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Japanese retailer Oliospec is pre-selling the Ryzen 5 8500G mini PCs at just above $1,000. The Streacom FC8 fanless case is on the expensive side, but it manages to keep the processor at 75°C under load. Oliospec also provides a ASRock B650i Lightning WiFi motherboard with 32 GB DDR5-6000 RAM and 1 TB SSD storage.

The AMD Ryzen 5 9600‌‌‌X with its 6x Zen 5 cores and a boost clock of 5.4 GHz is the least powerful member of the Zen 5 family. However, even with its 6 cores, the CPU could overtake the Intel Core i9-14900KS in single-core workloads per a valid Geekbench 6 benchmark result.

The recently announced AMD FSR 3.1 is now available on Lenovo Legion Go. When paired with frame generation, the gaming handheld now enjoys about 2x FPS boost and even higher when FSR is dialed to the performance mode.

A Chinese PC maker called Linglong has introduced a new compact computer that isn't like any other mini PC out there. It's a foldable keyboard that has a full-fledged PC inside. The specs are powerful as well, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8840U with up to 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. It even has a 60 Wh battery and a built-in trackpad.

AMD FSR 3.1 with frame generation has landed on Steam Deck. With this, the gaming handheld has seen a massive boost in performance on the supporting titles. For example, on Spider-Man Remastered at 720p and medium settings, ETA Prime showed a jump from around 45 FPS to about 75 FPS.

A former AMD engineer, Hemant Mohapatra, recently revealed that AMD had almost bought Nvidia. The ex-employee says that the deal fell through because Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, didn't want to sell unless he became the CEO of the merged company.

The Geekom AX7 Pro is a new mini PC from the brand, and it seems to be just a different variant of the AX8 Pro that was recently released. While the latter came with the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS, the newer compact computer sports the Ryzen 9 7940HS.

Previously teased at Computex 2024, the Xyber XPC is now inching towards being a real product. The mini PC is set to be available with AMD Hawk Point and Strix Point Ryzen 7 processors, but what really makes it unique is the Cybertruck chassis. The system even has all the doors, trunk, and bonnet opening like the real EV.

PlayStation 4 is one of the most successful consoles Sony has released. Renato Fragale, AMD's current Sr. Director of OEM Consumer & Gaming Client Business, says this success has also saved AMD from bankruptcy.

A new AMD CPU has popped up on Geekbench. It is called the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 160 and it comes with 8 CPU cores in a 3+5 configuration.

AMD Strix Point systems are nearly here, but the Hawk Point products are still rolling out. Among the recently launched ones is the Firebat Z8, a mini PC that features the Ryzen 7 8845HS, and its barebone variant costs only CNY 1,999 in China (about $275).

The AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops are over the horizon. Over the last few weeks, there have been a couple of leaks pointing to different launch dates. Asus has now confirmed that the launch event for its next-gen AMD laptops has been rescheduled to July 17.

While Zen 5 CPUs are yet to hit the market, Moore’s Law is Dead has already started divulging significant details regarding Zen 6. The leaker claims that the architecture could manifest in the form of “Medusa Point” for high-end notebooks, “Medusa Ridge” for desktop AM5 platform, and “Medusa Halo” possibly for both gaming notebooks and desktops.

AOOSTAR has launched the GEM13 mini PC with AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, a powerful CPU from the Hawk Point lineup. While there's no OCuLink port that some of the high-end gaming mini computers come with, it has USB4, which makes it gain eGPU support. It hasn't launched in global markets yet, but it can be imported at a starting price of $629.99.

A Lenovo laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 has popped up on Geekbench. The system scored 2,544 points in the single-core test and 12,745 in the multi-core test. These benchmark scores are lower than expected, but given that it’s one of the early benchmark results, it could be because of low optimization or power limitation.

The Lenovo Legion Slim 5 14 with an RTX 4060 laptop GPU and a 14.5-inch OLED display is currently enjoying a big discount of 38%. Thanks mainly to its solid performance and awesome display, the Legion Slim 5 14 is a stellar machine that is highly rated by both fans and media alike.

A Chinese company called Metaphyuni has launched Genesis Cube in China. While it may seem like any other mini PC with a powerful AMD processor, it's the first to feature the Ryzen 7 8845HS with an 80W TDP mode. This mode prioritizes performance over noise and should make this system perform better than any other similarly-equipped mini computer.

The HP Envy x360 2-in-1 features an AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS processor, 16 GB of memory, as well as a 512 GB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and it's currently discounted to just under $500 at Best Buy. However, sacrifices have been made when it comes to the screen's maximum brightness (300 nits) in addition to connectivity, as there are no USB 4 ports.

Starting with FSR 3.1, AMD is separating frame generation from image upscaling. This means that older GPUs from Nvidia as well as Intel's Arc GPUs can now benefit from frame generation in select games.

MSI has unveiled the world's second laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. It appears to be a China-only SKU and features 32 GB RAM, a 1 TB SSD and a 240 Hz IPS panel.

A new leak from Weibo says Ryzen AI laptops could be delayed by two weeks. Instead of launching on July 14, they will now hit shelves on July 28.

AMD has promised that the Zen 5 CPU architecture brings a substantial performance uplift over Zen 4, meaning the Strix APUs could be quite powerful. Somewhat in line with Team Red’s claims, a recent performance analysis of a pre-production machine powered by the Ryzen AI 9 365 has shown that the APU does offer notably better performance than the Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs.

AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X could be allowed to operate at a higher wattage than initially announced. Wccftech's sources indicate the chip's TDP could be increased to 120 Watts from 65 Watts.

Team Red will present its new "Neural Texture Block Compression" next week at an event in London. The AI-powered method seems to be an alternative for Nvidia's "Random-Access Neural Compression of Material Textures" that has not yet seen actual implementation.

Interview Notebookcheck had an opportunity to speak with MSI's regional marketing managers Bruce Lin and Green Lin about the MSI Claw, Windows-on-Arm laptops and its future plans. While MSI will stick with Intel for the foreseeable future, it is open to the idea of collaborating with AMD for handheld chips at a later point.

AMD's 10-core Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU has just made its Geekbench debut. It performs on par with its 12-core sibling (Ryzen AI 9 HX 370). However, there is a lot of scope for improvement because the chip was not operating at its peak.

A user on AnandTech forums recently posted AIDA64 test results of a Ryzen 9 9950X engineering sample. If the posted numbers are anything to go by, the 9950X will be an absolute beast of a CPU, having almost doubled the 7950X's performance in certain tests. However, it should be noted that synthetic benchmarks are not necessarily indicative of real-world performance, and the tests were themselves pretty workload specific.

MINISFORUM has now released the UM890 Pro globally with an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS and up to 64 GB of RAM. Starting at under $500 for a barebones model, the UM890 Pro also features OCuLink and USB4 connectivity, among other modern ports.

A new leak from Moore's Law is Dead says AMD Strix Point laptops will be abundant at launch. They're expected to hit shelves in mid-July and most of the Ryzen AI-powered laptops will be from Asus.

CheckMag Whether it’s QNAP, ASUStor, Synology or some other pre-built brand, a NAS is not a cheap piece of equipment. With free or low cost operating systems such as TrueNAS, Open Media Vault or even Unraid is it cheaper to build your own with new or second hand parts, or buy off the shelf? Let's take a look at the pricing.

Other highlights include a 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with Opal 2.0 security, dual USB4 ports and a 5 MP webcam integrating IR sensor, privacy shutter and human presence detector.

AMD introduced the Ryzen AI 300 series earlier this month at Computex 2024. The keynote didn't go much into the next-gen processors' availability and pricing details. But Best Buy now has listed laptops with the new CPUs, and these listings suggest the new CPU series will launch on July 15, with the cheapest currently listed laptop being $1,399.99.

Geekom has launched the AX8 Pro mini PC, and one of the interesting aspects is the design resemblance to the Intel NUC 13 Pro. It can be purchased with up to an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor, 32 GB of RAM, and 2 TB of storage. The Ryzen 7 8845HS variant, on the other hand, brings 1 TB of storage. Its starting price is CNY 4499 (around $620).

GPD has announced a major change for the Duo, its first dual-display laptop. Previously equipped with the Ryzen 7 8840U like the Win Mini 2024, the GPD Duo will actually be available with AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU and its new Radeon 890M iGPU.

GPD has posted some benchmarks of AMD's upcoming Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU. It manages to trade blows with high-end desktop chips in Cinenbench 2024's single-core benchmark. Similarly, its Radeon 890M iGPU outperforms Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2050 in 3DMark Time Spy.

With less than five months left until its fourth anniversary, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is close to its all-time low of $174, although it hasn't reached its peak price of $449.99 since 2022. Now, those interested in a good deal on this aging desktop processor can get it off Amazon for $177.50.

The enterprise-grade Radeon Instinct MI300X accelerator has made its debut on Geekbench's OpenCL charts, instantly securing the top spot - which is to be expected given the graphics behemoth's staggering specifications.

AMD and Intel have confirmed that the Microsoft Copilot Plus features won't be available on Strix Point and Lunar Lake laptops at launch. These systems will be getting them later through an update. That means the new AI features will remain exclusive to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X series for a while.

The AMD Ryzen processors and AMD's data center graphics cards already come with multi-chiplet designs. Now, a newly discovered patent is suggesting that AMD may have been exploring the possibility of bringing more complex chiplets for the upcoming mainstream RDNA GPUs.

Golden Pig Upgrade shared the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark results of the Radeon 890M iGPU inside Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 on Bilibili. The integrated graphics card with the 16 compute units (CUs) reportedly scores over 3600 on the benchmark, which puts it very close to the Nvidia RTX 2050 GPU.

First announced as a product exclusive to the Chinese market, the XFX Phoenix Nirvana video card is now headed for the global market. The swappable fan design might be used in video cards from different lineups, but all will be inspired by the Phoenix Nirvana. However, this is not a solution for low-end products.

A new leak says a price cut is on the card for AMD's newest Ryzen 9000 desktop processors. The top-spec SKUs could be cheaper by $50-100 compared to their last-gen equivalents. Plus, AMD could double the amount of 3D V-cache on the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

Minisforum recently unveiled the MS-A1 at Computex 2024, featuring up to an 8-core Ryzen 7 8700G APU, up to 96 GB of DDR5 memory and OCuLink support. Its Intel-based sibling, the MS-01, was launched in late 2023, and rocked an i9-13900H and up to 64 GB of memory, but did not feature OCuLink support. For AMD fans, the MS-A1 sure is a welcome addition to Minisforum's family of mini PCs.

AYANEO continues to refresh its gaming handhelds at a breakneck pace. Less than a month has passed since it introduced new versions of three models, including the Steam Deck-sized AYANEO KUN. Nonetheless, it has now sought to update another model, this time with a special edition livery.