Category: ryzen

AMD’s 4700G APU is a mid-range PC on a single chip

[ad_1] AMD There are three new 4000G APUs to cover in today’s announcement, each available in two configurations. The flagship model is the 8-core/16-thread Ryzen 7 4700G, which has a base clock of 3.6GHz and a (single-core) boost clock of 4.4GHz. These core/thread counts and frequencies are identical to the Ryzen 7 3700X desktop chip. […]

Apple may be testing Macs with AMD processors

[ad_1] The references have prompted speculation that Apple may release Macs with AMD CPUs. At the moment, however, it’s far too early to make that jump. As MacRumors points out, there hasn’t been any corroborating evidence to suggest Apple plans to switch to AMD. In fact, if anything, it’s far more likely we’ll see Apple […]

AMD delays 16-core Ryzen 9 CPU to November

[ad_1] We hope you weren’t determined to build an all-out AMD gaming rig in September. AMD has delayed the release of its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X processor by two months to sometime in November. The company wants to meet “strong demand” for the highly parallel CPU, the company said in a statement to AnandTech. In […]

Watch AMD’s Computex 2019 event in nine minutes!

[ad_1] Computex has kicked off in Taipei today, so probably before you were even awake, AMD revealed its ambitious new CPU and GPU hardware additions. It’s going after NVIDIA’s middle-weight RTX 2070 graphics with the Radeon RX 5700. Not only will it be the first 7nm consumer video cards out there, the series will also […]

AMD’s third-gen Ryzen 9 CPU is a 12-core powerhouse for $499

[ad_1] All of AMD’s 3rd-gen Ryzen chips will feature its new Zen 2 architecture, a chiplet-based design that’ll offer a 15 percent performance improvement across every application. They’ll also have double the floating point performance and double the cache over its last CPUs. The 3900X features a base/boost speed of 3.68GHz/4.6GHz and 70MB of total […]

Acer’s Nitro 5 and Swift 3 laptops pack the latest AMD Ryzen processors

[ad_1] The PCs aren’t radically different beyond the CPU changes, although that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The Nitro 5 still boasts a 1080p display, CoolBoost to prevent overheating in gaming sessions and a reasonably slim (if slightly flashy) body. The Swift 3, meanwhile, has a 180-degree folding display and shouldn’t burden you between its […]

AMD’s latest Ryzen Pro chips bring Vega graphics to work laptops

[ad_1] The performance differences mostly boil down to clock speed. The Ryzen 3 starts with a 2.1GHz base clock speed, a 3.5GHz peak speed and a 6-core Vega GPU. Move to the Ryzen 5 and you’ll get a higher 3.7GHz boost speed and an 8-core GPU, while the Ryzen 7 ramps up to a 2.3GHz […]

Atari VCS gets a spec boost and another delay

[ad_1] The team acknowledged that this isn’t great news for Indiegogo backers who’ve already been waiting several months for the VCS, but maintained that it should lead to “better overall performance” and a “cooler and quieter” machine without significant disruptions to manufacturing. While this suggests you won’t be complaining too loudly about performance, it could […]