Despite Nvidia’s RTX 30 series of cards launching, and AMD taking the CPU performance crown with Ryzen 5000 series and being very competitive with their Radeon RX 6000 series, the hardware shortages have left a lot of people still without…

Despite Nvidia’s RTX 30 series of cards launching, and AMD taking the CPU performance crown with Ryzen 5000 series and being very competitive with their Radeon RX 6000 series, the hardware shortages have left a lot of people still without…
One of the big changes AMD’s Ryzen processors brought to the table with their original debut in 2017 was SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading), which allows two threads to run on the same Zen processor core at once, doubling the number of…
I’ve spoken a few times on Youtube about how AMD has been absolutely crushing it against Intel when it came to the the sales and revenue at Germany’s biggest tech retailer, Mind Factory. Now we have a new report for…
The first generation Ryzen is still a pretty impressive chip, but if you’re running a Ryzen 7 1700X, should you upgrade to a Zen 2 based CPU? As the title of this article probably hints, I’ve done the testing and…
On March 2nd of next year, it will have been three years since the launch of the first-gen Ryzen processors and with their launch, AMD caused significant disruption to what consumers expect from mainstream processors. It’s easy to focus in…
AMD’s Zen 2 architecture has been an incredible success for the company and is taking the desktop world by storm thanks to the ryzen 3000 series CPUs, and the server market is also facing serious disruption thanks to AMD increasing the core…
Regular viewers will know that a every month, we discuss how AMD is doing against Intel in the Mindfactory.de hardware sales race for the previous month. For those not in the know, Mindfactory.de is the biggest digital retailer in Germany,…
In about a weeks time, CES 2019 will kick off, and it’s all but certain AMD will be at the very least announce key details concerning the Ryzen 3000 series of CPUs (known as Matisse). These processors will, of course,…
Recently, there was a leak that AMD’s next-generation X570 platform (along with the Ryzen 3000 series) of processors was scheduled to launch at Computex, 2019. This information originated from the website gamer.com.tw, and the leaker claimed that this came from…
Traditionally, AMD has launched their Ryzen series of mainstream products in April – but that looks set to change given a recent leak, which hints that the X570 platform is targeting a release of Computex 2019, which takes place between…
With Zen 2 arriving next year with not only the Epyc second generation Rome, but also the desktop mainstream and HEDT with Ryzen 3000 and Threadripper 3000 respectively, there’s a lot of news floating about regarding the IPC gains of the…
What do you get if you take something that’s already great, and then make it even better? This is precisely the situation with both the B450 motherboard chipset and the AMD Ryzen 2 series of processors. Last April, AMD shocked…
AMD’s upcoming 12nm Ryzen refresh (known as Zen+) will be an interesting one, with the company touting improvements in clock speeds, soldered IHS and the inclusion of Precision Boost 2. In theory at least, this will help AMD fend off…
AMD have pressured Intel considerably in the almost year since the Ryzen processors debuted on store shelves, and the company aren’t stopping there. Ahead of the release of the die-shrunk versions of the Ryzen CPUs in April, we’re seeing AMD…
The first solid details of AMD’s Snowy Owl platform have found their way onto the internet. Snowy Owl is a platform based on an embedded Epyc server processor and is generally aimed at the networking and communications module. The iBase…