2024 will go down in tech history as the year Microsoft finally turned Windows laptops into serious MacBook competitors. So far, that’s been thanks to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chips, which switched to a homogeneous chip architecture, bumped up clock speeds and caught up to Apple’s speedy, power-efficient processors. But now AMD says it has chips … Read more
Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 9000 launch series. AMD AMD this week released more information about its next-generation Ryzen 9000 processors and their underlying Zen 5 CPU architecture, ahead of their late July launch. The company reiterated some of the high-level performance claims it made last month: low- to mid-double-digit performance improvements over Zen 4 across … Read more
Analysis AMD expects to have notebook chips within a few years that can locally execute 30 billion parameters in major languages at a rate of 100 tokens per second. Achieving this goal – which also requires 100ms first token latency – isn’t as simple as it sounds. It will require optimizations on both the software … Read more
With the first Zen 5 CPUs and SoCs shipping later this month, AMD offered a closer look at the architectural improvements behind the platform’s 16 percent increase in instructions per clock (IPC) during its Tech Day event in LA last week. House of Zen’s 9000 series was announced at Computex in June and follows a … Read more
Information has been leaked about AMD’s 8-core Ryzen 7 9700X “Zen 5” Desktop CPU. This CPU delivers excellent single-core performance. AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core “Zen 5” Desktop CPU Leaks, Hits Nearly 5.6GHz With PBO Enabled The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X “100-000001404” is designed for the general public and features an 8-core CPU with 16 … Read more
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Desktop CPU has been tested on Geekbench and performs impressively better than Intel’s 14th Gen CPUs. AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core CPU Delivers 16% Single-Core Performance Improvement Over 7900X, Crushes Core i9-14900KS in Geekbench Benchmark The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X “100-000000662” CPU is a 12-core, 24-thread variant. This chip has … Read more
The first benchmarks of AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” APU have been leaked and they show some big improvements in both CPU and GPU performance with Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 cores. AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 170 APU leak shows up to 20% faster Zen 5 CPU and up to 40% … Read more
The first benchmarks of AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 “Strix Point” APU have been leaked and they show some big improvements in both CPU and GPU performance with Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 cores. AMD Ryzen 9 AI HX 170 APU leak shows up to 20% faster Zen 5 CPU and up to 40% … Read more
Enlarge / A high-level breakdown of Intel’s next-generation Lunar Lake chips, which retains some of the changes from Meteor Lake while rolling back others. Intel Considering recent production issues, AMD’s resurgence, Qualcomm’s entry, and Apple’s shift from customer to competitor, it’s been a rough few years for Intel processors. Computer buyers have more viable options … Read more
What you need to know ASUS announced new AI PCs from its Zenbook, Vivobook, ROG Zephyrus and TUF Gaming lineups at Computex 2024. The laptops are powered by AMD’s “Zen 5” Ryzen AI 300 processors, also announced at Computex. With strong NPU performance, ASUS laptops pave the way for advanced Copilot+ AI features in Windows … Read more