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…
Last weekend we finally got the long-awaited launch of the new Nvidia Ampere GPU architecture which is meant to replace Volta in the segments of Cloud, AI and HPC applications, adding new features aimed at improving both energy efficiency and…
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…
For over a decade the industry has been preparing to reach a new level for modern computer systems: Exascale computing. However, getting a computer system to reach 1018 floating point operations per second in a scenario where it could no…
A few days ago at the IEDM, Intel disclosed their future process node technologies, showing on what will probably become an iconic slide how Intel expects to have a 2-year cadence for the development of its manufacturing process node technology…
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…