AMD unlocks OC for Ryzen 7000X3D or is this just another bug? AMD’s product pages can be quite misleading in parts. Earlier this month, the Ryzen 7000X3D pages already made headlines when AMD updated them with a February 14 launch date, only to later confirm that this was a mistake. Even a few weeks later, we still don’t know when [...]
Jan Hubicka, a SUSE compiler engineer, has added additional AMD Zen 4 code, more specifically “znver4” CPU target tuning, to further prepare for the upcoming release of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC 13). GCC 13 includes additional and improved AMD Zen 4 CPU target tuning, and numerous patches for the new version have been added in [...]
Although my topic has been preached by the old hands in the PC field in forums for decades and is often the approach of any solution to performance problems, the same questions keep popping up from less experienced users. I hope to reach them with this article on our professional platform and maybe there is one or the other info for everyone else [...]
After Microsoft released DirectStorage 1.1 for PC systems with Windows as well as for current GPUs and NVMe SSDs, you can now also see the first performance benchmarks of the latest GPUs from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA compared to each other. The decompression of graphics files is improved by DirectStorage 1.1, which works equally well for Intel, AMD [...]
AMD disclosed 31 new CPU vulnerabilities in an update in January, affecting both the Ryzen chips for home users and the EPYC processors for data centers. The vulnerability update also includes a comprehensive list of AGESA versions with workarounds for the affected processors. AMD disclosed the vulnerabilities in a coordinated disclosure with [...]
In keeping with today’s date, we continue with our Intel Raptor Lake silicon lottery data today, namely with the overclockable i7 and i5 SKUs. So whether your 13th Gen chip is a winner or a loser, you can find out today, among other things. At this point, I would like to refer to the previous article on the i9 chips, since the procedure for [...]
An embarrassing miscommunication on AMD’s part? AMD has just confirmed that February 14 is not the correct date for the launch of the Ryzen 7000X3D chips. Yesterday, the company gave such a date for all three X3D SKUs announced at CES, but the company has now “decoupled” its chips from that date. So no Valentine’s Day after [...]
CPU manufacturer AMD confirms the launch date for its 3D V-Cache Zen4 CPUs. The AMD Ryzen 7000X3D now has a release date, as spotted by Overclock3D. AMD has just updated its website with the new information for the 3D V-Cache enhanced Ryzen series. All three SKUs that AMD announced at CES 2023 are scheduled to launch on February 14, as can now be [...]
Very soon, the fastest Raptor Lake-S CPU will be on the market and Intel will probably launch its next (rather unreasonable) feasibility study for good money. Meanwhile, there are more and more spoilers about the performance of the new processor, so we can assume a “silent” release soon. Intel’s Gaming Technical Marketing Lead [...]
AMD releases the new Zen 4 CPUs without X in the name today. Of course, I was able to test the CPUs in the form of the Ryzen 9 7900 and Ryzen 5 7600 in advance and also added the respective X models freshly. Even though these new CPUs might look rather unspectacular at first glance, the slightly lower price and higher efficiency could definitely [...]
Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, not only presented AMD’s visions in various fields such as AI, gaming, entertainment, healthcare, automotive and aerospace at CES, but there were also various product announcements and demos. All those who have been waiting for the new Ryzen X3D will also find what they are looking for here. Thus, AMD has introduced [...]
Just in time for Christmas we have something special for you today. With the help of MIFCOM, we were allowed to bin a statistically not insignificant amount of CPUs (over 500 in total) and today we have the evaluation for you to browse through. Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs are the topic today and this time we even covered all overclockable K [...]
With Raptor Lake, Intel now also ends the era of monolithic processors. This of course comes with another decent performance boost and it will be the purpose of this review to compare the new CPUs with AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 family. That is definitely worthwhile, because Intel would quite like to have the so-called gaming crown back. The [...]
Anyone who buys a new AMD Ryzen 7000, no matter which model, will certainly curse the high temperatures and thus also get annoyed about the usually high power consumption under full load. However, it is very easy to remedy the situation if you know how and also observe a few basics so that the system really remains stable. The reason that the [...]
Today’s article will focus exclusively on the heatspreader of the Ryzen 7000 CPUs and, of course, on cooling, the optimal application of thermal paste and the question of where the nasty hotspots actually are. Not only does the CPU look significantly different from its predecessor, but the Integrated Heatspreader (IHS) also brings with it [...]
AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs, based on the Zen4 micro-architecture, still use the same chiplet design as their predecessors, with a few small but not negligible changes. Igor already gave details about this in yesterday’s big review. Today we want to look at how to configure the new CPUs as optimally as possible and for this we [...]
AMD let us release tests of the four new Zen 4 CPUs today in the form of the Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7900X, Ryzen 7 7700X and Ryzen 5 7600X. We have already reported about it for a long time, but now the necessary test samples are finally materializing in the form of the real CPUs, which can provide answers to the many questions that have been [...]
How does Intel actually want to sell the new Raptor Lake CPUs? Today’s sales foils, which I show you as a picture gallery, suggest that the blue foil king sees enough strong arguments to give the sales team the right ammunition. But will all this be enough to still have a progandistic advantage after the launch of the new Ryzen CPUs, or will [...]
A little bit of retro is always interesting so I have an article from the beginnings of igorsLAB for you this time. The APU is now also available very cheap and that is enough for a usable HTPC in the end.
the Intel Alder Lake CPUs with their LGA1700 and Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM) including the bending problem have been around for 9 months now. The successor CPUs aka Raptor Lake might not be long away, but it has already been confirmed that they will use the same socket and thus most likely ILM as well. Existing motherboards with a 600 [...]
