re teaming up with AMD to give one lucky KitGuru reader a CPU upgrade! Our prize today is none other than the Ryzen 7 5800X! 

With AMD’s new Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 processors offering new levels of compute, gaming, and power efficiency performance to mainstream desktop users, it is a great time to be a Mini-ITX fan. In this review, we examine the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-I Gaming Mini-ITX motherboard and see how it handles …

Biostar has announced a new mATX motherboard as part of its B550 lineup. The B550M-Silver is a motherboard aimed at gamers and casual users, offering a neat package of features while also featuring a stylish design worth of showing off. The Biostar B550M-Silver comes in a black and silver theme, following …

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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 previously announced that 400-series motherboards would gain support for Smart Access Memory and Ryzen 5000 CPUs in January 2021. As it turns out, motherboard makers are eager to get the update out early, with beta versions of the BIOS already publicly available.  Motherboard vendors have started shipping a beta …

We assess AMD's 8-core Zen 3 processor, the Ryzen 7 5800X

Following the announcement that Nvidia is developing a Smart Access Memory alternative, AMD has released a statement sharing new information about its technology. According to the company, Smart Access Memory won't be supported on older hardware, but AMD is welcoming other hardware vendors to use it.