AMD's Socket AM4 has had a pretty good run. First released in 2017 alongside the company's then-new Ryzen processors, it's had nearly five years to host some of the fastest desktop chips on the market ...

Intel publishes TDP figures for each of its CPUs, but the chip's actual behavior often doesn't conform to what this metric implies. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600X launched at $279 and drew mixed reactions at that price. At under $180, the conversation changes significantly. This is a 6-core, ...

The new (and unannounced) Intel Core i9-14900KS processor has been tested on the benchmarking and stability tool OCCT, with a tester pushing the new CPU and showing us its detailed specifications.

A big part of AMD's business these days is in providing custom processors for its customers. That doesn't mean regular folks like you and me, but rather businesses who want a special CPU that no-one ...

TL;DR: AMD is developing new Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" CPUs featuring a 16-core, 32-thread design with a 200W TDP and an unprecedented 192MB L3 cache, potentially using dual 3D V-Cache dies. This flagship ...

In brief: MSI has introduced a BIOS update for select AMD motherboards that adds a one-click option to raise the thermal ceiling on AMD's latest 65W TDP processors, the Ryzen 5 9600X and the Ryzen 7 ...

The overall core counts and clock speeds have changed little between the Ryzen 9000 and the Ryzen 7000 lines. The Ryzen 7 9700X and its predecessor, the Ryzen 7 7700X, have eight simultaneous ...

A new AMD CPU named the Ryzen 9 Pro 9965X3D has been spotted in Passmark result tables, suggesting AMD may be set to release ...

This happened for two key reasons. First, the 3D V-Cache layer directly blocked heat transfer from the compute portion into the processor's integrated heat spreader (IHS) and thus onward to the CPU ...