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April 2018
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Abstract: These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this 2D performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll ha...
AMD’s revamped six-core CPU is now even faster and leaves Intel behind for multi-threaded performance - and it costs less than £200...
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Published: 2018-08-15, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
After a huge number of tests and an extensive analysis of all the results, it is finally time to draw conclusions. If we include all results resources, the win is in almost all cases for the Intel Core i5 is 8600K, no matter how small the difference may b...
Abstract: It's the age-old question that has spurred endless debate: AMD or Intel? Today, that rivalry has reached new heights with AMD's Ryzen 2000 Series, often referred to by users (but not AMD) as "Ryzen 2," competing against Intel's 8th Gen "Coffee Lake" for d...
Excellent value, Great performance, Runs cool, Uses AM4 socket, Ryzen: done correctly, Includes the Wraith cooler
High power draw, No real reason to upgrade from the 1600X
Around this time last year, AMD had made quite the splash within the CPU market, giving Intel something to think about. However, their Ryzen 5 CPUs weren't competitive on all fronts, especially outright clock speed; that's where the 2nd Gen Ryzen CPUs hav...
Published: 2018-05-06, Author: Peter , review by: eteknix.com
For the desktop PC gamer, the higher TDP X models are still the go-to for gaming and general performance though. They're a little faster, and a little more expensive, but you get what you pay for. However, if heat and power are a big concern to you, and t...
Published: 2018-05-06, Author: Peter , review by: eteknix.com
I can see the Ryzen 5 2600 and the 2600X fast becoming the most popular chips of the second generation Ryzen launch. They're fast, they're affordable, and they're easy to keep cool and overclock. I mean, if you're just doing a massive amount of rendering...
Abstract: AMD's 2000-series Ryzen CPUs are already available, challenging the Coffee Lake-based Core line-up from Intel. As we found in our Ryzen 7 2700X review, a host of improvements made possible by 12nm manufacturing, such as higher frequencies and Precision B...
Abstract: AMD's 2000-series Ryzen CPUs are already available, challenging the Coffee Lake-based Core line-up from Intel. As we found in our Ryzen 7 2700X review, a host of improvements made possible by 12nm manufacturing, such as higher frequencies and Precision B...
Over the past year, we have seen the processor landscape change more than it had changed in the ten years before. This was, of course, driven by AMD's Ryzen processors, which are much better placed to compete with Intel than they were in previous years. T...
