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As enthusiasts, we love to look at the latest hardware, but there is a part of the market that does not care about the highest performance or the fanciest features. This part of the market is primarily driven by one concern: price. Even still, there's money to be made here, so companies like AMD and Intel need...
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Intel's decision to move to a hybrid architecture for its CPUs, with heterogeneous compute cores targeted at either high-performance processing or low-power computing, has been a controversial one among enthusiasts. Some users cried, "I'm moving to AMD!" because Intel's long-time rival has no such distinction—every...
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GPD is refreshing its Win Max 2 gaming console for 2023 with substantially more graphics horsepower compared to its predecessors. The console not only includes new internals -- including beefy RDNA3 integrated graphics -- but comes with an external GPU dock featuring a dedicated Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU with 8GB of...
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AMD repeatedly told us (and thus, the world) that the Navi 31 GPU die used in the Radeon RX 7900 XTX was "architected for 3 GHz." That may be true, but in the real world, top-end RDNA 3 parts rarely exceed 2.6 GHz under a sustained, heavy load. As a result, the RX 7900 XTX generally falls behind the GeForce RTX 4090...
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HP Dragonfly Pro 14: Starting At $1399.99 The HP Dragonfly Pro is a premium 14-inch laptop built on a very solid foundation of AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors, and its build quality, performance and battery life are exceptional. Excellent Fit, Finish And Design Great Performance Fantastic Battery Life Excellent...
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Yes, you read that headline correctly, and no, it's not an error. Six-hundred-watt CPUs are on the way, at least according to a leaked slide supposedly from Gigabyte. Put down the albuterol inhaler, though; we're not talking about a 600W CPU in your desktop PC—at least, not unless you regularly run top-end server...
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If you follow hardware news at all, you are surely aware of the "exploding CPU" issue surrounding the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and certain Socket AM5 motherboards, particularly (but not exclusively) those from the ASUS ROG family. If you're not familiar, that's basically the gist of it right there: certain motherboards, when...
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In just one quarter of sales, AMD has gone from being within striking distance of claiming a third of the overall x86 CPU market to exceeding it. As it has done for years, and more earnestly since the introduction of Zen, AMD continues to chip away at rival Intel and its huge market share lead. What was once a...
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You might think that Radeon Vega GPUs are pretty rare at this point—and you might be right, if we're strictly talking about the original RX Vega 56 and 64 graphics cards. However, the Vega architecture has lived on long past its expiration date, and can still be found in lots of APUs sold by AMD.
That might be why...
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You've gotta appreciate the marketing team for AMD's graphics arm. Even in some of its darkest hours, AMD's Radeon marketing remains ferverent to a level that can only be admired. Team Radeon is in a pretty good position right now, yet for some reason the company is still aggressively emphasizing the benefits of...
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If you follow tech news at all, you're almost certainly already aware of the much-publicized issue where certain AMD motherboards, when configured a certain way, can very literally cause the Socket AM5 CPU to explode, destroying the CPU and possibly damaging the motherboard, too. AMD's already issued a new AGESA...
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Microsoft has either teamed up with AMD to design custom processors for artificial intelligence tasks, or it has not. Yeah, we're not exactly going out on a limb there. But there are conflicting reports and the situation brings up an interesting question—should NVIDIA be at all nervous about a potential collaboration...
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Flagship processors are always going to command premium prices, but that doesn't mean you can't score a deal on the latest and greatest chips available. Now that AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D processors have been on the market for a minute, they're ripe for discounts that's exactly the situation right now...
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It can be easy to overlook VRAM capacity when shopping for a new mainstream graphics card. After all, having more than you need does not really confer any extra performance. Too little though? Well, that can result in stutters, graphical artifacts, and generally poor performance. It is becoming a hot topic as more and...
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AMD's RDNA 3 architecture is a significant evolution over the RDNA 2 used in its Radeon RX 6000 GPUs. Unfortunately, it's only available in two places right now: the halo-tier Radeon RX 7900 products, and the integrated graphics of Ryzen 7040-series processors.
That's all set to change this quarter, according to...
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In March, modular laptop specialist Framework announced its intention to add AMD Ryzen 7040 Phoenix processors as an option for its refreshed 13-inch models. Now it has revealed the two Phoenix choices which will be made available to those configuring a Framework Laptop 13 to purchase. Your choice will be between the...
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By now, loyal HotHardware readers are surely familiar with the AV1 codec. After all, hardware companies like Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA have all done their share to promote use of the codec, which is supported by the latest graphics processors from all three companies. The problem was that the biggest beneficiaries of a...
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We learned last month that one of AMD's most highly anticipated mobile CPU families had been delayed. However, a newly shared AMD statement asserts that these Phoenix HS chips, AKA the Ryzen 7040HS processors, are distributing to laptop OEMs now and models sporting these chips are going to arrive in retail over "the...
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AMD has posted its earnings report for the first quarter of 2023 and in it the company divulges some notable losses, including a 9 percent year-over-year decline in revenue to $5.35 billion. This resulted in a net loss of $139 million, compared to a $786 million profit in the same quarter a year ago. Nevertheless, AMD...
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It wasn't really all that long ago that the concept of a high-end laptop sporting an AMD CPU was a laughable proposition. Now, the company is downright competitive with Intel's finest, at least on the high end. For laptops with a lower power limit than AMD's Ryzen 7045 series can serve, AMD has the monolithic Ryzen...
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Perhaps as a sign of things to come, several retailers have discounted AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000WX series processors based on the company's Zen 3 architecture. What about the Zen 4 lineup? AMD hasn't yet applied its latest-generation CPU architecture to the high-end desktop (HEDT) scene, though it's expected...
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Shots fired! In a Twitter post, AMD's Senior Director of Marketing for Gaming, Sasa Marinkovic, continued a salvo against NVIDIA over the bang-for-your-buck proposition of each company's current and previous-generation graphics cards, and specifically in regards to how much video memory (otherwise known as VRAM)...
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