AMD whet the appetites of those hoping for strong FP64 performance with Radeon VII when it said it would be double what RX Vega offered. People clapped, and AMD apparently enjoyed the response. Just before launch, the company decided to double the FP64 performance once again, bringing us to 1:4 FP32. Let’s see where that puts the card in financial and scientific tests.

AMD’s Radeon VII might be the first 7nm gaming GPU, but the reality is, this Vega 20 chip is keen on tackling compute-intensive benchmarks, such as those from our workstation test suite. Having taken a look at gaming performance in another article, this one takes care of encoding, viewport, and rendering applications.

AMD’s competition has launched four current-gen GPUs since the fall, so its fans have understandably been anxious for a follow up to 2017’s RX Vega. With the new Radeon VII, AMD is responding. It’s the “world’s first 7nm gaming” GPU, and with 16GB of VRAM, it’s one that’s built for high detail at high resolution.

Performance regression issues in Windows on AMD’s top-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs haven’t gone unnoticed by those who own them, and six months after launch, the issues remain. Fortunately, there’s a new tool making the rounds that can help smooth out those regressions. We’re taking an initial look.

With its Ryzen Threadripper series, AMD wants you to “create with heavy metal”, but we all have different needs, and thus need different models to choose from. Having released both the 16- and 32-core Threadrippers last summer, the company recently followed-up with two more: 2920X, and 2970WX. Let’s put them to the test.

Getting directions to places you’ve never been before is pretty easy these days with sat nav. But what if where you want to go doesn’t have an address, rather a string of GPS coordinates, or uses a language you are not familiar with? At CES 2019, we found what3words, and it proposes an interesting solution to this problem.