AMDs Ryzen 5000 Series and a preview of BIG Navi – The most important contents of the presentation to browse through

Now AMD has let the cat out of the bag and much of what I could already report in the past weeks (including the final clock rates) has arrived. A clear increase of the IPC, together with a considerably higher clock rate, we can probably also replace Intel as a gaming chapter. The prices turn out as expected and in the end one can be curious about [...]


Tester in danger: How many watts can the 12-pin Micro-Fit connector of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 survive without melting?

The discussions about what current flow various 6-, 8- or now even 12-pin sockets can survive are as old as these sockets themselves. But while over the years one could see the odd experiment or two, the 12-pin Micro-Fit 3.0 connector is new. This in turn naturally aroused human curiosity and this is exactly where my longtime friend Aris [...]


Nvidia’s mysterious 12-pin connector for the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, “Chinese whispers”, rumors, senseless panic and a matching cable from Seasonic | Background Story

Since the new 12-pin sockets are so well known and one of the NDAs has fallen in the meantime, one should also clean up some of the rumours, mistakes and confusion. In the end, only a small communication lapse led to half of the power supply industry suddenly gasping for breath in panic and hyperventilating within a few days. But I want to unravel [...]


Intel launches the 11. Generation Tiger Lake 10nm core CPUs with Xe graphics – Is the empire beating back against AMD? Benchmarks inside

Yesterday Intel officially launched its new Tiger Lake processors of the 11th generation. Generation with a brand new CPU and GPU architecture. The new Intel Tiger Lake CPUs are based on the company’s current 10nm++ node, which offers improved performance efficiency over Ice Lake processors. The Intel Tiger Lake CPUs will be marketed under [...]


Notebook self-assembly kit: an XMG Apex 15 from Schenker as a barebone with my own CPUs from Ryzen 3 3300X to Ryzen 9 3950X in a test | Part 1 – Assembly

The German notebook manufacturer Schenker had already presented the XMG Apex 15 some time ago, so I am not presenting a world first here, of course. Since one can fall back on socketed CPUs from AMD with the Apex 15, because a B450 board with socket AM4 is used, this notebook makes it quite interesting for me. Except for the built-in graphic unit [...]


AMD launches inexpensive entry-level motherboards with the A520 chipset on the 18th of August and, like Intel, completely prevents overclocking

AMD’s board partners are planning to introduce the A520 chipset-based motherboards for the entry-level class next week, and the 18th A520 motherboard is being released. August as the official start date. The significantly lower-priced A520 offer is aimed primarily at desktop PC beginners and of course system integrators / finished PC [...]


Lower middle class in showdown: Intel Core i5 10400F vs. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 together with the right motherboard in comparison – Same price and same speed?

When Intel recently offered me to test the Core i5-10400F, I thought for a long time about the added value that such a single test could bring, because in the end it’s the whole package that counts. Therefore I decided to let this CPU compete against the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 which is similar in price. But in the end, such a comparison is only [...]


Does AMD with Zen3 still crack the 5 GHz barrier? Even faster Vermeer engineering sample of the 16-core with 4.9 GHz appeared, AMD implements more X86 instructions from Intel

Sometimes you can’t keep up with the news at all, because two more Engineering Samples (ES) have turned up, whose OPN contains interesting details about the targeted clock rates. These two OPNs also stand for the new 16-core CPUs CPUs from the already known B0-Stepping. Whether the faster of the two will be called Ryzen 9 4950X or 5950X (or [...]


Exclusive Leak about AMD’s next CPU generation: “Ryzen 9 4950X” Vermeer with higher boost clock and new features á la Intel

Well, with this description I dare to take a deep grip into the speculation collection, but let’s look at the whole thing in a sporty and exemplary way, because somehow you have to call this thing (for now). We’re talking about AMD’s new 16-core (32 threads), which is materializing more and more and thus of course leaves traces [...]


Delivery bottleneck of AMD’s Ryzen 4000 CPUs for notebooks? Many orders are postponed considerably, will the CPUs become more expensive?

In this context, it is interesting to note that a member of XMG Schenker’s staff sent a letter to Reddit, which openly addresses precisely this problem. Thus, on 31. July the ODM made the announcement that AMD was facing a serious CPU shortage in Q3 2020. Major orders whose delivery has been confirmed by their ODM for mid and late August are [...]


Intel Xeon Gold 5320H ‘Cooper Lake-SP’ header – 20 cores on one HCC die for LGA 4189 socket with gold plated solder joint

Already in June Intel brought its 3. Gen Xeon Scalable CPU family, also known as the “Cooper Lake”, but still based on the 14nm architecture. Now some people in mainland China (where else?) have gotten their hands on the first QA (Qualified Sample) of Cooper Lake chips, which have an interesting design for the family of LGA 4189 CPUs [...]