• Sun. Oct 5th, 2025

AMD’s new CPUs will halve your SSD speed and slash GPU performance

AMD’s new CPUs will halve your SSD speed and slash GPU performance

It’s not looking good for the gaming performance of AMD’s new low-end Ryzen 8000 CPUs with integrated graphics. According to the latest information, new APUs based on the AMD Phoenix 1 core will only be able to run PCIe 4.0 SSDs at half their potential top speed. Not only that, but gaming performance when using a separate graphics card will also be slower than usual.

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