The FL1 package is retained by AMD Ryzen “Fire Range” mobile processor.

The FL1 package is retained by AMD Ryzen “Fire Range” mobile processor.

AMD is preparing a follow-up to its “Dragon Range” mobile processor for gaming notebooks and portable workstations, which is part of the Ryzen 7045 family. Although its processor model name is still unknown, the chip is known under the codename “Fire Range.” It will continue to be pin-compatible and maintain...

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Price Drops to $465, a Record Low

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Price Drops to $465, a Record Low

The Ryzen 9 7950X3D, AMD’s flagship desktop CPU for the current generation, saw a price decrease earlier this week to a record-low $464.99 on Amazon and Newegg. In our tests, the 16-core/32-thread Socket AM5 processor with 3D V-cache technology performed about the same in terms of gaming performance as the...

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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Outperforms Intel’s Best Single-Core Score in Geekbench 6 Benchmark.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Outperforms Intel’s Best Single-Core Score in Geekbench 6 Benchmark.

Third-party OEMs and system integrators are beginning to test some systems as AMD gets ready to release its next-generation Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs, which is built on the Zen 5 architecture. The Ryzen 9 9900X CPU, a 12-core, 24-thread processor that has shown remarkable performance advancements, has scores on...

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AMD Ryzen 8000G Desktop APU Prices Continue Declining, with the 8600G now priced at $152.

AMD Ryzen 8000G Desktop APU Prices Continue Declining, with the 8600G now priced at $152.

The AMD Ryzen 8000G desktop APUs are the first desktop CPUs to provide an NPU with 16 TOPS of performance available. They do this by combining “Zen 4” CPU cores with a potent iGPU built on the RDNA 3 architecture. The price of these Socket AM5 CPUs, which are built...

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The Sweetspot Speed of Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” Desktop Processors is Verified at DDR5-6400

The Sweetspot Speed of Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” Desktop Processors is Verified at DDR5-6400

The memory overclocking capabilities of AMD’s future Ryzen 9000 series “Granite Ridge” desktop CPUs, which are built on the “Zen 5” microarchitecture, will be slightly enhanced. Similar to the Ryzen 7000 “Raphael,” “Granite Ridge” is a chiplet-based processor that combines a client I/O die (cIOD) produced on the 6 nm...

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AMD Drops Pricing on Ryzen 8000G Desktop APUs, with the 8600G at only $199.

AMD Drops Pricing on Ryzen 8000G Desktop APUs, with the 8600G at only $199.

Over the course of the week, AMD Ryzen 8000G “Hawk Point” desktop APU prices in the Socket AM5 packaging decreased. The completely unlocked Ryzen 7 8700G is now retailing for $299, which is $30 less than its $329 launch price. With a price tag of $199, the Ryzen 5 8600G...

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AMD Ryzen AI 9 300 Reports a 20% Gain in Performance Compared to Previous Generation CPU and Graphics

AMD Ryzen AI 9 300 Reports a 20% Gain in Performance Compared to Previous Generation CPU and Graphics

According to a leak by Golden Pig Upgrade, the top-spec AMD Ryzen AI 9 300 series “Strix Point” processor, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, is anticipated to produce 20% better performance than its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 8945HS “Hawk Point,” on both the CPU and integrated graphics fronts. Regarding...

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Ryzen 9 7950X3D, AMD’s flagship processor, now costs less than $500.

Ryzen 9 7950X3D, AMD’s flagship processor, now costs less than $500.

AMD’s flagship desktop processor, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, is now listed on Amazon for $492, less than $500 for the first time. This 16-core/32-thread CPU has one of its two 8-core CCDs equipped with 3D V-cache, which boosts gaming performance while allowing the second CCD to maintain higher boost clocks,...

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AMD Claims That The Ryzen 9000 Series Won’t Outperform The 7000X3D Series in Gaming

AMD Claims That The Ryzen 9000 Series Won’t Outperform The 7000X3D Series in Gaming

According to Donny Woligroski, senior technical marketing manager at AMD, the company’s future Ryzen 9000 “Granite Ridge” desktop processors, which are based on the “Zen 5” microarchitecture, won’t outperform the Ryzen 7000X3D series at gaming workloads. This was said in an interview with Tom’s Hardware. While they won’t quite match,...

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Overclocked AMD Ryzen 5 9600X ES to 5.70 GHz All-core

Overclocked AMD Ryzen 5 9600X ES to 5.70 GHz All-core

An AMD Ryzen 5 9600X “Zen 5” processor engineering sample has undergone a CPU-Z Benchmark and been overclocked to 5.70 GHz across all cores. In this instance, the chip scores 7096 points in the multithreaded benchmark and 871 points in the single-threaded benchmark. Since the impending Ryzen 9 9950X flagship...

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