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After more than 100 reported instances of AMD Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs breaking or having performance issues with ASRock motherboards, employees from the company have been quoted by a YouTuber as admitting some measure of fault on their end. This hasn’t been confirmed and is far from official. But it’s …

Gamers waiting for new Zen 5 CPUs with AMD’s vaunted X3D cache will want to look at two chips that landed on Geekbench: the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and the 9900X3D. Although AMD announced the processors at CES 2025 in early January, it hasn’t made much noise about them lately. Their …

If it were on me, I’d buy any CPU (especially if it’s rated 4.8/5) at a 62% discount, let alone the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, a high-performance desktop processor. This eight-core, 16-thread CPU, originally priced at $449.00, can now be yours for only $169.99. It’s a deal that’s hard to …

We all remember when the pandemic joined forces with a cryptocurrency boom to make GPUs impossible to buy. Those were dark days, but crypto eventually crashed, GPU prices returned to normal, and we figured that was the end. Not so, as crypto prices are skyrocketing again, but miners are buying …

(Photo: AMD)It’s about that time folks. Get your Phillips head screwdriver out, make sure your thermal paste is handy, and deliver last rights to your old CPU and motherboard. It’s time to make way for AM5, as AMD will be officially announcing its Zen 4 CPUs at the end of …

AMD’s Ryzen Mobile 6000 family of CPUs has launched and reviews of the new CPU have popped up across the net. Reviewers are pleased with the platform overall, but the Ryzen 9 6900HS doesn’t quite match the performance of CPUs like the Intel Core i9-12900HK. It also doesn’t burn nearly …

  AMD’s Ryzen 6000 APU products will reportedly feature RDNA2-derived GPUs with up to 12 compute units (CUs) per CPU. These new cores would offer a substantial improvement in performance per cycle and feature up to 768 cores. This rumor comes from @ExecutableFix, who has stated on other tweets that …

  When AMD announced its Ryzen 5000 CPUs, it introduced a feature it dubbed Smart Access Memory, known more generally across the industry as Resizable BAR. Resizable BAR allows a CPU to access more than 256MB of GPU memory at any given time. The feature can boost game performance on …

  Yesterday, we covered news from Mercury Research showing that Intel had regained market share from AMD in both desktop and mobile. The news, however, wasn’t all bad for AMD. According to Dean McCarron, president of Mercury Research, AMD shipped nearly a million Ryzen 5000 CPUs in Q4 of 2020. …

  AMD’s CEO Lisa Su delivered the virtual CES 2021 keynote this year. The company made several announcements during the event, including the launch of its Ryzen 5000 mobile processors and a preview of what we can expect when third-generation Epyc, codenamed Milan, debuts later this year. The Ryzen 5000 …