APUs

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I could barely contain my excitement when AMD announced its Ryzen 8000G APUs. It was a return to form, offering the latest in AMD’s CPU and GPU architectures in a single package for a low price. More than that, there was hope that these would be the first APUs to allow for some serious PC gaming without the need to spend loads of cash on one of the best graphics cards. But after testing them and looking at the other options, I’m not convinced this is the best starting point for aspiring…

AMD has made a number of major product announcements at the virtual Computex 2021 trade show. During her keynote, CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveiled new desktop Ryzen 5000 series APUs with integrated graphics, new discrete Radeon RX 6000M series mobile GPUs promising top-tier gaming performance, the AMD Advantage label for laptops promising optimised design and performance, and also the highly anticipated Fidelity FX Super Resolution graphics upscaling technology which is broadly compatible with GPUs from all manufacturers.Starting…

We already knew AMD would power the world’s fastest supercomputer - the US Department of Energy (DOE) El Capitan. Expected to be installed in 2023 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the HPE-built system initially leveraged AMD’s Zen 4 CPU cores and MI Instinct GPU accelerators, unlocking unheard-of performance above the 2 Exaflop mark. Yet there’s something that the initial announcement didn’t say: the system won’t be leveraging disparate CPU and GPU accelerators. Instead, confirming our speculation,…

AMD's Mendocino APU, launched at Computex with just the briefest of technical details, doesn't seem to be as exciting as many had hoped. One of the major omissions of the Mendocino Computex briefing was any talk about the number of RDNA 2 graphics compute units (CUs) it would come packing. Now a leaked slide via Olrak seems to indicate that the best Mendocino APU device buyers can hope for is two CUs, which means 128 stream processors (SPs). As this is a leak, take the news with a pinch of salt.Putting the above CU and…

AMD has announced Mendocino today, a new breed of mobile APUs that aims to redefine the everyday laptop. While Ryzen 6000 (Rembrandt) targets premium notebooks, Mendocino caters to mainstream laptops that compete in the $399 to $699 price range.Rembrandt brings AMD's Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 graphics into a single package. With Mendocino, however, the chipmaker opted to roll with the Zen 2 microarchitecture instead but retained the RDNA 2 solution. It's the exact blueprint that AMD used for Van Gogh, from which Aerith…

In a report by news outlet Electrek, 130,000 Tesla vehicles were recalled due to a CPU overheating issue found in certain models featuring Ryzen APUs, which can cause the vehicle's infotainment system to slow down or turn off. Fortunately, a software update has already been released to fix the issue.The overheating problem is triggered during the vehicle's battery pre-conditioning process while driving or during the fast charging process, where too much of the vehicle's cooling power is diverted toward the batteries.…

AMD has released an updated roadmap detailing the chipmaker's Zen 4 plans. Dragon Range and Phoenix are mobile Zen 4 APUs that will replace AMD's existing Ryzen 6000 (Rembrandt) product line. Dragon Range will power enthusiast gaming laptops, whereas Phoenix targets thin and light gaming devices. Surprisingly, AMD didn't specify what process node or the type of graphics that Dragon Range and Phoenix could be using. For reference, Rembrandt is on TSMC's 6nm manufacturing process and wields RDNA 2 graphics.According to the…