Tag Archives: Ryzen

Modern motherboards are able to adapt the voltage given to the CPU, according to how much power is needed during any given time. However, it has been revealed that some motherboard vendors might purposely manipulate boards to give too much power to AMD CPUs for higher performance, at the potential …

AMD has backtracked following its controversial Zen 3 support announcement earlier this month.

Too hot to handle? We push four CPU coolers to their limits on the Threadripper 3990X

Update 10:47 24/04/2020: The price has dropped further – now to under £159. Even better. AMD's Ryzen 3000 processors have been around for almost a year now, and they have been widely praised for offering top multi-threaded performance and high efficiency levels. Now, you can get a 6-core Ryzen 5 …

Today, AMD is announcing its 3rd Gen Ryzen 3 series processors in addition to the B550 chipset for Socket AM4 motherboards. The new Ryzen 3 series will include the Ryzen 3 3300X and the Ryzen 3 3100, both housing four cores and eight threads...

Things are looking busy for AMD. Last week saw new set of EPYC processor SKUs released, and we've also seen leaks and rumours pointing to an impending release of Zen 2-based Ryzen 3 3000 processors. And Luke and Leo talk about the prospect of a Zen 2-based desktop APU akin to what we see from the new Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs...

We are running a HUGE competition this month. In partnership with Alphacool, AMD, Cougar, Gigabyte and Patriot, we have put together a custom water-cooled gaming PC worth £2,500 and one lucky reader is going to win it!

Zen 3 is still likely to be many months away, but the rumour mill has certainly begun churning. Keeping up with AMD's release cadence from Zen, Zen+, and Zen 2, we initially expected to see Zen 3 around Q4 2020. Will this still be the case?...

Today we build a high-end workstation system based around the 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, Gigabyte TRX40 Aorus Master motherboard, and two Aorus Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics cards... see how this beast performs in the real world!

As the Human Malware spreads around Planet Earth, Leo is doing his best to remain chirpy. Thankfully we can turn to news from AMD for a healthy portion of sunshine and happiness that will keep us all sane in these dark times.

AMD has shared more details on its upcoming Ryzen 4000 Mobile 'Renoir' APUs with 7nm Zen 2 and Vega cores. Offering up to eight cores and sixteen threads from the Zen 2-based CPU cores in 15W and 45W form, will AMD be able to compete against Intel's dominance in the mobile market? And how will AMD's strict focus on high performance graphics capability compare to Intel's competition?

Last week, AMD released its flagship 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 3990X. As per our review, the Threadripper 3990X is an immensely powerful CPU out-of-the-box, regardless of the workload thrown at it. But how much extra performance can be squeezed out of this CPU through extreme overclocking? Some overclockers already had the chance to experiment …

Back at CES, AMD promised to ‘push the envelope' of high performance computing once again in 2020 and so far, the company is off to a very good start. Today, the Ryzen 9 3990X officially launches, bringing a whopping 64-cores and 128 threads to desktop platforms. We have been fortunate …

Just how good is AMD's 64-core Threadripper processor? Here's our deep-dive review

The first review of a laptop using a Ryzen 4000 series CPU has been published online. A Ukrainian website reviewed the upcoming Acer Swift 3 SF314-42, which houses the mid-tier Ryzen 5 4500U. With this being our first look at a Ryzen 4000 series laptop processor in action, we had a peek at the …

Following on from AMD's Q4 2019 results, some interesting news has been shared, detailing AMD's gains in the x86 CPU market over the last year.

Zalman are back! and with a bang too - their new 20X is a monster performance cooler!

AMD's quarterly financial earnings call took place last night and aside from record earnings for 2019, AMD also had good news on the 2020 front, with next-gen RDNA GPU architecture set to debut, along with AMD's return to high-end graphics with ‘Big Navi'.  For the full year of 2019, AMD …

AMD ended 2019 with the message that the company will push the envelope of high computing again in 2020, at the same time as announcing it will be holding its annual CES press conference on Monday 6th January at 2 pm. AMD finished off 2019 with a message on its …

Is ASUS ROG's TRX40-E Gaming worth a look at just under £500?

AMD's latest series of HEDT processors have officially arrived alongside the new TRX40 motherboard platform and the sTRX4 socket. To support the latest chipset and 3rd Gen Threadripper CPU socket, EKWB has ensured sTR4 compatible waterblocks for those looking to put a custom loop together. The EK Velocity sTR4 series …

If you're looking for ultimate high core-count performance, Threadripper 3000 is where you should look

Yesterday, u/AMD_Robert clarified the fastest CPU core identification process with Ryzen processors, made by Windows and Ryzen Master. AMD CPUs have a performance ranking for their cores, as ‘fused at the factory and reported by the firmware'. However, Windows and Ryzen Master seem to have ‘different goals when identifying a …

A couple of weeks ago, 1usmus released a custom power profile for 3rd Gen Ryzen systems running on Windows 10, adjusting CPU task scheduling for better performance and boost clock speeds. Now, the first update has begun rolling out, which makes further optimisation changes. The power profile modifies Collaborative Processor …

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

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 …

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

According to MSI, AMD Ryzen CPUs will be getting a new microcode update soon, with a new BIOS which will be packed with over 100 features and improvements being rolled out next month. Microcode is the lowest level of CPU and machine instruction sets that are loaded from the BIOS …

Luke goes hardcore with an in-depth VRM analysis of four X570 motherboards

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 …