AMD limited CPU and GPU sales in the second half of 2022 to prevent unsold inventory.
In the midst of a severe decline in the PC market, AMD informed investors during its Q4-2022 earnings conference call that it “undershipped” chips in the second half of 2022 to maintain pricing (margins) high and save itself from unsold inventories. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su told investors, “We undershipped...
When used with AMD Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 “Polaris” GPUs, Forspoken is ineffective.
Users on Reddit claim that AMD Radeon RX 400 series and RX 500 series graphics cards based on the “Polaris” graphics architecture are inexplicably unable to run “Forspoken.” The architecture cannot support all of the DirectX 12 feature-level 12 1 API requirements for the game. It’s interesting to note that...
Third consecutive exclusive driver from AMD Software Adrenalin 23.1.2 for the RX 7900 Series; no new driver for the RX 6950 XT since 48 days
The third consecutive driver of its kind, AMD today released the Adrenalin 23.1.2 drivers exclusively for the Radeon RX 7900 series. Since December 8, 2022 (48 days ago), no updated driver has been released for older GPUs, including the RX 6000 series and the 7-month-old RX 6950 XT. As a...
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Bundle with Ryzen 7000-series CPUs is announced by AMD.
AMD will provide a game code for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor with each of its Ryzen 7000-series CPUs starting today and running through April 1st. If your favorite store doesn’t offer the bundled game code, you may need to explore elsewhere since the promotion seems to be mostly international but...
The 3 GHz barrier is broken by AMD RX 7900 XTX OC, but only in non-gaming workloads.
According to a ComputerBase.de article comparing the overclocking experiences of the RX 7000-series RDNA3 and NVIDIA RTX 40-series “Ada” architectures, AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX RDNA3 graphics card does surpass the 3 GHz engine frequency barrier, but not in gaming use-cases. It was discovered that the RX 7900 XTX could...
The upcoming launch of the AMD entry-level A620 chip promises motherboards starting at $125.
As producers like GIGABYTE and ASUS have started filing regulatory documents for their upcoming products with the Eurasian Economic Commission, AMD’s entry-level A620 chipset for Socket AM5 motherboards is getting close to being on sale (EEC). These should enable AMD to achieve their goal of lowering AM5 motherboard beginning prices...
AMD Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status
—AMD technology helps AWS customers optimize their HPC workloads for performance and efficiency using scalable cloud infrastructure— Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing Competency status. This designation recognizes that AMD has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in high-performance...
For AMD and Intel GPUs, AV1 encoding is now available in OBS Studio 29.
To support the most recent encoding capabilities of contemporary GPUs, one of the most widely used recording and streaming programs has been updated. Following Intel and NVIDIA, whose newest graphics architecture was the first to disclose enhanced AV1 encoding and decoding, AMD’s RX 7900 series delivered improved AV1 encoding with...
Processors Made by AMD Ryzen 7000X3D Come in a Unique Retail Packaging
Here is the first look at an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D processor with 3D Vertical Cache in its retail PIB box. These chips are packaged differently from the other Ryzen 7000 models. The front face of the box is bright orange with silver accents, and it boldly displays the phrase...
AMD confirms that just one of the two chiplets for the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D has a 3DV Cache.
With availability set for February 2023, AMD today introduced its new Ryzen 7000X3D high-end desktop processors. You can read more about them in our previous post. We detected an oddity in the cache sizes of the 12-core 7900X3D and 16-core 7950X3D throughout our coverage. The dual-CCD 7900X3D and 7950X3D were...
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