AMD seems to be widening its Ryzen product stack. With evidence for more Navi cards mounting, it’s interesting to see a further level of segmentation happening in the processor space, too. A short while ago, we’d reported on the Ryzen 5 3500X. This is a processor (apparently confirmed by a pre-embargo review in China) with six cores and six threads that battles the Intel Core i5-9400F.

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Well, there’s some bad news for AMD ultra-enthusiasts. The shipping date for the Ryzen 9 3950X has been pushed back to November. This is something we knew. What’s new is that the reason for the delay has been found to be unsatisfactory clock speeds, not supply-side issues as was earlier reported by industry insiders.

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Today, we’ll be reviewing the 3rd Gen AMD APU, the Ryzen 5 3400G. Although it was launched alongside the 7nm Zen 2 based CPUs, it uses the older Zen+ cores and essentially shares the same design as the older 2400G based on the 12nm node. So why re-release the same product again. Two reasons, the 7nm process isn’t that mature just yet and as such the chips manufactured using it are more expensive, secondly, releasing a quad-core APU on the same node would possibly cannibalize AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 3 3200 and 3300 processors, giving consumers little reason to buy the latter.

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Here’s good news for AMD. The uptick in Zen 2 core sales hasn’t just been in the relatively low-volume CPU space. We’ve been hearing a lot of news of late about AMD dominating the consumer CPU market with the Ryzen 3000 series. However, this was never a big problem for Intel (and never that great a victory for AMD shareholders either), because the consumer market represents only a fraction of the overall volume of CPUs sold. You as a consumer will probably never see an Intel Xeon CPU unit in your life. But Intel sells way more Xeons to B2B customers than it does Core i parts to consumers.

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More bad news for high-end AMD enthusiasts looking to upgrade to Red Team’s best mainstream processor. The Ryzen 9 3900X shortage has gotten worse. There was limited availability of the processor even at launch. it is now only available at a few major retail outlets, with smaller players completely out of stock.

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As we get closer and closer to a potential reveal for new Navi parts (and with just two products in the stack right now, it’s high time), more details are emerging about Navi 14, the part that’s likely to be called the Radeon RX 5600. The latest find comes from a user on the forum for German site 3DCenter. User Berniyh was able to glean some more details about Navi 14 by datamining the Linux graphics driver for AMD parts.

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Over the past few weeks, there have been multiple rumors of AMD’s Navi 12 and Navi 14 Graphics Cards launching soon. Wccftech today revealed the specifications and the benchmarks of the budget-end RX 5500M and the RX 5300M. Both are based on the 7nm process and will offer direct competition to NVIDIA’s budget mobile offerings. While there’s still no info on the desktop GPUs, the mobile graphics cards give us a clear idea regarding the rest of the line-up. Moreover, they will feature GDDR6 memory (which NVIDIA is reportedly adding to the GTX 1660 Super) and feature higher clock speeds.

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Here’s some troubling news for high-end AMD users. The upcoming Threadripper processors might not be compatible with X399 boards after all. This is something of a kick in the teeth, especially since AMD themselves promised in the past that they’d support several of processors on the same socket (unlike Intel, who regularly make sockets obsolete every other generation).

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