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German hardware website Igor’s Lab has revealed the “clock speeds” of AMD’s early Zen 3 CPU samples, featuring higher base clock speeds than AMD’s existing Zen 2/Ryzen 3000 series processors. Continue reading Early AMD Ryzen 4000 series “Vermeer” ZEN 3 engineering samples spotted ahead of launch
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It looks like AMD has issued a new statement regarding the “support” for the upcoming Zen3 processors on previous B450 and X470 motherboard chipsets. AMD today confirmed that their upcoming Ryzen 4000 series CPUs codenamed “Vermeer”, will have proper support on the B450 and X470 motherboard chipset series. Continue reading AMD’s B450 and X470 chipset boards will have proper Zen 3 CPU Support
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In a surprise move made by “Gigabyte Japan”, the company has just confirmed on Twitter that the Ryzen 5 1600 AF and Ryzen 3 1300 AF CPUs are compatible with their current X570 motherboards. Continue reading Gigabyte now offers support for “first-gen” RYZEN AF CPUs on X570 motherboard chipsets
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AMD is planning to launch their next-gen Ryzen 4000 series of “Zen 3” CPUs for the mainstream desktop and HEDT market later this year. Zen 3 is expected to offer “gamers” and end users a huge uplift in overall performance as well as efficiency. Continue reading AMD Ryzen 4000, ZEN 3 Desktop CPUs rumored to feature up to 15-20% IPC increase
AMD has just announced four new effects that will be coming to FidelityFX. Alongside Contrast Adaptive Sharpening, FidelityFX will support Stochastic Screen Space Reflections, Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion, Luminance Preserving Mapper, and Single Pass Downsampler. Continue reading AMD announces four new effects for FidelityFX: SSSR, CACAO, LPM & SPD
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TechPowerUp has just posted a very interesting article. I will try to keep this short and simple though. According to TPU’s article it looks like AMD’s next-gen ZEN3 CPUs won’t be backwards-compatible with the older 400-series, as well as the 300-series of Motherboard chipsets. Continue reading AMD confirms that the ZEN 3 4’th GEN Ryzen Desktop CPUs will only support the new AMD 500-series (or later) chipsets
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When the RX 5600 XT GPU was launched there was chaos and confusion amongst reviewers, Retailers, AIBs and gamers like, because AMD made some last minute changes to the specs and parameters of this GPU. It was sort of a messy launch. Continue reading AMD finally announces RX 5600 XT NAVI GPU with faster 14Gbps memory Modules
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According to a leaked slide and report posted by MyDrivers, it looks like AMD will support the next-gen PCI-Express Gen 5.0 standard and DDR5 by 2022. Continue reading DDR5, PCI-express Gen 5.0, and USB 4.0 are going to become mainstream by 2022
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PowerColor is a Taiwanese-based graphics card brand/manufacturer, and the company has just released a mini-ITX small form factor/SFF Navi 10 GPU for gamers looking for a compact graphics card for their ATX cabinet, and gaming RIGs. Continue reading PowerColor has released an ITX SFF form factor RX 5600 XT NAVI 10 GPU for Gamers
AMD has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.2 driver offers optimal gaming performance in Gears Tactics & Predator: Hunting Grounds. Continue reading AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.4.2 driver is optimized for Gears Tactics & Predator: Hunting Grounds
