Author: coreteks

In the release notes for AMD’s latest firmware patches I found some interesting codenames. Yellow Carp is part of a new version of the System Management Unit (SMUsmu_v13_0_1) which seems to replace an early release (13.0.0). For reference, AMD’s graphics…

A recent report from RBC Capital Markets analyst Mitch Steves that has been echoed around the web suggests that the reason there’s very limited stock of Nvidia Ampere GPUs at retail is because NVidia sold the GPUs directly to crypto…

With more and more information leaking out the hype around AMD’s “Big Navi” continues to build up. To make sense of it all I did some research into drivers and other documents and also reached out to a few sources…

Youtuber Paul Kelly from the PC enthusiast channel “Not an Apple Fan” today dropped a bombshell regarding the upcoming AMD RDNA2 gpus, revealing that the top GPU will indeed be the 6900XT which will probably compete directly with NVidia’s Flagship…

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:…