According to one of AMD's partners, the company is looking to stop driver support on Windows 10 with the upcoming Ryzen 8050 series of processors. The report also adds Zen 5 IPC performance numbers.
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The AMD Ryzen 7 NPU-powered A7 Mini PC comes with 2.5GbE, Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, a 2TB SSD, and 32GB of DDR5-5600MT/s memory. Best of all, you can score one of these with a $200 discount.
Amazon US is offering a number of Gaming Week deals, providing great value for gamers. Particularly, the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core, 24-Thread desktop processor is selling at its lowest price today.
Recently, firmware and chipset support for AMD's next gen Zen 5 (Ryzen 9000) series processors were added. Now, a leak has revealed the alleged specifications of the next-gen Ryzen Strix Halo APUs.
Microsoft recently added a compatibility block wherein very old unsupported CPUs like Intel's Core 2 Duo, are no longer able to bypass Windows 11 system requirements during version 24H2 setup.
Following some welcome discounts on its GPUs, namely, the RX 7900 XT, GRE, and the 7700 XT, AMD has also dropped price of the 12-core Ryzen 5900X to its lowest ever. The 16-core 5950X is cheap too.
AMD has unveiled today its Ryzen PRO desktop and laptop CPU lineups that are going to be powering the new Microsoft Windows 11 AI PCs. The latter is excited about Pluton security in these PCs.
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A couple of the biggest vendor partners of AMD, Asus and MSI, have inadvertently revealed some of the early details about the upcoming Zen 5 processors, thanks to firmware and chipset driver updates.
Nearly all motherboard makes were found vulnerable to the LogoFAIL security flaw at the end of last year. And at long last, AMD's vendor partners are finally beginning to roll out patched firmware.
AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128.
The Ryzen 5 7600X, AMD's six-core, twelve-thread processor for the AM5 platform, has hit a new all-time low price of just $179. This allows you to save $120 of its regular MSRP of $299.
Now is the perfect time to upgrade your AM4 platform with a more powerful CPU or build a more affordable yet still capable PC, thanks to the Ryzen 9 5900X dropping to its new all-time low price.
AMD has announced that it was able to accurately build 3D-mapped and virtualized version of the historical Alcatraz Island. The company has hinted at how it was able to achieve this feat.
Following some great deals on the Intel 12th Gen Core i7 parts and AMD Ryzen 7800X3D, the latter has now dropped the price of its 6-core 5 7600X to its lowest ever, all thanks to a free 1TB SSD.
AMD recently dropped the price of the 'bad' 7900X3D, which made it a fantastic deal. If you missed it, here's AMD giving you another chance so you can grab the Ryzen 7800X3D for an even better deal.
Today is a good day if you are on the hunt for gaming laptops. That's because Asus has a few really good deals live currently on its TUF and ROG series devices, powered by AMD Ryzen and Nvidia.
AMD has released a new set of Ryzen Chipset drivers for Windows 10 and 11 users. Version 6.02.07.2300 is now available for download with several bug fixes and general improvements.
AMD recently dropped the price of the 'bad' 7900X3D, which made it a fantastic deal. If you missed it, here's AMD giving you another chance so you can grab the Ryzen 7800X3D for an even better deal.
AMD and Nvidia both have seen price drops on GPUs recently. The situation is similar on the CPU side too. Currently, both AM5's Ryzen 7900X3D and AM4's 5900X are on sale for the lowest ever prices.
AMD and Nvidia both have seen price drops on GPUs recently. The situation is similar on the CPU side as well. Currently, the AM5-based Ryzen 9 7900X3D is on sale for the lowest ever price.
Amazon is currently offering a great deal on the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X3D desktop processor with 3D V-Cache technology, which is selling at its lowest price, so grab one for yourself today.
Microsoft is seemingly introducing a new Windows 11 requirement on version 24H2 for older CPUs and it can not be bypassed. A similar change was, perhaps inadvertently, pushed to Visual C++ as well.
AMD has been having great deals lately on Ryzen CPUs. Today the company has dropped price of 5700X to its lowest ever thanks to combo deal. This follows discounts on Ryzen 7900X3D and 5950X.
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Intel has been caught in the past trying to make its CPU appear faster or trying to make rival CPUs appear slower. That accusation is back again on Team Blue and AMD is not the one accusing.
Microsoft recently added NPU reading support on Windows' Task Manager for Intel PCs. And for those of you wondering about AMD, the same will soon be happening on the Red team's side as well.
GEEKOM is back with an all new aluminum casing for their A7 mini PC that includes a dedicated hardware NPU for accelerating AI workloads, DDR5 dual channel memory and a 2TB NVMe SSD.
AMD and Nvidia both have seen price drops on GPUs recently. The situation is similar on the CPU side as well. Currently, both the AM5-based Ryzen 9 7900X3D and the AM4-based Ryzen 9 5950X are on sale.
The Asus ROG Ally is quite impressive as it is powered by the AMD's Ryzen Z1 series of APUs. A head-to-head against MSI's Claw has revealed Intel has to tremendously improve its efficiency,
The first Windows 11 24H2 Insider build was eventful as it brought many new features and improvements while also confirming a shift in CPU ISA support. The next one builds on top of it.
Following a bumper deal on its AM4-based 16 core Ryzen 5950X, AMD has now dropped the price of the 12-core 7900X3D which is based on socket AM5. With this price cut, the 12-core becomes a must-buy.
TPM sniffing attacks, which we have covered before, are possible even on modern Intel-powered hardware running the latest Windows 11. Such attacks may however be preventable by Microsoft's Pluton.
Microsoft is reportedly updating the CPU instruction support on Windows 11 with a new "POPCOUNT" instruction, which means systems with very old PCs won't be able to bypass requirements.
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AMD has been making great strides in the CPU division ever since the advent of the first-gen Ryzen. However, it looks like the company launched its first dud in the form of the octa-core 5700.
AMD issued a chipset driver this week after a fairly long time. The release notes were published later and there are several improvements including a fix for Modern Standby wake issue on Windows 11.
AMD has quietly released its new Ryzen 7 5700X3D processor to the market which has almost made the highly popular 5800X3D redundant. The former should offer almost as good a performance.
AMD is out with new chipset drivers for its Socket AM5 and AM4 platforms. The new chipset supports the recently released Ryzen 8000 series APUs, but there is likely more under the hood.
AMD recently released its 8000G series DDR5 desktop APUs for AM5 earlier this month. However, it has been discovered that these chips can only perform to their fullest for a short while due to a bug.
AMD and Amazon recently ran a great promo sale on its 16-core 5950X part. In case you missed that, here's your chance to grab the 8-core 5800X3D plus a socket AM4 B450 free motherboard combo deal.
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AMD, Amazon definitely want you to upgrade to 16 cores as Ryzen 5950X drops even harder [Update]
Although AMD just expanded its AM5 lineup with the first desktop APUs, its previous socket AM4 platform is now getting far cheaper with the 16-core Ryzen 5950X selling at its lowest ever.
AMD's most affordable seventh-generation Ryzen processor is now even more affordable thanks to a massive 33% discount. You can now get the Ryzen 5 7600X CPU for as little as $199.99.
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