Items tagged with AMD
Let's talk about what "open-source" means, because it can get a little confusing. Big software projects have a lot of components, and "going open-source" doesn't always mean that every single component's source code is released. That's...
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The first official sighting of AMD's Radeon AI Pro R9700 out in the wild is now in the books after a user on Reddit scored a Gigabyte variant and then promptly posted a picture of the retail packaging. Announced back at Computex, AMD's...
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The once heavily lopsided rivalry between AMD and Intel in pursuit of market share and the revenue that comes with it has become a much more tightly contested battle. Case in point, AMD sent us a email highlighting some interesting figures...
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The tech space has no shortage of personalities, and memes about Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang are in plentiful supply—especially considering how pivotal their decisions are. However, one person who's just as relevant right now is...
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The Xbox has been taking some lumps this year. There has been a wave of layoffs and various headlines claiming that its hardware division is dead. The latter looks like a bad take though, with rumors circulating that there will be a next...
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AMD and NVIDIA have reportedly agreed to pay the United States government 15% of all revenues derived from AI chip sales to China, thereby giving the green light for the former to begin shipping Instinct MI308 accelerators and the latter...
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Without a press release, blog post, or even a tweet to mark the occasion, AMD has quietly added a new workstation GPU to its Radeon PRO lineup: the Radeon PRO W7400. This card slots into the company's W7000 series as an even-lower-power alternative to the two-year-old W7500. With a...
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AMD overcame export restrictions on its Instinct MI308 data center GPU to still post its best quarter ever, with revenue increasing 34% year-over-year and 3% sequentially to nearly $7.7 billion. It also saw a giant increase in net income...
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Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the legendary Athlon CPUs had 462 contacts. Modern CPUs need a whole lot more connectivity, which is...
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AMD is expanding its discrete RDNA 4 GPU lineup with the launch of the Radeon RX 9060, a non-XT version of of the 9060 XT that now occupies the bottom spot in the Radeon RX 9000 series family. According to AMD, the entry-level gaming card...
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When we tested the MSI Claw 8 AI+ featuring Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V, we found the Lunar Lake chip to have less-consistent, but overall slightly better performance versus AMD's Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Given that, it should be no surprise that...
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It took some time, but AMD managed to breach a 40% adoption rate on Steam for the first time ever, according to Valve's latest Steam survey results. It's not inconceivable that AMD could match or even overtake Intel in Steam usage by this...
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If you read our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, then you already know that it's one of the best options to build a gaming PC around. That was true last November when we put the chip through its paces, presuming you could find it in stock and...
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When we initially heard rumors about AMD's Strix Halo processors, we were dubious. When AMD announced those chips as the Ryzen AI Max 300 family, we were cautiously optimistic. We didn't become true believers in the design until we tested...
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series: 9980X $4999, 9970X $2499 The Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series is AMD's most powerful HEDT and workstation processors line-up ever, offering significantly better performance and efficiency than...
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Chinese tech YouTuber Geekerwan's latest video shows just how far you can push AMD's new Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a 96-core, 192-thread Zen 5 workstation chip that costs a staggering ¥100,000 (~$13,800). And when we say "push," we mean...
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A fascinating piece of hardware recently surfaced in a Chinese online marketplace. An enthusiast PC builder shared what appears to be a prototype cooler for an unreleased AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card.
This discovery was made...
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AMD has officially enabled Stable Diffusion on its latest generation of Ryzen AI processors, bringing local generative AI image creation to systems equipped with XDNA 2 NPUs. The feature arrives through integration with Amuse, a free and...
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It's been a long while since AMD truly challenged NVIDIA at the top end of the GPU market, and to be fair, it's a place where a relatively small number of gamers hang out. Be that as it may, rumor has that AMD's next-generation flagship...
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AMD is still playing it coy as to when exactly its retail partners will begin selling its newly-minted Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series processors, but it has now revealed official pricing. Those who want to shoot straight to the top...
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If you're in the market for an affordable GPU, AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB may show up in your list of candidates. It has recently dipped below its MSRP at retail, hitting $279.99 on Amazon. This is down 15% from its $329.99 MSRP, making...
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AMD is expanding its Ryzen AI 300 series lineup of mobile processors with the quiet addition of a new entry-level model, the Ryzen AI 5 330. Officially another Krackan Point part (and unofficially, Krackan Point 2), the mobile part should pave the way for Copilot+ branded laptops to hit more...
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