Wants to focus on low to mid range

A dark satanic rumour claiming that AMD wants to move away from the high-end enthusiast GPU crowd to focus on cheap and cheerful chips has been confirmed.

Ryzen 5 7600X3D arrives as Ryzen 5 7600X3D seems to vanish

AMD has launched the new Zen 4 CPU, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D, while the hugely popular Ryzen 7 7800X3D seems to be vanishing from the market. While the Ryzen 5 7600X3D was exclusive to Micro Center in the US, it is now coming to Mind Factory in Germany as well.

MLCommons benchmarks are in

MLCommons has released benchmarks comparing AMD's Instinct MI300X GPU with Nvidia's Hopper H100, H200, and Blackwell B200 GPUs.

Not coming next month as rumored earlier

It appears that the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000X3D series, based on the latest Zen 5 architecture and with 3D V-Cache, will launch at the CES 2025 show in January next year, rather than next month as earlier rumored.

Reportedly at the CES 2025 show

It appears that AMD's mainstream B850 and B840 chipset motherboards might not launch together with the X870 and X870E chipset motherboards, but, according to the latest report, these should be coming early next year, around CES 2025 show.

Initial sales struggle as discounts aim to boost uptake of the latest CPU range

AMD's newly launched Ryzen desktop processors are experiencing early price reductions, with over seven percent slashed off prices in an effort to stimulate sales following less-than-stellar reviews.

Ryzen 9000 processors suffer the most

A bug in Windows 11 is slowing down AMD’s Ryzen processors during PC gaming sessions, with Ryzen 9000 processors faring slightly worse in some cases.

Beats expectations with record revenue in the Data Center segment

AMD has officially announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2024, reporting a revenue of $5.8 billion with a gross margin of 49 percent. AMD managed to beat expectations, with up to 9 percent higher revenue and 3 points higher gross margin, compared to the last year. The clear winner was its Data Center segment, reporting an increase of 115 percent, driven by AMD Instinct GPU and 4th gen EPYC CPU sales.

Improvements across the board

AMD has introduced Fluid Motion Frames 2 (AFMF 2), an update to the frame generation technology that includes several improvements and optimizations that should further improve gameplay smoothness, lower latency, and performance improvements on a driver level.

First batch does not meet full quality expectations

AMD has released an official statement confirming that its Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series processors have been delayed. It is not a major delay, and the official launch is now pushed to August 8th.