IBM and AMD team up on AI
Want to enhance each other’s products
IBM and AMD have announced a multi-year joint development agreement to enhance and extend their security and artificial intelligence (AI) products.
G.Skill updates Trident Z Neo DDR4 to DDR4-4000 CL16
Ready for Ryzen 5000 series
G.Skill has unveiled its new DDR4 memory specifications under the Trident Z Neo series, which will be optimized for Ryzen 5000 series CPUs and available in high-frequency, low-latency, or high-capacity kits, reaching DDR4-4000 frequency, CL14 latency, or 64GB capacity.
AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPUs get reviewed
Review roundup: Plenty of performance but a higher price tag
The embargo on reviews for AMD's first Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPU SKUs have been lifted and we now have a chance to see how well these four SKUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X, and the Ryzen 5 5600X, perform in benchmarks, games, and applications.
Custom Radeon RX 6800 series coming by end of November
AMD still in talks for the RX 6900 XT
As most AMD AIB partners are gearing up for Radeon RX 6800 launch on November 18th, we will first see reference-based cards, but custom versions won't be far behind as these are expected by the end of November.
AMD's ray tracing comes to all existing games
Updated: Shows ray tracing in DIRT 5 and Godfall
AMD has confirmed that its RNDA2-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards will support ray tracing in existing titles, which was not a big surprise considering we had a chance to see it do ray tracing in two games, DIRT 5 and Godfall.
EK Water Blocks working on Ryzen and Radeon water blocks
Full AIO liquid cooler as well
With the upcoming launch of AMD's Ryzen 5000 series CPUs as well as Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, EKWB has prepared a rather neat surprise, teasing full AMD themed blocks, including a full AMD liquid cooling kit, and an AIO Radeon RX 6800/6900 cooler.
AMD says RDNA 3 GPU architecture is on track
In design and on "advanced node"
During its Big Navi RDNA 2 event, AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, briefly talked about the future of GPU graphics, saying that RDNA 3 is on track.
AMD goes after Nvidia RTX 30 series with RDNA2-based Radeon RX 6000 series
Outperforms Nvidia in AMD slides with Rage Mode and Smart Access Memory
As expected, AMD has held its Big Navi event announcing its first RDNA2-based Radeon RX 6000 series cards, including the RX 6800, RX 6800XT, and the flagship Radeon RX 6900XT. In addition to performance and power efficiency improvements, the RDNA2-based RX 6000 series cards will bring some new improvements like the Infinity Cache, Smart Access Memory, DirectX 12 Ultimate support, and more.
AMD announces plans to acquire Xilinx
$35 billion biggest to date
News that AMD might acquire Xilinx was quite a surprise after the Nvidia–ARM consolidation, but not surprising. Using current stock and market value increase, AMD decided to make a strategic decision to play better in the data center, 5G, automotive, and fight against the Intel–Altera alliance.
Nvidia allegedly cancelled RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GB
Not coming this December
According to the latest rumor, Nvidia has canceled the December launch of the Geforce RTX 3080 20GB and the RTX 3070 16GB cards, which is a rather surprising move.