An independent developer known as Speedstu built a PowerShell-based toolkit that combines ZLUDA with AMD's HIP/ROCm SDK, allowing CUDA-only applications to run on AMD GPUs in Windows without dual-booting or virtual machines. The setup successfully mapped CUDA's driver API and libraries like cuBLAS, cuSPARSE, and cuFFT to AMD equivalents, and was tested by training a small reinforcement-learning model on a Radeon RX 9060 XT using unmodified CUDA code.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter urging a slowdown in AI development over safety concerns, a stance OpenAI's Sam Altman and other industry leaders publicly backed over the weekend. The comments rattled markets Monday, sending shares of AMD, Nvidia, Intel and Sandisk lower in premarket trading and dragging down broader indices.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-14
Newegg is offering a high-end PC parts bundle combining AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, an 8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD, an MSI X870E Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard, and 32GB of V-Color DDR5-6000 memory for $2,999, down from a combined retail price of $4,288. The deal also throws in a free Cooler Master 240mm AIO cooler and a copy of Onimusha with qualifying AMD purchases. Buyers still need to add a case, power supply, and graphics card to complete the build.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
A community developer has reworked AMD's FSR 4 upscaler to run far more efficiently on the BC-250, a leftover PS5-derived crypto-mining board now being turned into a Linux gaming device. Testing showed 1440p processing time drop from 11.51ms to 5.92ms, with similar roughly 50% gains at 1080p and 4K, while producing output identical to the original shaders. The gains build on earlier Mesa driver work and now shift the optimization into a portable FidelityFX DLL.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
Newegg is selling AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, currently the top gaming CPU on the market, for $484, roughly $15 under its original launch price. The deal throws in a 240mm Cooler Master AIO liquid cooler worth $79.99 and a copy of Onimusha: Way of the Sword worth $69.99 at no extra cost. The chip, an upgraded version of the 9800X3D announced at CES 2026, keeps the same 8-core/16-thread design and 3D V-Cache but adds a higher boost clock for a modest gaming performance gain.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-13
Developers behind the ZLUDA project have released a reproducible stack combining ZLUDA v6-preview.69 with AMD's HIP SDK 6.4, allowing CUDA-targeted Windows applications, including LibTorch-based machine learning workloads, to run on AMD hardware. The setup has been validated specifically on the Radeon RX 9060 XT (gfx1200), where core CUDA libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT passed checks and a PPO reinforcement learning network completed training over 65,536 timesteps.
github.com
· 2026-09-13
An early Geekbench 7 submission attributed to Apple's unreleased A20 Pro chip shows single-core and multi-core scores of 4,006 and 11,460, roughly 23% and 27% higher than the A19 Pro. The result reportedly tops single-thread scores from AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Intel's Core i9-14900KS by 26% and 32% respectively.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-12
AMD has introduced two new six-core, twelve-thread desktop chips: the $99 Ryzen 5 5500F for aging AM4 motherboards and the $189 Ryzen 5 7500 for newer AM5 systems. The 7500 is a Zen 4 chip with integrated RDNA 2 graphics, essentially a graphics-enabled version of the existing 7500F, while the 5500F is a Zen 3 chiplet-based part built on the Vermeer design that adds PCIe 4.0 support missing from the standard Ryzen 5 5500.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-11
AMD has released two new budget hexa-core processors: the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5 5500F priced at $99, and the Zen 4-based Ryzen 5 7500 priced at $189, both now available at U.S. retailers. The 5500F is essentially a lower-binned Ryzen 5 5600 without integrated graphics, offering a 500MHz lower boost clock and half the L3 cache, while still supporting PCIe 4.0.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-10
Linux developer Justin Schroeder shared a photo of an older Intel MacBook pointing its webcam at a mirror reflecting its own screen, letting an AI coding agent visually monitor its progress while tuning AMD Radeon GPU support for the Omarchy Linux distribution. Omarchy is built as an 'agent-first' OS with tools designed to let AI agents install, configure and debug the system autonomously.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-10
The Department of Energy has unveiled the Genesis Mission, a national initiative combining AI systems with top-tier supercomputers to tackle 26 designated challenges of national importance. The program brings together major technology firms including AMD, Nvidia, and Microsoft alongside smaller startups pursuing novel computing approaches, such as dataflow-based AI processors.
wpcms.computer.org
· 2026-09-08
A hardware comparison finds that Nintendo's Switch 2 and Valve's Steam Deck are closely matched in handheld mode, with the Switch 2's Nvidia Ampere GPU offering a slight graphical edge over the Deck's AMD RDNA 2 chip. The gap widens dramatically when the Switch 2 is docked, boosting its GPU output from about 1.71 to 3.7 TFLOPS, enabling 4K/60fps in titles like Metroid Prime 4, while the Deck sees no docked performance boost. Meanwhile, the Steam Deck's Zen 2 CPU can hit higher clock speeds and it also carries more unified memory, 16GB versus the Switch 2's 12GB.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-08
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