AMD Makes FSR 3 Source Code Available via GPUOpen

AMD Makes FSR 3 Source Code Available via GPUOpen

Through its GPUOpen initiative, AMD announced on Thursday the first release of the FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) source code. The company recently created a GitHub repository for the FSR 3 source code, which is available to game developers worldwide. This contains the source code for both the FSR...

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AMD confirms that Threadripper overclocking blows a hidden fuse, but the warranty is unaffected.

AMD confirms that Threadripper overclocking blows a hidden fuse, but the warranty is unaffected.

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, codenamed Storm Peak, both Pro and non-Pro SKUs, blow a fuse on the chip when overclocking is enabled, according to Tom’s Hardware. Dozens of fuses are used in modern microprocessors to store data inside the chip. For instance, the fuses are where the factory...

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AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS and Intel Core Ultra 5 125H Face Off in a Benchmark Leak

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS and Intel Core Ultra 5 125H Face Off in a Benchmark Leak

From Intel’s upcoming “Meteor Lake” processor family, the Core Ultra 5 125H is intended to be a middle-of-the-road processor SKU. It has a 14-core, 18-thread CPU configuration out of the box. With a fully functional Xe-LPG iGPU that has all 8 Xe cores (128 EU) enabled, that’s 4P+8E+2L (four performance...

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AMD Releases Details of XDNA 2 NPU Architecture for 2024 Release of Next Generation “Strix Point” Mobile Processors

AMD Releases Details of XDNA 2 NPU Architecture for 2024 Release of Next Generation “Strix Point” Mobile Processors

The next-generation on-chip neural processing unit (NPU) architecture, called XDNA 2, was first mentioned by AMD in its announcement of mobile processors for the Ryzen 8040 series “Hawk Point” series. Above all, compared to the first generation XDNA NPU powering the Ryzen 7040 series “Phoenix” processor, the XDNA 2 NPU...

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China Sees Growth in Sales of AMD’s RX 7900 Series After NVIDIA Export Limitations

China Sees Growth in Sales of AMD’s RX 7900 Series After NVIDIA Export Limitations

The export ban on RTX 4090 GPUs to China on November 17th has had the somewhat expected effect of causing AMD’s top products to sell out faster than AMD or its partners can produce them. It has also been rumored that AMD’s top offerings will soon face the same fate....

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Read and write speeds of over 182 GB/s and 175 GB/s are provided by the AMD 3D V-Cache RAM disk.

Read and write speeds of over 182 GB/s and 175 GB/s are provided by the AMD 3D V-Cache RAM disk.

With AMD’s 3D V-Cache technology, the processor can access large cache pools for applications by stacking SRAM blocks on top of the CPU logic die, which houses the CPU cores. Nonetheless, it seems feasible to use this additional level 3 (L3) cache as a RAM disk, in which case the...

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GPUs from the AMD Radeon “GFX12” RX 8000 Series Based on RDNA4 Avail

GPUs from the AMD Radeon “GFX12” RX 8000 Series Based on RDNA4 Avail

As part of its ongoing efforts to produce next-generation solutions, AMD’s Linux team has submitted a few intriguing tweaks today, which Phoronix reports made a modest appearance through recent GitHub updates for GFX12 targets. Two additional discrete GPUs have been added to the LLVM compiler for Linux thanks to these...

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AMD Prepares Ryzen 5 and 7 5700X3D Socket AM4 Processors

AMD Prepares Ryzen 5 and 7 5700X3D Socket AM4 Processors

Users of AMD Socket AM4 are in for a treat, as the company has two more Ryzen 5000X3D series processor models planned, according to chi11eddog, a trustworthy source with AMD leaks. Despite having an older “Zen 3” microarchitecture, these chips have 3D Vertical Cache technology, which helps them reach gaming...

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Lower End Models of the AMD Ryzen 7000G APU Series Are Based on “Phoenix 2”

Lower End Models of the AMD Ryzen 7000G APU Series Are Based on “Phoenix 2”

The Ryzen 7000G series desktop APUs from AMD, which include the 4 nm “Phoenix” monolithic processor technology into the Socket AM5 desktop packaging, are now undergoing finalization. The main draw of these CPUs is their sizable integrated graphics processing unit (iGPU), which is built on the most recent RDNA3 architecture....

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AMD’s Radeon RX 6750 GRE Specifications and Costs Announced

AMD’s Radeon RX 6750 GRE Specifications and Costs Announced

The RX 6750 GRE graphics cards from AMD, which may or may not be exclusive to the Chinese market, have been the subject of numerous rumors. Thanks to @momomo_us on Twitter/X, information about not one, but two separate RX 6750 GRE SKUs has now surfaced. It appears AMD has merely...

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