Another Geekbench leak, following the Ryzen 5 3600 performance figures a week ago. As usual, I will preface that this isn’t always reliable nor necessarily accurate for your real-world usage. But it is always fun to see what performance your next CPU might have. If the AMD or Intel HEDT platform was a little too…
After months of Zen 2 leaks and some disappointment at the lack of a release at Computex, AMD has finally revealed the 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, which beckons a new era for mainstream computing. Back in 2011, AMD was the first to launch an 8-core CPU with the FX-8150, but it was the first generation…
In recent months there have been numerous leaks about a 16-core Ryzen 3000 series chip, so there was a bit of disappointment when the Computex launched only announced chips up to 12-cores with the R9 3900X. It now appears AMD was holding back. Today, one of AMD’s big E3 product announcements has leaked, revealing to…
At the start of the week, AMD announced their much anticipated Ryzen 3000 series CPUs based on the Zen 2 architecture. These chips are the first mainstream chips to be developed on the 7nm process and offer up to 12 cores/24 threads and during the keynote, they demoed how the flagship chip outperformed the equivalent…
After months of hype and leaks, AMD has finally announced Zen 2 with 5 new chips forming the AMD Ryzen 3000 series family. Many of the previous leaks seemed too good to be true with claims of 16 core chips with a boost of over 5Ghz. Well, they were too good to be true, what…
And it’s finally official! The AMD Ryzen 9 3900X has been officially announced with 12-core, 24-thread, 4.6Ghz Boost, 3.8Ghz 105W. AMD announced they have increased the single threaded performacne by 32% from the last first generation Zen chips, and doubled the multi thread performance. They put the new flagship chip up against the £1k+ Intel…
AMD will hold their keynote speach in less than 24 hours and we will finally have full details of the latest Zen 2 AMD CPUs which could shake up the market as much as the origina Ryzen launch. A new entry has popped up on Geekbench 4 which reveals that a 6 core, 12 thread…
Most of the hype is for the latest Zen 2 Maltisse CPUs AMD will be releasing in the next couple of months, but leaker Tum Apisak has revealed some interesting details of the upcoming AM4 Picasso APUs ahead of release. These new chips will are based upon the 12nm process, and Zen+ CPU cores and…
Intel never really rushes when it comes to a change in architecture for their processor lineup. At least, that’s been the case for many years. Broad-well (5th Gen) was the first series with a 14nm architecture. There hasn’t been a major upgrade in the architecture since. The reason they are so slow in this department…
With the AMD Ryzen 3000 series launching within the next few months, the frequency of leaks is increasing. Today, TUM_APISAK on Twitter revealed details of an early engineering sample. The sample was a 16-core chip, presumably 32 thread, and clocked at 3.3Ghz with a boost of 4.2Ghz We already know that AMD will be increasing…
Another day, another AMD Ryzen 3000 leak. Today in the form of multiple eCommerce stores jumping the gun and listing the CPUs online. This could be a marketing ploy, possibly just getting the page live online with the benefit of search engine optimisation, so as always take it with a punch of salt. Two retailers…
There is a lot of fo excitement around the up and coming Ryzen 3000, with the help of the reduced fabrication process size, down to 7nm. There have been many claims of a dramatic IPC increase as well as core count, going up to the Ryzen 9 3800X with 16 cores and 32 threads. In…