Posts by Metal Messiah:

AMD’s RDNA 2-based “Big Navi” GPU will arrive before the next-Gen Consoles, says AMD’s CFO Devinder Kumar

Posted on: 04 Jun 2020

AMD’s Devinder Kumar,  the company’s Chief Financial Officer/CFO, has confirmed that NAVI 2 will be AMD’s “first RDNA 2 product”. He confirmed this at the Bank of America 2020 Securities Global Technology Conference.  Also see BofA Securities.

EPIC Games Store’s “free” games are selling better after the giveaways, similar to game pass, according to Tim Sweeney

Posted on: 03 Jun 2020

It looks like Epic Game Store’s freebies are having a strong effect on the sales, according to EPIC’s founder Tim Sweeney. As you know, Epic Games has been giving away a lot of free games since the beginning, and this has really helped game developers in the long run.

AMD has shipped almost over half a billion GPUs within the last 7 Years

Posted on: 03 Jun 2020

It looks like AMD has shipped over half a billion GPUs in a total of 7 years time, as per one recent research report posted by Jon Peddie. This is an impressive feat thanks to the company’s huge success with consoles, RYZEN desktop CPUs, APUs and also the Radeon “discrete” graphics cards lineup. JPR has … Continue reading AMD has shipped almost over half a billion GPUs within the last 7 Years →

Intel discontinues the entire 8th-Gen “Coffee Lake-S” lineup of CPUs, including the i7-8700K SKU

Posted on: 03 Jun 2020

Intel recently released a new Product Change Notifications (PCN) for its Coffee Lake-S lineup of processors in which the company has highlighted that it is “discontinuing” the entire Coffee Lake-S series of processors.

Intel used two different manufacturing processes for some of its Comet Lake “Core i5” processor SKUs

Posted on: 02 Jun 2020

Intel recently announced its Comet Lake-S series of processors for the Desktop in i9, i7, i5 and i3 flavors. It has come to our attention (via TechPowerUp) that some of the Intel Comet Lake Core i5 processors are not exactly the same as other SKUs, meaning the “silicon” beneath the heat spreader can be different … Continue reading Intel used two different manufacturing processes for some of its Comet Lake “Core i5” processor SKUs →

Intel drops the fancy “Dodecahedron” design packaging of the Core i9-9900K processor

Posted on: 01 Jun 2020

In a strange turn of events, INTEL recently issued a product change notice (PCN) announcing that it is discontinuing the fancy “dodecahedron” packaging of its previous gen flagship Core i9-9900K processor. This translucent “twelve-sided” package debuted with the Core i9-9900K CPU as a direct response to AMD’s elaborate Threadripper lineup packaging.

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT & Ryzen 5 3600XT ‘Matisse Refresh’ desktop CPUs have been listed by an online French retailer

Posted on: 01 Jun 2020

Previously I shared some info and details on AMD’s upcoming “Matisse refresh” processors, and their respective leaked clock speeds. This new “refresh” Ryzen 3000 lineup will include three SKUs:  AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT (Ryzen 9 3900X Replacement), the AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT (Ryzen 7 3800X Replacement), and the AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT (Ryzen 5 3600X … Continue reading AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT & Ryzen 5 3600XT ‘Matisse Refresh’ desktop CPUs have been listed by an online French retailer →

Rumor: INTEL’s next-gen upcoming CPU architectures to feature significant IPC uplift over the current “Skylake” architecture

Posted on: 31 May 2020

INTEL has been using the same iteration of the” 14nm” FinFET process node with the Skylake Architecture for many years. Comet Lake-S was also fabbed on this “aging” process node, which has held Intel back in terms of IPC uplift and efficiency gains over AMD’s Ryzen lineup.

INTEL graphics Driver version “27.20.100.8280” has been released, provides optimizations and support for new games

Posted on: 30 May 2020

As I have previously mentioned few weeks ago, Intel released its first public DCH driver which unlocked the OEM restriction, apart from providing support for several PC games.

INTEL has made some Comet Lake “design” changes to keep the flagship 5.3GHz i9-10900K SKU, and other processors cool

Posted on: 30 May 2020

INTEL recently launched their Comet Lake-S series of desktop processors. A lot of questions have been raised with regards to the thermal output and performance of these processors, especially when they are running at the advertised and claimed base/boost clock speeds by INTEL.