AMD has officially released its 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs. From today, PC gamers can purchase the AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3700X, Ryzen 7 3800X and Ryzen 9 3900X desktop processors. AMD also introduced a new X570 chipset for socket AM4, supporting the world’s first PCIe 4.0 readiness, which exhibited 42% faster storage performance than PCIe 3.09, enabling high-performance graphics card, networking devices, NVMe drives, and more. Continue reading AMD 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs officially released, Intel Core i9 9900K still the best gaming CPU
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First gaming benchmarks leaked for AMD Ryzen 3900X, faster than i9 9900K in heavily multi-threaded games
The first gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 3900X (as well as the 3700X) have been leaked online. These benchies originate from PCGamesHardware and according to the German website, AMD’s brand new CPU is faster than the Intel Core i9 9900K under heavily multi-threaded games. Continue reading First gaming benchmarks leaked for AMD Ryzen 3900X, faster than i9 9900K in heavily multi-threaded games
AMD is officially lowering the prices of its NAVI GPUs in order to rival NVIDIA’s SUPER GPUs
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again; competition is great for consumers. Recently, NVIDIA revealed its new SUPER GPUs that appeared to be more powerful than AMD’s upcoming GPUs. And while AMD’s new NAVI GPUs, the AMD Radeon RX 5700XT and Radeon 5700, have not been released yet, the red team has officially announced that it will be cutting their prices. Continue reading AMD is officially lowering the prices of its NAVI GPUs in order to rival NVIDIA’s SUPER GPUs
First gaming benchmarks for the AMD NAVI GPUs, Radeon RX 5700XT & RX 5700, have been leaked online
The embargo for the third-party gaming benchmarks for AMD’s NAVI GPUs, the AMD Radeon RX 5700XT and the AMD Radeon RX 5700, will go live on July 7th and it appears that the first benchmarks have been leaked online. Continue reading First gaming benchmarks for the AMD NAVI GPUs, Radeon RX 5700XT & RX 5700, have been leaked online
AMD is working on next-gen software/hardware hybrid ray tracing technology, shares first details
AMD is about to release its new NAVI graphics cards and as we’ve already reported, these GPUs will not support ray tracing. However, it appears that the red team is already working on a software/hardware hybrid model for ray tracing, and has shared the first details for it. Continue reading AMD is working on next-gen software/hardware hybrid ray tracing technology, shares first details
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.3 driver released, optimized for F1 2019
AMD has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.3 driver is optimized for Codemasters’ latest racing game, F1 2019. Continue reading AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.3 driver released, optimized for F1 2019
Intel acknowledges AMD’s high performance Zen2 CPUs, “competition shaping up to be especially tough”
AMD will officially release its new Zen2 CPUs on July 7th and it appears that Intel has internally acknowledged the impressive CPU models that the red team will bring to the table. Moreover, the blue team claims that competition will be tough in high performance computing. Continue reading Intel acknowledges AMD’s high performance Zen2 CPUs, “competition shaping up to be especially tough”
First third-party gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 appear online
AMD’s 3rd generation desktop processors, the AMD Ryzen 3XXX series, will officially release on July 7th and it appears that the first third-party gaming benchmarks have just surfaced online. The first gaming benchmarks are for the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU. Continue reading First third-party gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 appear online
Report: Intel will slash the prices of its desktop CPUs by up to 15% in order to rival AMD’s Zen2 CPUs
DigiTimes has reported that Intel is planning to cut the prices of its 8th and 9th generation desktop CPUs by 10-15%. Not only that, but it appears that Intel has already notified its downstream PC and motherboard partners about these upcoming cut prices. Continue reading Report: Intel will slash the prices of its desktop CPUs by up to 15% in order to rival AMD’s Zen2 CPUs
AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.2 available for download, improves Vulkan support
AMD has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.2 driver improves the Vulkan support on the Radeon GPUs. Continue reading AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.6.2 available for download, improves Vulkan support