Zen
As the second quarter of 2024 is soon set to unfold, there are many things to be excited about, especially as Computex 2024 has been and gone. We now know that AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors using the new Zen 5 cores will be hitting shelves at the end of the month (31st July), and on top of this, AMD also recently slashed pricing on their Zen 4 (Ryzen 8000) processors. Intel still needs to follow suit with their 14th or 13th Gen Core series processors, but right now from a cost standpoint, AMD is in a much better position. Since the publication of our last guide, the only notable CPU to be launched was Intel's special binned Core i9-14900KS, which not only...
AMD Launches Ryzen Pro with Vega: Mobile APUs and Desktop APUs
Both AMD and Intel have product lines catered to the commercial market: large scale business deployments that require stability and administration-at-a-distance across tens of thousands of units. Imagine a...
20 by Ian Cutress on 5/15/2018The AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive: The 2700X, 2700, 2600X, and 2600 Tested
With 2017 finished, and Ryzen being very successful for AMD, the inevitable question was due: what happens next? Early in 2018, the plans were laid bare: a second generation...
546 by Ian Cutress on 4/19/2018Overclocking The AMD Ryzen APUs: Guide and Results
With AMD’s new launch of Raven Ridge APUs, the Ryzen 3 2200G ($99) and Ryzen 5 2400G ($169), AMD holds the current integrated graphics apex when directly compared against...
64 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 4/16/2018AMD Ryzen 2nd Gen Details: Four CPUs, Pre-Order Today, Reviews on the 19th
Today marks the initial start of AMD’s pre-sale of 2nd Generation Ryzen processors. The full launch is set for April 19th, which is when reviews and performance numbers will...
102 by Ian Cutress on 4/13/2018The MSI B350 Tomahawk Motherboard Review: Gaming On a Budget
Without key buzzwords such as 'RGB' and 'gaming', MSI is looking to target AMD users on a strict budget with the B350 Tomahawk. Compared to X370, the B350 boards...
46 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/12/2018AMD Readies Ryzen 3 2200GE & Ryzen 5 2400GE APUs with Reduced TDP
AMD is preparing to release low-power versions of its Ryzen APUs with built-in Radeon Vega graphics. The new Ryzen 3 2200GE and Ryzen 5 2400GE chips will have a...
25 by Anton Shilov on 2/12/2018Marrying Vega and Zen: The AMD Ryzen 5 2400G Review
AMD's new launch of APUs hits the apex of the 2017 designs that tend the balance sheet black. After a return to high performance on x86 with the Ryzen...
179 by Ian Cutress on 2/12/2018AMD Tech Day at CES: 2018 Roadmap Revealed, with Ryzen APUs, Zen+ on 12nm, Vega on 7nm
Updated Feb 1st! To mark the start of the annual CES trade show, AMD invited the press in early to sample the latest technologies coming to its portfolio in 2018...
136 by Ian Cutress on 2/1/2018Getting Radeon Vega Everywhere: An Exclusive Media Interview at AMD Tech Day, with CEO Dr. Lisa Su
In what is becoming an annual tradition, during AMD’s Tech Day here at CES we were given the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO...
65 by Ian Cutress on 1/24/2018Ryzen Mobile Now On Sale: HP’s ENVY X360
The biggest question when AMD formally launched its Ryzen Mobile platform was all about ‘when’. At the time AMD announced three primary partners and three systems, with the aim...
65 by Ian Cutress on 11/14/2017AMD's Progress on Its 25x20 Goal: The Task Ahead
When AMD announced it was creating the new high-performance Zen core, they set a lofty goal. They wanted to produce products that offered 25x the relative efficiency (performance per...
20 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2017Ryzen Mobile is Launched: AMD APUs for Laptops, with Vega and Updated Zen
The final piece of AMD’s return to high-performance computing is in laptops. While Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC have used the 8-core Zeppelin building block for their products, the laptop...
141 by Ian Cutress on 10/26/2017GlobalFoundries Adds 12LP Process for Mainstream and Automotive Chips; AMD Planning 12LP CPUs & GPUs
GlobalFoundries on Wednesday announced its new 12LP (leading performance) fabrication process. The new manufacturing technology was designed to increase transistor density and improve frequency potential compared to GlobalFoundries’ current-gen...
32 by Anton Shilov on 9/21/2017Best CPUs: August 2017
Our newest CPU Guide can be found here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9793/best-cpus Best CPUs, August 2017 Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give...
0 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2017Retesting AMD Ryzen Threadripper’s Game Mode: Halving Cores for More Performance
For the launch of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processors, one of the features being advertised was Game Mode. This was a special profile under the updated Ryzen Master software that...
104 by Ian Cutress on 8/17/2017The AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and Ryzen 3 1200 CPU Review: Zen on a Budget
AMD has always promised that Zen is a core suitable form entry level x86 computers all the way up to high-performance server parts. Within that scale so far, AMD...
142 by Ian Cutress on 7/27/2017AMD Threadripper 1920X and 1950X CPU Details: 12/16 Cores, 4 GHz Turbo, $799 and $999
Last night out of the blue, we received an email from AMD, sharing some of the specifications for the forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper CPUs to be announced today. Up until...
225 by Ian Cutress on 7/13/2017Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000 - The Server CPU Battle of the Decade?
This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the "Skylake-SP" architecture...
219 by Johan De Gelas & Ian Cutress on 7/11/2017Best CPUs Q2 2017
In our series of Buyer Guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the time of...
1 by Ian Cutress on 7/6/2017AMD Launches Ryzen PRO CPUs: Enhanced Security, Longer Warranty, Better Quality
This morning AMD is introducing their Ryzen PRO processors for business and commercial desktop PCs. The new lineup of CPUs includes the Ryzen 3 PRO, Ryzen 5 PRO and...
77 by Anton Shilov on 6/29/2017