AMD lifted the curtain on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in January, making the bold claim that it was the “world’s fastest gaming processor.” It’s a big statement for a chip that, under the hood, is the same as ...

Ryzen 7, for the first two generations, were the flagship products. With Matisse, this changed with the introduction of Ryzen 9. Since then, the X700 and X800 products have filled the gap between the ...

Would you trade the ability to easily overclock a CPU for a stash of additional cache and the performance benefits that come with it? It's a question enthusiasts may answer when AMD ships its upcoming ...

When you plan to overclock the processor, always invest in good hardware. And that includes a proper motherboard, power supply, memory, and of course, cooling. Cheaper motherboards are often not ...

Increasing the voltage to 1.3825V, we overclock by going as high as we can on the all-core multiplier, increasing it in 25MHz increments every time the machine runs our Blender test without failure.

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Today we've got a classic head to head CPU battle in our hands, with a comparison between the Ryzen 7 5800X and Core i7-11700K, both of which are 8-core, 16-thread CPUs that cost around $400. Timing ...

Just looking at dollars, cents, and cores, you wouldn't be faulted for thinking the new Editors' Choice-winning 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is the best desktop CPU to face down Intel's 10-core flagship, ...