The Full Nerd Special Edition: AMD geeks out about Ryzen 7000, AM5, and laptops

On this particular episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by AMD’s Frank Azor and Robert Hallock, who reveal deeper insights about AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 chips, the AM5 motherboards they’ll slot into, low-cost “Menocino” laptops with long-lived endurance, and extra.

Did AMD’s eye-opening Computex 2022 demo of Ryzen 7000 operating at 5.5GHz use overclocking or excessive cooling? Nope.

That’s the phrase from Hallock and Azor, who additionally talk about the spectacular demonstration the place an upcoming Ryzen 7000 chip was proven outperforming an Intel Core i9-12900K by 31 % in a multi-threaded Blender benchmark.

The duo clarify what to anticipate of the brand new built-in Radeon graphics cores within the Ryzen 7000, break down the intricacies round PCIe 5.0 assist in upcoming X670E, X670, and B650 motherboards for the AM5 socket, reveal precisely why AMD pumped AM5’s socket energy ranking as much as 170W, and pour chilly water on rumors of B650 motherboards not having the ability to overclock. (Put down your pitchforks, fellow nerds.)

And that’s simply the tip of the iceberg on this sprawling, insightful 1.5 hour dialog.

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