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Intel's game boosting APO tech will remain exclusive to the new 14th Gen Core CPUs

Kosta Andreadis | Nov 14, 2023 11:36 PM CST

Recently, we sat down with Intel's Roger Chandler to find out how the new APO multi-threading tech helps boost game performance on the new 14th Gen Intel Core CPUs - often with sizable double-digit bumps.

Intel's game boosting APO tech will remain exclusive to the new 14th Gen Core CPUs

At the time, we noted that the new Intel Application Optimization (APO) tech was exclusive to the new Core i9 14900K and Core i7 14700K, and with Intel reiterating this 14th Gen exclusivity to tech channel Hardware Unboxed - it sounds like APO won't be making its way to 12th and 13th Gen products. This is strange when you factor in that the 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" shares architecture with previous-gen Core products.

APO is a software tool created to work alongside Thread Director (developed for Windows with Microsoft) to manage and optimize threads across Intel's Performance and Efficiency Cores, specifically for PC games. The new optimizations are tested with various games, and if there's a benefit, the existing policy in Thread Director is updated to deliver free performance.

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D and Ryzen 5 5500X3D teased, new 3D V-Cache gaming CPU champs on the cheap

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 14, 2023 5:55 PM CST

AMD has some impressive tricks up its sleeve for gamers and content creators with its CPUs packing in-house 3D V-Cache technology, with two new offerings in the works: the Ryzen 7 5700X3D and Ryzen 5 5500X3D processors.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D and Ryzen 5 5500X3D teased, new 3D V-Cache gaming CPU champs on the cheap

The latest leaks are teasing the 8-core Ryzen 7 5700X3D, which will reportedly have a base clock of 3.0GHz and a boost clock of 4.1GHz. We expect the Ryzen 7 5700X3D processor to have CPU clocks 400MHz slower than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, one of the most popular CPUs of the last couple of years.

Secondly, we'll have the 6-core Ryzen 5 5500X3D processor with base CPU clocks of 3.0GHz and boost clocks of up to 4.0GHz, which leaves CPU clock speeds down 300MHz to 400MHz under the Ryzen 5 5600X3D processors. We are also being told that the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D and Ryzen 5 5500X3D processors will both have 96MB of 3D V-Cache.

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Apple's rumored M3 Ultra could have 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, support 256GB of RAM

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 13, 2023 10:00 PM CST

Apple recently unveiled its new M3 family of processors inside of their new wave of 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops, but now we're hearing a little rumble going on with the M3 Ultra chip being teased.

Apple's rumored M3 Ultra could have 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, support 256GB of RAM

As it stands, the Apple M3 Max is the highest-end version of the new M3 chips from Apple and features a 16-core CPU and 40-core GPU with support for up to 128GB of unified RAM. The new rumors on Apple's crazier M3 Ultra chip would feature a 32-core CPU and 80-core GPU supporting a much larger 256GB of unified RAM.

The news of the beefier M3 Ultra is coming from the latest "Power On" newsletter written by Mark Gurman for Bloomberg, in which he said that the M3 Ultra could have a "whopping 80 graphics cores". But the word "whopping" when the M2 Ultra had a 76-core GPU? Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, we'll be looking at double the CPU cores and double the GPU cores from the M3 Max to the M3 Ultra, as it's pretty much 2 x M3 Max chips interconnected, sharing resources through Apple's UltraFusion process.

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Intel Core i9-14900KS spotted at 6.2GHz inside of pre-built PCs with DDR4 RAM

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 12, 2023 7:47 PM CST

Intel is working on a new "KS" Special Edition CPU in the form of the Core i9-14900KS processor, which will be the same as the Core i9-14900K in terms of cores and threads but feature huge 6.2GHz clocks out of the box.

Intel Core i9-14900KS spotted at 6.2GHz inside of pre-built PCs with DDR4 RAM

The new Intel Core i9-14900KS processor will have an increased 150W TDP, up from the 125W TDP on the regular Core i9-14900K processor. The leaks are coming from an Israeli retailer listing the new Core i9-14900KS processor (with 36MB of cache and up to 6.2GHz) alongside 16GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD.

Previously, we had the Intel Core i9-13900KS, which was the first consumer processor to hit 6.0GHz out of the box, so the company has something even more special for its latest Special Edition CPU: 6.2GHz clocks out of the box with the Core i9-14900KS. Impressive stuff if you want 6200MHz instantly without any manual overclocking.

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GIGABYTE teases AMD's next-gen desktop APU: Ryzen 8000G arrives end of January 2024

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 12, 2023 6:10 PM CST

AMD will be launching its new Ryzen 8000G series processors in January 2024, with the next-gen desktop APU launching on the AM5 socket, and we know that because of our friends at GIGABYTE.

GIGABYTE teases AMD's next-gen desktop APU: Ryzen 8000G arrives end of January 2024

GIGABYTE has accidentally kinda confirmed AMD's new Ryzen 8000G series launching in late January 2024 through a recent update to AGESA for AMD 600 series motherboards. The update included a confirmation from GIGABYTE, which said that their new AGESA 1.1.0.0 beta BIOS supports AM5 next-gen APU, which the company says "will be launched at the end of January 2024".

Well, there you have it -- AMD is launching its new APU in late January 2024, which will be the new Ryzen 8000G series APU family. We should expect the Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G, Ryzen 5 8500G, and finally, the Ryzen 3 8300G. The flagship Ryzen 7 8700G APU will feature 8 cores and 16 threads, with an RDNA 3-based GPU with 12 Compute Units in total... the most amount of CUs we've had on a desktop APU yet.

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AMD Ryzen 9000 listing appears on an Alienware flyer for a Zen 5-powered desktop PC

Kosta Andreadis | Nov 10, 2023 1:32 AM CST

You'll probably need a large side order of salt for this one because a new image making the rounds courtesy of Chiphell showcasing a brand-new Alienware Desktop with an AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU seems a little premature.

AMD Ryzen 9000 listing appears on an Alienware flyer for a Zen 5-powered desktop PC

It could be fake or a typo - with someone at Dell pressing 9 instead of 7. It could be legit, with AMD planning to launch its next-gen Zen 5-based Ryzen processors using the 9000-number range - skipping 8000.

That last bit is within the realm of possibility, as Ryzen naming for desktop processors has been known to skip numbers. This could be the first clue pointing toward AMD announcing Zen 5 at CES with enthusiast-grade Ryzenn 9000-series CPUs - and with that, it makes sense that companies like Alienware would be teasing upcoming products using the latest Zen 5 tech.

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This new Mini-ITX desktop mobo features pre-installed Core i9 CPU, up to 96GB of RAM

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 5, 2023 10:47 PM CST

ERYING has just announced its latest Mini-ITX desktop motherboards with pre-installed Intel 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs, where you can have right up to the Core i9-13900H processor pre-installed.

This new Mini-ITX desktop mobo features pre-installed Core i9 CPU, up to 96GB of RAM

The company refers to these motherboards as "MoDT" which is a snazzy way of saying Mobile On Desktop, a new form factor that continues to get bigger and bigger. We've seen popular motherboards released using the Intel Tiger Lake family of CPUs, but now ERYING has announced new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs that succeed the 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" versions that ERYING released last year.

ERYING's new SKYLINE MoDT ITX motherboard supports 7 different pre-installed CPUs, ranging from the Core i9-13900H, Core i7-13800H, and Core i7-13700H processors that all feature 14 cores (6 x P-Cores + 8 x E-Cores). There's also the option for the Core i7-13600H and Core i5-13500H processors that have 12 cores, while there's an option for the Core i5-13420H, which is an 8-core chip.

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Apple's M3 Pro chip is not much faster than the M2 Pro chip, according to leaked benchmarks

Kosta Andreadis | Nov 5, 2023 8:32 PM CST

At the company's recent Scary Fast event, Apple announced new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models that would use the brand-new M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips - the first chips to hit the home PC market using the cutting-edge 3nm or N3 process node from TSMC. However, based on leaked benchmark results, the jump from M2 Pro to M3 Pro might not be worth it.

Apple's M3 Pro chip is not much faster than the M2 Pro chip, according to leaked benchmarks

It's worth highlighting that we're only looking at a single Geekbench 6 result (spotted by the YouTube channel Max Tech), but it shows that the M3 Pro is only 6% faster than the M2 Pro regarding multi-core performance. In single-core performance, the M3 Pro is up to 14% faster than the M2 Pro - more impressive though still underwhelming results.

Is there a reason why moving to TSMC's cutting-edge 3nm process hasn't yielded more impressive results for the M3 Pro? Yes, it probably has more to do with the M3's architecture than the process itself.

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AMD's new Ryzen 7040U series APU powers this awesome new Cyberpunk Mini-PC

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 2, 2023 6:55 PM CDT

AMD has just launched its new Ryzen 7040U series processors, which feature their Zen 4c cores borrowed from the datacenter-focused EPYC family of processors. The entire Ryzen 7040 series of APUs has been popular for systems with different designs, and recently, TianBei launched its new Cyberpunk GOD78 Mini-PC.

AMD's new Ryzen 7040U series APU powers this awesome new Cyberpunk Mini-PC

Inside, it features the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS processor. This APU inside features 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 4 architecture at up to 5.1GHz, a Radeon 780M based on the RDNA 3 GPU architecture with 12 compute units clocking at up to 2.7GHz, with a 35-54W TDP.

The new Cyberpunk GOD78 Mini-PC has "CYBERPUNK" plastered on top of it and a wicked aesthetic with RGB lighting peaking out from multiple parts of the system. It looks futuristic, and I kinda dig it... with the cyberpunk-style armor on top and interesting RGB lighting designs, it'll look great on your desk. Speaking of being on your desk, it measures 131.5mm x 131.5mm x 55mm.

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AMD launches more efficient Zen 4c cores inside of new Ryzen 7040U series APUs

Anthony Garreffa | Nov 2, 2023 6:22 PM CDT

AMD has made its new Ryzen 7040U series official, with the launch of two parts of that series: the Ryzen 5 7545U and Ryzen 3 7440U processors, which will both feature smaller Zen 4c cores that is currently used in the EPYC family of processors.

AMD launches more efficient Zen 4c cores inside of new Ryzen 7040U series APUs

The special thing about AMD's new Ryzen 7040U series CPUs is that they're the first to feature a hybrid-style architecture with performance-focused and efficiency-based cores, similar to how Intel uses a hybrid design with P-Cores and E-Cores on their Core CPUs.

Now, AMD is saying it has even better performance with its new processors over the competitor, and they all feature "AMD Ryzen AI" technology. AI will be a huge focus moving forward on CPUs over the coming months -- Intel's new Meteor Lake packs an AI chip -- and Microsoft will change to "AI PC" recommendations and scores on systems in 2024.

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