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AMD says new Ryzen 7040 chips beat Intel (and Apple) in thin-and-light PCs

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Today AMD announced additional details about its new Ryzen 7040U series of laptop chips, which bring the company's newest Zen 4 CPU architecture and RDNA 3 integrated graphics ...

May 2023

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New chipset could finally make it easier to build budget Ryzen 7000 PCs

If you're trying to build a low-end to midrange gaming PC or workstation with inexpensive but modern parts, it has been hard to recommend AMD's Ryzen 7000-series processors. That's partly because Inte...

Apr 2023

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Ryzen 7950X3D review: An expensive but incredibly efficient 16-core CPU

Toward the end of Ryzen 5000's run, AMD released the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, a special version of the eight-core 5800X with 64MB of extra L3 cache stacked on top of it.The result was an interesting but niche...

Mar 2023

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(Most of) AMD's gaming-centric Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs launch February 28

AMD's pumped-up, 3D V-Cache-equipped Ryzen 7000 desktop processors will be available to buy on February 28, the company announced today. The rollout will start with the 12-core Ryzen 9 790...

Feb 2023

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AMD's Ryzen 7000 laptop CPU lineup is a bewildering patchwork of old and new

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A few months ago, AMD introduced a new numbering system for its upcoming laptop processor refresh. The schema is, as we wrote at the time, simultaneously less and more c...

Jan 2023