We all know by now that Scalping has become one of the most frustrating things to happen lately, which in turn has affected and disrupted the whole PC hardware and the console gaming market as well. Scalpers had the opportunity to buy a product for the sole purpose of just making a profit off of it, and more specifically for selling it at a much higher price than the initial MSRP. Continue reading Scalpers have made $5.88 million by selling AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs off Ebay →

AMD has been quite successful with its chiplet-based design which the company has used in its recent Zen series of processors. Instead of building standard, monolithic CPUs, AMD opted for a new type of configuration called a chiplet. From a marketing perspective, chiplets have been a huge hit. Continue reading AMD RDNA 3-based NAVI 31 GPU rumored to feature MCM design & improved Ray Tracing support →

At the recent CES 2021 live showcase, AMD announced its next-generation of Zen 3 powered Ryzen 5000U & Ryzen 5000H CPU lineup for the mobility and laptop segment. These chips belong to the “Cezanne” family. AMD also plans to release desktop variants in the form of APUs. These processors will also be a part of the Cezanne desktop APU family that are planned for a release this Q1 2021 for the retail market segment. Continue reading Leaked AMD Ryzen 7 5700G “Cezanne” APU benchmark reveals chip is more powerful than AMD Ryzen 5800X desktop CPU →

At the CES 2021 event, Dr. Ian Cutress of Anandtech, interviewed AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su regarding company’s future plans, and how the current demand, supply and tariff situation is going to affect the launch of future products from AMD. Continue reading AMD assures its future next-gen Zen 4/Zen 5 Ryzen CPUs and RDNA 3-based GPUs are on track →

In the latest CES 2021 Keynote, AMD officially announced its next-generation Zen 3 powered Ryzen 5000U & Ryzen 5000H CPU lineup for the notebook and laptop market segment. Codenamed as ‘Cezanne’, the Ryzen 5000 U & H series processors feature the brand new core architecture and deliver vastly improved efficiency & performance metrics compared to previous gen Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ chips. Continue reading AMD announces its new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 Mobile ‘Cezanne’ processors for high-end gaming laptops →

It appears that IGOR’s Lab and Yuri “1usmus” Bubliy have just made an interesting discovery in the course of working on the new Clock Tuner for Ryzen (CTR) 2.0 for the Zen3 CPUs. According to their investigation some AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 7 5800X processors are physically based on a dual-CCD design, instead of a single-CCD design. Continue reading Some AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 7 5800X processor SKUs are physically based on a dual-CCD design →

According to a recent leak coming via @momomo_us, AMD is prepping to launch two brand new Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs for the OEM market segment, the non-X Ryzen 9 5900 and the non-X Ryzen 7 5800, respectively. But before continuing, you should keep this in mind that both of these chips are targeted towards OEMs and pre-build desktop PCs, and will not be sold separately or hit the retail shelves anytime soon. Continue reading AMD preps to launch new Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 Zen 3-based CPUs for the OEM market →