Over the past year, AMD has been delivering new, powerful products to consumers and from what they revealed at Computex 2018 this momentum is continuing to carrying them forward into even larger market segments. Read More
Today I have the AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and the Ryzen 3 2200G on the test bench. These are AMD’s all-new revised APUs based on the Zen Architecture and Radeon Graphics processing. Read More
AMD announced at CES 2018 this week their upcoming Ryzen/Vega based APUs and Ryzen+ desktop CPUs will be available in early 2018 Read More
For today’s visitor to the chopping block, we take a look at something a bit different from our normal review pieces. This BIOSTAR unit is a CPU/GPU/Motherboard all in one, also known as a “system-on-chip” setup. It comes fitted with an AMD A4-5000 Quad-Core APU and Radeon HD 8330 graphics in a mITX form factor, which makes for a very versatile board. The passive cooling system ensures silent operation, making it perfect for a HTPC or something similar. Who’s ready to take a look at the A68N-5000? Read More
AMD held a brief press conference Monday morning to announce availability of the new A10-6790K Richland APU. The A10-6790K APU comes in at 4.1 GHz base clock and 4.3 Ghz max turbo core. The only difference specifications wise from the A10-6800K is a 100 MHz drop in core speed and support for 1866 MHz memory versus 2133 MHz its bigger brother offers. On the graphics end, the A10-6790K offers the same HD 8670D iGPU as the flagship A10-6800K. Read More
New information has hit the web regarding AMD’s new APU that will follow Kaveri. The upcoming part, codenamed Carrizo, is expected to show up in the early 2015 and will replace yet-unreleased Kaveri. Details are still sparse regarding Carrizo, but rumors point to the new Accelerated Processing Unit being compatible with FM2+ socket and A88X chipset. Read More
Folks at Xbit Labs managed to enhance and sharpen the fuzzy image claimed to be a new GPU design from AMD. New information points to something other than a GPU. Read More
The AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU is set to hit the market in the near future. To that end, we are able to share a limited amount of details at this point, but we thought a teaser preview might pique your interest. Read More
While APU’s (accelerated processing units) may not be as exciting as the top of the line speedsters put out by Intel, they do have their place in advancing processor technology. With the release of the first unlocked APU, the A8 3870K, AMD steps closer to making the APU a viable option for your every day computing and gaming needs. Read More
This is AMD’s new Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) architecture. They are unveiling the APUs for notebooks today with desktop APUs to come down the road; we’re told sometime in June (can you say Computex?). Read More
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