Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) AMD’s AM4 socket has had a long and successful run on the desktop, ushering in the Ryzen processor lineup and helping AMD compete with and outperform Intel’s chips for the first time since the mid-2000s. The aging socket’s time is coming to a close later this […]
Enlarge (credit: AMD) AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D promises to be one of the company’s fastest gaming CPUs, and it’s one of the last high-end chips that will grace the AM4 socket before Ryzen 7000 CPUs come out later this year. But its experimental new 3D V-Cache stacking technology comes with one negative side effect: This […]
Enlarge / The 5800X3D is Zen 3 with extra cache. (credit: AMD) AMD will release its latest experiment in CPU packaging to the general public next month. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, is an eight-core Zen 3 processor that uses unique memory-stacking technology to triple the amount of […]
Enlarge / A Ryzen 1800X CPU in an X370 motherboard. This could now be replaced by a top-end Zen 3 model, if your motherboard maker releases a BIOS update. (credit: Sebastian Anthony) AMD will officially add support for newer Zen 3-based Ryzen processors to old 2017-era motherboards that use its X370, B350, and A320-series chipsets, […]
Enlarge (credit: Lenovo) In November 2020, Microsoft unveiled Pluton, a security processor the company designed to thwart some of the most sophisticated types of hack attacks. On Tuesday, AMD said it would integrate the chip into its upcoming Ryzen CPUs for use in Lenovo’s ThinkPad Z Series of laptops. Microsoft already used Pluton to secure […]
Enlarge / Microsoft’s x86_64 Surface Laptop (right) looks to be in for an AMD-flavored refresh, alongside the usual Intel varieties. (credit: Microsoft) According to a report by German news site WinFuture, Microsoft’s new Surface 4 Laptop—set to debut this April—will offer AMD and Intel processor options side by side. With 2020’s Surface Laptop 3, only […]
Expand / / The Secretlab Omega (left) created a much better impression, however Anda Fnatic (correct ) won me over in the long run. (charge: Secretlab / / Anda) Among the most essential accessories of each home office regularly gets overlookedbeneath the seat. For this year’s COVID-19-related social bookmarking and compulsory remote function, a lot […]
AMD CEO Lisa Su retains a Zen 3 CPU at the AMD Gaming occasion –most probably, a Ryzen 9 5900X or even Ryzen 9 5950X. (charge: AMD) At the AMD Gambling occasion 2020, Team Red declared its next major factor in desktop CPUs–that the most Zen 3 motivated Ryzen 5xxx collection. The occasion was short […]