Along with new CPUs based on the Zen 5 architecture, AMD has announced new boards in June, more precisely new chipsets for them, on which the new boards will be based (the CPUs themselves work in all AM5 boards). The date when these boards will come out seems to be clearer now. But this year, we’ll only see the more expensive X870 and X870E models and it will be a longer wait for the cheaper B850 and B840 variants. Read more “AMD X870, X870E, B850, B840 chipsets: Features and launch dates”
When we covered the models and specs of the Intel Core Ultra 200 (Arrow Lake) desktop CPUs leaked recently, we reported the processors will be released on October 10. However, we have to correct this a bit. While the information wasn’t entirely untrue, it was related to the official unveiling or announcement, not the actual sales start, it turns out. Actual store availability of Arrow lake will come slightly later. Read more “Arrow Lake will launch a bit later. Store availability date revealed”
We are slowly approaching the release of Intel’s new generation of desktop CPUs, dubbed Arrow Lake. These will bring new, significantly improved CPU architectures, advanced chiplet design and also the new LGA 1851 platform. Last but not least, it will also replace the failure-prone Raptor Lake processors, hopefully improving reliability a lot. Now, we’ve learned from leakers when these CPUs will come out, as well as the detailed specs. Read more “Intel Arrow Lake CPUs launch date and specifications revealed”
Recently there were several leaks on upcoming Intel CPUs features and parameters courtesy of the leaker Jaykihn. They now brought information that was perhaps the most sought for – what the power consumption of the new CPUs will be. Notoriously high power draws under full load are one of the biggest complaints against Intel, and for a while it seemed that they might be addressed by Arrow Lake. But apparently those were false hopes. Read more “Intel Arrow Lake CPUs won’t reduce power draw, PL2 remains high”
It looks like the most important thing to happen in the PC industry this year are the widespread issues of Intel Raptor Lake processors with instability and game crashes caused by gradual physical damage to the chips due to high voltages that leads to irreversible degradation. The microcode patches, which will hopefully stop the CPUs from dying – the CPUs for which it is not too late already that is – have finally started to appear. Read more “The fix for dying Intel CPUs is out for first motherboards”
It’s been almost a year since the release of AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) for Radeon GPU users, which is an alternative solution to generating interpolated frames as provided by DLSS 3 or FSR 3, but for games that don’t offer those features. In fact, AFMF works at the driver level and generates frames without any game integration. A second improved version of AFMF 2 is now out with higher quality and better compatibility. Read more “AFMF 2: Universal frame generation has better quality, performance”
As the October release of Arrow Lake CPUs with Intel’s first all-new CPU architecture since 2021 slowly approaches, the stream of information is starting to grow stronger. It seems that the preliminary specs of the 125W K-series models have been leaked, which will be the first to come out for the new LGA 1851 desktop platform, and also the fastest Arrow Lake CPU models. The first test of the cheaper Core Ultra 7 model has also surfaced. Read more “125W Intel Arrow Lake CPUs for LGA 1851: Models and parameters”
The Ryzen AI 300 mobile CPUs with Zen 5 architecture officially launched on Sunday. There’s a lot of news to go along with it: a third model has been added to form the top of the range, and we have learned various other architectural details of the laptop version of Zen 5 (and Zen 5c). Including information about the implementation of AVX-512, which as leaked before and will have lower performance than the fully 512-bit desktop Ryzen 9000. Read more “Mobile Zen 5 is here: Ryzen AI 300 “Strix Point” SoC detailed”
It’s roughly two weeks until AMD releases processors with the new Zen 5 architecture. This week, we finally got proper details on these CPUs’ architecture, which AMD revealed at the Tech Day event. So, we can now break down the changes the company has made to the core, compared to Zen 4 – and they’re pretty extensive, probably more so than they seemed in June. And AMD also reiterated its promise of a 16% increase in IPC for these CPUs. Read more “Zen 5: AMD’s biggest innovation since first Zen [expanded deep dive]”
It was supposed to be just a few days until the arrival of the expected Zen 5 AMD CPUs. Their desktop version was supposed to come out at the end of the current month (July 31), but surprisingly, we now learn that the release was postponed at the very last minute. Fortunately, it doesn’t look like a big delay, but it is a bit worrying that it is supposedly due to issues caught in last minute testing this late into the launch preparations. Read more “Ryzen 9000 delayed due to last-minute problems”
Shortly after Intel officially commented on the reports that CPUs in laptops are also affected by the instability issues of Raptor Lake processors (stating that this is not true), it finally comes with new information on the core issues themselves. Namely, the widely reported problems of 13th and 14th generation Core CPUs for desktop being unstable in games and worse, showing symptoms of degrading. That problem turns out to be very real. Read more “Confirmed: Raptor Lake CPUs are degrading, Intel preparing fix”
Last week, we covered the clock speeds of Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 CPUs. Now another information leak uncovered what clock speeds possibly reached by the Arrow Lake processors from Intel. This is an important piece of the puzzle, as we already know what the IPC of their cores will be, but the clock speeds were a big unknown, given how the new wider architecture and TSMC’s 3nm node could have drastically lowered them. And with that, the performance. Read more “Leak gives a peek at the clock speed of Intel Arrow Lake CPUs”
Soon it will be six months since the issue with game crashes on 13th and 14th generation Intel Core CPUs came to be widely known. Intel largely keeps silent while looking for the root cause, but the issue is unfortunately still ongoing, and not at all rare. This has now been substantiated by an investigation of YouTube channel Level1Techs, which says that as many as tens of percent of processors are displaying these problems. Read more “Stability issues and crashes affect large part of Raptor Lake CPUs”
When AMD announced the Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs with Zen 5 architecture at Computex 2024 back in early June, the company already revealed full specifications including the clock speeds. The boost clock speeds given for the highest model turned out to be the same as with Zen 4 (5.7 GHz for the Ryzen 7950X), but that wasn’t quite the final answer. As in previous generations, the maximum clock speed is actually higher than the official number. Read more “Ryzen 9000 can boost to higher clock than the official spec says”
Information on Intel’s new generation of desktop processors, the Arrow Lake family is gradually making its way online. So far, Intel has only publicly revealed and detailed the mobile version called Lunar Lake, which has a various important innovations, including a powerful NPU that can power the so-called Copilot+ PCs with Microsoft’s AI features. Arrow Lake is their desktop version of Lunar Lake, but will lack many of these new features. Read more “Many Lunar Lake innovations won’t make it to Arrow Lake CPUs”
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