Earlier this week, Intel officially announced its new 11th Gen Core processors, including Core i9 K and KF SKUs with a new frequency boost feature called Adaptive Boost Technology. Now, Intel has explained how Adaptive Boost works to bring all cores up to 5.1GHz as long as power and cooling …

The Radeon RX 6700 XT officially launched this week, targeting PC gamers looking to play at 1440p resolution. As we know though, this isn't the end for AMD's series of RDNA 2 based graphics cards. Another 1080p gaming focused graphics card is also due and according to leaks this week, …

The Geekbench 5 database is leaking more unannounced hardware. This time around, entries have detailed the upcoming RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti GPUs for laptops, including specifications and performance scores.  The RTX 3050 will feature 2048 CUDA cores, 4GB of VRAM across a 128-bit memory bus and a 1060MHz …

This week, Samsung launched its new S27A800U display. Aimed at professionals, this latest monitor packs a 27-inch IPS panel with 4K resolution and HDR10 capability.  The 27-inch 4K IPS panel of the Samsung S27A800U features a 5ms G2G response time and offers wide 178º/178º viewing angles, so colours should remain uniform across the …

It looks like retailers are beginning to receive stock for Nvidia's upcoming CMP 30HX mining graphics card, but early indications of pricing seem unrealistic. A Palit Nvidia CMP 30HX appeared at one retailer last night, with a hefty $700 price tag.  The Palit CMP 30HX listing appeared at Microless (via @momomo_us). …

A new Intel Tiger Lake CPU benchmark has appeared online. This time around, we get a look at the performance up the Core i7-11800H, which appears to be faster than AMD's competing Ryzen 7 5800H, at least on Geekbench.  The first Geekbench 5 entry of the Intel Core i7-11800H was spotted …

Earlier this week, we learned that crypto-miners have managed to bypass the RTX 3060's mining hash rate limiter. It turns out that bypassing the limit is now even easier, as Nvidia released a beta driver without mining protections in place.

This week, AMD has announced its new Ryzen 5000 PRO series of mobile processors, complete with Zen 3 cores and AMD's security feature set to provide “leadership performance and enterprise-class security solutions”.  According to Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager of the client business unit at AMD, distributed work environments …

Thermaltake is expanding its line-up of memory this month with new ToughRAM XG RGB modules, intended for those who prefer “unconventional gaming styled ram modules”. The standard ToughRAM RGB modules are also getting a fresh coat of paint, with new red and metallic gold modules.  Thermaltake ToughRAM XG RGB will …

This week, it was confirmed that Intel will be taking part in GDC later this week, with a session focused on new Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake-S CPUs. While some Tiger Lake processors have already released, we expect to see new six-core and 8-core SKUs announced. Until now, Intel has …

AMD has officially introduced its new server processor series using Zen 3 cores. Designed to set the new standard for server processors, the 3rd generation of EPYC CPUs offer the best per-core performance and extend the series leadership in per-socket performance.

We've been seeing benchmark leaks for Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake-S series of processors for a while now, although most of these leaks have focused on 8-core SKUs. That changed this week with the first benchmark leaks for two of Intel's 6-core 11th Gen Core processors, giving us a look at …

The first Radeon RX 6700 XT mining benchmarks have started to appear, bringing good news for gamers and not-so-good news for crypto currency miners. According to this first batch of tests, the RX 6700 XT will have a lower hash rate compared to the older RX 5700 XT. These benchmarks …

As we get closer to the launch of the Radeon RX 6700 XT, more performance benchmarks have leaked early. Last week, we saw ray-tracing and 1440p benchmarks up against the RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti. Now this week, we have a fresh batch of RX 6700 XT benchmarks via …

We're all painfully aware of the current GPU stock situation, with shortages impacting both Nvidia's RTX 30 series and AMD's Radeon RX 6900 and RX 6800 series cards. We've got another AMD launch coming up soon – the Radeon RX 6700 XT and early reports indicate that supply will still …

Last month, AMD representatives asked for help to resolve USB connectivity issues found on 500-series motherboards. After investigating these issues, it seems a fix has finally been found and it should be included with the new AGESA 1.2.0.2 firmware update next month.  Since the release of AMD 500-series motherboards, a number …

While AMD hasn't announced its upcoming Ryzen 5000G APUs yet, early engineering samples are appearing in online auctions. Over on eBay, someone is attempting to sell an engineering sample of the Ryzen 3 5300G APU, the listing even links to a video with performance benchmarks, giving us an idea of …

AMD is currently fleshing out the RX 6000 series of GPUs based on RDNA 2, but as we know, RDNA 3 is already on the way. We may have our first hint towards RDNA 3 this week, with a notable leaker finding references to multiple “Nashira” GPUs.  Roland Quandt of …

Lenovo has finally released the ThinkVision Creator Extreme 4K Mini LED monitor. Initially introduced back in CES 2020, the ThinkVision Creator Extreme is a monitor aimed at colourists, editors, and VFX specialists because of its high contrast and accurate colours.  Featuring a 27-inch IPS panel with a 4K resolution, the ThinkVision Creator Extreme …

We know that Intel plans to release its Alder Lake processors before the end of this year and we've recently heard about Lunar Lake coming in 2023 – so what is happening in 2022? Well thanks to another leak this week, we've learned about Intel “Raptor Lake”, which is planned …

As we get closer to a major launch, there is a good chance that we'll see presentation leaks detailing upcoming tech early. This time around, two slides from Intel's Rocket Lake launch presentation have leaked, detailing the full Core i9 and Core i7 line-up in addition to some gaming performance …

We're still a week away from the release of AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, but some new benchmark leaks have given us an early idea of what performance to expect in OpenCL and Vulkan games.  Two Geekbench 5 database entries were spotted by @TUM_APISAK. The benchmarks were run on …

Since AMD announced the Radeon RX 6700 XT, we've been wondering when we might expect to see the non-XT version. As it turns out, the launch might not be too far behind, as board partners have begun listing custom-cooled versions of the RX 6700.  Not much is known officially about …

MSI has added a couple of new RTX 3080 Gaming Trio graphics cards to its portfolio. No major aesthetic changes have been made, but the new design appears to be less bulky and some small tweaks have also been made to the backplate. Aside from that, one of these revisions …

It looks like Intel's upcoming Ice Lake-SP Xeon processors aren't too far away. Signs of life were spotted this week on the SiSoftware Sandra database, revealing the similarly spec'd Xeon Platinum 8352Y and 8352S. There is one key difference between the two chips, however, as the Y variant is for dual-socket configurations while the …

We've known for a while now that MSI plans to roll out a BIOS update for its motherboards introducing Smart Access Memory (SAM) support to Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. Now, this BIOS update is officially available, adding SAM for older CPUs and some small performance improvements for Ryzen 5000 series …

A new driver patch may have revealed Intel's upcoming 14th Gen Core series of processors. Linux driver patch notes for the Intel Gigabit NIC mention a new codenamed microarchitecture – Lunar Lake.  Expected to release after Meteor Lake, Intel Lunar Lake was first mentioned in an Ethernet Linux driver (via Coelacanth's Dream) …

SK Hynix has started to mass-produce 18GB LPDDR5 DRAM modules for mobile devices, offering the largest capacity memory modules within the industry. Targeted at premium smartphones, SK Hynix LPDDR5 memory modules are also expected to be used by high-performance camera applications and AI. The first smartphone to feature SK Hynix LPDDR5 …

AMD has officially announced that it will host a virtual launch event next week to announce new EPYC processors.

The Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake” mobile CPU line-up has been leaked. From 5W to 55W TDP, Alder Lake mobile processors will allegedly feature up to 8x small cores, 8x big cores, and iGPUs with up to 96 EUs, allowing them to be used in a range of devices, including …