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Today we are taking a look at ASRock's high-end Radeon AI inference card for workstations, the Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700. With 32GB of RAM and a $1700 price tag, the card is a highly affordable way to fill out a workstation for local AI inference The post ASRock Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700 Review: Workstation…
It has long been rumored that Sony is working on a PlayStation 6 handheld with a powerful AMD APU codenamed Canis, which has been alleged to feature a combination of Zen 6 CPU cores—potentially with all-new Zen 6 LP cores—and RDNA 5 tech for the iGPU. Now, according to Richard Leadbetter on episode 287 of the Digital…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has reportedly discussed potential areas of cooperation with AMD chief Lisa Su as Intel works to rebuild its CPU business and expand its foundry operations. The companies have already collaborated on x86 standards and CPU software, including AMD’s integration of its ZenDNN optimizations into…
A benchmark leak and a direct clock-matched comparison from an enthusiast seed the idea that Zen 6 may come with a decent IPC bump as well as increased clocks.
Merged for Linux 7.4 Git and marked for back-porting to Linux 7.2/7.3 stable is a regression fix affecting at least the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" laptop SoC when making use of Cache Aware Scheduling...
AMD Director Travis Kirsch confirmed the rationale for relaunching the first X3D chip and explained why the company no longer offers many Ryzen 3 SKUs.
With the Linux 7.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to the v7.2 and v7.3 series is finally the ability to monitor temperature sensors on AMD 600 Series chipsets that launched alongside the Ryzen 7000 series processors...
AMD's Zen 6 just got one of its first rough per-clock comparisons against Zen 5, and the early numbers look good. Leaker HXL spotted a Geekbench 7.1.0 listing for the 256-core EPYC 9996, the flagship "Venice" chip AMD launched in July, scoring 2,847 points in single-core on a Dell PowerEdge R9815 server running Linux.…
OptiScaler is a community-driven project that seeks to bring the benefits of upscaling and frame-generation across brands of GPUs, so gamers don't miss out on playability if the game doesn't feature the upscaler/frame-gen tech provided by their GPU vendor. The community successfully modded AMD FSR 4.1.2 to work on…
Merged overnight were all the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates consisting of many kernel graphics/display driver improvements. Arguably most exciting with these updates for Linux 7.4 is the AMD Radeon (AMDGPU) driver seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL enabled by default along with other HDMI 2.1 features...
AMD has published HIPRT 3.2, the latest version of its ray tracing library for HIP, and the release notes name the integrated graphics of its upcoming Zen 6 "Medusa" processors outright. Under new features, AMD lists Medusa support for three GPU architecture IDs: gfx1170, gfx1171, and gfx115E. HIPRT is mostly used by…
ASUS has started rolling out a preview GPU driver that brings AMD FSR 4.1 upscaling to the ROG Xbox Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally X20. Owners can grab it through Armoury Crate SE under Update Center, then Preview Updates. This follows AMD's announcement earlier this week that FSR 4.1 is expanding to Radeon RX 6000 series…
The UXL Foundation announced today the release of oneDNN 3.14 as the latest feature update to this library providing optimized deep learning operations for software like PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, and others. While oneDNN began as an Intel software project, making this version notable is beginning to see AMD Zen…
The power management subsystem updates were merged this week for Linux 7.4 along with the related ACPI and thermal control updates too...
As a follow-up to the article in September about a Linux patch for fixing under-reported AMD Zen 5 TLB sizes, that work is now merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
This isn't a build for your homelab. Well... it could be if you had a lot of money! But better to let the business pay for it instead. 0:00 Intro 0:59 The Case 3:56 The Motherboard and CPU 9:45 Other Parts and The Build 24:36 Benchmarks and Outro You can find us... Twitter - https://twitter.com/level1techs Twitch -…
After years with the Cezanne-based 5500, AMD has finally updated its $100 CPU to the 5500F in the Vermeer family, adding a 200 MHz boost in clock speed and a PCIe 4.0 upgrade.
This dashboard has weekly and nightly performance regressions for those interested. On nightly build, Kunminghu v3 has hit GEOMEAN(INT) of 21.706 with gcc, which keeps going up as the platform nears validation and release phase in Q1 2027. SPECint06/GHz on xscc is 21.924. SPECint17/GHz is 2.321, which also compares…
Japanese tech publication MyNavi Tech+ interviewed Travis Kirsch, the client-segment product manager for AMD, and there are some interesting excerpts from the conversation. It turns out that reviving Ryzen 7 5800X3D for the Socket AM4 market earlier this year, was an initiative going as far up as CEO Lisa Su. The…
AMD is reportedly working on official Ryzen overclocking controls for Linux. Per Phoronix, AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K has posted a three-patch series for a new driver called AOD, short for AMD Overclocking Driver, to the platform-driver-x86 mailing list. It is a WMI driver that talks to the same firmware interface…
Microsoft might be working on a cheaper 12-inch Surface, and Apple's MacBook Neo looks like the reason. DigiTimes reports, citing supply chain sources, that Microsoft is reviewing the specifications of its entry-level 12-inch Surface to bring costs down, and is also rethinking which processor goes inside. The report's…
AMD and Intel are working together to bring CPU inference optimizations for PyTorch under the unified oneDNN library.
AMD has released its Adrenalin 26.10.1 WHQL graphics drivers, adding FSR Upscaling 4.1 support for Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards and several Ryzen AI processor families. The release follows yesterday's announcement that AMD plans to bring FSR 4.1 to older Radeon GPUs, APUs, and Xbox. The new upscaling version…
AMD has released a version of its cutting-edge FSR 4.1 upscaler that now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 chips.
AMD and Microsoft have confirmed that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is coming to the Xbox Series X and Series S. The news came in an AMD video presentation led by Jack Huynh, joined by Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet and ASUS. The ROG Xbox Ally handhelds are getting it too, and it looks like they will be first in line, while the…
AMD is bringing FSR 4.1 to even more graphics cards and gaming platforms; in a major announcement today by Jack Huynh, SVP & GM, Computing & Graphics, the company announced that it is bringing FSR 4.1 to Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards powered by the RDNA 2 graphics architecture, which date back to 2020. AMD has…
The engineering sample features six CPU cores, 24GB of LPDDR5 memory running at 9,600 MT/s, and an integrated GPU clocked at 2.4 GHz, although its connection to a future Steam Deck remains unconfirmed.
Nvidia's Vera CPU delivers twice the performance of Intel and AMD chips in AI agent workloads, Modal claims.
Arm claims its AGI CPU delivers nearly 2X the modeled rack performance of AMD’s EPYC 9755 across seven agentic AI workloads, using a new evaluation methodology developed with Fujitsu, Meta, and OpenAI
Radeon GPUs get the full DLSS experience as solo project ports all the DLSS features for RDNA2-4 GPUs.
At the OCP Global Summit, AMD revealed Helion, a rack-scale reference design for agentic AI that can house up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores.
Agentic AI runs its tools on the CPU, and no vendor tells you how many cores an agent needs. In this keynote at the Design Automation Conference, I compare AMD Venice, Intel Xeon 6, the Arm AGI CPU and Nvidia Vera, then follow the problem down into advanced packaging, CFETs and thermals. You also hear what EDA tools…
Today, a quarter of a century ago, AMD launched its AMD Athlon XP processor family and its Performance Rating (PR) naming scheme.
AMD is pursuing a 'broader partnership' with Samsung as memory company wants to tie advanced memory supply to its orders at its foundry unit.
Dynatron quietly unveils air cooler for AMD's EPYC 'Verano' CPUs aimed at AI servers.
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AMD is getting ahead of an expected RTX Spark launch later this week with a few benchmarks for its flagship Gorgon Halo chip, the Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495.
A user from the Chinese Chiphell forums shows off AMD's unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D, the X3D variant of the Ryzen 9 5900X.
OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera.
Gears of War: E-Day is the first game to implement Unreal Engine's MegaLights technology, allowing for hundreds of dynamic ray-traced light sources in a scene. We put it to the test on 43 graphics cards to see what this next-gen feature demands across three generations of GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.
AMD has shared the full SKU list for its 6th Generation EPYC 9006 (codenamed Venice) series, with 1Ku pricing.
An unofficial project is bringing Nvidia’s DLSS 5 to AMD Radeon GPUs, with early testing showing performance climbing from around 30 FPS to 50 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 after rapid optimization.
Meta's new Muse AI agent is powered by AMD EPYC Turin hosts, with each user getting a private sandbox with two vCPUs and 8GB of memory.