XDA - AMD Zen 4

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:30:23 GMT

One of the best CPUs on AMD’s last-gen AM4 socket, the Ryzen 7 5800X, is still a great pick for gaming with enough power to keep up with most of the latest GPUs. That being said, this CPU is on an older platform and will struggle more than the latest generation with newer games, especially if you’re looking for frame rates over 120. Still, if you’re looking to squeeze every bit of performance out of this CPU, upgrading to one of the latest GPUs can offer some major gaming improvements. You may even see other improvements, such as support for DLSS with a newer RTX card, better ray tracing performance, or even better streaming with AV1 encoding.

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Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:30:17 GMT

Intel's new 14th-generation Core"Raptor Lake Refresh" serieshas finally hit the shelves, giving Team Blue members another chance to flex against AMD's Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 series chips. The Raptor Lake Refresh series, as you'd expect, doesn't bring any radical improvements to the table as the new SKUs mostly represent a minor spec bump. The Intel Core i7-14700K is the only processor to have received the biggest upgrade this time, while the rest have only seen some minor clock speed increases across the board.

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Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:30:15 GMT

The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D is one of the best gaming processors to choose when building a desktop PC. It has AMD's fancy 3D cache design with plenty to work with, allowing the chip to store more data before relying on slower RAM. To get the most out of your CPU, pair it up with some of the best DDR5 modules on the market to ensure performance doesn't drop too much when it does need to communicate with system memory. Here's where my list of recommendations comes into play, and you'll find only thebest DDR5 RAMright here.

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Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:00:13 GMT

There are plenty ofgood reasons to use an AMD CPUin your PC build, whether for gaming, content creation, everyday work, or all of the above. Thanks to their excellent price-to-performance ratio, AMD CPUs and GPUs are hugely popular among PC builders. The Ryzen 5 6800G, part of AMD's Zen 4 processor lineup and featuring an AM5 socket, is thebest AMD CPUon a budget right now. If you're using it for your build, there are plenty of great motherboards for the AMD Ryzen 5 6800G for you to choose from.

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Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:07:25 GMT

A new leak has seemingly revealed several key details about AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8000G-series APUs. The news comes a day after the latest AGESA firmware update added support for the company's firstdesktop APUsto theAM5 platform. According to the latest information, the new lineup will comprise at least four SKUs, including two that will come with a hybrid core architecture.

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Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:16:21 GMT

Ever since its launch in 2017, AMD's Epyc server CPUs have offered some of the highest core counts for high-performance server chips. Epyc has gone from 32 cores with the original Zen, to 64 cores with Zen 2, and 96 cores with Zen 4, but Epyc is hitting 128 cores today as AMD launches its Zen 4c architecture, which is designed to deliver better core density and power efficiency than Zen 4. Additionally, AMD is also releasing 96-core Epyc chips with3D V-Cache, the first CPUs to offer 1GB of L3cache.

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Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:00:00 GMT

AMD is apparently set to reveal the next generation of Ryzen processors based on the Zen 4 architecture at the upcoming CES 2022, which is set to happen right at the start of the year despite most companiesbacking out of a physical attendance. The information was confirmed by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster in an interview withForbes(via Digital Trends), who said that "some" products will be at CES, but more will be revealed throughout the year.

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