Tag: AMD

Zen 6 document leak: More cores, PCIe 6.0 and 2.5D packaging

News, Processors | | Ľubomír Samák

Some time ago, youtuber Moore’s Law Is Dead leaked the first information with AMD’s Zen 6 architecture coming after the yet-to-be-released Zen 5. Now he has another juicy rumor regarding these CPUs, which could come to market in 2026 (late 2025 at best), as he has gotten his hands on documents showing a server and embedded version of them. These designs may however reveal quite a bit about desktop Ryzens with this architecture as well. Read more “Zen 6 document leak: More cores, PCIe 6.0 and 2.5D packaging” »

Ryzen 8000G APUs launch in two months, Gigabyte reveals date

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

It looks like we finally have an answer to the question of when AMD will finally release “APUs”, or power-efficient monolithic processors with a beefy integrated GPU for the AM5 platform. It was revealed by Gigabyte, and while that isn’t directly from AMD, Gigabyte should be well informed (although the information likely wasn’t supposed to be shared publicly). The company announced the release date of the APUs in a press release. Read more “Ryzen 8000G APUs launch in two months, Gigabyte reveals date” »

End of Polaris and Vega GPU support: AMD provides a redux driver

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Recently, it has been reported that AMD may be preparing to discontinue driver support for older Radeon graphics cards with Polaris and Vega architectures (pre-RDNA cards based on GCN lineage). AMD has now released the first new version of drivers for these graphics cards in two months, so it seems that the full end of updates for them is not yet here, but at the same time it is confirmed that support for them is moving to the back burner. Read more “End of Polaris and Vega GPU support: AMD provides a redux driver” »

Big.LITTLE Ryzen out officially: Phoenix 2 APU with Zen 4c cores

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

In the summer, we reported that AMD started using Zen 4c cores in its Ryzen 7000 laptop processors. AMD appeared to use a new die with small (or compact) Zen 4c cores known as Phoenix 2 or unofficially Little Phoenix to make four and six-core models, alongside the standard versions based on a stripped-down Phoenix chip containing eight big Zen 4 cores. But the release of these APUs has been officially announced by AMD only now. Read more “Big.LITTLE Ryzen out officially: Phoenix 2 APU with Zen 4c cores” »

AMD Pro 695 chipset: 2S Threadripper boards, or just a mistake?

Chipsets, Motherboards, News | | Jan Olšan

A week ago, AMD unveiled its most powerful CPUs, the HEDT and workstation Threadripper and Threadripper Pro 7000. Two platforms with WRX90 and TRX50 chipsets were also released with them, but it looks like there could be a third type of boards for these CPUs, with a chipset labelled Pro 695. What it’s supposed to be, however, is very unclear. Or perhaps, on the contrary, seemingly clear but contradictory on closer inspection. Read more “AMD Pro 695 chipset: 2S Threadripper boards, or just a mistake?” »

First games with FSR 3 are out, AMD released AFMF preview driver

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

A month ago, AMD announced the arrival of FSR 3, or FidelityFX Super Resolution 3, a technology that adds interpolation-based frame generation to FSR, analogous to Nvidia’s DLSS 3. The feature had its public launch last weekend as FSR 3 was patched into the first two games. Fluid Motion Frames, which doubles the frame rate via drivers even when the game doesn’t directly support it, is now also available for testing. Read more “First games with FSR 3 are out, AMD released AFMF preview driver” »

AMD launches Epyc 8004: lower-cost, lower-power SP6 platform

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

This year, AMD has already released the Epyc 9004 “Genoa”, a 96-core server version of the Zen 4 architecture and even the HPC Genoa-X models equipped with 3D V-Cache. Now they are joined by a separate family – processors codenamed Siena, which are specifically designed for lower power draw and lower cost. They have their own SP6 platform with six-channel memory controller (so the boards should cost less too) and TDPs starting from 70W. Read more “AMD launches Epyc 8004: lower-cost, lower-power SP6 platform” »

AMD Zen 6 requiring new socket? Server roadmap may suggest so

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Last week, a roadmap (or rather a cutout of it) apparently coming from one of the manufacturers of servers and similar hardware that was showing the planned products of the major players – Intel, AMD and Nvidia – was made public on the internet by leaker YuuKi_AnS. It appears to be showing the plans for 2025 or 2026, so time still quite a bit far off and product generations following those that are to come to market now. Read more “AMD Zen 6 requiring new socket? Server roadmap may suggest so” »

AMD Strix Point: 12 cores, 1024 RDNA 3.5 architecture shaders

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

The year 2024 is slowly approaching, in which Zen 5 based AMD Ryzen 8000 processors should come out. Now, a HWiNFO leak has hit the internet, apparently taken on a sample of such a processor, which slipped out from AMD or some board manufacturer, or that someone at those companies screencapped. Thanks to this we have a look at some of the specs of a Strix Point APU, i.e. the Ryzen 8050 for laptops with integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics. Read more “AMD Strix Point: 12 cores, 1024 RDNA 3.5 architecture shaders” »

AMD launches FSR 3. Open source-frame generation for all GPUs

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last week at Gamescom, AMD added two new SKUs to its Radeon RX 7000 graphics card line-up, the RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT. But there were also other, more software-side news – the upcoming FSR 3 or FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 technology, featuring the so-called Fluid Motion Frames. It is an open-source alternative to Nvidia’s DLSS 3 technology that will work on a broad portfolio of GPUs, including older generations. Read more “AMD launches FSR 3. Open source-frame generation for all GPUs” »

Threadripper Pro 7995WX: 96 cores, 5.15 GHz, record performance

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

AMD’s Zen 4 processors achieved performance leadership in servers with the 96-core Epyc 9004 “Genoa” (and the 128-core cloud version “Bergamo”). Now this technology is branching into high-end desktop and workstations. The release of Ryzen Threadripper processors with Zen 4 architecture is probably closing in, as a production sample has leaked in the Geekbench benchmark – and it’s the highest SKU that will lead the whole line-up. Read more “Threadripper Pro 7995WX: 96 cores, 5.15 GHz, record performance” »

Radeon RX 7800 XT confirmed. PowerColor leaked all the info

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Just after the rumors that a low-cost gaming Radeon RX 7500 could be coming out, it turns out that AMD is probably going to launch a more powerful model before that – the Radeon RX 7800 XT, which will rank below the also new OEM-only RX 7900 GRE. PowerColor basically went and revealed more or less everything about the 7800 XT graphics card that is going to use the Navi 32 GPU so now it’s just a question of when it will hit the market. Read more “Radeon RX 7800 XT confirmed. PowerColor leaked all the info” »

Ryzen 5 7500F will launch at the end of July, but only in China

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Just recently, information surfaced online about a new AMD processor with Zen 4 architecture that could be the most affordable model yet on the AM5 platform – the Ryzen 5 7500F, which would be a six-core with disabled graphics that, at a low enough price, could be the answer to Intel’s popular Core i5-13400F. But it looks like, as with the Ryzen 5 5600X3D, we won’t be able to get our hands on it, at least not for now. Read more “Ryzen 5 7500F will launch at the end of July, but only in China” »

Ryzen 7 7800X3D: Ahead of Core i9 for gaming at 40% power draw

Extra tests, Processors | | Ľubomír Samák

The most popular Ryzen 7000 with 3D V-cache obliterates competition in its targeted environment. Intel doesn’t measure up to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in a comparable price range in terms of speed, and even if someone disregards price and sees the Core i9-13900K(S) as a an apt competitor, when comparing power draw, everyone’s appetite for Intel will go away. Their efficiency is… incomparable, as each is at a different end of the spectrum. Read more “Ryzen 7 7800X3D: Ahead of Core i9 for gaming at 40% power draw” »

AMD quietly launches big.LITTLE, Zen 4c-based Phoenix2 confirmed

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Many like to diss Intel for hybrid processors but leaks has long been showing that AMD is also preparing their own take on it – the “LITTLE Phoenix” or Phoenix2 APU, to be used in cheaper mobile Ryzen 7000 SKUs. Phoenix2 is to feature Zen 4 big cores and Zen 4c as little cores, which is a compact redesign recently introduced in servers. Now this hybrid SoC has indeed appeared and AMD has officially confirmed it on their website. Read more “AMD quietly launches big.LITTLE, Zen 4c-based Phoenix2 confirmed” »

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