AMD announced the desktop Raven Ridge APUs featuring Radeon RX Vega graphics at CES 2018 and now we are just days away from them hitting the market. On February 12th, 2018 you’ll be able to Continue reading “AMD Raven Ridge Unboxing – Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 8, 2018 at 5:39pm
The cryptocurrency market might be down 50% from all-time highs due to tougher regulation in a handful of countries, but miners are still making profits by processing outstanding transactions into blocks and adding them to Continue reading “Mining On The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Processor With Nicehash”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 5, 2018 at 6:18pm
AMD processors arent affected by the Meltdown Speculative Execution CPU issue, but the quick fix for Meltdown and Spectre by AMD is apparently causing issues with a number of AMD processors from before 2009. The Continue reading “Windows 10 Updates Are Bricking Systems With Older AMD CPUs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 10, 2018 at 6:23pm
Gigabyte Shows off the First AMD X470 Motherboard at CES 2018 Yesterday, AMD presented their processor roadmap which shows new Ryzen processors with X470 boards coming in April 2018. New processors typically herald new motherboards Continue reading “CES 2018 – Gigabyte Shows off the First AMD X470 Motherboard”. …more
By Steven Kean •
Jan. 9, 2018 at 5:22am
AMD kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to go over their roadmap plans for 2018 and it looks pretty good. AMD will be releasing a number of desktop Ryzen processors along with Continue reading “AMD Shows Off 2018 Ryzen Processor Roadmap and Slashes Prices”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 8, 2018 at 6:14am
Intel announced late last year that they would be rolling out a handful of new processor models that have AMD Radeon RX Vega GPU graphics with HBM2 memory on the same chip package as the Continue reading “Intel 8th Gen Core G-Series Processors With Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Are Here”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 8, 2018 at 2:47am
A ‘fundamental design flaw’ has been discovered in multiple generations of Intel processors that are only fixed by a significant redesign of Windows and Linux kernels. The design flaw creates a security vulnerability in Intel Continue reading “Intel CPU Bug Could Bring Massive Performance Hit In Some Applications”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 3, 2018 at 6:05pm
Intel India jumped the gun ever so slightly by posting up specifications for the Intel Core i7-8809G unlocked desktop processor! The table shows that this processor has AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH Graphics, so Continue reading “Intel Core i7-8809G Kaby Lake Processor With Vega Graphics Announced”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 2, 2018 at 2:05pm
AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics cards do very well on the CryptoNight proof-of-work algorithm and miners are using them to mine Monero, Electroneum, Sumokoin, Bytecoin and Karbo. This is because the profitability is better on Continue reading “Mining XMR Monero With AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Cards – Over 2050 H/s”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jan. 1, 2018 at 10:47pm
We’ve talked about mining Ethereum extensively here on Legit Reviews, but there are over 1,300 different coins that you can have in your crypto portfolio. Bitcoin and Ethereum have become household names in recent weeks Continue reading “Performance Tests Show AMD Radeon RX Vega Graphics Cards Love Mining XMR Monero”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 22, 2017 at 8:56pm
AMD and Qualcomm Technologies to Support Always Connected PCs on Ryzen Mobile Platforms AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors and Qualcomm Snapdragon LTE Modem Solutions to Provide Gigabit Class Connectivity for High-Performance Consumer and Enterprise Notebook Platforms Continue reading “AMD To Use Qualcomm Tech For Always Connected PCs on Ryzen Mobile Platforms”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Dec. 5, 2017 at 10:06pm
Samsung has published a list of their products that have won CES 2018 Innovation Awards. Some of the items on the list are already existing products like the Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, Continue reading “Samsung Will Show Off GDDR6 Memory and 8TB NGSFF NVMe SSD At CES 2018”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 10, 2017 at 5:34pm
On Tuesday, AMD announced that, Raja Koduri, the man behind the Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) Intel confirmed. Yesterday, Intel confirmed that Raja Koduri has joined the chip giant as the new Chief Architect to Drive Continue reading “Raja Koduri Joins Intel To Help Build Discrete Graphics Solution”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 9, 2017 at 12:17pm
Some crazy things are happening this week! Intel just announced that they are putting AMD VEGA GPU technology inside some of their 8th Gen Core mobile processors (Kaby Lake-G) and now we have learned that Continue reading “Raja Koduri Leaves AMD’s Radeon Technology Group”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 8, 2017 at 5:08am
AMD Delivers Semi-Custom Graphics Chip For New Intel Processor SUNNYVALE, Calif. 11/6/2017 AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that it designed a semi-custom graphics processor unit (GPU) that will be integrated into a new Intel multi-chip Continue reading “AMD GPUs To Power New Intel Processor”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2017 at 7:27pm