AMD is upgrading, reports our colleague Hassan Mujtaba from Wccftech. And not quietly and secretly, but with an announcement that once again makes Intel look like an onlooker at its own birthday party. According to a leak by the well-known Twitter leaker “chi11eddog”, AMD is about to release two new Ryzen 9000 CPUs with 3D V-Cache of [...]
What happens when you throw two generations of product names into a blender, shake it vigorously and hope no one notices the difference? According to the infamous leaker “HXL“, AMD could go exactly this route and unceremoniously market the planned refresh of the Ryzen 8000G APUs as Ryzen 9000G. Sounds harmless, but it’s not [...]
You have to hand it to AMD: The guys and gals from Austin have learned how to keep the tech press happy. First the big appearance at CES 2025, where they proudly announced that the Ryzen AI Max is the first Windows processor to be able to locally power a Llama-70B model. A wet dream for all those who have been struggling with 7B or 13B models for [...]
NVIDIA is planning a frontal assault on the PC processor market, reports TechPowerUP ‘s btarunr, and not sneaking in through the back door, but with a full door-to-door mentality. TechPowerUp reports on a Geekbench leak of the upcoming NVIDIA N1X, a SoC that comes with 20 ARM cores and an integrated GPU with a whopping 48 Blackwell SMs [...]
Anyone who regularly records streams, prepares scenes, manages cameras or uses external capture hardware in their own video studio with software such as OBS Studio will sooner or later be faced with the question of a suitable technical basis for a dedicated recording computer. It’s not just about raw computing power or maximum features, but [...]
“Designed to Create. Built to Inspire.” – AMD’s marketing department speaks with its usual pathos. But this time, it must be admitted, the underpinning is coherent: With the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, AMD is igniting the next stage of the high-end desktop rocket. Zen 5, up to 64 cores, up to 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes, four [...]
Today I would like to give the stage to a special guest: CENS, Clemens Nüssler by name, is one of the most successful overclockers in the world and moves confidently at the very edge of the enthusiast scene. In today’s article, he provides an exclusive insight into his first experiences with AMD’s new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000WX [...]
When 5 GHz Allcore meets 96 cores and the socket rattles – then you have arrived in the realm of the Threadripper PRO 9995WX. Overclocker SkywalkerAMD has beaten the Zen 5 monster to 5.0 GHz and scored an impressive 186,800 points in Cinebench R23, as reported by our colleagues at TechPowerUp. Sounds like a benchmark fairy tale – if it [...]
The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 processors are here, and they don’t hesitate for long. The 9995WX, AMD’s new workstation flagship with 96 Zen 5 cores, has delivered a score in the leaked Cinebench R23 benchmark that can otherwise only be achieved with nitrogen and madness: a whopping 173,452 points in the multi-core test. The [...]
If you are in the industry long enough, you experience everything twice, once as an innovation, the second time as a “return”. Intel now seems to be in exactly this loop. After the big P-/E-core construction kit in Alder Lake, Raptor Lake and most recently Arrow Lake – more bad than good – they want to bring everything back [...]
In recent years, Intel has not only made bets – it started with its own house, put the factory premises on the line and then pledged the entire neighborhood as collateral. All for one number: 18A. The new process node that is supposed to seal nothing less than the resurgence of the former silicon emperor. And indeed: KeyBanc is now reporting [...]
Although I have featured SoC mainboards several times in the past, for example in the article about the Jonsbo N2 NAS case, we have never featured such a powerful one here. With our series of test reports on mini PCs, we have already impressively demonstrated that mobile processors no longer have to hide from their desktop counterparts. This [...]
Those who long for real innovation are often disappointed in the world of semiconductor development: lots of hot air, little progress. But this time it’s down to the nitty-gritty – and with Zen 6, AMD shows that it still has the courage to take risks. With TSMC’s N2P process as the backbone of the next generation of CPUs, AMD is [...]
Some software updates slip unobtrusively through the ether like a BIOS patch on a Monday morning. Others, on the other hand, are Trojan horses that reveal an entire processor generation with a simple changelog. This is what happened with AIDA64 Extreme 7.700.7500 – for the first time, the tool explicitly lists AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 [...]
Intel is about to embark on a new chapter in its refresh strategy – and it reads like déjà vu with a better coat of paint. According to various reports, Arrow Lake Refresh is set to appear in the second half of 2025, including marginal clock speed increases and an upgraded NPU module. This sounds like progress on paper, but in reality it is [...]
Sometimes a precise scalpel cut is enough where a sledgehammer fails. What AMD has achieved with the Ryzen Threadripper 9980X borders on a moderate humiliation for its own workstation king class: The new model with “only” 64 cores beats the former holy flagship – the 96-core Threadripper PRO 7995WX – in the PassMark [...]
AMD has visibly put Intel under pressure with its “3D V-Cache” strategy – not with brute force, but with surgical precision. Now Intel is responding: Nova Lake is in the starting blocks – and for the first time there are concrete indications of CPUs with “bLLC”, i.e. Big Last Level Cache. But is this the big [...]
When high-end hardware degenerates into deceptive packaging, it becomes not only expensive, but also absurd. This is exactly what happened recently when a user purchased a supposed AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D from Amazon – the CPU that is currently sailing as the flagship in AMD’s gaming offensive. But instead of concentrated Zen 4 power [...]
If there’s one thing AMD really knows how to do, it’s recycle good ideas. And so it is hardly surprising that, following the recipe for success of the X3D processors, the lower mid-range is now also getting a load of stacked L3 tiles – specifically in the form of the Ryzen 5 9600X3D, which recently emerged from the shadows via a [...]
Sometimes it’s not the benchmarks themselves that give it away, but the circumstances under which they appear. In the latest case: An unnamed AMD APU from the Ryzen 9000G series shows up in the FurMark test and sends a clear signal – AMD is planning the next step in the APU segment. Zen 5 meets RDNA 3.5 – and on the desktop [...]
