AMD
Ever since AMD re-emerged as a major competitor within the x86 CPU scene, one of AMD’s top priorities has been to win over customers in the highly lucrative and profitable server market. It’s a strategy that’s paid off well for AMD, as while they’re still the minority player in the space, they’ve continued to whittle away at what was once Intel’s absolute control over the market, slowly converting more and more customers over to the EPYC ecosystem. Now as the Zen 4 CPU architecture approaches its second birthday, AMD is launching one final line of EPYC chips, taking aim at yet another Xeon market segment. This time it’s all about the entry-level 1P server market – small scale, budget-conscientious users who only need a handful...
AMD's Winter Update: Athlon II X3 455, Phenom II X2 565 and Phenom II X6 1100T
AMD is usually pretty aggressive with turning process tweaks and yield improvements into new products. Just two months ago AMD gave us the Athlon II X3 450 and the...
66 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/7/2010
Acer's Aspire 5551G: AMD's Budget Gaming Laptop
When someone talks about budget gaming on a laptop, a lot of things might go through your head. Are they talking about ten year old games on netbooks? Maybe...
36 by Jarred Walton on 11/27/2010
The Brazos Performance Preview: AMD E-350 Benchmarked
Last week I mentioned that I had recently spent some time with AMD down in Austin, TX, benchmarking its upcoming Brazos platform. The Brazos platform is composed of an...
222 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2010
Previewing AMD's Brazos, Part 1: More Details on Zacate/Ontario and Fusion
I hate to keep things from you all, but last week I was diligently working in a room at AMD’s new campus in Austin, Texas. You see, AMD wanted...
115 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/9/2010
AMD Radeon HD 6850 Overclocking Roundup: Asus, XFX, & MSI
With an all-custom launch for the Radeon HD 6850, the door was immediately opened to a variety of 6850 cards with a wide variety of performance characteristics. In fact...
93 by Ryan Smith on 11/8/2010
ASUS X72D/K72DR: Three Cores, No Waiting
Up to this point, our experiences with AMD's Phenom II mobile line haven't been very favorable. In the desktop world AMD's chips can compete and succeed based on price...
38 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/25/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 6870 & 6850: Renewing Competition in the Mid-Range Market
All things considered, the Radeon HD 5000 series has gone very well for AMD. When they launched it just over a year ago, they beat NVIDIA to the punch...
205 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2010
AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 Series & Llano “Fusion” APU: A Story in Pictures
We happen to have the AMD Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 in-house for testing at the moment. We wanted to play Show & Tell, but the nice...
54 by Ryan Smith on 10/19/2010
AMD Quietly Reveals Next Radeon Series, Launches Next Week
The cat is out of the bag, so to speak, after today's earnings conference call for AMD. One of the things that ended up being discussed by AMD CEO...
85 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2010
Acer Aspire One Netbooks
Acer is announcing an updated range of netbooks, including their first to use the dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor, the Acer Aspire One AOD255. The same model will also...
5 by Balraj Sandhu on 10/4/2010
Acer Launches Fall Desktops
Acer is revving up their fall lineup, with the launch of several new desktop computers aimed at three very distinct markets. At the affordable end is the Acer AspireRevo...
10 by Balraj Sandhu on 9/28/2010
AMD's Fall Refresh: New Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs Balance Price and Performance
I don’t know the last time I was this excited about AMD’s roadmap. Zacate and Ontario are due out in a quarter, and both promise to bring competition to...
99 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/21/2010
When You Want A Little Gaming: The AVADirect Nano Gaming Cube
Boutique gaming systems are usually big, fancy, ornate affairs. They're often totally extreme, marketed to the Mountain Dew set, with massive cases and bright lights. So what happens when...
42 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/16/2010
AMD's Zacate APU Performance Update
It’s 12:43AM and I just got back into my hotel room. I spent the past few hours in AMD’s suite a block from IDF trying to get to the...
104 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/15/2010
AMD Benchmarks Zacate APU
Update: We've spent more time with Zacate and have some more accurate performance comparisons here. It's tradition for AMD to have an off-site meeting place during IDF week and this...
66 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/13/2010
Server Clash: DELL's Quad Opteron DELL R815 vs HP's DL380 G7 and SGI's Altix UV10
Three totally different servers in one test: the dual Xeon X5670 HP DL380 G7, the quad Xeon X7560 SGI Altix UV10 and the Quad Opteron 6174 Dell R815. Three...
51 by Johan De Gelas on 9/9/2010
AMD Reveals Competitive Fusion APU TDPs: 9W for netbooks, 18W for notebooks
After the ATI acquisition AMD announced it would be creating a new category of microprocessors that featured integrated ATI GPUs. AMD called these hybrid CPU/GPUs Accelerated Processing Units (APUs...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/7/2010
Lenovo ThinkPad X100e: When Build Quality Matters Most
The pricetag of Lenovo's ThinkPad X100e has come down a couple of hundred dollars from its lofty perch when it entered the market more than six months ago, but...
25 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/3/2010Sandy Bridge Graphics Update
Last week we published our preview of Intel's 2011 Core microarchitecture update, codenamed Sandy Bridge. In the preview we presented a conservative estimate of what shipping Sandy Bridge performance...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/1/2010
ASRock 890FX Deluxe: Comprehensive Motherboard Review & Investigation of Thuban Performance Scaling
We kick off our long overdue focus on AMD with an in-depth review of ASRock's 890FX Deluxe 4. Landing with an MSRP of $180, the Deluxe 4 slots in...
43 by Rajinder Gill on 8/31/2010
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