Intel has announced its new “performance-optimized processors per dollar” for its Xeon Scalable platform, which promises users up to 36 percent more performance than the existing second-generation Xeon Gold processors and up to 42 percent more performance per dollar compared to the first-generation Xeon Gold processors. Intel has introduced its new pricing scale for its … Read more
AMD has formally announced the release of its AMD AGESA ComboAM4 1.0.0.5 Microcode. It is intended to include this new microcode in UEFI motherboard firmware updates and to be distributed by motherboard and OEM manufacturers. AMD AGESA ComboAM4 1.0.0.5 microcode is here The AMD AGESA ComboAM4 1.0.0.5 improves POST with selected DDR4 3200 memory chips … Read more
Intel wants to be very aggressive with its prices by the time the new tenth generation Core X (Cascade Lake X) processors come on the market. In a report on Videocardz, a price list of its processors seems to have been filtered with some very interesting numbers. Let’s check it out. In this (unofficial) price … Read more
Bob Swan has published an open letter to express some of his conclusions. The CEO of Intel admits that 2019 was not what he expected. It is clever to correct and above all to be self-critical. Bob Swan has demonstrated this in an open letter to all manufacturers, customers, partners and employees. This “standstill” caused … Read more
Nvidia is preparing its new Ampere GPUs for the end of this year, however, AMD is not standing still either, and thanks to the new Navi GPUs, there are major developments in this segment. More specifically, we are talking about the Navi 21 (RDNA 2) GPU and an update for Navi 10, which is used … Read more
The Zen 2 processors from AMD already offer impressive performance, but that doesn’t mean the Ryzen boom is going to have to stop there. AMD plans to be competitive beyond Zen 2, Zen 3 and Zen 4 architectures in the future, so AMD needs to think big and long when developing Zen 5-based processors. AMD … Read more
AMD disclosed its financial figures for the past year, revealing strong sales growth in the fourth quarter and continuing momentum in 2020. In response, AMD’s equity value has declined as AMD has failed to meet some of the analysts’ predictions in its 2020 forecast. AMD is closing 2019 with strong revenues and is forecasting margin … Read more
There were huge changes in the new AMD processors not only in the architecture of the cores but also in the way memory controllers and the entire I/O area were distributed, moving everything to a core-independent DIE instead of leaving it in the CPU IEDs as it was before. Because of these changes, AMD had … Read more
After the announcement of DirectX 12 Ultimate, AMD confirmed that it will support this API on its RDNA 2 GPUs scheduled to arrive in the second half of the year and took the opportunity to show a ray tracing demo running on a working Navi 2X silicon. This demo uses DirectX RayTracing 1.1, which runs … Read more
The final specifications and prices of the new generation of AMD Rome EPYC processors based on the new 7nm Zen 2 architecture have been filtered. The details come from Reddit to Planet3dNOW, with an extensive list of chips listed below. AMD EPYC Rome 7 nm – Prices and Specifications There are a total of 19 … Read more
