AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hits nearly 6 GHz, tops single-core performance charts

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X at 6 GHz

A pre-launch sample shows significantly improved performance through overclocking.

AMD has announced the postponement of the Ryzen 9000 launch due to undisclosed manufacturing issues. The company plans to recall units sent to distributors and replace them with new ones. It is unclear whether the issue affects performance or has any effect on even earlier units, such as engineering samples often used by motherboard makers and overclockers.

The Ryzen 9 9950X is a 16-

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NVIDIA preparing GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU with Ada AD106 GPU

There is RTX 30 card with ADA GPU

NVIDIA drivers hide a secret plan for a new mobile SKU.

NVIDIA is said to be working on a new mobile graphics card called the GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU . This new SKU is part of the existing GeForce mobile series; however, according to a PCI-ID database update, this graphics card will feature a different architecture. Instead of the Ampere-based GPU (GA107), the new card will use the AD10

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Intel

AMD delays Ryzen 9000 launch: 9700X/9600X on August 8, 9950X/9900X on August 15

AMD Ryzen 9000 delayed

The company has pushed back the launch by a week (or two).

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GPD DUO with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and two 13.3 OLED screens launches next month

GPD DUO OLED launches in August

Perhaps one of the most innovative laptops to launch this summer.

Shortly before Computex, GPD announced a new laptop design powered by the Ryzen 8000 series. This laptop features two 13.3-inch OLED panels. Unlike many existing dual-screen laptops, this model offers a proper dual-screen implementation where both screens are of the same size and there’s still a physical keyboard. It differs from dual-screen tablets with attachable keyboards and the ASUS Duo series

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Intel

Intel Core Ultra 9 “Arrow Lake” QS CPU tested at 250W: 4% faster than 14900K on average

Intel Core Ultra 9 QS tested

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Reviewers still waiting for AMD Ryzen 9000 samples

Ryzen 9000 samples: missing in action

Less than a week for testing.

AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X processor, Source: Antony Leather/Forbes

AMD is currently facing issues with distributing Ryzen 9000 series samples to reviewers. Several reviewers have confirmed off the record that they have not received any information on sampling or have been told samples will arrive “soon”. With the Ryzen 9000 series launch expected next week, most reviewers will likely be unable to complete

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Intel

AMD introduces new Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 “Strix Point” APU: NPU now up to 55 TOPS

AMD launches HX 375 SKU with faster NPU unit

A third Strix Point SKU focuses on AI performance.

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JEDEC sets LPDDR6 CAMM speed goal to 14.4 GT/s

Next-Gen Low-Power DDR6 memory gets official speed goal

Faster and needs less space than traditional module.

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AIDA64 update brings improved AMD Strix Point and Intel Panther Lake support

AIDA64 update focuses on Strix Point, Granite Ridge and Panther Lake

FinalWire has released a new version of AIDA64, seemingly designed for next-gen architecture.

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Intel

Alleged Intel Core Ultra 9 285K “Arrow Lake-S” processor appears in CPU-Z screenshot with 5 GHz clock

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel Arrow Lake-S shows up in CPU-Z leak

It appears that engineering samples are available to leakers now.

It’s been a few weeks since CPU-Z announced support for the Intel Core Ultra 200K series, the upcoming Intel desktop platform set to launch later this year. While the official information on the new 200K SKUs is expected no sooner than September, during Intel Innovation, the names and partial specs of the

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