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All Aboard For Integrated Ryzen 8700G And 8600G Graphics Testing

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:56:10 +0000

It's a good thing that iGPU performance has seen such a boost over the last couple of generations, considering the simultaneous increase of prices for discrete GPUs. The days of the $500…

The RX 7900 GRE, A Great Card Or Rather Meagre?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:11:30 +0000

The RX 7900 GRE was originally only for the Chinese market but is now being made available across the globe. On paper the card looks quite similar to the RX 6950 but…

Sapphire PURE Radeon RX 7900 GRE Review – Enter the Golden Rabbit

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:00:46 +0000

It’s here: the Golden Rabbit Edition. No longer a China exclusive, the GRE is now available worldwide, and it helps to fill in the upper midrange product offering in the Radeon 7000…

Podcast #758 – NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER, Process Node Marketing vs. Reality, Fosi ZA3 Amp, Infosec fails and MORE

PCPer Staff — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:15:09 +0000

Another week, another NVIDIA SUPER launch. But this is the last one, we promise. (We hope.) You probably already know it's barely any faster than the original, but it's $200 less (in…

Brand New Zen4 RDNA3 APUs, The Ryzen 5 8600G And Ryzen 7 8700G

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:48:00 +0000

The new 8000G series is interesting, as it combines both Zen4 and RDNA3 into a single relatively inexpensive chip. The Ryzen 5 8600G, has six multithreaded Zen4 cores running at a 4.3GHz…

The RX 7600 XT’s Are Here!

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:27:38 +0000

AMD's latest RX 7600 XT is certainly more affordable that the NVIDIA card which dropped yesterday, but it also won't come close to the performance of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. Instead…

AMD Radeon RX 7600XT 16GB Launch and XFX QICK 309 Review

Josh Walrath — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:49:39 +0000

The past several weeks have seen new CPU and GPU launches from multiple vendors, but this is expected after a rather busy CES this year. AMD is part of that with a…

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB Review – Featuring the SAPPHIRE PULSE

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:00:44 +0000

AMD's latest graphics card is here, though we have seen this GPU before. At the heart of this new Radeon RX 7600 XT lives Navi 33, and both the original RX 7600…

CES 2024: AMD Announces Ryzen 8000 G-Series Processors for AM5, Expands AM4 Lineup

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:20:15 +0000

AMD has unveiled a number of new desktop options, adding a total of eight new SKUs - four each for AM5 and the older AM4 platform. The products include the new Ryzen…

CES 2024: AMD Announces Radeon RX 7600 XT with 16GB of VRAM

Sebastian Peak — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:30:11 +0000

AMD is set to release a 16GB version of their Radeon RX 7600, though it will not be called "RX 7600 16GB". No, this is the rumored RX 7600 XT, and to…

AMD’s FPGA Plans, Linux And Cars

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:27:38 +0000

AMD has some plans for 2024 which include APUs and FPGAs for automotive usage, as well as improving the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem. The V2000A is based on Zen 2…

Chopping AMD’s Fastest Desktop CPU in Half for Better Performance

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:00:37 +0000

This will probably not come as news to most people, but Advanced Micro Devices, sometimes abbreviated as "A.M.D.", has been a staple of the DIY enthusiast space for a very long time,…

Podcast #749 – Finally a Low Power Gen5 SSD Controller, 48GB Kingston DIMMs, NVIDIA Rumors, SanDisk Extreme Fails + MORE!

PCPer Staff — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 04:00:09 +0000

We regret to inform you that we won't be podcasting next week, so we encourage you to watch this week's episode repeatedly until we return. Make different comments for separate viewings. This…

Microcode Patches Incoming For Intel And AMD

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:41:37 +0000

Today reveals another set of security concerns about the microcode on certain AMD and Intel CPUs. The flaws are not easy to leverage but theoretically could be used, and so patching is…

Podcast #748 – Arc A770 in $2K PCs, AMD Retiring Vega & Polaris, Intel Killed Cryo Cooling, Security Scares + MORE

PCPer Staff — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:00:09 +0000

Ryan may not be back this week, but I'm sure viewers won't tune out in droves. Right? Right?? Hello??? No one left, eh? Well, we did a podcast anyway. So much ARM,…

The September 26th Windows Update Doesn’t Like Radeon

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:49:51 +0000

A variety of AMD GPU owners have been having a bit of a nightmare since the new Windows Update rolled out last week. Since they installed KB5030310 any custom tuning configurations they…

How Far Can You Push An RX 7800 XT?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 17:27:14 +0000

The FPS Review provides yet another reason to avoid the RX 7700 XT, by showing just how much overclocking headroom there is on the RX 7800 XT. The default game clock of…

Podcast #741 – Intel Meteor Lake, Early RTX 5090 Rumors, ROG Strix Scope II 96 Keyboard Review, AMD Anti-lag + MORE!

PCPer Staff — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:00:09 +0000

The fab five are back at it again. Well, maybe not "fab" in the traditional sense, or even in the silicon sense. But we recorded a podcast and talked about various things…

Chiplets In The Cloud, Siena Is AMD’s EPYC Edge Chip

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:58:00 +0000

AMD have expanded their EPYC 4 series with high efficiency models designed for use outside of the server room, instead making their living on the factory floor. The term edge processor has…

Podcast #740 – Starfield Gets DLSS, iPhone 15, Cable-Free RTX 4070, WiFi 7 Routers, more FragBox, Windows Bugs, and the Atari 2600

PCPer Staff — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:00:09 +0000

That hour of hardware and gaming banter, from a personal computer perspective you were looking for? It's here. Right now. Also we talked about iPhone stuff. Some of us are sorry about…