AMD
As part of AMD's Q1'2024 earnings announcement this week, the company is offering a brief status update on some of their future products set to launch later this year. Most important among these is an update on their Zen 5 CPU architecture, which is expected to launch for both client and server products later this year. Highlighting their progress so far, AMD is confirming that EPYC "Turin" processors have begun sampling, and that these early runs of AMD's next-gen datacenter chips are meeting the company's expectations. "Looking ahead, we are very excited about our next-gen Turin family of EPYC processors featuring our Zen 5 core," said Lisa Su, chief executive officer of AMD, at the conference call with analysts and investors (via SeekingAlpha). "We are widely...
Floating point peak performance of Kaveri and other recent AMD and Intel chips
With the launch of Kaveri, some people have been wondering if the platform is suitable for HPC applications. Floating point peak performance of the CPU and GPU ...
102 by Rahul Garg on 1/22/2014
AMD Kaveri Docs Reference Quad-Channel Memory Interface, GDDR5 Option
Our own Ryan Smith pointed me at an excellent thread on Beyond3D where forum member yuri ran across a reference to additional memory controllers in AMD's recently released Kaveri...
127 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/16/2014
AMD Kaveri Review: A8-7600 and A10-7850K Tested
The first major component launch of 2014 falls at the feet of AMD and the next iteration of its APU platform, Kaveri. Kaveri has been the aim for AMD...
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Lenovo: New ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Yoga, IdeaPad, and Flex Laptops
Lenovo had their usual location set up in the AquaKnox lounge at the Venetian, with a huge number of products on display. We’ll break things up into the laptop/notebook/multi-modal...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2014
AMD Reveals First Mobile Radeon M200 Parts & Rebadges
While CES is generally not a big show for the GPU divisions of the major chip makers – those firms preferring to make major GPU announcements at their own...
25 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2014
AMD/TI's DockPort Adopted As Official Extension to DisplayPort Standard
Shortly after the launch of Intel’s Thunderbolt interface in 2011, there was a great deal of discussion to be had in several camps over what the future of data...
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AMD Press Conference Highlights
Ian has already written up most of the information AMD covered in their press conference tonight, so if you haven’t already I suggest you start there. Kaveri is the...
13 by Jarred Walton on 1/7/2014
AMD’s Kaveri: Pre-Launch Information
On the back of AMD’s Tech Day at CES 2014, all of which was under NDA until the launch of Kaveri, AMD have supplied us with some information that...
133 by Ian Cutress on 1/6/2014
AMD Demonstrates "FreeSync", Free G-Sync Alternative, at CES 2014
AMD has been relatively silent on the topic of NVIDIA’s variable refresh rate G-Sync technology since its announcement last year. At this year’s CES however, AMD gave me a...
82 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014
Battlefield 4 Mantle Update Delayed Until January
AMD and Electronic Arts send word this afternoon that the Mantle update for Battlefield 4 has been delayed until next month. The update was previously scheduled for late December...
66 by Ryan Smith on 12/30/2013
Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X OC Review: Our First Custom Cooled 290
Ever since the 290 review there has been a lot of chatter and questions about when we’d see the first customized cards show up, and the answer is that...
119 by Ryan Smith on 12/24/2013
AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Drivers Now Available
After 9.5 betas, AMD has finally released a WHQL certified driver from their latest driver branch (13.25x) in the form of Catalyst 13.12. First introduced as the launch driver for...
27 by Ryan Smith on 12/19/2013
AMD Announces Radeon R7 260; Shipping Mid-January
Squeezing in one final product announcement before the end of the year, today AMD is announcing the latest addition to the Radeon R7 family and the counterpart to the...
35 by Ryan Smith on 12/17/2013
ASRock to Release 990FX Killer Motherboard with M.2
One of the next big things in motherboard development is the progressive move to faster storage – the superseding of SATA 3 Gbps and SATA 6 Gbps. We...
22 by Ian Cutress on 12/12/2013
An Update on AMD’s Crossfire Eyefinity Frame Pacing Driver
In the last week several of you have emailed us about AMD’s Crossfire Eyefinity frame pacing driver – their so-called “phase 2” frame pacing driver – looking for a...
30 by Ryan Smith on 12/11/2013
Gaming Motherboards under $175: Holiday 2013
Glad tidings we bring, and this time it comes in the form of gaming oriented motherboards. As an ex-semi-serious gamer (local clan matches, LANs), the motherboard in my...
10 by Ian Cutress on 11/27/2013
Best Desktop CPUs: Holiday 2013
Next up in our series of Holiday Buyer’s Guides is a look at processors. Building systems in time for a holiday season means that picking the right components...
25 by Ian Cutress on 11/25/2013
Fall 2013 Supercomputer Rankings Released; Achieving Max Efficiency With Oil
Turning our eyes back towards SC13 and supercomputers one more time this week, we have the biannual supercomputer rankings, which are released every spring and every fall. These rankings...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/22/2013
Update: AMD Announces New Game Bundles For Radeon R7 260X & Above
Coinciding with today’s launch of the Radeon R9 270, AMD is announcing that they are putting up new video game bundles for their 200 series cards, the first such...
37 by Ryan Smith on 11/15/2013
AMD 2014 Mobile APU Update: Beema and Mullins
Today AMD is taking the wraps off their upcoming mobile APUs, joining the already discussed desktop Kaveri. While Kaveri will also be coming to laptops at some point in...
47 by Jarred Walton on 11/13/2013
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