James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Most of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8000 series processors will be based on the company's next-generation Zen 5 processor architecture, and that's a big deal because by all accounts, Zen 5 is going to be a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Picking the right gaming CPU can be tricky, but if you've made up your mind to give AMD a try, you're already on the right track. In the last ...

Drawing only 65W, the mid-range AMD Ryzen 9700X CPU is faster for PC gaming than the 170W Ryzen 9 7950X - a remarkable achievement and a great way to start a new CPU generation for AMD. So far, Zen 5 ...

It’s noteworthy when you manage to find a hot deal on a piece of silicon that hasn’t already been bought by some AI data center. Here’s one they missed — the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 desktop processor, with a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Windows and BIOS updates are improving the Ryzen 9000-series performance situation. Windows and BIOS updates are ...

The Ryzen 5 5500 has enough performance to handle both mid-range graphics cards and 1080p gaming. It can also handle productivity-type applications efficiently using its 6 cores and 12 threads.

It looks as though Zen 5 CPUs are already appearing in the wild, and a new AMD Ryzen 5 9600X engineering sample has reportedly just been put through its paces in a couple of benchmarks, including ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD's next-gen Zen 4-based "Raphael" CPU -- aka the Ryzen 7000 series that'll drop later this year -- has been spotted out in the wild and tested with ...