Targetted at the budget-conscious, AMD's latest B450 chipset is now featured on a variety of motherboards produced by its industry partners. Coming in largely under SGD 300, AMD B450 motherboards are perfect for those who are willing to trade peripheral support for a better price. Compared to the X450 chipset
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AMD’s 2nd Gen Ryzen 7 2700X and Ryzen 5 2600X are the freshest in AMD’s line-up. The 2700X and 2600X follow the introduction of the Ryzen with Radeon Vega Graphics chips that were released earlier this year. The 2nd Gen Ryzen chips, codenamed Pinnacle Ridge, boasts more performance, more features,
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With the rising prominence and importance of eSports in the gaming world, AMD has unveiled Radeon ReSX, a product of a special internal development division of the Radeon Software group known as Project ReSX (Radeon eSports Experience). Through Project ReSX, AMD aimed to optimise AMD Radeon GPUs for the most
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AMD just released their fresh line of APUs with integrated Radeon Vega graphics. The all-new Ryzen 3 2200G and Ryzen 5 2400G will replace the older Ryzen 5 1200 and Ryzen 3 1200. These new midrange processors are marketed towards price-sensitive users who want performance on a budget. Key specs
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ASUS has announced today that AMD's latest Zen architecture-based Ryzen desktop processors with Radeon Vega graphics APUs (Advanced Processing Units) will be supported on ASUS motherboards with their most recent BIOS update. This update impacts all ASUS X370, B350 and A320 motherboards, and will be available internationally immediately. [caption id="attachment_131592"
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[caption id="attachment_131681" align="aligncenter" width="640"] AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su introduces the new Radeon Vega Mobile GPU[/caption] There was a positive buzz amongst the execs of AMD at their pre-CES 2018 AMD Tech Day. The chipmaker has just come off a very successful 2017 where their new Ryzen processors and
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Concerned about the recent revelations about security exploits in device processors? Here's a breakdown of what's happened and how they will affect you. Two security flaws were recently announced on 3rd January 2017 that affects almost every device - from your desktop PC to your smartphone, tablet, laptop and
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With our feet high and dry on the shores of 2018, we at VR Zone thought it prime time to look back at 2017, and how technology has developed and impacted us throughout the year. 2017 has seen the release of many new products, from CPUs and graphics cards to
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AMD’s top-of-the-line desktop CPU, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, has won the CES 2018 Best of Innovation award in the Computer Hardware and Components category. [caption id="attachment_130570" align="alignnone" width="500"] The AMD Threadripper changed the industry in huge ways this year. Image: AMD[/caption] In what has been one of the most exciting
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With streaming content, Virtual Reality and demanding graphics pushing the boundaries of mobile processing for for PC and mobile gaming these days, AMD's recent refresh of its Ryzen family of mobile processing promises efficient performance for thin notebooks with a 15-watt TDP in the “Raven Ridge” mobile APU. [caption id="attachment_130552" align="alignnone" width="640"]
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There's no doubt that AMD's Threadripper platform is really exciting. While high core count CPUs are nothing new, they certainly are for the desktop market. Intel and AMD have been slowly upping the core count on their flagship models, culminating in the 10 core i7 6950X, but jumping all the
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While the PC worlds' attention was on on the resurgent AMD and the release of Ryzen, the tease of the X399 platform and Threadripper CPU’s was in the back of enthusiasts minds. Here we are. Finally AMD is right back into the thick of a market it has been noncompetitive
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Thanks to the wide compatibility of AMD's AM4 socket, we aren't locked into to the high end Ryzen processors. The socket is compatible with cheaper APUs equipped with integrated graphics, meaning the platform is well suited to a wide range of price points and performance levels. Users chasing mega multi
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Back in March the CPU world was turned on its head with the release of Ryzen: The CPU family that brought AMD back to relevance in the PC market. AMD brought four, six and eight core processors to all new price points, effectively ending Intel's years of monopoly power with
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AMD's highly-anticipated Vega GPU is finally official. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a high-end GPU aimed at content creators, along with data scientists, game designers, and visualization professionals. The card features the HBM2 DRAM interface, promising significantly better performance than GDDR5X. The design of a video card isn't usually something that garners a lot of
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According to a new report, AMD board partners could debut their custom graphics cards based on the next-generation Vega architecture at Computex this year. Computex Taipei 2017 kicks off on the 30th of this month, so we won’t need to wait very long to find out everything about the new
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AMD today unveiled its new Radeon RX 500 series graphics card family based on “refined and evolved” Polaris graphics processors. The lineup comprises of the Radeon RX 580, Radeon RX 570, Radeon RX 560, and the entry-level Radeon RX 550. The Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 are based on
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MSI is expanding its motherboard lineup for AMD’s new Ryzen processor family with the introduction of five new ATX GAMING motherboards based on the AM4 X370 and B350 chipset platform. The flagship board of the new lineup is the X370 GAMING PRO CARBON AC. With MSI RGB Mystic Light, the
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Its been just over a month since AMD launched the first of their all new Ryzen CPUs. They really shook up the market, offering fantastic performance at a very competitive price relative to their Intel counterparts. The first wave contained the high end Ryzen 7 series, the eight core monsters
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[caption id="attachment_125213" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Image Courtesy: ElChapuzasInformatico[/caption] Even though AMD hasn’t officially launched the Ryzen 5 1600 yet, the first detailed review of the processor has already appeared online, courtesy of ElChapuzasInformatico. The test setup used by the Spanish website included a MSI X370 XPower Gaming Titanium motherboard, G.Skill TidentZ
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