Hardware
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Why Intel Chose TSMC Over Its Own Manufacturing Process For Arc Alchemist GPUs
Intel‘s upcoming lineup of Arc Alchemist graphic cards represent the company’s very first serious foray into the discrete GPU market. But, even with such a pivotal product that doesn’t have the room to fail, Intel chose to trust one of its competitors. Instead of manufacturing the GPUs in its own…
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Nvidia To Launch ‘SUPER’ Refreshes of RTX 3000 Series Cards Next Year? Recent Rumors Reveal Some Specifications
We recently reported on a rumor on the potential RTX 3090 next-gen replacement, but today we have some news on something more practical, which is the upcoming SUPER refreshes of the Ampere gaming GPUs. Twitter user Kopite7 recently (Via VideoCardz) shared some details on the upcoming SUPER cards, like the…
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Rumor: Next-Gen Nvidia Ada Lovelace AD102 GPU Could Hit Clock Speeds of Up To 2.2 GHz, Having More Than Double The RTX 3090 Compute Performance
When it comes to GPUs, Nvidia has lost very little in the face of a resurgent AMD, and this is made possible by consistently maintaining technological dominance generation after generation. Nvidia’s top-end gaming GPU, the RTX 3090 is still uncontested in its bracket, and if a recent rumor comes to…
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PlayStation 5 Finally Gets M.2 Expandable Storage Support in September Software Update
Fans have been longing for PlayStation to finally unlock the M.2 slot in their PS5s for expandable storage. Sony sort of listened and enabled the feature in beta with a very particular set of requirements few back ago. Still, only a select few were able to test this feature and…
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Leaked Benchmark Shows Intel Arc Alchemist 512EU Mobile GPU in Action, Slower Than GTX 1650 Max-Q
Intel is set to release its first Alchemist GPUs under the Arc brand next year. The curtains have been panned back slowly by Intel to reveal more and more information each week. But, whereas most of the conversation has been derived from what Intel itself has disclosed, an early benchmark…
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AMD RX 6600 non-XT Pictured in Latest Leaked Renders, Could Launch in September
The RX 6600 XT has been on the shelves for over a month now. The Navi 23 GPU was aimed at the midrange sector for 1080p gaming and even though it was not exactly “competitive” against the likes of the RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti, it was a notable release…
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EVGA RTX 3090s Were Dying Due To Poor PCB Design and Not The Fan Controller
Back in July, a MMO-RPG game from Amazon, New World suddenly started killing graphics cards out of thin air. A number of GPUs were affected but the most prominent among those was definitely the RTX 3090, and in particular, EVGA‘s RTX 3090s. At the time, as expected, gamers went into…
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Intel 600-series Motherboards From ASRock Leaked: Z690, H670, B660 & H610
Intel is preparing its 12th-gen Alder Lake processors as we speak. The upcoming big.LITTLE processors will be based on the LGA1700 socket which means new motherboards are inbound. Intel just recently refreshed their motherboard lineup with the 500-series for its 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs, but it appears as if that…
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Lenovo To Launch New Laptops With AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS & Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
AMD’s return to mobile domination has been a swift one. Not only has it trumped Intel with its latest Ryzen 5000 series of mobile APUs, but even previous generation’s Ryzen 4000 chips were tough to beat. Like Intel, AMD also offers two iterations of its mobile processors, a fully-fledged variant…
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Intel XeSS vs. Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR – How Intel’s Super Sampling Tech Stacks Up
Just barely coming off the overclocking details, Intel is back with another information dump regarding its upcoming Arc Alchemist GPUs. Alright, I shouldn’t be that harsh; it’s Intel’s first proper discrete graphics card launch, of course they’re excited! We’ve seen Intel slowly pan back the curtains on Arc over the…
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Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs Will Feature Overclocking and Full DirectX 12 Ultimate Support From Launch
Intel kicked off the explosive marketing for its first major discrete GPU launch, Arc Alchemist, last week. Since then, we’ve been consistently treated with plenty of info on the upcoming Xe-HPG graphics cards, like the Xe-SS super-sampling tech and the general rundown of what to expect from next year’s release.…
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AMD Ryzen Zen 4 Mainstream Processors Will Come With RDNA2 Integrated Graphics
Ever since the launch of Ryzen, all Zen–based CPUs from AMD have come without any integrated graphics. Only their Ryzen–G lineup of APUs carry an iGPU onboard, but those are specially designed to be sold separately as the iGPU option acts as a selling point rather than a nifty add–on.…
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Step Aside DLSS and AMD FSR, Intel XeSS is Here To Super–Sample Your Pixels
Earlier this week, Intel announced their upcoming Arc Alchemist GPUs along with unveiling “Arc” as the brand that will cover all graphics hardware, software, and services from Intel. This will be Intel’s first legitimate foray into the realm of discrete GPUs. In the announcement, Intel also teased that their super…
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Intel’s Discrete Graphics Family Finally Has A Name And It’s Coming Early Next Year
It has been long-rumored and speculated that Intel has been working on its own line of discrete desktop and notebook GPUs and that would go toe-to-toe with the big dogs i.e., AMD and Nvidia. Well, earlier today, Intel took to Twitter to finally, officially announce their upcoming GPUs along with…
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ASUS Zephyrus Duo 15 SE With Ryzen 9 5980HX Spotted on Newegg
ASUS launched its ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE dual-screen gaming laptops back in April. The laptop came with latest AMD silicon paired with the best that Nvidia has to offer in mobile GPUs. It featured up to a Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU paired with RTX 3080 mobile graphics running at…
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Gigabyte Finds Itself Targeted By Ransomware, Hackers Threaten To Release Confidential Documents
The hackings of big tech-related companies continue; Electronic Arts and CD Projekt RED are two of the bigger companies that suffered debilitating attacks earlier this year, with most of their confidential information being held hostage by ransomware. This time around, the hackers prove themselves to a far more important name…
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Xiaomi’s Next-Gen OLED TVs Will Come With Nvidia G-Sync Support
After the launch of its first-ever OLED TV last year, Xiaomi is now ready to unleash the second-generation of their large format OLED display tech on August 10th. The company has posted three teasers on its Weibo social media account, hinting at some of the features and functionality we can…
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Apple’s M1 Does Not Change AMD’s Strategy As They Have A “Very Competitive Roadmap” Ahead
Apple unveiled their M1 processor last year, ditching years of partnership with Intel and the x86 Instruction Set. This move came as a relatively anticipated one as the industry had speculated for years that Apple is working on their own silicone for the Mac computers. What wasn’t expected was how…
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PS5 vs. Xbox Series X|S Expansion: How Choice Breeds Confusion
Nearly eight months after its launch, the PlayStation 5 finally has support for expandable storage, well, kinda. The feature is in beta right now and that beta is also not available to everyone; you have to sign up in order to get a chance at piloting it first-hand. Sony is…
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Pixel 6 Will Ship With Tensor, Google’s First-Ever Custom-Built SoC
After a myriad of rumors and speculation, Google has finally unveiled its in-house custom processor for its imminent flagship Pixel device. While the rumors suggested that it was codenamed “Whitechapel”, that name did not carry through to the other side. Today we know that Google’s first custom SoC is called…
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PS5 is the Fastest-Selling PlayStation in History With Over 10 Million Units Sold
After a blitz of quarterly earnings calls in the past two days from the likes of Microsoft and AMD revealing impressive sales figures, Sony joins them today with their own press release, flaunting PlayStation 5’s record-breaking sales. The PS5 launched last year amidst an ongoing pandemic which had turned the…
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AMD Confirms its Next-Gen RDNA 3 GPUs and Zen 4 CPUs Are On Track For Launch Next Year
After Zen 3’s hugely successful launch, AMD is ready to repeat history with its Zen 4 line of desktop CPUs, codenamed “Raphael“. According to AMD’s second-quarter earnings call, they are “on track” to launch both Zen 4 CPUs and RDNA 3 GPUs next year. We remain on track to launch…
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Xbox Series S and Series X are the Fastest-Selling Xbox Consoles Of All Time
Despite a global chip shortage and severe supply constraints, Xbox Series has become Microsoft’s fastest-selling consoles to date, beating both the Xbox One and Xbox 360’s sales in a similar timeframe. Overall, Xbox consoles saw a 172% increase in revenue compared to the previous quarter. Gaming revenue increased $357 million…
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Steam Deck Aims To Provide Mouse-Like Accuracy and Movement On Conventional Analogue Sticks
Valve’s Steam Deck has been making the rounds ever since its initial announcement. Every day, the manufacturer reveals a new piece of info that makes us more and more excited for its launch. Today, in tandem with IGN, Valve designer Scott Dalton broke down the device’s unique approach to in-game…
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Valve Announces The Steam Deck, A Powerful, Portable, Switch-like PC
As most console manufacturers besides Nintendo have all but abandoned the handheld gaming space, it fell to PC manufacturers to try and pick up the slack. So far, it has been Chinese manufacturer GPD that has been leading this charge, but early rumors ring that Valve, PC gaming’s biggest publisher,…