Tag: AMD

July 18, 2024

Lamini AI was among the first companies to obtain AMD’s Instinct MI300X AI chips and has gained fame for being an all-AMD AI shop, a rarity in an Nvidia-dominated world. The CEO has even roasted Nvidia over its GPU shortages, […]

May 14, 2024

AMD has rolled out a massive Linux driver update with 24,000 lines of code for Team Red’s incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards. As spotted by Phoronix.com (via TweakTown), a new Linux kernel driver has been implemented for ‘AMD GFX12 Mesa […]

April 25, 2024

All the major motherboard makers have now introduced support for AMD’s next-gen desktop CPUs with their latest BIOS releases, and another vendor has specifically mentioned that these chips will be the Ryzen 9000 series. If you recall, Asus, Gigabyte, and […]

April 17, 2024

Following the launch of AMD’s first NPU-equipped processors, the Ryzen 8000G series from January, the company is expanding its portfolio with Ryzen Pro 8000 models that also feature AI acceleration hardware. These are the AMD Ryzen Pro 8000 chips for […]

April 10, 2024

According to members of the Anandtech forums, AMD has significantly reduced cache size to accommodate large AI chips on upcoming Strix Point hardware. If the reports prove accurate, it would suggest that AMD and other processor vendors are placing considerable […]

April 3, 2024

AMD’s Zen 5 processors might be with us sooner than expected, or at least a new development has given us fresh hope this could be the case. Regular hardware leaker HXL brought this to our attention on X (formerly Twitter) […]

February 21, 2024

AMD’s next-gen “Medusa” processor is shaping up to be a mighty big chip if recent rumors are to be believed, though it’ll still be a very long time before we even get close to seeing it. The forthcoming processor architecture, […]

February 20, 2024

AMD’s hotly-anticipated Zen 5 CPUs could launch at the end of this year, lining up closely with Intel’s Arrow Lake release – which could spell trouble for Team Blue and edge AMD further towards hard-earned desktop supremacy in the best […]

January 24, 2024

AMD has released a new GPU driver, Adrenalin version 24.1.1, which brings in its Fluid Motion Frame technology to boost frame rates. AMD’s Fluid Motion Frame (AFMF) feature is driver-level frame generation, or to put it another way, it’s a […]

January 17, 2024

A new security vulnerability called LeftoverLocals affects GPUs made by some of the leading names, like AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm. It enables data theft from the GPU’s memory irrespective of the form factor and operating system. The flaw was discovered […]

January 11, 2024

It’s hard to talk about AMD without bringing up arch nemesis Nvidia, and vice versa, when it comes to upscaling technology and GPU technology. Nvidia drops DLSS, and AMD follows quickly with FSR. Normally we expect Nvidia to lead with […]

December 20, 2023

Within a week of Intel Meteor Lake’s Dec. 14 release date, the Core Ultra 7 155H has been given a run of over 300 CPU benchmarks under Linux in a head-to-head with a Ryzen 7 7840U. This detailed testing was […]

December 7, 2023

AMD’s latest graphics driver release has apparently resolved a longstanding problem with RDNA 3 desktop graphics cards using way too much power at idle, and unnecessarily running up bills a bit with certain PC setups – those running high refresh […]

December 5, 2023

The GPU market is still a peculiar mix of fake deals and good offers. It’s quite difficult to navigate for gamers looking to build a new rig or upgrade their aging graphics card for recent AAA releases like Alan Wake […]

November 28, 2023

As you can see below, performance in synthetic benchmarks and games looks mighty impressive compared to Ryzen 7 5000G series hardware. In games like Doom Eternal and Cyberpunk 2077, one could expect up to 200 percent better performance compared to […]

November 14, 2023

AMD and Graz University of Technology researchers have disclosed a new vulnerability in AMD CPU called CacheWarp, or CVE-2023-20592 (via ComputerBase). This attack exploits a security feature in EPYC server CPUs that’s supposed to make them resistant to hacks. The […]

November 10, 2023

According to Mercury Research (via Tom’s Hardware), AMD gained 5.8 percent unit share in desktops, 3.8 percent in laptops, and 5.8 percent in servers. In terms of revenue share, Team Red gained 4.1 percent in desktops, 5.1 percent in laptops, […]

October 23, 2023

Nvidia and AMD are both reportedly planning to launch Arm-based CPUs for Windows-based PCs. Reuters reports that Nvidia has started designing Arm-based CPUs in what could be a major expansion of Microsoft’s Windows on Arm work. Nvidia and AMD could […]

September 15, 2023

Although AMD says its Ryzen 7040-series accelerated processing units with the company’s Ryzen AI hardware engine have been shipping for well over half of a year now, there were no publicly available tools to make use of it. That changed […]

August 17, 2023

Even the best graphics cards are prone to crashes. It doesn’t matter if it’s a Nvidia or AMD graphics card. For that same reason, AMD has launched a helpful tool called Radeon GPU Detective (RGD) to aid developers in diagnosing […]