AMD unwrapped its first Ryzen 7 with V-Cache on Tuesday morning at CES 2022 and talked up the big transition that will come with its 5nm Zen 4 and AM5 platform later this year.
In the highly anticipated unveil, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su showed off a Ryzen 7 5800X3D that, she said, can run with Intel’s best gaming chip: the mighty Core i9-12900K.
The secret sauce to the 7nm Ryzen 7 5800X3D is its use of a cache directly bonded to the top of the 8-core CCD package using Through-Silicon Via
Does Nvidia know we’re knee deep in the midst of The Great GPU Shortage? Seems not. During its CES 2022 keynote, the green team came out swinging with not one, not two, but four fresh graphics cards for desktops and laptops alike, ranging from the entry-level GeForce RTX 3050 to a beastly new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti flagship.
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Let’s start with the GeForce RTX 3050, since the world is in dire need of affordable graphics cards. This latest GPU m
Nvidia has been touting the advantages of incredibly fast displays for a while now, showing off the way that 360Hz panels (showing six times the frames of a standard monitor) can enhance performance for eSports gaming. But those monitors make a sacrifice in resolution: 1080p, something that feels a little stifling when every TV on the Walmart shelf has four times that many pixels. At CES 2022, Nvidia announced a breakthrough for these high-speed monitors, a bump up to 1440p (2560×1440) r
Razer is one of the most visible brands in PC gaming, thanks in no small part to its Blade laptops. The company isn’t interested in falling behind on that score. To that end, Razer announced brand-new versions of the Blade 14, 15, and 17 laptops at CES 2022, all packing the latest CPU options from Intel and AMD and the latest and greatest GPUs from Nvidia. All three will go on sale at the beginning of the first quarter this year. Razer
The refreshed line of Blade laptops includes l
We’re living in a golden era of image upscaling, where graphics cards and game consoles use smart software tricks to internally render games at lower resolutions, then upscale the image to fit your screen, giving you much faster performance for little to no hit in visual quality. But while Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution work wonders, they’re inherently limited: Both require developers to integrate the technology in their games. That’s not the
After years of lagging behind rivals in the notebook space, AMD took the laptop world by storm with its shockingly excellent Ryzen 5000 mobile processors and Radeon RX 6000M graphics. The company kept the pedal to the medal at its CES 2022 keynote on Tuesday, revealing a new higher-powered version of its flagship laptop graphics options, along with more energy-efficient versions designed to turn ultra-portable notebooks into true gaming powerhouses. AMD
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Cue the “It’s finally happening” GIFs. Well over a year after the launch of this GPU generation and after 12 months of excruciating supply woes, the first new-school graphics card that normal people might be able to afford is finally here. During AMD’s CES 2022 virtual keynote, the company introduced the Radeon RX 6500 XT, complete with an imminently affordable $199 suggested price when it launches on January 19. Hallelujah.
AMD didn’t divulge many details duri
AMD fans looking for an Alienware laptop that flies the flag will finally get their wish with Alienware’s new m17 R5 Ryzen Edition, which kicks not just Intel to the curb, but Nvidia too.
The Alienware m17 R5 is available with up to a Ryzen 9 6980HX CPU, which can hit boost clocks of 5GHz. It can be paired with AMD’s new Radeon RX 6850M XT with 12GB of GDDR6 memory or the Radeon RX6700M with 10GB of RAM. Alienware doesn’t completely abandon its Nvidia fans, however. While
AMD’s Ryzen 6000 series of laptop CPUs will bring a plethora of new features including a 6nm process, RDNA 2, Zen 3+ and more as it continues its assault on Intel’s laptop dominance. Here’s a comprehensive rundown of what’s coming from AMD:
Enhanced TSMC 6nm processUp to 12 RDNA 2 compute units with hardware ray tracing supportDouble the integrated graphics performance of Ryzen 5000Up to eight cores capable of hitting 5GHzUp to 30 percent higher performance than Ryze
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