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AMD told the Japanese site 4gamer that they are moving future 32-bit Windows Radeon drivers to "legacy support mode." This confirms the rumor from Videocardz last month, and mirrors Nvidia's move to drop 32 bit support. AMD Radeon Software support for x32-bit Windows operating systems has been...

AMD has announced the Q3 2018 earnings release. In the Computing and Graphics segment, Ryzen processor sales increased to 70% of total client revenue in the quarter. Overall revenue increased by 12% in the segment, as OEM GPU sales continued to be robust, but this growth was offset by a...

Yesterday, Oracle launched the "E" series of cloud compute instances powered by AMD's EPYC processors. Each instances offers up to 64 cores and 512GB of memory. Oracle claims that the processors offer some substantial advantages over other offerings, and backs those claims up with some...

Pending trade to Brokennails Just got a great FreeSync monitor, looking for a RX580 to pair with it. I have a GTX 1060 6GB card, MSI, that Im hoping to do an even swap for. I have the original box and whatever came with the card and it'd be nice if the RX580 came with the same. Let me know...

Scottish Youtuber Jim Parker of AdoredTV posted another history lesson, this time on the "GPU War" that AMD and Nvidia have been fighting for years. In in he outlines AMD's rise to dominance over Nvidia with the 4000 and 5000 series cards, and how Nvidia clawed marketshare back over the next few...

The latest version of Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" has been released. Along with the new version of Linux, Canonical has released statistics from users that opted in to complete a survey when installing 18.04 LTS. Phoronix has a list of some of the highlights that users should look forward...

In response to the recent controversy surrounding the 9900k benchmarks by Principled Technologies, AMD passed out some slides outlining problems with those benchmarks, as well as general "best benchmarking practices". Aside from the numerous issues with the first round of testing, AMD also noted...

AMD launched a cut down version of the RX 580 with only 2048 stream processors instead of 2304. Curiously, it has the exact same core configuration, base clock, and memory bandwidth as the RX 570. The only thing separating the RX 580 2048SP from the 570 a 40Mhz boost clock bump. According to...

Valve Software has added a new feature to SteamVR that has the potential to allow many lower-end GPUs to become VR ready, while improving performance on higher end GPUs. Motion Smoothing senses when a VR application isn't going to make framerate and synthesizes the missing frame by looking at...

The Haas Formula 1 team is using the computational power of a Cray CS500 supercomputer with AMD's Epyc 7000 series processors to run computational fluid dynamics simulations. Beginning in the 2019 season, the team will use those simulations to improve the aerodynamics of their cars, which is...

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AMD Launches Radeon RX 580 with Reduced Number of Stream Processors

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.10.1 drivers have been released and they offer support for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The drivers are optimized for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. They have fixed issues such as the HDMI Audio Drivers not upgrading during Radeon Software...

Michael Larabel of Phoronix has conducted a test of Linux application scaling on up to 128 threads. He chose a Dell PowerEdge R7425 server featuring two AMD EPYC 7601 processors for a total of 64 cores and 128 threads, 512GB of RAM (16 x 32GB DDR4), and 20 x 500GB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs. He ran...

Principled Technologies has issued a statement about the testing methodology that they employed for the commissioned Intel report. First they address the accusations of bias by stating that they have worked for AMD, Intel, HP, Dell, etc in the past. Then they addressed issues such as not...

Noctua AMD Threadripper Air Cooler Roundup We take all three Noctua air coolers built for AMD Threadripper CPUs and put these to the test on both the 2950X and 2990WX. We run the NH-U14S, NH-U12S, and NH-U9 through the paces with both Precision Boost 2 and Precision Boost Overdrive using...

Hi! I'm planning on making a Zen 2/Ryzen 3x00 build next spring 2019 . I'm wondering if those mobos will support DDR5 or still stick to DDR4? I ask because I'm currently on: ASUS Prime B250M-A Intel Core i5-7500 Nvidia GTX 1060 8 GB DDR4 3200 I'm thinking of getting this "cheap" 2400 2x4...

Intel has commissioned Principled Technologies to run benchmarks of the upcoming i9-9900K CPU and pit it against older Intel CPUs and some AMD CPUs such as the AMD Ryzen 2700X, Threadripper 2990WX, and Threadripper 2950X. PCGamesN wrote a glowing article that has since been heavily edited...

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/12nm-amd-polaris-up-and-coming-pretty-soon-already.html So it is a little bump in speed and let us hope it is more power efficient as well.

In a new blog post, AMD's Robert Hallock has announced Dynamic Local mode for the 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and 2970WX processors. Dynamic Local Mode is a new piece of software that automatically migrates the system's most demanding application threads onto the Threadripper 2990WX and...

AMD has announced that the October 29th release of two new models to the 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper family; the 2970WX and 2920X processors. The Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX has 24 cores and 48 threads with a TDP of 250W. The Ryzen Threadripper 2920X features 12 cores and 24 threads with a TDP of...

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GIGABYTE X399 Aorus Xtreme TR4 Motherboard Review GIGABYTE expands its Threadripper lineup with its X399 Aorus Xtreme motherboard. This motherboard has a solid, professional focused feature set, and has a lot to offer. We’ve seen some amazing socket TR4 motherboards thus far so the X399 Aorus...

SteamVR has been updated with a lot of bug fixes and a reprojection and timing update as Valve says that they have "improved the smoothness and reliability of the reprojection system. More improvements are planned." The performance of the compositor distortion renderer has been increased by...

AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the upcoming CES 2019 event. In 2019 AMD is expected to release the world's first 7nm high-performance CPUs and GPUs. "During her CES keynote, Dr. Su and guests will provide a view into the diverse applications for...

Xilinx is known as the creator of the field-programmable gate array (FPGA), but now they want to conquer the artificial intelligence (AI) field. Today they unveiled the Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) which can be used with AI and many other technologies. As the largest player in...

Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) server vendor revenues are growing despite a decline in the number of servers shipped according to IDC. Server vendor revenue increased 29% although shipments decreased by 3.7%. Second quarter EMEA server revenues are up 18.7% from a euro standpoint to...

According to Ryan Shrout of Shrout Research, both AMD and NVIDIA will be negatively affected by the new 10% tariff on $200 billion of imports from China. Mr Shrout notes that NVIDIA was already under pressure from consumers for the high price of the RTX series and "it is unlikely that it or its...

According to Compal president and CEO Martin Wong, Intel hasn't given its downstream partners a clear schedule on when the processor shortages can be resolved. He believes that the Intel processor shortage will continue into 2H19 and will negatively affect notebook shipments during the upcoming...

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.3 drivers have been released and they contain optimizations for Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Forza Horizon 4. An issue with FreeSync where stutter was observed in certain high framerate scenarios was fixed. The driver team at AMD also addressed driver...

Here is the Assassin's Creed Odyssey: "Choose Life" Live Action Trailer. Enjoy! Play Assassin's Creed Odyssey with AMD. You are not born a hero. It is the choices you make that eventually make you one. A path to glory or a road to ruin? It is up to you to choose who you will become...

In a presentation, AMD illustrated how their EPYC processors will meet the growing demands of the datacenter market. AMD says they're looking to shed the "incrementalism" that's been plaguing the industry by implementing radical changes in server design. More specifically, they are targeting 3...

According to Weng Wei of China Times, AMD motherboard sales were up 15% during the month of September in China as the growth trend more than doubled. This has led to the price of AMD processors increasing from 30% to 50% within the region. The price of high-end AMD motherboards has increased...

Digitimes is reporting that industry sources are convinced that AMD could rebound to a 30% market share in the 4Q18. This turnaround is based upon help from TSMC and Intel's inability to ship 10nm processors. Speculation is that AMD will switch to TSMC's 7nm process for all GPU's, server and...

Microsoft has added H-series Azure virtual machines for High-Performance Computing to the Azure CycleCloud. The HB-series VMs feature 60 AMD EPYC 7551 processor cores, 4 GB of RAM per CPU core and no hyperthreading. The AMD EPYC platform has more than 260 GB/sec of memory bandwidth which is...

Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.2 drivers have been released and include performance optimizations for F1 2018 (3%), Fortnite (5%), Shadow of the Tomb Raider (4%), and Star Control: Origins which received a massive 17% performance boost and a fix for particle corruption on some cloud...

According to a report from EXPreview, the sudden demand for lower end AMD motherboards in China is causing a supply shortage. The A320 chipset is nearly completely out of stock due to special bundling deals with the A8-9600 APU. The B450 models are in short supply also as motherboard...

AMD has added another console win to their portfolio with the Chinese territory exclusive Subor Z-Plus. The Subor-Z Plus boasts of an AMD Ryzen 4C/8T processor running at 3.0GHz and Vega graphics spec'd at 24 CUs/1300MHz for the GPU in the 14 nm SoC design. In comparison, an AMD Ryzen 2400G...