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It seems the next generation of AMD Radeon Pro graphics card is getting ready to hit the market. A leaker has posted pictures of an undisclosed engineering sample of an AMD Radeon Pro workstation graphics card, showing what seems to be the first workstation card powered by the RDNA2 GPU …

After Intel's Ice Lake announcement, it's time for Sapphire Rapids to come into the spotlight. A detailed leak about the upcoming data centre platform has just emerged, suggesting that Sapphire Rapids will be quite the upgrade compared to Ice Lake, with the upcoming Xeons set to feature 64GB of HBM2 …

Pictures of an engineering sample of Intel's Xe-HPG with 512 EUs have emerged, alongside some of the GPU's expected specifications. In terms of rumoured performance, the leaker behind these images has said that the Xe-HPG with 512 EUs "should be treated like an RTX 3070 Ti"...

In a surprise move this week, AMD released more reference Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards in a new ‘Midnight Black' colour scheme. AMD Red Team members were tipped off with an email but as you would expect in the current market, all stock sold out pretty much immediately.  As …

We have a new world record holder for the fastest DDR4 memory. This week, HyperX announced that its 4600MHz Predator memory has been successfully overclocked to a whopping 7156MHz, the highest frequency achieved to date. HyperX is of course the gaming division of Kingston and has served the memory market …

As we learned yesterday, the Oculus Rift line of VR headsets is no more. Once current units of the Rift S are gone, there will be no more stock and we're unlikely to see a Rift 2. Interestingly, a Rift 2 had been developed and was nearing production, but Facebook …

Last month, Nvidia and Blizzard announced plans to add Nvidia Reflex technology into Overwatch, which can reduce input latency by up to a whopping 50 percent for PC players. After a couple of weeks of testing in Overwatch's Public Test Realm servers, Reflex is officially rolling out to all Overwatch …

The new generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processor has officially launched. Based on the Ice Lake architecture, the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors bring up to a 46% performance uplift compared to the previous generation.

Gigabyte has listed eight new X570S motherboards on the EEC database. According to some sources, this new chipset is linked to the rumoured Zen 3+ refresh, although others claim that this is just a more efficient fanless version of the X570 chipset.  According to a report from VideoCardz, the Gigabyte X570S …

Shortly after announcing the Oculus Quest 2 last year, Facebook confirmed that the new standalone VR headset would replace the original Quest and eventually, the Rift S too. We're now coming to the end of the Oculus Rift S life cycle, with Facebook confirming that it will no longer be …

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It looks like we'll be getting new Ryzen Threadripper processors in Q3 2021. New reports this week indicate that Ryzen Threadripper 5000 series processors, codenamed "Chagall", will be launching in August. 

After a “driverless” release, Intel has added support for Rocket Lake's iGPU with its latest graphics driver release. The driver supporting Rocket Lake's Xe graphics was issued in early March, but until recently, the description did not mention any support for the newly released Intel 11th Gen Core desktop processors.  …

Back when Nvidia released RTX Voice, some users found a way to get the software working with GTX graphics cards. As it turns out, Nvidia actually quietly rolled out official support for non-RTX GPUs several months ago after pivoting its attention to Nvidia Broadcast, but few have noticed this.  As …

AMD has published a document warning that Zen 3-based processors may be targeted by side-channel attacks. As per its description, this vulnerability is similar to Spectre, which plagued Intel processors three years ago. AMD Zen 3 core architecture features a new technology that improves performance by predicting the “relationship between loads …

AMD is planning to introduce an active bridge chiplet with integrated cache on an upcoming GPU architecture. A new patent filed by the company has been spotted describing the use of the active bridge chiplet, which seems to offer a significant upgrade over the passive bridge chiplet design showed earlier …

Around three hundred Nvidia CMP 30HX mining cards have been seized by Hong Kong Customs. The new GPUs are intended to be used for cryptocurrency mining, but there is a ban on crypto mining farms in some Chinese regions.  The initial news came from MyDrivers, which reported the seizure of …

We test the performance of three RTX 3080 water blocks so you don't have to!

New reports point to a possible refresh of Intel's Tiger Lake-U and H35 series. Unannounced Tiger Lake-U processors have appeared on laptop product pages, we have also seen specifications for unreleased Tiger Lake-H35 processors. Notebookcheck's database has been updated with two new Tiger Lake-H35 processors: the Intel Core i7-11390H and …

It looks like Intel seemingly forgot to release graphics drivers for its new 11th Gen Core “Rocket Lake-S” processors. The Intel UHD graphics 750 drivers and software page is currently empty, although there is a workaround for this using Windows Update. The news was shared by AdoredTV, who noticed the …

We’ve had Ryzen 5000 series processors available for quite some time now, but we have yet to see the launch of AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 5000G APU series. It looks like we won’t have to wait much longer, however, as the product data sheet containing the specs for AMD’s upcoming APUs …

NZXT tries its hand at a B550 motherboard - but is it successful?

A new leak has surfaced, giving us more early details for Nvidia's upcoming RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti GPUs for laptops. A new report this week is claiming details on specifications and more importantly, performance, with comparisons between the RTX 3050 and other Nvidia laptop GPUs.  According to Notebookcheck, …

Both Intel and AMD have been using different standards to name their process nodes. At first glance, Intel's 10nm process node might seem inferior to TSMC's 7nm, leaving Intel looking like it has a less advanced node when both have a similar density. To avoid these comparisons, Intel is planning …

Can Intel's i5-11600K prove more competitive than the i9-11900K?

Yesterday, Nvidia began rolling out a fairly major GeForce driver update, bringing a bunch of new gaming-oriented features and optimisations. One new feature wasn't mentioned though – this driver also adds beta support for GPU passthrough on GeForce GPUs. With this, users can utilise a physical GPU to run games on …

AMD has submitted a new patch to AMKFD revealing the L1, L2, and L3 cache specifications of the Navi 23 GPU, the upcoming Ryzen “Van Gogh” APUs, and the “Aldebaran” Compute Accelerator. The last note added by AMD to the AMKFD (via @Kepler_L2), a Linux HSA kernel driver for AMD …

Mushkin is in the headlines this week with two new SSD lines. With its Gamma series, Mushkin is the latest storage manufacturer launching PCIe 4.0 SSDs with maximum read speeds above 7,000MB/s. Additionally, the company also launched the Delta SSD series, offering a supposedly cheaper PCIe 4.0 SSD solution while keeping …

This is the third RX 6700 XT we've reviewed, but can it compete with the Sapphire Nitro+?

We've been sent a whole range of MSI motherboards, from the (relatively) lowly MAG B560 Tomahawk WiFi at £170, all the way up to the Z590 ACE. Leo gives us the lowdown on these five different motherboards while also taking a look at MSI's rather fancy MPG Core Liquid K360 AIO cooler...