AMD “Zen 4” Microarchitecture to Support AVX-512
The next-generation “Zen 4” CPU microarchitecture powering AMD’s 4th Gen EPYC “Genoa” enterprise processors, will support 512-bit AVX instruction sets, according to an alleged company slide leaked to the web on the ChipHell forums. The slide references “AVX3-512” support in addition to BFloat16 and “other ISA extensions.” This would make...
AMD “Genoa” Expected to Cram Up to 96 Cores, MCM Imagined
AMD’s cutting edge EPYC enterprise processor that succeeds the forthcoming third Gen EYPIC “Milan,” codenamed “Genoa,” is required to be the primary significant stage update for AMD’s undertaking stages since the 2017 presentation of the “Zen” based “Naples.” Implementing the most recent I/O interfaces, like DDR5 memory and PCI-Express gen...
Dell Lists an AMD “Ryzen 7 5800” (non-X) Option
AMD appears to be taking baby steps toward expanding its Ryzen 5000 “Zen 3” desktop processor lineup. Dell Canada has started listing a model of the processor series not yet available in the DIY retail channel, the Ryzen 7 5800 (non-X). This isn’t a typo, as the option is listed...
AMD Radeon RX 6700 Series to Launch on March 18
AMD is expected to launch its Radeon RX 6700 XT performance-segment graphics card on March 18, 2021, according to French tech publication Cowcotland. This would put the launch over two weeks after NVIDIA’s February 25 launch of the GeForce RTX 3060. The new RX 6700 series is expected to compete against the...
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G Engineering Sample Overclocked to 4.8 GHz & Benchmarked
We recently reported on the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G Zen 3 APU being discovered in China. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G engineering samples were distributed to system integrators and OEMs for validation with confidentiality clauses however it seems many have made their way elsewhere with several selling on eBay for 500...
EK Quantum Velocity Full Nickel Series Goes D-RGB
EK, the leading premium water cooling gear manufacturer, is upgrading its full nickel series of high-performance Velocity water blocks for modern AMD and Intel CPU sockets with a 5 V digital RGB LED. There is still a single LED hidden under the EK badge, but this time it is compatible...
Intel Apparently Discounting 10th-Gen CPUs in Bid to Claw Market from AMD
As if CD Projekt Red needed any more problems on their plate that weren’t of their own creation, it seems that the hackers who recently infiltrated the company’s infrastructure have turned out a profit on sensitive data. After source code for CD Projekt Red’s Red Engine, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher...
AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.2.2
AMD released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin drivers. Version 21.2.2 beta doesn’t add any new game optimization (since there haven’t been any big releases since the previous 21.2.1 driver release; but fixes a handful legacy issues. To begin with, 3D objects failing to render correctly with the EEVEE...
AMD Updates StoreMI with Support for Threadripper Pro and SSD Partitions
In 2018, AMD has decided to introduce a neat concept. By combining HDD with SSD, the technology was named StoreMI. Last year, the technology got re-designed from the ground up and now it reflects a completely safe and efficient way to get a faster PC with little effort. Now, StoreMI...
Nintendo Switch Yuzu Emulator Receives Significant Performance Improvements in First 2021 Update
Yuzu is an experimental Nintendo Switch emulator from the creators of the Citra 3DS emulator. The emulator has come a long way since the early days with more games becoming supported and general performance improvements. The first major update of 2021 brings a rewrite of the buffer cache along with...
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