AMD Ryzen 5 4400G Renoir APU spotted in 3DMark database
Published in PC Hardware


6-core/12-thread APU with Radeon Graphics

It appears that AMD's upcoming Ryzen 4000G lineup will include a lot more SKUs than was previously leaked as a 6-core/12-thread Ryzen 5 4400G has been spotted in 3DMark database.

Amazon goes EPYC
Published in Cloud
Monday, 08 June 2020 12:52

Amazon goes EPYC


AMD on its cloud

AMD announced its second generation EPYC  processor is powering Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a and are switched on in the AWS US East, AWS US West, AWS Europe and AWS Asia Pacific regions.

This year's Zen 3 is not 5nm
Published in PC Hardware
Friday, 05 June 2020 10:24

This year's Zen 3 is not 5nm


Zen 4 to go to the next node

Digitimes, VideoCardz, and RetiredEngineer (twitter) started an intriguing rumor that Ryzen 4000 might end up at 5nm+. Asking around at a reliable place, we have to disappoint some of you as this won't be the case. The Ryzen 4000 series based on Zen 3 core is still at 7nm.

AMD "Big Navi" launching before consoles
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 04 June 2020 16:20

AMD "Big Navi" launching before consoles


Will be a "halo product"

AMD has confirmed that its upcoming Navi 2, also known as Big Navi, will both be AMD's first RNDA 2 based product as well as launch before consoles, suggesting a pre-Holiday release.

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel
Published in News
Thursday, 04 June 2020 12:01

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel


Turns out the Russian's aren't coming yet

Rostec, which is a Russian giant conglomerate has a chip project called Elbrus, an indigenous CPU family that has its roots in the 1970s and according to Tech Radar , a new model has surfaced: the Elbrus 8CB.

AMD  offers virtual tour of Hawk supercomputer
Published in News


Showing off

AMD has launched a never seen before 360 virtual tour of the flagship supercomputer ‘Hawk’ at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

AMD's Lisa Su world's highest-paid CEO
Published in News
Thursday, 04 June 2020 11:36

AMD's Lisa Su world's highest-paid CEO


Makes $58.5 million a year

AMD's Lisa Su has become the world's highest-paid CEO, according to a recent survey from the Associated Press on CEO compensation.

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 03 June 2020 11:59

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD


Give me Steam

Number crunchers working for the Steam gaming platform have noticed that punters are slowly giving up the Intel chip based machines for something more AMDish.

AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
Published in Graphics


No great shakes after all

Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.

AMD's new Ryzen 9 3900XT and Ryzen 7 3800XT spotted in 3DMark
Published in PC Hardware


With significant clock increase

Both the revised Zen 2 Ryzen 9 3900XT and the Ryzen 7 3800XT have been spotted in the 3DMark database, confirming earlier rumors that we could see a significant boost in clocks for these new CPUs.