Author: coreteks

At the Ampere announcement stream NVidia CEO Jensen Huang made several bold claims regarding their new line of GPUs, the RTX 3000 series. Such claims include that the new microarchitecture, compared to Turing, “doubles ray triangle intersection throughput”, “Ampere’s RT…

Reports from sources in Asia indicate AMD has started sharing details with partners about the upcoming RDNA2 based gaming GPUs. Unfortunately for us PC enthusiasts it seems the news aren’t great regarding the so-called “NVidia Killer”. The performance level of…

Fresh out of beating estimates for the Q2 earnings (likely thanks to Apple’s compensatory payment for lower than expected orders for iPhone and iPad displays), and to add to the confusion of Samsung’s rumored involvement in the production of at…

Today AMD completes the Ryzen 3000 series family with the launch of the budget friendly Ryzen 3 CPUs. AMD were kind enough to provide samples for this review but unfortunately due to current events shipping the samples took a while…

As I write this my youtube channel, Coreteks, just passed 100K subscribers. To celebrate this achievement I thought it would be interesting to share some advice for those who either already have a youtube channel but have struggled to grow…

Part 1: An Intro to Tom’s Build Hi! I am Tom, the creator of the “Moore’s Law Is Dead” YouTube channel and Broken Silicon Podcast (there’s a website too!). As is custom, I will start by introducing my dog build:…

A while back AMD sent me a review sample of the 3400G, their ZEN+ APU with Vega 11 graphics. So it’s not a 7nm part but it should perform well given the 4.2GHz boost, and 4 cores / 8 threads….

AMD recently added support for FidelityFX on their Polaris GPUs. The RX 580 is still my recommendation for 1080p, and with some quality settings adjustments it will do 1440p pretty well. Since the RX 580 has been reviewed and benchmarked…

Guest post by Essen This morning I was going through my discord feed and saw this article by Tom’s hardware on the leaked AMD bios patch for reaching higher frequencies. I remember looking at the figures and seeing the beautifully…

This article was originally posted on the 9th of September 2019 AMD and Microsoft were kind enough to send me a review copy for Gears 5. The two companies (through developer Coalition) worked together to bring features to the game…