intel has now officially confirmed that the integrated graphics of the Intel 6. Generation Core CPUs will not receive any more driver updates. This announcement has many users worried, as it means that the series will no longer receive support from Intel. In December 2022, the product series reached “End of Life” status. This means [...]
The codename Meteor Lake has been associated with Intel’s next-generation Core processors in recent months, and this is largely due to leaks that have surfaced in 2022 and 2023. Recently, internal documents and benchmark data have been published confirming the existence of the Meteor Lake CPU family, which will power the upcoming 14th [...]
AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D has quickly gained popularity, securing a spot on the list of best CPUs. According to the new user benchmarks published on an independent platform, the octa-core chip achieves similarly good results on the cheap A620 boards as on the X670(E) mainboards. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D was particularly convincing in games and achieved [...]
Jim Keller is a well-known name in the semiconductor industry, particularly as a former chip architect at AMD and Intel. In his long career, he has developed many significant innovations in microprocessors and chipsets that are found in many modern computers and mobile devices. Although Keller has left AMD and Intel, other companies are still [...]
Take a Ryzen 7 7700X, piggyback some 3D V-cache and halve the power consumption of the Intel Core i9-13900K. The half Ryzen 9 7950X is ready, which now comes to the customer as Ryzen 7 7800X3D without the second die and can still usually act just as fast in gaming. It’s not squaring the circle, but it’s close. As long as you use [...]
Technology website Hardware Times reports that a significant number of users have complained about slow boot times on their Ryzen 7000 systems, which are based on AMD’s new AM5 chipset for Zen 4. Even the technology website itself has experienced these delays. AMD has now released a new BIOS update (AGESA 1006) that significantly reduces [...]
If you run slower, you sweat less. AMD probably thought about that at the time and decided to close a gap in the portfolio with the FX-8370E. But is the CPU itself really more efficient and what actually happens when you increase the clock a bit? There they were, 9 years ago: AMD’s three new FX models FX-8370, FX-8370E as well as FX-8320E [...]
With the Zen architecture, AMD has made a remarkable comeback in recent years, as CPUs on the Zen architecture are able to compete with, and in some cases even surpass, Intel's processors. AMD's Zen 5 processors are the next generation of CPUs and are sure to bring further improvements and innovations in the architecture and performance of [...]
First and foremost, a warning to everyone not to replicate this. You will inevitably cause irreparable damage to your valuable CPU. The current version of the MSI Center allows for voltage and clock increases for the X3D CPU. Unfortunately, for those who are fully committed to experimenting here, we have sacrificed a CPU for the sake of science [...]
AMD released the processor programming reference for Zen 4 last month. The AMD Zen 4 (also known as AMD Family 19h Model 70h A0 or Phoenix Family) is the company’s latest processor family. In the programming reference, the company discloses important information about the features and functions of the new processors. An important [...]
Intel, one of the world’s largest chip manufacturers, has had to deal with a variety of problems in the server market in recent years. The company, which has traditionally dominated the market for server processors, has lost its supremacy to competitors such as AMD and Qualcomm. Intel’s problems have far-reaching implications for the [...]
The Ryzen 5 7640U first appeared in AMD’s own marketing material before a Zen4 part was even released. AMD had used this SKU to demonstrate its new naming scheme for the next-generation Ryzen 7000 series. The “4” in the product name stands for the Zen4 microarchitecture and the “U” confirms that it is a power-saving [...]
AMD’s webinar is fully dedicated to the recent and upcoming introduction of 3D V-Cache SKUs. The company’s representatives explain the importance of this launch, the current position of these SKUs, and what are the advantages of choosing AMD’s platform over Intel’s. And in short, there’s quite a lot to mention now [...]
All three new Ryzen CPUs with 3D V-cache are now correctly detected by the software thanks to the update (2021.12.31.117) and the update brings further optimizations for hybrid (asymmetric) L3 cache designs. The update scope also includes the third 8-core model, which is supposed to be launched next month and will not be hybrid. Sandra is a [...]
The colleagues from Notebookcheck have tested the 16-core Zen4 Raphael and tried out the brand-new ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo. Today’s review focuses only on CPU performance, with more details on gaming performance to follow later (although they have already released a teaser). According to the combined results, the flagship Ryzen 9 7945HX is [...]
AMD Ryzen 7000X3D processors equipped with 3D V-Cache are said to automatically optimize performance depending on the workload. The latest chipset driver can dynamically assign which core should be used by the Windows operating system. So in other words, if the workload is cache-dependent, the operating system is adjusted to favor cores with 3D V [...]
For Ryzen’s 7000X3D, there are unfortunately no hidden backdoor menus on the motherboards to unlock the “X GHz” settings. These processors were deliberately blocked by AMD for overclocking, at least in the traditional way. To get the best performance out of the Ryzen 7950X3D, you can only resort to technologies like Precision [...]
Sure, the title sounds lurid at first, but it actually contains everything that really characterized this review of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, because this is where a highly efficient and in many areas really extremely fast CPU meets smaller, self-imposed hurdles. This may sound more dramatic at first than it really is in the end, and it [...]
Just as the Ryzen 7000X3D series is set to launch next week, AMD has announced a new promotion for existing Ryzen 7000 CPUs. The company and its partners are offering between $75 and $125 in savings on select AM5 builds. This offer takes into account AMD discounts on current Ryzen 7000 CPUs and select motherboard/memory bundles. Gamers will also [...]
A test of the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with 3D V-Cache has already made it into the public, namely in an AIDA64 memory benchmark with the new High Efficiency mode. There was also a CPU-z screenshot leak to go with it. By the way, you can also see two Ryzen CPUs from our own stock in the picture, but I can already spoil that this is not an NDA breach [...]
