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AMD has recently expanded its Ryzen 8000 series by introducing the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F processors. Initially launched in China, these chips were added to AMD's global website, signaling they are available worldwide, apparently from April 1st. Built from the recent Zen 4-based Phoenix APUs using the TSMC 4nm node as their Zen 4 mobile chips, these new CPUs lack integrated graphics. However, the Ryzen 7 8700F does include the integrated Ryzen AI NPU for added capabilities in a world currently dominated by AI and moving it directly into the PC. The company's decision to announce these chips in China aligns with its strategy to offer Ryzen solutions at every price point in the market. Although AMD didn't initially disclose the full...
Performance Retrospective: AMD’s Radeon HD 7970M
We recently posted our first review of a notebook equipped with NVIDIA’s latest mobile tour de force, the GeForce GTX 780M. With a theoretical computational performance increase of 30%...
59 by Jarred Walton on 6/21/2013
AMD Takes Samsung, Kabini in the ATIV Book 9 Lite & ATIV One 5 Style - Hands On
Samsung was curiously quiet on talking about specs with a couple of its newly announced PCs, and now we know why. Both the ATIV Book 9 Lite (affordable ultraportable...
28 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/20/2013
AMD Evolving Fast to Survive in the Server Market Jungle
There are two important trends in the server market: it is growing and it is evolving fast. It is growing fast as the number of client devices is exploding...
80 by Johan De Gelas on 6/18/2013
UPDATED! AMD Announces FX-9590 and FX-9370: Return of the GHz Race
AMD Announces FX-9590 and FX-9370: Return of the GHz Race Today at E3 AMD announced their latest CPUs, the FX-9590 and FX-9370. Similar to what we’re seeing with Richland vs...
115 by Jarred Walton on 6/13/2013
AMD's Richland vs. Intel's Haswell GPU on the Desktop: Radeon HD 8670D vs. Intel HD 4600
The run up to Computex has been insane. Kabini, Haswell and Iris hit us back to back to back, not to mention all of the travel before receiving those...
102 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2013
AMD Continues Assembling Dream Team: Sean Pelletier from NVIDIA Tech Marketing to Join, Update: He's back at NVIDIA
Last year AMD was hemorrhaging talent. While we don't have a good indication of the extent of the talent exodus, Qualcomm seemed to benefit quite a bit from the...
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2013
AMD Richland Desktop APUs Now Available
We’ve all known for a while that AMD would be releasing desktop Richland SKUs, and there have been a few leaks—including the APUs going up for sale at Newegg...
42 by Jarred Walton on 6/5/2013
AMD Opteron X1150 & X2150 "Kyoto": Kabini Heads to Servers
Last week AMD launched its Kabini APU for clients, a quad-core Jaguar based SoC with GCN graphics aimed at entry-level and mainstream ultraportable notebooks. In our review we found...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/29/2013
The Kabini Deal: Can AMD Improve the Quality of Mainstream PCs with Its Latest APU?
There are two non-negotiables in building a PC these days: the cost of Intel silicon and the cost of the Windows license. You can play with everything else but...
109 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/24/2013
2013 AMD Elite Performance APU Platform (Mobile Richland)
Somehow or another, we missed covering the Richland APU launch. With AMD launching Kabini and Temash today and reiterating the features and parts in the Richland APU lineup, we...
22 by Jarred Walton on 5/23/2013
AMD’s 2013 Elite Mobility Platform, aka Temash
AMD has a bunch of APUs launching today, and while the only hardware we have on hand for testing right now consists of a Kabini laptop, we wanted to...
12 by Jarred Walton on 5/23/2013
AMD Kabini APUs Detailed
AMD has a three-pronged assault going out today: at the bottom (in terms of performance) is their 2013 AMD Elite Mobility Platform, formerly codenamed Temash. Next up is the...
2 by Jarred Walton on 5/23/2013
A Closer Look at the Kabini Die
With our review done I did the one thing I've been keeping myself from doing for the past week: I pulled the heatsink off my Kabini review notebook and...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/23/2013
The AMD Kabini Review: A4-5000 APU Tested
How does Kabini perform compared to existing hardware? Armed with a prototype laptop sporting AMD’s latest APU, we put it through an extensive suite of benchmarks and see what’s...
131 by Jarred Walton on 5/23/2013
AMD’s Jaguar Architecture: The CPU Powering Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Kabini & Temash
Microprocessor architectures these days are largely limited, and thus defined, by power consumption. When it comes to designing an architecture around a power envelope the rule of thumb is...
78 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/23/2013
Best Business Laptops – May 2013
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last “best laptop” article, mostly because I had concerns about recommending anything with AMD’s Richland and Intel’s Haswell processors right around...
39 by Jarred Walton on 5/17/2013
AMD Expands Never Settle Reloaded Program Again: Launches Level Up Bundle
Hot on the heels of last month’s expansion of AMD’s Never Settle Reloaded game bundle, which saw Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon added across the board, AMD is back...
20 by Ryan Smith on 5/15/2013
AMD Launches Radeon HD 8970M
Earlier this week I noted that AMD’s Radeon 8970M and Richland A10-5750M are both available in MSI’s new GX70 3BE gaming notebook, but at the time I couldn't fully...
16 by Jarred Walton on 5/15/2013
MSI GX70 3BE: Richland A10 APU and Neptune 8970M Gaming Notebook
This is one of the more interesting pieces of hardware to keep an eye on if you're looking at a reasonably priced gaming notebook. I've toyed around with MSI's...
23 by Jarred Walton on 5/13/2013
AMD Releases New Radeon Memory SKU: RG2133 Gamer Series
After entering the PC memory market about a year and a half ago, things have for the most part been quiet for AMD’s fledgling memory operations. With DDR3 enjoying...
24 by Ryan Smith on 5/8/2013
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