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Zen 5 is finally here for desktop PCs and having already tasted what it is like with six cores, in the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X review, it's time to see what difference two more cores, four more threads, and a tiny bit more clock speed all makes—that's right, it's our review of the Ryzen 7 9700X.
It's taken a while to get here—and it's honestly been a pretty bumpy road, too—but I'm pleased to present our review of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, the lowest-tier CPU currently on offer in AMD's Ryzen 9000 series family of Zen 5 processors. I'm not talking about the rocky situation where AMD recalled all stocks of the new Ryzen chips weeks before they were due to be sold, either—no, this is all about jumping around motherboards, updating firmware, and endlessly fiddling about with settings. All for what is actually a somewhat underwhelming new six-core CPU.
Leaked documents, including spreadsheets, emails, and chat messages, show that Nvidia has been using millions of YouTube videos, Netflix, and other sources to train an AI model to be used in its Omniverse, autonomous vehicles, and digital avatar platforms.
Despite producing one of the best VR headsets around, the Quest 3, Meta's Reality Labs division just isn't making any money. Nearly $2 billion of revenue in 2023 was completely swallowed by $18 billion of expenditure, leaving Mark Zuckerberg's dream of the metaverse facing a loss of $16 billion. And the CEO has said that the losses will continue to worsen for the foreseeable future.
Intel is currently weathering a storm of epic proportions right now, with falling share prices, a foundry service that's losing billions of dollars, thousands of staff being fired, and processors that are reportedly failing in large quantities due to excessive voltages. Getting concrete data on the latter has been tricky but Puget Systems, a well-known manufacturer of workstation PCs, has issued a report detailing its own findings on the failure rate of 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPUs—and the results might surprise you.
Is three years too early to discontinue one of the most popular GPUs in recent times? According to a report, Nvidia is getting ready to distribute the final batches of its GA106 graphics processor, the chip that powers the GeForce RTX 3060, and if that's the case, it would mean the jolly green giant has officially closed the doors on the GPU that's been top of the Steam hardware charts for ages.
With a momentary lull in what's been a bustling year of happenings in the gaming industry, we wanted to take a moment to mention some changes to the PC Gamer team that we're excited about.
Fans of the Tesla Cybertruck (yes, there are some out there) might be wondering how else they add more of the angular monstrosity electric vehicle to their lives. Well, if its inclusion in Fortnite isn't enough, then how about the Xyber XPC, an AMD-powered mini-PC, replete with moving wheels, doors, and working lights?