All the shiny AMD 50th anniversary GPUs, CPUs, and motherboards introduced to date

It’s almost AMD’s semicentennial and the corporate is placing collectively a batch of commemorative merchandise to mark the event. Following a leaked product itemizing that tentatively confirmed a Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition final week, additional particular editions have been introduced, voluntarily or involuntarily, together with a model new AMD Radeon VII colourway and X470 motherboards.

Advanced Micro Devices was based on May 1, 1969 by Jerry Sanders and his compadres from Fairchild Semiconductor, now a subsidiary of ON Semiconductor. That’s the identical IC firm that Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce labored at earlier than founding Intel again within the day. Following the event of its personal microprocessors, logic chips, RAM, and after a number of cross-licensing agreements with Intel, it’s been slowly rising as much as grow to be the one main, multifaceted contender to the x86 originator within the CPU market.

And it’s now celebrating 50 years at a time when its CPU division is metaphorically killing it. And meaning some particular merchandise which will tickle players’ fancy. The major occasion is the Ryzen 7 2700X 50th Anniversary Edition, which was reportedly leaked by a retailer slightly early. Aside from the gold accented field, we don’t know if or how this rumoured chip will differ from the standard fare. However, if it’s something like Intel’s celebratory Core i7 8086Okay, we might see AMD bin the very best performing silicon for a slight bump in clockspeed. Still, it’s a tough promote with AMD Ryzen 3000 across the nook.

But the newest leak (by way of VideoCardz) additionally signifies AMD’s Radeon VII shall be becoming a member of the festivities with a particular 50th Anniversary Edition. The card was launched earlier this yr, marking the primary 7nm GPU available on the market, and was obtainable strictly in reference silver fare. However, the newest leak means that AMD might be prepping a quite gaudy shiny crimson card to mark the event.

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And similarly, AMD companion Sapphire has announced it’s placing collectively a shimmering, golden AMD RX 590 Nitro+ with white LED followers for the massive occasion.

AORUS x AMD 50周年記念マザーボード「X470 AORUS GAMING 7 WIFI-50」と、普通のゲーミング仕様「B450 Gaming X」、そして光る「AORUS RGB M.2 NVMe SSD 512GB / 256GB」を金曜26日に一斉発売！https://t.co/jb0AeV7VQt pic.twitter.com/WRLRlMJf0r

— GIGABYTE Japan (@GIGABYTE_News) April 22, 2019

And lastly, Gigabyte has introduced it is going to be launching a restricted run of X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WiFi-50 motherboards. These are virtually an identical to their non-50 designated boards apart from added RGB lighting, and shall be obtainable alongside the Aorus RGB M.2 NVMe SSD on April 26.

Further anniversary merchandise are certain to be introduced within the subsequent few days, with AMD’s 50th anniversary falling on May 1, 2019. Stay tuned.

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