Intel revealed what it is calling the “best gaming CPU ever” last week with the Core i9-9900K. That chip is selling for $ 580, and it debuts October 19. It also doesn’t come with a cooler, so you’ll have to buy one separately. But if what if you want to spend about half that? Well, […]
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AMD’s Radeon Pro WX8200 is for content creators on a budget
AMD has been pushing Intel on the CPU high-end with new, more budget-minded offerings like the 32-core Ryzen Threadripper, and now it’s doing the same to NVIDIA. Just ahead of Siggraph 2018, AMD launched the Radeon Pro WX 8200, a card aimed not at gamers but workstation-using content creators. With 8GB of ECC RAM, the […]
AMD’s second-generation Threadripper CPU has up to 32 cores
AMD is once again pushing its processor technology to new heights. During its Computex keynote today, the company revealed that its second-generation Threadripper CPU will feature up to 32 cores and 64 threads. We’ve known the chip would arrive later this year, but AMD now says it’ll launch in the third quarter. The news also […]
AMD’s eSports push improves performance in ‘PUBG’ and ‘Dota 2’
As AMD seeks to remain competitive in the PC gaming hardware space, it’s focusing on optimizing performance for some of the most popular eSports titles around, including Overwatch, Dota 2 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Its latest edition of the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition (18.3.1) packs tweaks courtesy of an internal group — unveiled during the Vega […]
AMD’s 2018 roadmap: Desktop APUs in February, second-generation Ryzen in April
Enlarge / Ryzen die shot. (credit: AMD) AMD has used CES to lay out its plans for 2018. Over the first half of the year, the company is going to release the final missing members of the Ryzen product line-up. Starting in April and continuing into the second half of the year, Ryzen will start […]
AMD’s Zen goes mainstream with Ryzen 5: 4 cores, 8 threads, from $169
The first chips with AMD’s new Zen architecture were the high-end, enthusiast-oriented Ryzen 7 parts. It’s now the mainstream’s turn, with AMD announcing Ryzen 5. There are four Ryzen 5 parts launching on April 11. At the top end is the R5 1600X: 6 cores, 12 threads, with a base of 3.6GHz and a turbo […]
AMD’s latest Radeon GPU driver boosts performance of ‘Ghost Recon Wildlands’
AMD on Monday released a new driver for its Radeon graphics cards, bringing Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition up to version 17.3.1. The new driver is optimized for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, promising up to 6 percent better performance than driver version 17.2.1 (on a Radeon RX 480 card). The driver also provides a […]
Can AMD’s Ryzen deflate Intel?
GUEST: AMD today released its highly anticipated Ryzen desktop processors aimed squarely at high performance computing needs — as well as at Intel. Its Ryzen 7 devices will go head to head with Intel’s Core i7, and its newly announced Ryzen 5 will go head to head with Intel’s Core i5. AMD has been behind […]
AMD’s Vega, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti may be unveiled on same day at 2017 GDC
AMD isn’t just introducing its new Zen processor architecture and line of Ryzen CPUs. It’s also going to be announcing its new line of Vega GPUs at some point soon, perhaps at an event scheduled for February 28 during the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Not wanting to be left out of the festivities, AMD competitor […]