Hardware
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AMD Revealed Their New RDNA Powered RX 5700, RX 5700XT and The 50th Anniversary Limited Edition RX 5700XT
AMD has a competitive processor lineup ; it’s their Radeon (graphics) department that lacks behind. AMD partially unveiled their new GPU architecture called RDNA which can be referred to as a GCN/Navi hybrid during their time at Computex. They were present during the E3 as well, where they announced the…
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Samsung Announced Their First 240-Hz Display Before PC Gaming Show During E3 2019
We have seen the many games and console announcements since the E3 started. We could not get a good look at the new PC gaming hardware yet. It seems like we would have to wait till PC Gaming show. Samsung had planned to announce its new gaming monitor during the…
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Rumors Suggest Nvidia Is Planning On Releasing a SUPER family Of Graphics Cards
A few days back, Nvidia released a mysterious teaser of something ‘SUPER.’ We were hoping that the graphics giant is planning to release another enthusiast grade graphics card with specifications close to the current Titan RTX but for the gamers (consumer market). However, according to most recent rumors, Nvidia is…
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Nvidia To Shift from TSMC’s 7nm As A Result Of Samsung’s Aggressive Price Undercutting
TSMC has been the most crucial foundry partner of Nvidia for years. The flagship GPUs of the company were mainly from TSMC, although Nvidia has other foundry partners too. According to rumors and reports, it is going to be changed. DigiTimes reports that Samsung will fab the graphics processors under…
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Intel Released The New Cascade Lake W Xeon processors With a 24-core Flagship
After getting strong competition from AMD in Computex 2019, Intel has finally announced their workstation products for the year. Two years ago Intel had complete dominance on the workstation processors. AMD’s Epyc processors were never a match for the Xeon processors offered by Intel. The dynamics of the market have equalised…
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Expect Shortage Of SSDs As Many Taiwanese Producers Shift Towards The Niche Markets
Since the start of 2019, the prices of 3D NAND storage technologies such as SSDs, eMMCs, and flash cards are going down. According to a report from DigiTimes, the prices of these products have gone down as low as 20% by the end of May 2019. Similarly, the overall prices…
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Samsung Licences RDNA GPU architecture from AMD, Can Be Used in Upcoming Exynos SoCs
Talk about interesting tech partnerships, Microsoft and Sony’s collaboration on new cloud-based solutions for gaming and AI surprised a lot of people. Here we have another unexpected collaboration between AMD and Samsung with regards to AMD’s RDNA graphics IP. Samsung is licensing RDNA architecture from AMD to use it in…
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Qualcomm Aims to Bring Processor Price Down to Enter The Budget Laptop Market, Can Be A Game Changer For Ultrabooks
For ages now, Intel has dominated the PC/Laptop market when it comes to processors. While Ryzen Processors have tried to make their way into it, and have managed some success, they still can’t break the monopoly. On the other end of the spectrum, mobile Processor manufacturer, Qualcomm has tried entering…
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Qualcomm Is Bringing Snapdragon 8cx Based Windows 10 Laptops To Europe
After dominating the smartphone market, Qualcomm has its eyes set on the ultra mobile notebook market. Fanless laptops powered by the Snapdragon SoC started becoming popular because of their portability and efficiency. We know that Intel rules the market for mobile processors. Qualcomm’s offerings were not on par with the…
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AMD released the Navi GCN Hybrid Architecture For Their New RX 5000 Series Of Graphics Cards
AMD is dominating yet another Computex because of their new Ryzen CPUs and APUs. However, this time around the graphics department of the team, Red also showed its might. They have more or less revealed the rumored Navi architecture. They have announced a new stream of Graphics cards based on…
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The New Amazon Echo Show 5 Provides The Same Functionality And User Experience At A Considerably Lower Price
Amazon has been working its way into our homes for years now. Their smart home devices are considered to be the best with Alexa as one of the best AI assistants around. They are paving their ways through your living rooms, drawing rooms and even Bathrooms too. If you hear…
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ASRock’s Radeon RX 5000 Cards Stealing The Spotlight
Computex has been an absolute blast this year with AMD being the star of the show with the 3rd generation of their Ryzen CPU’s featuring 7nm. AMD is already a favourite among a considerable population of PC enthusiasts with their approach to hardware development. However, it seems that ASRock wanted…
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GTX 1650 Gets the Compact Treatment, Zotac Announces Their First Low Profile Turing card
Zotac is a very reliable hardware manufacturer. Although the brand may not be extremely prevalent in the western markets, it has no problems having a stronghold in the Asian markets with its highly competitive price point. This card like any other GTX 1650 is based on the TU107 chip by Nvidia…
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Ryzen 3rd Generation Will have a Base 3200MHz DDR4 Memory Support
Zen was a big step up from AMD’s Bulldozer architecture and it’s only getting better with revisions. Ryzen’s first series was released in 2017 and it really brought the spotlight on AMD. The company stuck with its high core count philosophy, but they did make massive improvements in performance per…
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Nvidia Teased Something Super For The Gaming Community
We know that whenever Nvidia is going to announce “something super,” they release a teaser video way before the announcement of the actual product. It has been the norm for a long time now. They have released a similar teaser again. The video does not reveal much, we can only…
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Razer To Shutdown Ouya: The Crowdfunded Mini Console Project On June 25th
Seven years ago, a campaign regarding a mini console powered by Android started on Kickstarter. Ouya began its journey as a crowd-funded project and then Razer bought it because Razer was pursuing its dream of getting into console gaming. After a rather uncertain run of around five years, Razer stated…
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ARM Halts Its business With Huawei: Huawei’s Future To Become More Uncertain
Since Trump government’s decision to bar any US private or public firm to work with Huawei or its subsidiaries, many companies have broken their ties with Huawei. It started with Google, and now UK based ARM has also revoked business with Huawei or its subsidiaries. ARM instructed its employees to…
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New Intel Roadmap Leak Shows 10nm++ and PCIe Gen 5 Support Planned For 2021, 7nm Coming In 2022
Intel’s 10nm launch has been part of a lot of speculations and heated discussions on the internet. They did ship 10nm Cannon Lake chips this year, which was a low-end product meant for mobile devices (i3-8121U 2C/4T). Intel in a investors meet this year did reveal an updated roadmap which…
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Marvell Technology Group Gearing Up For Active 5G Mobile Services By Acquiring Avera Semiconductor from GlobalFoundaries
Marvell Technology Group has acquired Avera Semiconductor from GlobalFoundaries. The deal is most likely to speed track design, development, and deployment of the upcoming 5G mobile internet and telecommunications equipment business. The total valuation of the deal sits at $740 million. The valuation includes Marvell paying GlobalFoundaries $650 million in…
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New AMD Navi Leak On 3DMark Shows Card With 8GB VRAM, GDDR6 Support Likely
AMD has been in the GPU business for a long time but in Nvidia’s shadow for the most parts. They have consistently lost their GPU market share to Nvidia. Recent releases like Vega 56 and Vega 64 were decent but failed to make a big impact in the high-end range.…
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Hardware-Level Security Flaws Impact Intel Processors A Lot More Than AMD: Report
The recently discovered hardware-level security flaws have begun to impact CPU performance. Moreover, it appears that CPUs made by Intel suffer much more than AMD. In the battle against CPU-level security vulnerabilities, Intel began developing and issuing patches to mitigate the risk. The most impacted computer systems were those running…
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Gigabyte Adds Support For PCIe 4.0 in Some x470 And B450 boards Through Latest Bios
Ryzen’s 3000 series release is just around the corner and we are getting more details every day. Ryzen 3000 series will launch with the new x570 boards which will bring some exclusive features. X570 Boards The Ryzen 3000 series will continue to be on the AM4 chipset which is great…
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Intel Cautions About An ‘Unfixable’ CPU-Level Vulnerability That Could Even Compromise Data Stored In The Cloud
Intel Corporation has revealed a rather serious but difficult to exploit security vulnerability. The most concerning aspect about the security flaw is that it is embedded in the processor architecture. Fortunately, the bug is rather difficult to exploit with commonly available hardware and resources. Nonetheless, millions of PCs running on…
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Biostar X570 Racing GT8 Motherboard Full Specs Leaked Before Launch, Supports Up To 4000 MHz DDR4 RAM
Computex is just a few weeks away, at the end of this month and so is the launch announcement from AMD for their Ryzen 3000 series processors. There is a lot of excitement around the launch and some of us find it hard to wait, but so do some board…
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Nvidia Releases Game Ready Driver For Rage 2, Adds Support For New G-Sync Monitors
There have been quite a few major game releases this month and Rage 2 is also due on 14th May. Nvidia in preparation has released a game ready driver today, which is version 430.64 WHQL. This driver should provide optimized gameplay for upcoming titles on day 1. RAGE 2, Total…