AMD's recent branch prediction optimizations, which significantly improved gaming performance on Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" and Ryzen 7000 CPUs, are now available for Windows 11 23H2 users. This update offers ...

If you recall, some benchmarks for AMD's new Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5"-based desktop processors were well behind the expected performance gains compared to the previous generation. Those expectations were ...

If you have a Ryzen-powered PC, you may want to check out the latest non-security update, as it promises to deliver significant performance uplifts for free. It was recently discovered that branch ...

This seems to be a recurring theme with AMD CPU releases, needing weeks or months after release for drivers, BIOS, Windows OS to catch up with the design changes. If you wait awhile then they're ...

AMD’s Zen 5 CPUs, called Ryzen 9000, released with a collective sigh. None of them have it made it onto the list of the best processors, not so much because they’re bad, but just because they aren’t ...

A new technical paper titled “VMSCAPE: Exposing and Exploiting Incomplete Branch Predictor Isolation in Cloud Environments” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Virtualization is a cornerstone ...