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AMD Pushes Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.3 Beta Drivers
AMD Updates Adrenalin Edition 2019 With New Beta Earlier in the month, AMD revealed their latest set of drivers. As part of the annual driver refresh, the company unloaded a whole host of new features. The new driver featured as the new Adrenalin 2019 Edition 18.12.2 beta drivers. Now that…
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AMD Affiliate Teases Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 5 3600X
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 5 3600X Named Just a while back, at their own event, AMD revealed some new details for upcoming processors. One of the big highlights was the reveal of the new Zen 2 architecture. While details a quite slim, the new architecture will arrive in…
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AMD May Power New Microsoft Surface Devices
AMD APUs Under Consideration For Microsoft Laptop Over the past 2 years, AMD has made a strong showing on the CPU front. With a competitive 14/12nm process and new Zen architecture, the company is in a stronger position than ever. Along with consumer success, the company is also doing better…
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AMD Releases Radeon Software 18.12.1 Beta Drivers
AMD Releases Driver With Just Cause 4 Support When it comes to updating drivers, AMD has been at the top of their game. After the Radeon Software revamp, the company has been putting out drivers quite consistently. After 2 new drivers last month, we are getting our first one for…
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Samsung Release First Mainstream QLC 860 QVO SSDs
Samsung Offers 4TB QLC 860 QVO SSD Earlier in the month, some news started to leak about new QLC SSDs. Coming from Samsung, the new drives promised to bring QLC to the general consumer. Along with lower prices per GB, the new technology promises to make even larger drives possible. Ahead of…
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Intel Gemini Lake CPUs Coming In Short Supply
Intel Gemini Lake Shipments Slipping Over the past couple of months, Intel has been struggling with a CPU supply shortage. As has been widely reported, the delays to 10nm have had a ripple effect on 14nm production. Due to demand outstripping supply, the company has had to make tough choices…
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Intel Ice Lake May Boost L1 and L2 Cache Sizes
Intel May Rebalance Ice Lake Cache Sizes As the x86 performance king, Intel has done a lot of work to build and maintain their lead. After the stumble with Pentium 4, the company has come a long way. With success, however, is ever higher expectations. To keep things moving along, the company may soon…
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AMD Release Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.11.2 Drivers
AMD Updates Radeon Software With Battlefield V Support Earlier in the month, AMD released their first November driver, the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.1 Drivers. Following up on that release, we now have the second driver for the month. The new driver is the 18.11.2 driver, another beta optional release.…
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Intel May Sacrifice Retail Supply to Please OEMs
Intel Will Prioritize OEM Shipments Since the start of Q3 2018, Intel has been suffering from a major CPU shortage. Intel’s 14nm supply has been oversubscribed due to problems with 10nm. After admitting to the problem, the company promised to do more to fix the problem. Despite that, the company…
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AMD Releases Radeon Software 18.11.1 Drivers
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.1 With all the new game releases, graphics drivers have been coming out rapid fire. Keeping pace with everything, AMD has been pumping graphics drivers every couple of weeks. Last month, we got a total of 3 new drivers. Starting off November, we now have…
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AMD Debuts New Chiplet Design For Scalability
AMD Reveals Scalable Chiplet Design One of the struggles of high core counts is communication between cores and outside the CPU. This problem is one that AMD has been grappling with since the launch of Zen. With up to 32 cores and now 64 core designs, the company has had…
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Intel Announces December 11th Architecture Event
Intel Wants to Talk Architecture With their old new architecture launches, Intel has always been quite generous in terms of the details they provide. Over the past couple of years, things have taken a shift to less information. There have possibly been 2 main factors to this, with a lack…
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AMD Announces Next Horizons Event For November 6th
AMD New Horizons Event Comes At Short Notice In just a couple of months, AMD should be launching their new Zen 2 processors. Using the updated version of the Zen architecture, the new CPUs should offer in the excess of 10% IPC increase. Ahead of the launch next year, it…
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AMD Zen 2 CPU Instructions Leaked In GNU Compiler
AMD Laying Groundwork for Zen 2 Sometime in the near future, AMD will be launching their new Zen 2 CPUs. The new designs build on the great work that AMD has already done for Zen and Zen+. With a projected 13% IPC increase, performance is definitely up. Along with base IPC…
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AMD Zen 2 May Offer Significant IPC Boost
AMD Zen 2 May Offer 15% IPC Increase After Intel launched the Core series, AMD CPUs gradually lost their competitive edge. This all changed last year with the launch of Ryzen. Due to the new Zen architecture, performance has shot up, with a massive increase of over 40%. So far,…
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