AMD Cuts APU Prices and Q3 Results Fallout
While AMD made a small profit last quarter, the Q4 outlook from the company is not nearly as rosy. AMD estimates that Q4 revenues will be around 12% lower than Q3, making…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Oct 23, 2014 | Processors | 24
While AMD made a small profit last quarter, the Q4 outlook from the company is not nearly as rosy. AMD estimates that Q4 revenues will be around 12% lower than Q3, making…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Jun 16, 2014 | Motherboards | 9
AMD faces a bit of a quandary when it comes to their products. Their APUs are great at graphics, but not so great at general CPU performance. Their…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 10, 2013 | General Tech, Processors | 20
AMD has been heavily promoting their Kaveri platform leading up to its January launch. This new generation of...
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Nov 12, 2013 | Processors | 54
The executives at AMD like to break their own NDAs. Then again, they are the ones typically setting these NDA dates, so it isn’t a big deal. It…
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Jul 28, 2013 | Processors | 8
A Finnish overclocker known as “The Stilt” recently pushed an AMD Richland APU to 8.2GHz using liquid nitrogen. In doing so, The Stilt broke the world record for APU overclocking,...
Read Moreby Ryan Shrout | Jul 8, 2013 | Graphics Cards, Mobile, Processors | 11
Our long journey with Frame Rating, a new capture-based analysis tool to measure graphics performance of PCs and GPUs, began almost two years ago as a way to properly…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Jul 4, 2013 | General Tech | 4
PC Perspective Podcast #258 - 07/04/2013 Join us this week…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jul 3, 2013 | General Tech, Processors | 2
Accidents happen. AMD has been rolling out their Richland APUs for the last month and partners have been keeping up with supporting products. While common, the problem with…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 20, 2013 | Systems | 1
It has been quite a long time since we have seen new processors on the HWLB, Ivy Bridge has enjoyed a long reign as the most powerful consumer chip for high…
Read Moreby Ryan Shrout | Jun 10, 2013 | Editorial, Processors | 426
Odd, turns out I found two brand new AMD A10-6800K Richland APUs sitting on my desk this morning. I called AMD to ask what this was all about and they said that…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Jun 6, 2013 | General Tech | 4
PC Perspective Podcast #254 - 06/06/2013 Join us this week as we discuss the…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 5, 2013 | Processors | 5
Richland is here, in the form of the A10-6800K with a 4.1GHz base clock and 4.4GHz Turbo clock, support for DDR3-2133 and an improved GPU called the 8670D with 384 shaders and…
Read Moreby Josh Walrath | Jun 5, 2013 | Processors | 28
Richland. We have been hearing this name for a solid nine months. Originally Richland was going to be a low end Trinity model that was budget oriented (or at least…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | May 23, 2013 | General Tech | 7
PC Perspective Podcast #252 - 05/23/2013 Join us this week as we discuss Z87 Motherboards, Xbox…
Read Moreby Ryan Shrout | May 23, 2013 | Processors | 7
AMD has a lot to say today. At an event up in Toronto this month we got to sit down with AMD’s marketing leadership and key engineers…
Read MoreMSI announced two new gaming notebooks powered by AMD's latest Richland APUs today called the GX70 and GX60. Both gaming notebooks use AMD A10-5750M processors, a discrete AMD graphics card, 8GB of…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 21, 2013 | General Tech | 0
It might be worth waiting until next month if you are going to be building a low cost AMD based system as prices on the A8-5600K, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 will be…
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Mar 14, 2013 | General Tech | 9
PC Perspective Podcast #242 - 03/14/2013 Join us this week as we discuss AMD's new Richland APUs, Steam Box Prototypes, Seagate Hybrid Drives and more! You can…
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