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To B450 Or Not To B450, That Is The Ryzen 5000 Question

November 3, 2020TWGHardware

A New CPU, But The Same Socket One major difference between AMD and Intel is their philosophy on socket changes. While Intel tends to change sockets along with their processors quite frequently, AMD tends to stick with one socket for multiple generations of CPUs. The current AM4 socket is four years old and spans eight […]

PC Perspective Podcast #601 – Ryzen 5K is Coming! WD PCIe G4 SSD, a tad of iPhone 12, FAAAST reviews plus way more!!

October 17, 2020TWGHardware

How can we top last weeks show #600?! We did the only thing we could think of and decided to make a Podcast #601. This, is that. Tonight we discuss the upcoming Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 series and how they achieve their IPC uplift, do some educated guesses on how the Radeon 6000 GPU series […]

AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020TWGHardware

At the top of the stack is the Ryzen 9 5950X, AMD’s Zen 3 replacement for the 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X that maintains a 16-core configuration but does increase max boost clocks by 200 MHz to 4.9 GHz. The top of the line 16 core AMD Ryzen 9 5950X offers: The highest single-thread performance of […]