AMD "Big Navi" launching before consoles
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Thursday, 04 June 2020 16:20

AMD "Big Navi" launching before consoles


Will be a "halo product"

AMD has confirmed that its upcoming Navi 2, also known as Big Navi, will both be AMD's first RNDA 2 based product as well as launch before consoles, suggesting a pre-Holiday release.

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel
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Thursday, 04 June 2020 12:01

Russian CPU is still behind AMD and Intel


Turns out the Russian's aren't coming yet

Rostec, which is a Russian giant conglomerate has a chip project called Elbrus, an indigenous CPU family that has its roots in the 1970s and according to Tech Radar , a new model has surfaced: the Elbrus 8CB.

AMD  offers virtual tour of Hawk supercomputer
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Showing off

AMD has launched a never seen before 360 virtual tour of the flagship supercomputer ‘Hawk’ at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) of the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

AMD's Lisa Su world's highest-paid CEO
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Thursday, 04 June 2020 11:36

AMD's Lisa Su world's highest-paid CEO


Makes $58.5 million a year

AMD's Lisa Su has become the world's highest-paid CEO, according to a recent survey from the Associated Press on CEO compensation.

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 03 June 2020 11:59

Gamers starting to abandon Intel for AMD


Give me Steam

Number crunchers working for the Steam gaming platform have noticed that punters are slowly giving up the Intel chip based machines for something more AMDish.

AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
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No great shakes after all

Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.

AMD's new Ryzen 9 3900XT and Ryzen 7 3800XT spotted in 3DMark
Published in PC Hardware


With significant clock increase

Both the revised Zen 2 Ryzen 9 3900XT and the Ryzen 7 3800XT have been spotted in the 3DMark database, confirming earlier rumors that we could see a significant boost in clocks for these new CPUs.

Torvalds dumps Intel for AMD
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Monday, 25 May 2020 11:38

Torvalds dumps Intel for AMD


First time in 15 years

IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds took time out from his latest version of the Linux kernel to announce he had abandoned Intel after 15 years.

Next-gen consumer GPUs rumored to launch in September
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From both Nvidia and AMD

According to a report from Digitimes, next-gen consumer graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD could launch in September.

AMD could be working on desktop Ryzen 3000 refresh SKUs
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The Ryzen 7 3850X and 3750X

According to the latest rumor, AMD could be working on two new refresh SKUs in its Ryzen 3000 desktop lineup, the Ryzen 7 3850X and the Ryzen 7 3700X.