Hardware leaker All_The_Watts!! has published alleged benchmark results of AMD’s upcoming performance mainstream RDNA 3-based graphics cards Radeon RX 7700 and Radeon RX 7800 in 3DMark Time Spy. The performance numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, but for what it’s worth, both products show comparable performance compared to [...]
Lenovo presents the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card in a mini-ITX form factor. The card will initially be available in the company’s PCs, but could possibly also be available in retail stores, as is often the case with Lenovo graphics cards. Lenovo’s GeForce RTX 4060 mini graphics card is a typical mini-ITX graphics card with a length [...]
The Raptor Lake refresh is expected to arrive this year as the 14th CPU generation for the desktop. But the real successor, Arrow Lake-S for desktop, is also increasingly materializing along with the new 800 series chipset, which again brings a new processor socket, of which I will soon publish the exact details including the drawings and data [...]
Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake processors are expected to feature an all-new iGPU based on the Arc Alchemist Xe-LPG IP. It is also expected that this GPU will be an important component of the chip and will have excellent graphics and computing capabilities compared to the previous generation Iris Xe chips. According to the information provided [...]
The Edifier M601DB 2.1 stereo speakers are a good example that appealing quality does not always have to be reflected in an exorbitant price. Equipped with several useful features and an acceptable sound quality, they are definitely an option for listening enthusiasts with a limited budget. You can read why I make slight restrictions at the [...]
We saw that the GeForce RTX 4060 8GB, including a non-functioning telemetry, consumes much more power in reality in the launch tests and with overclocking. Instead of the promised maximum power consumption of 115 watts in the spec sheet and a typical gaming value of 110 watts, it was a whopping 132 watts in some games and the average was still far [...]
The latest Steam hardware survey data reveals an exciting development: AMD CPUs are gaining market share on Linux gaming systems, overtaking Intel. According to the published statistics of Steam’s hardware survey for the month of June, AMD CPUs have further extended their lead on Linux systems. With an impressive 7.6 percent increase [...]
Sometimes you are blind or just don’t look closely enough. This surprises me, frankly, with the mass of reviewers, but then again, I wasn’t any better. After having examined some headers of the Founders Editions from the current Ada series more closely, I noticed something interesting. Since the GeForce RTX 4070 FE, NVIDIA has already [...]
ASUS has presented an interesting concept where they want to use the potential of unused PCIe lanes inside a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card. Tony Yu, the General Manager of ASUS, has presented the idea of integrating a true Gen 4 M.2 SSD slot right next to the GPU on the same board. For this innovation, a Samsung 980 PRO 2TB SSD was used and [...]
ASUS has set a new world record with its upcoming GeForce RTX 4090 ROG MATRIX by overclocking the graphics card to an impressive GPU clock of 3.94 GHz. The GeForce RTX 4090 ROG MATRIX was unveiled during Computex 2023 and is the top-of-the-line NVIDIA GPU from ASUS. The graphics card features an advanced AIO liquid cooler with TIM liquid [...]
The king is dead, long live the king. Or the other way around: The findings of the last few months are finally taken seriously and the connector is modified, work is done on a new standardization and tests are carried out ad nauseam. The product is given a new name, although in the end it is only a further development that should have been [...]
During the announcement of its financial results for the third quarter of 2023, Micron shared information about the latest developments in various DRAM and memory products, including the future GDDR7 memory for graphics applications. The company said that it is working hard on the next generation of GDDR7 memory and that it is expected to be [...]
With Cooler Master, we have another player in the monitor market. And with the GP27U, Cooler Master is damn serious and goes “all in”. The UHD panel with 3840 x 2160p resolution comes with a refresh rate of 160 Hz. The panel itself comes from AU-Optronics – Fast IPS and Quantum Dot enhanced with 576 dimming zones and a mini-LED [...]
Yesterday we had the review of the MSRP cards, and today we mere mortals finally get to test the somewhat better cards. The fact that there was still a lot of room for improvement, without the test object having to drink itself to a cripple, shows once again that the “entry-level” models, which are sewn to the edge, should once again [...]
Coffee fund was yesterday, today we have the pun fund. And to be honest, I’m exhausted. Not destroyed, but mentally and physically drained. When you compare the effort of the past seven days to what has been achieved and, above all, who has been reached and how, you just want to turn over and go back to sleep. Whether the card tested [...]
According to a recently released roadmap, announced during the ML Commons training results presentation and published by HardwareLuxx, NVIDIA has revealed the expected launch schedule for its next-generation GPUs and CPUs. The roadmap shows that NVIDIA has already confirmed that the Hopper Next GPUs, also known as Blackwell, will launch in 2024 [...]
We are familiar with assisted living, which definitely has a deeper meaning. Assisted benchmarking, on the other hand, makes less sense. And I admit it, I was thoroughly pissed off after a few hand-picked noble influencers held hands with NVIDIA (and certainly against their better judgment) and delivered the ordered praise for a product that [...]
If an artist creates limited editions, which are supposed to keep the price exclusively high, then it is actually common that after reaching the edition target, for example, the copper plates are made unusable. If not, then reprints must be marked as edition XXX and they then cost significantly less. This is also the case with other products such [...]
Over 13 years ago, I was concerned with the elimination of 2D hardware acceleration in Windows Vista and XP and made no friends for life with the driver team at (then) ATI in Toronto. The good thing about the two articles that hit like a bomb back then is that both AMD and NVIDIA started reacting frantically back then and also took remedial action [...]
More than 13 years ago, I published two articles that dealt with the problem of the lack of 2D performance of ATI graphics cards in particular at that time and also shed more light on the background. Because the upheaval at that time was enormous: graphics cards with the Unified Shaders instead of special 2D hardware features, operating systems [...]
