AMD Ryzen 7000X3D series chip pricing revealed
AMD has announced pricing for its 7000X3D flagship processors, starting from $449 (R7,700, excl. VAT) for the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which will be available from 6 April 2023.
The higher-specced Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X3D will be available from...
AMD and Nvidia under-shipping graphics cards to keep prices high
AMD and Nvidia have been under-shipping graphics cards in the past few months, keeping prices from plummeting amid weakened demand due to rising inflation and a significant dip in cryptocurrency mining.
PC Gamer reports that AMD...
Future versions of Windows will be AI-powered
A future version of Windows will be deeply integrated with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, Neowin reports.
Microsoft executive vice president and chief product officer Panos Panay recently revealed as much during a discussion...
Intel launches Sapphire Rapids in bid to recapture server market share from AMD
Intel Corp. released chips with its delayed server design that are key to regaining control of one of the most lucrative markets in computing.
Xeon processors based on the new Sapphire Rapids design are already in...
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Nvidia retiring four cheap graphics cards — Report
Nvidia is phasing out some of its last-remaining Turing graphics cards, which are among the company's best-value GPUs when it comes to price-to-performance.
That is according to rumours on China's Bobantang tech forums, which were picked up by...
AWS launches new Graviton chip in challenge to AMD, Intel, and Nvidia
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing, supporting tasks such as weather forecasting and gene sequencing.
Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of...
AMD server revenue helps make up for lost sales
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. climbed in late trading after an expansion into server processors helped offset a slumping personal computer market last quarter and the chipmaker vowed to make further gains.
Profit topped analysts’ predictions in the...
The gaming rig South Africans can build for R15,000
With the global chip crunch easing off and graphics card demand at a low, there have been few better times in recent years to build a new gaming PC.
2021 and the start of 2022 were not ideal periods for those looking to upgrade their rig.
Most popular graphics cards in South Africa
Nvidia has dominated AMD in South African graphics card sales in 2022, while gamers have increasingly looked towards more affordable models amid a tough economic climate.
MyBroadband recently asked the country's biggest retailers operating in the...
Chip crunch is easing off
Chip delivery times shrank by four days in September, the biggest drop in years, in a sign that the industry’s supply crunch is easing.
Lead times — the gap between when a chip is ordered and when it is delivered — averaged 26.3 weeks in the period, according to...
Intel smashes AMD — Core i9-13900K overclocked to 8.2GHz
Well-known PC overclocker Allen "Splave" Golibersuch has successfully boosted clock speeds on Intel's 24-core Core i9-13900K to 8.2GHz.
The impressive feat on the top-of-the-line 13th-gen Raptor Lake processor came at Intel's Creator...
Most popular gaming graphics cards revealed
Steam has released its hardware and software survey for September 2022, revealing that Nvidia's RTX 3060 is now the most prevalent graphics card used by PC gamers.
Steam is the world's most popular PC game distribution platform, with around 120...
Intel launches 13th-gen Raptor Lake processors — spoils AMD's Ryzen 7000 party
Intel has unveiled its 13th-gen Raptor Lake desktop processors, promising to deliver the best gaming, streaming and recording performance on PCs while undercutting AMD's recently launched Ryzen 7000 series on price...
Why you might want to wait before buying that new graphics card
Those looking to buy a new high-end graphics card should hold off for the next two to three months, according to a Tom's Hardware report.
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all expected to release new high-end graphics cards soon, meaning...
AMD launches Ryzen 7000 chips — Specifications and performance claims
AMD unveiled its highly-anticipated Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors on Monday, 29 August 2022.
The company said the launch ushered in the "next era of high performance for gamers, enthusiasts, and content creators" with...
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X benchmark leak shows promising performance
A leaked AMD Ryzen 7 7700X benchmark shows increased single and multi-threaded performance in Cinebench R20 compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X.
The benchmark comes from BilliBilli content creator Extreme Player.
AMD Zen chips vulnerable to multi-threading attack
AMD has disclosed an execution unit scheduler contention side-channel vulnerability affecting Zen 1, Zen 2, and Zen 3 processors that use simultaneous multithreading (SMT).
The security vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-46778 and has a...
AMD Ryzen 7000 price details leaked
Well-known PC hardware news site VideoCardz has obtained details on the pricing and packaging of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 series chips.
The publication received the information from a source who shared part of a slideshow of a recent presentation that...