It's either a pin grid array (PGA) or land grid array (LGA), the former having pins on the motherboard and the latter moving ...

We've been reporting stories about Amazon customers receiving fake processors since 2017. It still occasionally happens, as discovered by Aris from Hardware Busters. He bought a ...

Both the AMD Ryzen 9900X3D and 9950X3D are releasing on March 12, 2025 The respective MSRPs for both CPUs are $599 and $699, similar to previous gen The former features a 120W TDP whereas the ...

Find out more about how we evaluate games and hardware. Nine months ago, in July 2024, AMD launched its Zen 5 CPU architecture and the Ryzen 9000-series of processors. Compared to the previous ...

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is the best processor on the market, without question, thanks to its fantastic overall performance, nearly perfect gaming performance (with some caveats), and reasonable ...

AMD announced that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and the Ryzen 9 9900X3D will hit store shelves on March 12 for $699 and $599, respectively. First unveiled at CES 2025, these two processors promise huge ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The latest round of AMD Ryzen 9 CPUs is slated to launch this month—on March 12, to ...

The first use of AMD XDNA will be in Ryzen mobile CPUs for notebooks, starting with the all-new Ryzen 7040 series, Su said. It is the industry’s first mobile x86 processor with an integrated ...

In a surprise first for the ages, PassMark has revealed that the average CPU performance on desktops and laptops in 2025 has declined year-on-year. Despite new Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Fire Range ...

In 2019, AMD started a new paradigm in processor design, with its Zen 2 architecture and the use of chiplets. Since then, every CCD or Core Complex Die has been home to eight cores—no more ...