Tag: AMD

New Radeon GPUs Likely Won’t Arrive Until Second Half of 2027

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

We recently reported the new generations of GPUs from Nvidia (GeForce RTX 6000 / Rubin) and AMD (RDNA 5) will not arrive until 2028. There was supposed to be one exception, however—AMD could reportedly release one of the new-generation cards in 2027. The information at the time did not say when exactly in that year this might happen. Now we have clarification, and it seems it will not be anytime soon either—as might have been expected. Read more “New Radeon GPUs Likely Won’t Arrive Until Second Half of 2027” »

AMD Reportedly Raising GPU Prices. Apart From One Radeon card?

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Radeon GPUs have been significantly better value than similarly fast Nvidia cards lately. These lower prices (by today’s dismal standards) may not last much longer, however. According to news from China, AMD and AIB makers are now preparing a substantial price increase, despite similar price move happening recently. The reason is the AI mania again, which has massively driven up the cost of memory, as well as manufacturing itself. Read more “AMD Reportedly Raising GPU Prices. Apart From One Radeon card?” »

AMD to Raise Prices on All Products: GPUs, CPUs and Chipsets

Chipsets, Graphics, Motherboards, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

We reported that Intel was preparing to raise CPU prices next month, but according to further information, the same was planned by AMD. Further sources have now confirmed that this manufacturer will also be raising prices. However, the scope of the price increases is to be much broader—it will affect not only CPUs, but apparently all chips manufactured by AMD. As a result, graphics cards pricing will rise further, but so will prices of motherboards. Read more “AMD to Raise Prices on All Products: GPUs, CPUs and Chipsets” »

AMD Releases New Budget CPUs. Even for the AM4 Socket

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

It looks like whole ten years since the time AMD officially launched the AM4 platform (initially for the Excavator architecture and only on the OEM market, in 2016), a new CPU will now be released for this socket. But not a completely new one. AMD has now released two configurations that did not previously exist, but are based on 2020 and 2022 silicon, and the first of them is coming to the older platform using DDR4. Read more “AMD Releases New Budget CPUs. Even for the AM4 Socket” »

Next-gen Radeon GPUs: RDNA 5 architecture clock targets leaked

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

2027 is approaching with new generations of GPUs, although they will be delayed compared to the previous two-year cycles. AMD has GPUs with the new RDNA 5 architecture coming, which could incorporate fairly major changes compared to today’s RDNA 4 based  GPUs, as well as a new manufacturing process. Thanks to the latter, clock speeds will apparently increase, although perhaps not by as much as one would have expected. Read more “Next-gen Radeon GPUs: RDNA 5 architecture clock targets leaked” »

AMD Chipset Cards Adding PCIe, SATA Lanes Emerge in China

Chipsets, News | | Jan Olšan

Although chipsets are considered a specialized component characteristic of motherboards, a chipset is actually not all that critical (or even required at all) on AMD’s AM4 and AM5 desktop platforms. Chipsets such as the B650 are just bridges that expand PCIe 4.0 (and SATA) connectivity. And as it turns out, they can do this as add-in cards as well. You can even use one to add M.2 or SATA interfaces to an Intel processor. Read more “AMD Chipset Cards Adding PCIe, SATA Lanes Emerge in China” »

What can Instinct MI455X tell us about RDNA 5 GPUs? [Analysis]

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last month, AMD unveiled its CDNA 5 architecture-based Instinct MI455X AI accelerators. This matters even outside AI and server workloads, because CDNA 5 is now related to the RDNA 5 architecture that will power the next generation of Radeon gaming GPUs. Let’s take a look at what the new Instincts reveal about RDNA 5 and what else has leaked about this architecture. This includes one change that is rather surprising. Read more “What can Instinct MI455X tell us about RDNA 5 GPUs? [Analysis]” »

HWiNFO Now Shows Temps of Individual Video Memory Chips

Graphics, News, Software | | Jan Olšan

Not long ago, HWiNFO gained the ability to monitor GPU hotspot temperatures—local hotspots with significantly higher temps than the average having been reported by Nvidia chips. This has been followed by another improvement in graphics card temperature monitoring. You will now be able to look at the temperatures of all memory chips on the card, which can reveal cooling problems in much the same way as the GPU hotspot temperature. Read more “HWiNFO Now Shows Temps of Individual Video Memory Chips” »

Instinct MI455X and the Helios Rack: Can AMD beat Nvidia in AI?

Graphics, News, Technology | | Jan Olšan

AMD unveiled Zen 6-based server processors at the Advancing AI 2026 event, dubbing them the best generation it has ever released. The company is focusing on complete solutions including its own Helios server racks, though, which incorporate a new generation of GPUs: the Instinct MI455X, the first GPU based on an architecture derived from the RDNA gaming GPU family and a product that is intended to take AMD to a new level in the AI market. Read more “Instinct MI455X and the Helios Rack: Can AMD beat Nvidia in AI?” »

Multi-frame generation coming to Radeon GPUs, drivers show

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last year, Nvidia introduced multi-frame generation that inserts 2, 3, or even 5 AI-interpolated “fake” frames between real frames (though only for GeForce RTX 5000-series cards—with users of older GPUs out of luck). Since then, Intel has also introduced multi-frame generation, but it has never been available on Radeon graphics cards. That now appears to be changing, as AMD seems to be preparing the feature for an upcoming driver release. Read more “Multi-frame generation coming to Radeon GPUs, drivers show” »

Geekbench benchmark leak reveals Zen 6 core performance

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

It has been two years since AMD released Zen 5 Ryzen CPUs, and the launch of the next-gen Zen 6 CPUs should slowly be approaching—or at least we hope so. So far, there have not been many leaks indicating what kind of performance to expect, but this week a Geekbench database entry appeared showing a processor that appears to be a laptop Zen 6 sample—a Medusa APU. However, the performance scores raise more questions than answers. Read more “Geekbench benchmark leak reveals Zen 6 core performance” »

AMD confirms development of little “LP” core for Zen 6

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

When AMD came back nine years ago with the Zen core, its strategy was to eliminate the split between big and little (Bobcat and Jaguar) cores and cover the entire market with a single, balanced architecture. Intel, on the other hand, moved to hybrid (big.LITTLE) CPUs. AMD is apparently going there too, now. It has used classic and compact cores where both shared the same architecture so far, but now there will be a separate low-power core. Read more “AMD confirms development of little “LP” core for Zen 6″ »

ZLUDA project enables PhysX effects on Radeon graphics cards

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

PhysX effects simulating realistic physics are a good example of the risks associated with proprietary technologies in games. Nvidia kept them as an exclusive feature available only on GeForce graphics cards for years, only to ditch support on the new RTX 5000 series, causing the effects to stop working. Ironically, this may have been the catalyst for an independent emulation effort that, years later, brings them to Radeon GPUs. Read more “ZLUDA project enables PhysX effects on Radeon graphics cards” »

AMD Re-Enables RAM Encryption on Ryzen CPUs Following Criticism

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Recently, reports spread that AMD had disabled TSME, one of the Ryzen CPU security features without warning. It’s a bit more complicated than that, however, as this was not a regular default feature, but rather a Pro SKUs technology that was only present on standard Ryzen CPUs unofficially if not accidentally. The media attention seems to have resulted in access to TSME technology being restored for the non-Pro Ryzen processors, though. Read more “AMD Re-Enables RAM Encryption on Ryzen CPUs Following Criticism” »

FSR 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 Launched, APUs Will Get Lite Version

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

In May, AMD announced that FSR 4.1 AI upcaling is coming to Radeon RX 7000 and later also RX 6000 graphics cards. It was supposed to be due next month for X 7000, but AMD went and launched it this week possibly due to the launch of Valve’s Steam Machine, which uses GPUs from the Radeon RX 7000 series. And furthermore: Official FSR 4.1 should work better than the leaked FSR4 libraries that could previously be used unofficially. Read more “FSR 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 Launched, APUs Will Get Lite Version” »

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