Tag Archives: AMD

As usual, October and November have been packed with big video game releases, which has also meant a bunch of GPU driver updates for PC players. This week's highlight is Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which is now available on Steam and Origin. Nvidia pushed out its own ‘Game Ready' …

AMD is back with the 16-core Ryzen 3000 CPU... just how good is it?

Earlier this week, AMD officially announced specs, pricing and release dates for the first two SKUs in the 3rd Gen Threadripper lineup. However, it looks like AMD is wasting no time in preparing the next big CPU release, as a new leak hints at a 64-core TR 3990X. A seeming …

Gigabyte previously gave AMD's RX 580 the Aorus treatment but for one reason or another, Vega was skipped over. Now, with AMD's RX 5700 series out in the wild and finding success, Aorus is back on the menu, with the AORUS RX 5700 XT set to launch within the next …

Yesterday was a big one for both AMD and its partners. Not only have the first 3rd Gen Threadripper CPUs been announced, but motherboard makers are starting to show off their first offerings for the new TRX40 platform. We've seen a trio of boards from ASUS already this week and …

AMD teased us a while back with the announcement that the Ryzen 9 3950X and 3rd Gen Threadripper processors would be launching this month. Now, we have all of the final details, with the TR 3960X and TR 3970X being announced alongside the new TRX40 platform. We also have more …

AMD has found plenty of success this year thanks to the launch of 3rd Gen Ryzen but there was at least one issue around launch that stuck out. Some early adopters found that their new CPU wasn't hitting its rated boost clock speed. AMD has been ironing out this issue …

Rockstar continues to impress with its latest PC release. Here, we dive into Red Dead Redemption 2's vast array of graphics options.

Nvidia began rolling out its GeForce driver update for Red Dead Redemption 2’s launch this week and AMD has its own prepared too. The latest version of the Radeon Software driver adds day-one optimisations for Rockstar’s cowboy adventure, while also fixing some issues with The Outer Worlds, OBS encoding, Vulkan …

Over the course of this year, AMD has been making headway in the GPU market with its RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT GPUs. A while back, AMD CEO, Lisa Su, did mention that high-end Navi was ‘on track', so there is a bigger, more powerful version to come later …

With rumours of a new Nvidia graphics card looming, AMD is pushing forward with price cuts for the RX 590, which still maintains its position as an excellent 1080p gaming card one year later. Currently at UK retailers, the RX 590 can be found for as low as £175 and …

The beta version for the latest AMD AGESA update for the Ryzen 3000, released by ASRock, is improving the boost clock across all cores. At the same time, MSI made the 1.0.0.4 patch for the X570 motherboards available, claiming improvements for boot times. As we've previously reported, MSI stated that the next …

Earlier this week, Nvidia began rolling out a new GeForce driver with optimisations for this weekend's big game releases- The Outer Worlds and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Now, those equipped with a Radeon GPU also have a day-one driver available to install, which should grant some notable performance boosts. …

This is a board you dont want to miss, given its powerful 16 phase power delivery system

As previously reported, AMD has settled its $12.1 million Bulldozer/Piledriver class-action lawsuit. Customers are now eligible to claim a piece of the settlement money, but only if you live in California or bought a processor from AMD's website. In 2011, when AMD released the Bulldozer CPUs, and later the Piledriver CPUs, both …

Custom cooling specialist, Bitspower has announced new products adding to its already extensive range. Two new designs are available including a universal CPU water block with an OLED display and a GPU water block for Nvidia RTX cards. The Bitspower Summit M CPU water block is a follow on from …

Back in May, we covered how AMD and Cray, a supercomputing expert subsidiary of HP, would together build the world's fastest computer for the US Department of Energy. But apparently, another government plans to have a supercomputer built by both companies. The UK government chose AMD and Cray to build the …

There's no doubt AMD has been applying pressure to Intel's market share of the CPU segment since the launch of Ryzen. Now, according to a recent leak, Intel wants to disrupt the CPU market by injecting billions of dollars in price cuts and incentives to fight back AMD competition. Based …

With Zen 3 scheduled to be released in 2020, we may get a better than expected performance increase

Intel has killed off its Kaby Lake-G collaboration with AMD Radeon RX Vega M graphics. However, the company has vowed it will continue to support the product with drivers for five years to follow policy. Kaby Lake-G was released at the beginning of 2018 featuring a collaboration between Intel and …

Our AMD Radeon Pro GPU competition is back for another week. Unfortunately due to a technical error, previous entrants will need to re-enter. We sincerely apologise for this error. Please see the full post for more details.

There have been plenty of CPU leaks over the last month or so, from Intel 10th Gen and Cascade Lake-X to AMD Ryzen Threadripper and new additions to the Ryzen 9 lineup. Today, another previously unannounced chip has appeared on a retail listing, indicating that the Ryzen 5 3500 should …

Just a few weeks ago, AMD rolled out a new graphics driver containing Radeon Image Sharpening support for several RX 500 and RX 400 series GPUs. At the time, we thought it was odd that Vega was left out of the equation, particularly since the Radeon VII is still AMD’s …

Over the years, AMD has managed to put together some excellent game bundles for hardware buyers. Earlier this year, we saw some Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs sold with free codes for The Division 2, Devil May Cry V and Resident Evil 2. Now just in time for the holiday …

AMD looks set to shake up the mobile graphics market with leaks of their new RX 5300M and 5500M specifications showing performance to rival Nvidia's budget mobile offerings. There have been many rumours over the past few weeks regarding AMD’s Navi 12 and 14 desktop graphics looking likely to be …

AMD has today announced the global availability of its new Ryzen PRO 3000 series of desktop processors, with part of the line-up available with integrated Radeon graphics. Ryzen PRO is designed for enterprise systems and will be coming in Q4 2019. Following on from a story we reported on just …

With Ryzen 3900X CPUs appearing to be extremely thin on the ground recently, retailers who have stock are hiking prices up daily. With both UK and US markets showing price increases, it may not be good news for potential buyers. AMD’s Ryzen 9 3900X CPU remains very difficult to get …

Today we look at TriXX Boost - Sapphire's software-based feature to increase your frame rates

Cyberpower's range of Hydro-X systems offer custom liquid cooling & high spec, any good for gaming?

Rumours of Nvidia possibly adding to its budget range of graphics cards have been gathering pace with talk of a 1650Ti rearing its head again. However, that’s not all, another source suggests ASUS is preparing three GTX 1660 Super cards for launch too. According to the folks over at Videocardz, their …