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A big area of focus for China in recent years has been growing the semiconductor industry, with a goal to be able to develop and manufacture CPUs and GPUs within the country without needing to rely on companies from other regions of the world. We've seen plenty of progress here …

Biostar is about to launch a couple of Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards. Both the Biostar Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB and the Biostar Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB feature reference clock speeds and a custom cooling solution for improved GPU cooling. As per the packaging, these graphics cards belong to Biostar's …

With more big games on the horizon, it is time for another Nvidia driver update. The latest Game Ready update preps GeForce GPU users for Death Stranding, but that isn't the only news we have today, as Nvidia has also announced that it will be bundling Death Stranding with RTX …

For the first time this week, NVIDIA has surpassed Intel in market cap, making Nvidia the largest U.S. chip maker in terms of market value. This comes after a steady rise in Nvidia share prices over the last 12 months, bolstering the GPU company's value.  The upswing in Nvidia's stocks …

Could this be our first look at the RTX 3070?

This may be our first look at a custom RTX 3000 series GPU.

There's been a few AMD game bundles going around recently, as the company first give away free copies of Horizon Zero Dawn with its Ryzen CPUs, and that bundle is set to be replaced with Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Fortunately, AMD will also update its “Raise the Game” GPU bundle, giving …

ASRock has just launched the new Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC. Featuring a triple-fan design, the Radeon RX 5600 XT Challenger Pro 6G OC comes with ASRock's new shroud design, a factory overclocked core, as well as 6GB of 14Gbps GDDR6 memory. Aimed at delivering a “smooth 1080p gaming …

Manli has announced a low-profile GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card, aimed at those who want to build small systems with a dedicated GPU. The key thing with this graphics card is undoubtedly its miniature size. Measuring just 172 x 121 x 41mm, this low-profile card from Manli should fit in almost …

AMD's Big Navi GPU is expected to release later this year, but it seems that the company is already working on its successor. In the macOS 11 “Big Sur” beta, there are multiple references to AMD GPUs and APUs that haven't been released yet, including Navi 21, Navi 22, and Navi 23 …

Intel's chief architect for graphics, Raja Koduri, has published a picture of what appears to be Intel's upcoming Xe GPUs, describing them as a “BFP” – or “big fabulous package”. The upcoming Xe GPUs from Intel are designed to scale from integrated graphics all the way up to the high-end segment. …

Nvidia’s latest GPU driver update is a pretty major one, bringing full support for the Microsoft DirectX 12 Ultimate feature stack, as well as hardware accelerated GPU scheduling on Windows 10.  This week, Nvidia began rolling out its latest ‘Game Ready’ and ‘Studio’ graphics, both containing DirectX 12 Ultimate feature …

Raijintek has unveiled its latest standalone Morpheus VGA cooler, designed to replace your graphics cards' current cooling solution. Capable of handling GPUs with a TDP of up to 360W, the Morpheus 8057 VGA cooler is compatible with most current-gen GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD.  The Morpheus 8057 features 12x …

The latest Nvidia 3000 leaks seemingly detail some technical specifications of the RTX Titan, 3090, and 3080, while a 3DMark Time Spy score for one of the Ampere GPUs has also been uncovered...

EK Water Blocks has expanded its professional range this week with a host of new workstation/server-grade water blocks for powerful workstation graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD, including Quadro, Tesla and Radeon Pro WX GPUs. The company claims that this is just the beginning of its push into the …

It's time to upgrade! KitGuru has a new rig for benchmarking GPUs

An Intel employee has uploaded a video to Twitter showing him playing Battlefield V on a system equipped with Intel's “Tiger Lake” Gen12 with Xe graphics. The exact device shown in the video is referred to as a “prototype Tiger Lake system”, but the manufacturer and specific SoC used have not …

Based on the recent RTX 3000 leaks, Coreteks has suggested that the new Nvidia graphics cards will come equipped with a dual-sided PCB, with the GPU core on one side and a ray-tracing "traversal coprocessor" on the other...

Apple launched the 16-inch MacBook Pro in late 2019, once again tapping AMD for graphics, delivering Radeon Pro 5300M and 5500M options at launch. Today, the 16-inch MacBook Pro is getting an upgrade, with the Radeon Pro 5600M now available for the 16-inch MacBook Pro.  The AMD Radeon Pro 5600M …

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been hard at work to add support for the Vulcan 1.0 API to Raspberry Pi 4, and it has now shared the progress that has been made over the last few months. On January 31, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that it had started working on …

New information has come to light about Nvidia's RTX 3000 product series, including the specifications of three SKUs...

Announced at CES 2020, AMD SmartShift is a technology that dynamically shifts power between the CPU and GPU depending on the situation, which should enable higher performance. However, the technology is yet to really take off, and now the Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD has said that only one laptop model …

It has been three weeks since Nvidia officially unveiled its next-gen GPU architecture, codenamed ‘Ampere'. The A100 GPU has been announced but we have yet to see what variants will be used in new GeForce graphics cards. That may be starting to change, with new images reportedly showing the RTX …

According to a study made by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), AMD has shipped 553 million GPUs since 2013, with discrete graphics cards accounting for 36% of this figure...

Details about the next-gen Ryzen 5000 "Cezanne" and Ryzen 6000 "Rembrandt" APUs have leaked. These APUs will utilise Zen CPU cores alongside Vega/RDNA graphics, and will be used in both desktops and laptops...

Rumours and leaks have been ramping up at a steady pace about the next-gen of desktop GPUs and APUs. Now it has been announced that Nvidia, Intel and AMD will holds talks at technological symposium Hot Chips, scheduled for August 16-18 this year. Hot Chips has been held in August …

Graphic processing units can be very fast when executing specific tasks. However, not every application can harness the power of the GPU, but this week Adobe has announced that it will enable GPU hardware acceleration in a new update, making video encoding on Adobe Premiere Pro up to five times faster. …

Just a few days ago, we heard the news of Nvidia revealing its new A100 Tensor Core GPU and now Atos has announced that it has launched the first supercomputer equipped with the next-generation Nvidia Ampere architecture GPU. Atos new BullSequana X2415 is the first supercomputer in Europe to be …

After a lengthy wait, Nvidia's next GPU architecture, Ampere, has been unveiled.

AMD has unveiled its latest workstation graphics, the Radeon Pro VII. Designed for broadcast and engineering professionals, the Radeon Pro VII is capable of “delivering exceptional graphics and computational performance” while offering a number of unique features. The Radeon Pro VII was created to power broadcast and media projects, computer-aided engineering …