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AMD explains lack of new Ryzen 3 CPUs, says market size “isn’t that big”

AMD says there's not much of a market left for quad-core budget desktop CPUs any more, with laptops taking over that part of the industry.

AMD says Ryzen 7 5800X3D relaunch was “last gift” from CEO to AM4 PCs, not response to RAM crisis

Lisa Su intended the 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition to reward loyal AM4 users, rather than combat DDR5 price hikes.

Alienware pre-built PC reportedly locks AMD Ryzen CPU to its motherboard, preventing user upgrades

An Alienware Area 51 PC owner says that Dell locked their AMD CPU to only work with its motherboards, preventing it from working in DIY systems.

AMD claims it’s improved FSR frame gen, resulting in smoother motion in games

AMD promises a "smoother, more responsive gaming experience" with FSR on Radeon RX 9000 GPUs, thanks to improved frame pacing.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D is back on sale at Amazon for just $219.99, and it works with DDR4 RAM

Micro Center has put the 6-core gaming CPU with 3D V-Cache back up for sale, including on Amazon US. Grab one while you can.

AMD officially announces FSR 4.1 for Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, says “we made it better”

AMD says FSR 4 now works on RDNA 2 GPUs, from Radeon RX 6400 to 6900-class cards, as well as several APUs. There's no Steam Deck support, though.

The full Nvidia DLSS 5 suite now runs on AMD Radeon GPUs, thanks to this mod

AMD Radeon GPU owners can now enable all Nvidia DLSS 5 features, including Neural Rendering and Ray Reconstruction, but results are mixed.

Sapphire just launched a Valor Mortis graphics card, based on its Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ design

Sapphire introduces the Nitro+ RX 9070 XT Valor Mortis Edition graphics card, featuring art and emblems inspired by the game on its backplate and fan hubs.

AMD comments on why Sapphire and Gigabyte are dishing out Radeon RX 7000 BIOS security updates

AMD addresses Radeon RX 7000 vBIOS patches released by Sapphire and Gigabyte, but stops short of revealing the vulnerability details.