RTX 5090 stays above triple MSRP while cheaper GPUs also climb
The RTX 5090 has held above three times its launch price since mid-September, and entry-level GPUs are climbing too. US new retail, tax excluded.
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AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500F Lands on Ten-Year-Old AM4
AMD's cheapest new six-core is an AM4 part arriving ten years after the socket, and its spec sheet lists Vermeer silicon with Cezanne cache. The Ryzen 5 7500 bolts two RDNA 2 compute units onto the 7500F, and Gorgon Halo gets its first laptop design.
An Unnamed x86 CPU Has Run Legacy-Free for a Year
A request to document 64-bit-only behaviour for the Linux kernel describes an x86 part that dropped the modes Intel decided to keep, and says it has been in service for over a year.
AM5 Gets Its First Open-Source Firmware, and Zen 6 Starts Landing in Linux
One retail B850 board now boots on coreboot and openSIL, with a very short CPU list, while Zen 6's per-core performance floors are already merged in mainline Linux.