With their new Zen architecture, AMD has taken the x86 CPU market by storm. At long last, their Ryzen processors are finally competitive against Intel’s best offerings. ...
March 18, 2017 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Every time a new processor series launches, there are always some hardware bugs that surface. AMD previous had the TLB bug with Phenom and Intel had to disable TSX ...
March 17, 2017 at 11:49 am by Samuel Wan
After the launch of Ryzen, there was speculation about the impact of OS optimisation for performance on AMD’s new Zen architecture. One issue that has been bouncing ...
March 14, 2017 at 9:59 am by Samuel Wan
With less than 24 hours to go, AMD will finally launch their new Ryzen 7 processors. Based on the Zen architecture, the new CPUs are set to offer a massive 52% IPC over the ...
March 1, 2017 at 8:30 pm by Samuel Wan
Last week, AMD finally unveiled their new Ryzen processors. Based off of the new Zen architecture, they feature a 52% IPC improvement over the previous Excavator designs. Now ...
February 27, 2017 at 9:30 pm by Samuel Wan
With AMD’s Ryzen CPUs making waves after its launch last week, Intel is scrambling to come up with a response. After nearly a decade in the lead, the tables may have ...
February 27, 2017 at 8:57 am by Samuel Wan
With Ryzen review samples making their rounds, it’s inevitable for more leaks to happen. Building on earlier SiSoftware Sandra benchmark numbers, we now have even more ...
February 26, 2017 at 11:15 am by Samuel Wan
Whenever Intel’s maligned Atom lineup is mentioned, it always brings to mind the poor old netbooks. With a purposefully slow architecture, the Atoms were often ...
February 22, 2017 at 1:00 pm by Samuel Wan
With all the excitement around Ryzen, it’s no surprise that even retailer are feeling the effects of the hype. Earlier in the month, we got some pretty comprehensive ...
February 22, 2017 at 8:47 am by Samuel Wan
With more and more AMD Ryzen listings popping up online, we’ve been getting bombarded with information. So far, we’ve seen an early version of the box art, the ...
February 20, 2017 at 10:25 pm by Samuel Wan
As AMD’s Ryzen launch inches closer each more and more leaks are coming out. So far, both February 28th and March 2nd have been pointed to as being the launch dates. The ...
February 19, 2017 at 9:30 am by Samuel Wan
With under 10 days to go until launch, more leaks for AMD’s Ryzen processors have surfaced. So far, many of the leaked benchmarks have been for the top end octa-core ...
February 19, 2017 at 9:09 am by Samuel Wan
Over the past couple weeks, there has been a lot of uncertainty about the launch date for AMD’s Ryzen processors. Various dates have been bandied about suggesting either ...
February 15, 2017 at 8:19 pm by Samuel Wan
Last year, we got a firm deadline of March 3rd for AMD’s Ryzen launch at GDC. Since then, reports have coalesced around a launch on March 2nd. Yesterday, some ...
February 15, 2017 at 11:01 am by Samuel Wan
Even with Ryzen so close to launch, the exact date AMD will reveal their new processors is still a mystery. So far, we know that is had to happen before March 3rd before GDC ...
February 14, 2017 at 7:47 pm by Samuel Wan
