Category - CPU

Quartet Infernale from Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X – Which Ryzen type are you and what should you really afford as a gamer?

Since the other two AMD CPUs have arrived and I was able to get a replacement CPU for the Ryzen 9 5900X (and buy it), I have revised the whole launch article and added the missing entries. This would give us the quartet of Ryzen 5 5600X, , Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X now complete and we can ask ourselves which CPU we really need [...]


Ryzen gleanings, retesting and demand – the day after the launch

Since I received a Ryzen 9 5950X yesterday, which also has two Dies, I also chased it through all the benchmarks, virtually overnight. The problem with the two CCDs did not occur in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, so that one must rather assume a CPU-specific problem of the sample. What has been confirmed, however, is the blatant break-in under Ultra [...]


AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 5600X in the first test – will be Intel’s 10th test Generation obsolete now?

Currently I was able to test two of the new Ryzen CPUs with Zen3 core, which could not be more different. On the one hand, there is the Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores (24 threads) as the new, two-largest miracle product of the upper class, and on the other hand, there is the Ryzen 5 5600X with 6 cores (12 threads), which confidently removes the image [...]


AMDs Ryzen 5000 Series and a preview of BIG Navi – The most important contents of the presentation to browse through

Now AMD has let the cat out of the bag and much of what I could already report in the past weeks (including the final clock rates) has arrived. A clear increase of the IPC, together with a considerably higher clock rate, we can probably also replace Intel as a gaming chapter. The prices turn out as expected and in the end one can be curious about [...]


Intel launches the 11. Generation Tiger Lake 10nm core CPUs with Xe graphics – Is the empire beating back against AMD? Benchmarks inside

Yesterday Intel officially launched its new Tiger Lake processors of the 11th generation. Generation with a brand new CPU and GPU architecture. The new Intel Tiger Lake CPUs are based on the company’s current 10nm++ node, which offers improved performance efficiency over Ice Lake processors. The Intel Tiger Lake CPUs will be marketed under [...]


Notebook self-assembly kit: an XMG Apex 15 from Schenker as a barebone with my own CPUs from Ryzen 3 3300X to Ryzen 9 3950X in a test | Part 1 – Assembly

The German notebook manufacturer Schenker had already presented the XMG Apex 15 some time ago, so I am not presenting a world first here, of course. Since one can fall back on socketed CPUs from AMD with the Apex 15, because a B450 board with socket AM4 is used, this notebook makes it quite interesting for me. Except for the built-in graphic unit [...]


Lower middle class in showdown: Intel Core i5 10400F vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 together with the right motherboard in comparison – Same price and same speed?

When Intel recently offered me to test the Core i5-10400F, I thought for a long time about the added value that such a single test could bring, because in the end it’s the whole package that counts. Therefore I decided to let this CPU compete against the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 which is similar in price. But in the end, such a comparison is only [...]


Does AMD with Zen3 still crack the 5 GHz barrier? Even faster Vermeer engineering sample of the 16-core with 4.9 GHz appeared, AMD implements more X86 instructions from Intel

Sometimes you can’t keep up with the news at all, because two more Engineering Samples (ES) have turned up, whose OPN contains interesting details about the targeted clock rates. These two OPNs also stand for the new 16-core CPUs CPUs from the already known B0-Stepping. Whether the faster of the two will be called Ryzen 9 4950X or 5950X (or [...]


Exclusive Leak about AMD’s next CPU generation: “Ryzen 9 4950X” Vermeer with higher boost clock and new features á la Intel

Well, with this description I dare to take a deep grip into the speculation collection, but let’s look at the whole thing in a sporty and exemplary way, because somehow you have to call this thing (for now). We’re talking about AMD’s new 16-core (32 threads), which is materializing more and more and thus of course leaves traces [...]


Delivery bottleneck of AMD’s Ryzen 4000 CPUs for notebooks? Many orders are postponed considerably, will the CPUs become more expensive?

In this context, it is interesting to note that a member of XMG Schenker’s staff sent a letter to Reddit, which openly addresses precisely this problem. Thus, on 31. July the ODM made the announcement that AMD was facing a serious CPU shortage in Q3 2020. Major orders whose delivery has been confirmed by their ODM for mid and late August are [...]


Intel Xeon Gold 5320H ‘Cooper Lake-SP’ header – 20 cores on one HCC die for LGA 4189 socket with gold plated solder joint

Already in June Intel brought its 3. Gen Xeon Scalable CPU family, also known as the “Cooper Lake”, but still based on the 14nm architecture. Now some people in mainland China (where else?) have gotten their hands on the first QA (Qualified Sample) of Cooper Lake chips, which have an interesting design for the family of LGA 4189 CPUs [...]


Gaming notebooks in a tight spot: Ryzen 4000 APUs in bandwidth limit, Tiger Lake will probably come with only 4 cores in 2020 for the time being, and Ampere need more speed

I had already mentioned in my article “Why manufacturers are struggling with AMD notebooks, why AMD likes to trip itself up and why the blue conspiracy is not a conspiracy at all | Search for answers“, why notebook manufacturers are still so reluctant to buy AMD CPUs and APUs for mobile applications. But I’ll explain in a moment [...]


Ryzen 4000 G-Series: AMD (finally) brings Renoir APUs for the normal PC

Now it's official, but the bad news first: the Ryzen 4000 G-Series will only be available as desktop APUs in complete systems, not in free retail stores. Unfortunately, this is exactly what I had already hinted at several times weeks ago. The fact that AMD would like to take precautions against a possible cannibalization of the normal desktop [...]