In a small country beyond the seven beer seas and seven bratwurst mountains, the excitement was once again palpable. The iPhone 15 (Pro Max) had been announced with much fanfare in a nicely done live stream, and members of the illustrious Apple cult could hardly wait to warm their hands on it, given the rising gas prices and the looming harsh [...]
A pre-production model of the new iPhone 15 was subjected to the Geekbench 6.2 benchmark earlier this week. The device ran iOS 17.0 and had the Logic Board name “D83AP”. The A17 Pro chipset, which is built into the iPhone 16.1, is the industry’s first “3nm” chip. Apple has set high goals for this chip, promising [...]
Welcome to the weekend! And as always, the worst is (almost) never over. That’s exactly where we start: The first picture shows why the screwdriver is not called a puller. If you turn, there is three-phase current, if you pull: nothing more.
AMD has significantly improved the ray tracing performance of its Radeon graphics cards on Linux. The new drivers, which are based on the open-source Mesa RADV Vulkan, use “monolithic pipelining” to boost performance. This means that ray tracing calculations are now performed in a single step, instead of multiple steps. This [...]
It’s Friday again, the graphics card to be tested is still sweating in the lab and I’ll serve you a different kind of breakfast cake instead. Maybe I’ll still manage to write the article today, otherwise it will be on Monday. I can but already spoil it: it is the pure innocence in white! So it’s the cat-haired Alpina white [...]
The world of power banks is truly an adventure in its own right. When you look at the shelves in electronics stores and all the online offers, one might think that they are all gallantly growing in competition with each other. They come in all sizes, colors, and shapes, as if they were part of a power bank fashion show. But there’s a catch [...]
The A17 Pro introduces hardware ray tracing in a new GPU, and console-quality games have been announced for the phone. Apple’s A17 Pro chip brings console gaming to the smartphone. Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will get the first 3-nanometer chip, the A17 Pro. The A17 Pro has 19 billion transistors and a 6-core CPU with [...]
Intels 18-A-Prozess könnte ARM zum Durchbruch im mobilen Markt verhelfen. Intels neueste Prozesstechnologie, der 18-A-Prozess, hat das Interesse der Branche geweckt. Analysten gehen davon aus, dass ARM einer der ersten Kunden sein könnte, der den Prozess nutzt. Dies könnte ARM dabei helfen, Marktanteile im mobilen Markt zu gewinnen, da der 18-A [...]
In today’s test I present my first steps in the CNC machine world. By the way, the TwoTrees 450 that I would like to present today before I use it for my projects comes from Geekbuying, because I have not found it in any German store so far and in the end my curiosity was much bigger than my mistrust. The TwoTrees 450 from today’s [...]
The colleagues from WCCFTECH have once again dedicated themselves to Starfield. NVIDIA’s DLSS 3.5 technology, known for its ability to improve image quality and frame rates, is now available for Starfield on the PC. However, not officially and only thanks to the efforts of external modders, since the studio, for whatever reason (we [...]
Since I get requests again and again, from which material what exactly consists and it is now possible for me with manageable effort to answer such questions, I start today retroactively just a new series of articles, which can be continued at will. No matter whether coolers, heatspreaders of CPUs, various pastes and pads, cables and connectors [...]
This week has brought significant advances in the world of gaming technology. NVIDIA unveiled an updated version of their DLSS3 library with a strong focus on improving ray tracing capabilities. At the same time, AMD has unveiled its long-awaited competitor to DLSS3, which is analogously called FSR3. Both upscaling technologies are scheduled for [...]
Attention allergy sufferers, the following text may contain traces of lead and sarcasm! Once upon a time, in a country called China, engineers and economists asked the eternal question, “Should our solder be leaded or lead-free?” You might say that this was a question of almost Shakespearean proportions: “To solder or not to [...]
You can invest a lot of things for and in something. Time, energy and, of course, a lot of money. But if you take the latter in hand, on the one hand to save time and energy, and on the other hand to test or uncover things that your normal (media) competitors can’t, then something like this is well worth it. After all, I have two mainstays [...]
As part of this year’s Gamescom 2023, NVIDIA has unveiled a number of upcoming updates aimed at the GeForce gaming community. A highlight among these announcements is the introduction of DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction, a feature that will be available for all GeForce RTX series GPUs starting with the RTX 20 series in the upcoming fall season [...]
Users now have the ability to experiment with the BIOS of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as if it were 2013 all over again. Over the past decade, NVIDIA had effectively curtailed the practice of modifying video BIOS by introducing strict BIOS signature checks. The introduction of the “Falcon” on-die security processor with the GeForce [...]
Continuous driver updates from Intel boost Arc GPU performance Intel’s graphics driver team has been releasing continuous updates for their discrete Arc GPUs since the launch of the Arc series. These updates, known as “Game On” drivers, not only optimize performance for new titles, but also achieve notable performance gains for [...]
AMD has announced that the release of Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) v1.0 is imminent. This tool is for post-mortem analysis of GPU crashes (sounds really exciting) and allows developers to retrieve and analyze AMD GPU crash dumps. The information generated assists in determining the cause of the crashes. They include page fault details, resource [...]
If you were to continuously look at the development of Intel’s temporary upscaling technology, known as XeSS, you could definitely see noticeable progress. Apparently, a new version was recently released in conjunction with the current Software Development Kit (SDK). It can be assumed that this update contains a freshly revised libxess.dll [...]
Who hasn’t experienced this, one year after purchase, you take a first look at the condition of the battery and believe that everything is in perfect order. Fiddlesticks! Even though the current iPhone 14 is in the headlines because of its battery, today’s example within the family shows that excessive use of things like YouTube [...]
