Intel Xeon Gold 5320H ‘Cooper Lake-SP’ header – 20 cores on one HCC die for LGA 4189 socket with gold plated solder joint

Already in June Intel brought its 3. Gen Xeon Scalable CPU family, also known as the “Cooper Lake”, but still based on the 14nm architecture. Now some people in mainland China (where else?) have gotten their hands on the first QA (Qualified Sample) of Cooper Lake chips, which have an interesting design for the family of LGA 4189 CPUs [...]


Alphacool Eiswolf 2 in a test against a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 300 and 380 watts – with a little initiative an (almost) perfect solution

The market for all-in-one water cooling solutions for graphics cards is still abundantly manageable compared to CPU coolers, although the potential gain over air cooling is significantly higher. Higher boost steps and lower operating noise are only part of the reward, because all other components of the graphics card board also benefit from such [...]


Gaming notebooks in a tight spot: Ryzen 4000 APUs in bandwidth limit, Tiger Lake will probably come with only 4 cores in 2020 for the time being, and Ampere need more speed

I had already mentioned in my article “Why manufacturers are struggling with AMD notebooks, why AMD likes to trip itself up and why the blue conspiracy is not a conspiracy at all | Search for answers“, why notebook manufacturers are still so reluctant to buy AMD CPUs and APUs for mobile applications. But I’ll explain in a moment [...]


NVIDIA NvEnc vs. CPU encoding: Can the video encoder of the Turing cards be used for twitch streaming and keep up with a CPU? Analysis with Netflix VMAF

For some time now, a separate encoding chip, which Nvidia NvEnc has christened Nvidia NvEnc, has been used in many NVIDIA graphics cards. This is a real hardware solution that can convert videos quite efficiently. Currently the common codecs H.264 and H.265 as well as resolutions up to 8K are supported. The Turing generation now promises video [...]


Ryzen 4000 G-Series: AMD (finally) brings Renoir APUs for the normal PC

Now it's official, but the bad news first: the Ryzen 4000 G-Series will only be available as desktop APUs in complete systems, not in free retail stores. Unfortunately, this is exactly what I had already hinted at several times weeks ago. The fact that AMD would like to take precautions against a possible cannibalization of the normal desktop [...]


AMD Ryzen 7 4700G Renoir with Vega 8 GPU almost as fast as discrete entry-level graphics card, thanks to Overclocking

For the AMD Ryzen 7 4700G Renoir APU, new benchmarks have been leaked that could reveal their performance in various benchmarks. These latest benchmarks come from Chiphell, where a forum member was able to get a sample of the aforementioned APU and test it under various performance metrics, including graphics performance, of course. The tested APU [...]


Crypto currency in the firing line – Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and a number of crypto stock exchanges hacked

First of all, I would like to thank some colleagues who really amazed me via Messenger and Tweet with this interesting piece of Twitter reading and which I would also like to share with you. Because one thing is also clear: cryptographic currency scams are almost as old as digital tokens themselves, but the most recent incident is still one for [...]


What’s up with NVIDIA’s new 12-pin power supply? Don’t panic, but this is actually overdue! | igorsLAB investigative

The latest rumor comes from the Chinese technology company FCPOWERUP, known for its reports on power supplies, which has stated in an article that NVIDIA will use a new power supply interface for its next-generation gaming product line. I will comment on this in a moment, but first of all I want to reflect what has been published so far. The page [...]


AMD Epyc Milan Leak – Three early Genesis samples listed in A0 stepping along with core configuration and clock rates | Exclusive

The colleagues from Videocardz.com reported about a new list of not yet released Zen3-based EPYC processors, but with very incomplete data. Here I can provide more information today, but this is based on three relatively early samples in the so-called A0 stepping. As we know, AMD’s Milan is also known as Genesis (internal code name) and thus [...]


Ryzen 9 3900X vs. Ryzen 9 3900XT remeasured – What remains but a little extra clock rate and extra power consumption? Not much…

You have to look hard to find the advantage of the Ryzen 9 3900XT over the Ryzen 9 3900X. The longer such a session runs and also includes different scenarios and a very different thread load (number, load level), the smaller the actual differences become and you have to look very carefully. In order to remain as meaningful as possible and not [...]