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Newegg is selling the Acer Nitro XV270U, a 27-inch 2560x1440 IPS gaming monitor with a 270Hz refresh rate, for $179.77, down from its $329.99 list price. The panel supports 99% sRGB coverage, 250 cd/m² brightness, a 1ms response time, AMD FreeSync Premium, and Acer's VisionCare eye-comfort features.
AMD has submitted patches to its open-source Linux kernel driver adding GDDR7 memory identification along with new IP blocks including IH 8.0 and NBIF 7.10, according to Phoronix. Current Radeon RX 9000-series cards use GDDR6, making this the clearest driver-level sign yet of preparation for a next-generation GPU architecture, widely expected to be RDNA 5.
Advanced Micro Devices' stock climbed enough to push its market valuation above $1 trillion, according to reporting on the milestone. The chipmaker joins a small group of companies including Nvidia, SpaceX, and Meta that have reached the trillion-dollar threshold.
A Brazilian electronics engineer and assembly programmer named Jessé says he has tested two AMD processors extensively and found that the chips' hardware random number generator, accessed via instructions like rdrand and rdseed, has not produced a single zero value in over nine days of continuous testing. He has reported the issue to AMD, which has escalated it internally, though no technical explanation has been provided yet. Jessé also updated his testing application to benchmark RNG speed and support processors lacking the rdseed instruction, noting large performance differences across CPU generations.
AMD's newly announced RX 9050 GPU exists in two very different versions sharing the same name: an 8GB retail card sold standalone in some markets, and a 4GB variant that can only be bought bundled inside prebuilt desktops. Testing found the 4GB model, discovered inside a $750 CyberPowerPC system from Best Buy, has half the memory bandwidth and significantly worse performance than the retail card most buyers would research online.
AMD's stock surged roughly 9% on Monday morning, pushing its market capitalization above $1 trillion for the first time. The rally capped a month-long climb of about 29% in AMD shares, with most of that gain coming in the past week alone. The milestone puts AMD ahead of rival Intel, whose market cap sits near $648 billion.
AMD has crossed a $1 trillion market valuation, becoming the fourth US chipmaker to hit that milestone after Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron. Its stock has nearly tripled in 2026, rising from around $223 in January to over $607 currently, fueled by strong AI-driven demand. Intel, despite a 208% year-to-date share gain, remains far behind with a market cap of about $643.5 billion.
Advanced Micro Devices stock hit a record intraday high of $613.92 on Monday, pushing the company's market valuation above $1 trillion for the first time. The gain extends a five-day rally in which AMD shares climbed roughly 24%, and the stock is now up more than 180% for the year.
AMD's newly released Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 are now available on Amazon, but both are selling for $20 more than AMD's suggested prices—$120 for the 5500F and $210 for the 7500. Notably, these listings come directly from Amazon as a first-party seller, not third-party markups, despite the chips officially launching nearly two weeks ago.
The ASRock Phantom Gaming PG27FFT1B, a 27-inch 1080p IPS monitor with a 180Hz refresh rate, is currently listed at $96.77, down from $159.99, marking its lowest price yet. The panel supports HDR400, AMD FreeSync, a 1ms response time, and covers 94% of the DCI-P3 color space.
AMD released a white paper expanding on its earlier performance claims for the upcoming EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs, reiterating that a 96-core Venice chip is about 20% faster per-core than Nvidia's 88-core Vera on SPEC CPU 2026's Integer Rate test. The paper also details throughput results showing the 256-core EPYC 9996 outperforming Intel's Xeon 6980P by 2.37x and Vera by 2.24x, plus a 78% generational gain over the prior 192-core EPYC 9965.
A comparison of AMD's Ryzen 7 X3D processors from 2022 to 2024 (5800X3D, 7800X3D and 9800X3D) shows Geekbench 6 scores rising roughly 47% on single-core and 58% on multi-core tasks. Clock speed increases were modest, from 4.5 GHz to 5.2 GHz max boost, while transistor counts grew about 50%, from roughly 11 billion to 16 billion, mostly added to the processor core rather than cache.