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AMD's Travis Kirsch told MyNavi Tech+ that CEO Lisa Su championed reviving the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which required reworking manufacturing with TSMC despite the chip's 2022 origins. Kirsch said the decision predated the current DDR5 shortage and was meant as a final DDR4-compatible upgrade option for longtime AM4 users.
Newegg is selling the ABS Stratos II Ruby prebuilt gaming PC for $2,549.99, a $450 cut from its $2,999.99 price. The system pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, and a 2TB Gen 4 NVMe SSD.
AMD has released the Ryzen 5 5500F, a six-core, 12-thread Zen 3 chip with a 4.4 GHz boost clock priced around $100. Unlike the base Ryzen 5 5500, it is built on the Vermeer die rather than Cezanne, giving it PCIe 4.0 support and an 8% average gaming performance gain, alongside a 10% jump in multithreaded performance.
Newegg is offering a combo deal pairing AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU with 32GB of DDR5 memory and a Gigabyte X870E motherboard for $1,029.99, a savings of $238.99 compared to buying the parts separately. The bundle also throws in a free Cooler Master 240mm AIO liquid cooler and a copy of the game Onimusha: Way of the Sword, together valued at nearly $150.
AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K submitted Linux kernel patches for an 'AOD' WMI driver that exposes Ryzen overclocking controls through sysfs. The initial driver lets users set Package Power Tracking, Thermal Design Current, and Electrical Design Current limits, toggle SMT at the platform level, and read supported ranges and memory clocks, with changes taking effect after a reboot rather than in real time.
AMD has submitted patches to the Linux kernel introducing AOD (AMD Overclocking Driver) support for Ryzen processors, as reported by Phoronix. The driver exposes tuning functions like SMT toggling, memory clock monitoring, and power controls through the standard sysfs interface, replacing reliance on reverse-engineered firmware hooks or ACPI workarounds.
AMD's new 26.10.1 graphics driver enables FSR 4.1 machine-learning upscaling natively on Radeon RX 6000 desktop GPUs, Ryzen AI Max APUs, and laptops with Ryzen AI 9 chips, without requiring mods like Optiscaler. Handhelds using Ryzen Z2 Extreme, Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme, and Z2 A chips will also get support, though only once their manufacturers release compatible drivers. AMD says Xbox Series console support is coming soon, but did not mention the Steam Deck despite its shared RDNA 2 architecture.
AMD announced that FSR 4.1 upscaling, previously limited to RX 9000 and RX 7000 graphics cards, is now available on Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, Xbox Series X and S consoles, Ryzen Z-series handhelds, and systems with Ryzen AI Max and AI 9 processors. AMD adapted the neural network to run on INT8 shader hardware rather than the FP8 matrix hardware found in newer cards, with a further-shrunk version for handhelds. The update also brings improved frame pacing for Frame Generation, upcoming Vulkan API support, and wider rollout of Ray Regeneration.
Modder LTSharpe used Anthropic's Claude AI assistant to reverse-engineer The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and build a repeatable benchmarking framework, producing a binary performance fix released on NexusMods. The fix changes no visuals but reportedly boosts frame rates by up to 68% in worst-case scenarios and sharply reduces stuttering, according to user reports.
Best Buy is selling the SteamOS version of Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld for $999.99, a discount off its original price. This configuration pairs the Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, running the same SteamOS as Valve's Steam Deck OLED but with an eight-inch 1080p, 120Hz display and two-stage triggers.
Best Buy currently has in stock an MSI Infinite ZS prebuilt gaming PC priced at $7,599, built around an Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card. The remaining components—including a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU, 32GB RAM, an MSI motherboard, liquid cooler, 1300W PSU, case, and Windows 11 license—are estimated to be worth about $2,300 on their own, implying the GPU accounts for roughly $5,300 of the price.
A Redditor comparing two AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPUs purchased from Amazon found the second one had identical labeling but a completely different pin/contact layout underneath. Commenters concluded a scammer likely delidded a genuine Ryzen chip, attached its heat spreader to an old Intel processor, and possibly reprinted the markings, then returned the fake unit to Amazon for a refund while keeping the real CPU.