Sometimes it is good to wait at least a day or two to check the validity of some reports. For example, DigiTimes reported the day before yesterday that Intel had booked 180,000 wafers in the 6 nm process at TSMC and would use them for their flagship HPC GPU Ponte Vecchio. The order and the quantity should be right in the end, but the targeted [...]
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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 [...]
I had already mentioned in my article “Why manufacturers are struggling with AMD notebooks, why AMD likes to trip itself up and why the blue conspiracy is not a conspiracy at all | Search for answers“, why notebook manufacturers are still so reluctant to buy AMD CPUs and APUs for mobile applications. But I’ll explain in a moment [...]
You read it again and again and everywhere, but it’s still interesting to see how more and more top managers at AMD are commenting on the introduction of the next generation. The latest statement comes from AMD’s Executive Vice President of Computing and Graphics, Rick Bergman, who said that the next generation will set a new benchmark [...]
Now it's official, but the bad news first: the Ryzen 4000 G-Series will only be available as desktop APUs in complete systems, not in free retail stores. Unfortunately, this is exactly what I had already hinted at several times weeks ago. The fact that AMD would like to take precautions against a possible cannibalization of the normal desktop [...]
For the AMD Ryzen 7 4700G Renoir APU, new benchmarks have been leaked that could reveal their performance in various benchmarks. These latest benchmarks come from Chiphell, where a forum member was able to get a sample of the aforementioned APU and test it under various performance metrics, including graphics performance, of course. The tested APU [...]
In the previous news about Intel’s new CPU generations and the roadmap, I had already pointed out Intel’s hybrid approach several times. If Intel now follows ARM’s big.LITTLE approach, the result is a heterogeneous, very dynamic computer architecture that combines economical and thus slower processor cores with proportionally [...]
Does that sound very lurid? Not at all. The whole thing isn’t that absurd, because such a Ryzen is actually a complete SoC (System-on-Chip). But you would have to bring such a processor to life first. That there are other possibilities for this, apart from all the known chipsets, is no state secret, but at least it seems to be uncomfortable [...]
The colleagues from Videocardz.com reported about a new list of not yet released Zen3-based EPYC processors, but with very incomplete data. Here I can provide more information today, but this is based on three relatively early samples in the so-called A0 stepping. As we know, AMD’s Milan is also known as Genesis (internal code name) and thus [...]
You have to look hard to find the advantage of the Ryzen 9 3900XT over the Ryzen 9 3900X. The longer such a session runs and also includes different scenarios and a very different thread load (number, load level), the smaller the actual differences become and you have to look very carefully. In order to remain as meaningful as possible and not [...]
After one year of Ryzen 3000 (“Matisse”), the replacement of the current Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3800X and Ryzen 9 3900X is approaching, by adding MTS2 (internal for “Matisse Refresh”), an improved XT replacement, which should make waiting for Ryzen 4000 (“Vermeer”) a little easier. And probably also a little bit [...]
Intel’s current weakness in desktop CPUs might suggest that the long-awaited Ryzen 4000 generation might be a bit of a plaything for casual time management. Launch this year, yeah. But when, actually? Q4 is a three month long, very stretchy time window. And then, of course, there is the question of availability after the release. In order to [...]
Currently Intel is wading through the valley of tears a bit, because you can do what you want, you just can’t get past a better node in view of AMD’s current run. And this is where the crux of the matter begins. A new entry of Intel’s Rocket Lake desktop CPU from the Geekbench 5 shows an 8-core (16 threads), which is used as CPU [...]
AMD officially announced the Ryzen 3000XT ‘Matisse Refresh’ product line several weeks ago. This product line consists of a total of three processors still based on the 7 nm Zen 2 architecture, but with a slightly improved design (or simply better binning) that allows higher boost clocks than the Ryzen 3000X series. Although the [...]
Since there are always questions and some things are often confused, we will give you some insights into AMD-UEFI, what is colloquially called “the BIOS” (although it is no longer correct). I have also broken down the following extremely to remain as simple and understandable as possible. Nevertheless, what happens when the PC starts [...]
In part 1 “We build a Hackintosh – part 1 as a starting aid for newcomers and assembly” it was “only” about choosing the right hardware and assembling it, but now it’s getting serious. I would like to thank al6042 from the Hackintosh Forum, who was able to shorten the learning curve up to the “finished [...]
It had become increasingly clear that the portfolio of Renoir CPUs could look quite different in the end. Here, too, the “refresh” APUs are to be introduced immediately and not the previously circulated models. The only downer for all the HTPC and office enthusiasts who wanted a powerful CPU with relatively fast integrated graphics: [...]
Sure, it would be too good to be true that you can buy for relatively small money, Oops Bitcoins, a fully functional Ryzentosh that suddenly eliminates all AMD hardware problems and is the first project to run really clean. Just the unlawful seizure of the name of the (rightly indignant) OpenCore community and the misuse of the corresponding logos [...]
Our forum user casi30 has created an optimization guide for us, which should make the impossible possible, especially since the combination as CPU and GPU is already quite sporty. He cools an AMD Ryzen R7 3800X with the included Wraith Prism, runs a reference model of the Radeon RX 5700 for this purpose and finally optimized the whole thing [...]
Owning an Apple PC is usually quite an expensive affair and is usually celebrated almost religiously. But if you want to work with MacOS, perhaps to have an advantage over Windows PCs in one or the other application, or simply to be different, you don’t necessarily have to buy an Apple Mac Pro (2019). Fortunately there is the possibility to [...]
As always, the following is to be enjoyed with caution, but for the sake of completeness it should not be forgotten. Intel's 14nm Skylake architecture has now reached a peak with Comet Lake CPUs, requiring Intel to focus on the next-generation cores that will be deployed in upcoming desktop and mobile CPUs. Skylake is now a true generational [...]
Intel's first discrete graphics card with the Xe DG1 GPU was tested in the 3DMark benchmark and discovered by Von TUM_APISAK in the Firestrike benchmark. Here, the Xe DG1 shows a performance that surpasses all existing integrated GPUs, while it can, at least to some extent, match the discrete entry level cards of the competition. No more, but [...]
Intel's Phantom Canyon NUC 11 Extreme, which will use the next generation of next-generation 10nm Tiger Lake CPUs, has now been sighted in 3DMark for the first time and Rogame's result has been released on Hardware Leaks. This news not only reveals the specifications, but also the performance values that one could expect from this small [...]
There is currently a lot of movement in the information jungle and so this week a lot of things were buzzing through the air like Matisse 2.0, Refresh, answer to Intel’s Comet-Lake-S, Ryzen 7 3750X and 3850X or 3700XT to 3900XT. First of all I deliberately kept out of it and rather asked questions, collected my own appetizers and then tried [...]
But I live in the here and now and there it has become (as so often) a bit tight with time, but of course something will be finished. Actually, there was a little bit more planned, but there was the sampling god and a more complex motherboard conversion planned, which almost cost me an extra day. Since it’s not a sponsored sample, it will be [...]
