Zen Archives - Tech Altar

i3 8350K vs R5 1600: price to performance showdown

January 12, 2018

Early last year, AMD introduced its brand new "Zen" micro-architecture for desktops, with the Ryzen brand. Offering much higher performance than the previous 'Construction' cores ending with Excavator, Ryzen wa... Read More...

AMD announces Ryzen Threadripper price, Ryzen 3

CreativeMaster

July 14, 2017

News

AMD has announced the pricing and availability for the CPUs of their upcoming High End Desktop (HEDT) platform, X399. in a product update video. They are priced highly competitively against Intel's Skylake-X of... Read More...

AMD Ryzen 1800X Review Part 2: Just how good is it?

Jeff Williams

April 1, 2017

Articles

The initial release of AMD's newest CPU wasn't exactly the most smooth launch in their history. Problems with initial BIOS files potentially reduced the performance ceiling and there were some concerns, borderi... Read More...

AMD reveals Ryzen 5 mainstream CPU details

Simon den Bekker

March 16, 2017

Articles, CPUs

It's not too long ago since AMD revealed the full details on Ryzen 7. And now that Ryzen 7 came out and was received very well by the audience, we finally get more details on their midrange Ryzen 5 seri... Read More...

Naples, 32 Zen cores are coming to a data-center near you

Jeff Williams

March 14, 2017

CPUs, News

AMD isn't just making a comeback in the consumer CPU space, but also using the new Zen core to help power their re-entrance into the enterprise market, something that will be vital for their business going forw... Read More...

AMD Ryzen Clock Domains Detailed

CreativeMaster

March 9, 2017

Articles, CPUs

A Diagram of Ryzen's Clock Domains For the past few days, there have been talks around tech forums about Ryzen's clock domains. Specifically about how some parts of the internal fabric of Ryzen run at memory c... Read More...

Ryzen performance issues explained

Jeff Williams

March 3, 2017

Editorials

AMD, despite negative comments to the contrary, have released a technological masterpiece that mostly exceeds expectations when it comes to performance and it's design even though it competes well, though not q... Read More...

AMD Ryzen 7 Launch Event AMA Summary – Featuring Lisa Su!

CreativeMaster

March 2, 2017

Articles

Ryzen AMA Summary *Takes Deep Breath* It's here. The long awaited return of AMD to high end desktop computing is finally here. As of the time of writing, reviews (including our own) are pouring in, and the ge... Read More...

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Ryzen 7 1800X, AMDs entry into the HEDT market: Part 1

Jeff Williams

March 2, 2017

Articles, CPU

Zen is perhaps one of the most hotly anticipated architectures from AMD in quite some time. Though they took an architectural misstep when they introduced Bulldozer, the Zen core seeks to prove that AMD is cert... Read More...

AMD’s X370 the only chipset to support NVIDIA’s SLI

Jeff Williams

February 27, 2017

News

As it turns out, NVIDIA's SLI technology may not be completely supported by all chipsets for AMD's upcoming Ryzen consumer processors. Computerbase.de is reporting that only X370 will be compatible with SLI at ... Read More...

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