TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a new Zen 3 processor, shows strong synthetic performance with Geekbench scores of 1936 (single-core) and 9292 (multi-core), outperforming the Ryzen 5 5500 by up to 13%.

AMD has updated previous guidance that the B450 and X570 chipsets would be incompatible with Zen 3. The company has pledged to support Zen 3 on these CPUs where and how it can, though there's some ...

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In the blog post, AMD kinda dodges the entire thing... but it tries to explain why its new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series "Granite Ridge" CPUs aren't performing as well with tech reviewers and gamers ...

Whenever AMD launches a new line of CPUs these days, the peanut gallery inevitably asks, "Great, but what about the V-Cache versions?" AMD's V-Cache CPUs have an extra 64MB of L3 cache, which has ...

AMD's CPU Naming Scheme Is More Complicated Than Ever AMD now has Ryzen 100 Zen 3+ CPUs, Ryzen 10-series Zen 2 CPUs alongside Ryzen AI 300, 9000, 8000, and 7000 series. Phew.

Zen 4 and Zen 3 CPUs will also see performance improvements with Windows 11 version 24H2. Zen 4 and Zen 3 CPUs will also see performance improvements with Windows 11 version 24H2. is a senior editor ...

AMD has responded to the ongoing issue of its Zen 5, Zen 4, and even Zen 3 CPUs having lower performance in Windows when users aren't logged in with an admin account, suggesting a fix is coming soon.

AMD is widening its embedded roadmap in a way that feels very deliberate, very timely, and frankly rather aggressive. The ...