Ryzen Krackan Point May Come To AM5

For all you AMD heads out there, you’re probably aware of AMD’s Krackan Point APUs for the mid range mobile segment, and it seems that these APUs may indeed be coming over to the desktop. For the rest of you that are unfamiliar, Krackan Point is better known as the Ryzen AI 300 series which […]

AMD “Unfazed” By Intel-Nvidia Team Up, Says AMD Executive

AMD corporate vice president and general manager of client OEM at AMD Jason Banta recently sat down for an interview with CRN, and among other things touched on the recent Intel & Nvidia partnership which made quite a splash in the industry. Naturally while this partnership will take time to produce a tangible product, there […]

Zen 6 Architecture Info: More Cores & Two Memory Controllers

AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series of processors is pretty good, isn’t it? Well, imagine a 50 percent increase in processor cores, higher clock frequencies, a bucket load more cache and revamped IOD – and you’ve a general idea of what team red are planning for Zen 6; at least according to the rumors. New rumors have […]

AMD Warhol Release Date, RDNA 3 Chiplet Info & Performance Targets (EXCLUSIVE)

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 next-generation PC hardware and wondering if they should just hold on to what they’ve got […]

Ryzen 9 5950X – SMT Performance For Games & Creative Applications

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 logical processors which your operating system can see. The core counts of Ryzen’s mainstream processors […]

AMD Ryzen Zen 3 & Zen 2 Demolish Sales Records

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 December, thanks as always to the Reddit user Ingebor. There’s quite a lot to discuss […]

Ryzen 3700X Vs 1700X – Zen 1 ROCKS But Should You Upgrade For Gaming

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 the answers we’re left with are pretty intriguing. This follows on from my Zen 1 […]