Tag: Computing Components
Let the games begin: after October the battle of the next-gen processors kicks off, so you might wanna hold off on building that new PC
Don’t buy a new PC until after October 25, 2024! Yes, I know that’s extremely specific, but I promise, it’ll all make sense shortly – as it seems like that date is when we’re going to finally know the truth of what’s in AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D box. It was…
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Intel’s already working on its 3rd-gen Celestial GPUs – but we’re still waiting for discrete 2nd-gen Battlemage graphics cards
Intel is already working on support for its Xe3 GPU architecture in Linux – even though Xe3, codenamed Celestial, won’t be used in any chips until late in 2025 (at the earliest) Indeed, Battlemage, Intel’s 2nd-gen Arc graphics, is only just here (in Lunar Lake laptops as the integrated GPU),…
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AMD Ryzen 9800X3D leak suggests a big leap in clock speeds – and a CPU shaping up to be Intel’s worst nightmare
A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak provides us with a tempting glimpse of some potentially major advances made by this next-gen CPU in terms of clock speeds for 3D V-Cache chips, where a large cache has been a considerable drag factor on the clock frequency achieved. Maybe that isn’t…
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Good news, gamers – AMD could launch a cheap Radeon GPU soon that may shake up the budget card market
Rumors about AMD’s Radeon GRE graphics cards aren’t anything new, but the latest whisperings on the tech grapevine may be revealing something big for the upcoming CES 2025 event. According to the latest leak from well-known hardware leaker Hoang Anh Phu (reported on by PCGamesN), we could be seeing an…
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Intel announces Core Ultra 200 series desktop CPUs, the first desktop AI processors on the market
Intel announced its newest desktop processors this week, the Intel Core Ultra 200 series, the first desktop processor with a built in NPU for AI workloads. The new processor series, previously known by its codename, Intel Arrow Lake, has been entirely rearchitected to focus on efficiency and performance-per-watt and features…
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Nvidia RTX 5070 could launch at CES 2025, and rumored spec – including 12GB of VRAM – means everyone hates this GPU already
Nvidia’s RTX 5070 is apparently going to be revealed at CES 2025, alongside the rumored RTX 5080 and 5090 next-gen graphics cards. This is a notable change in the way the rumor winds are blowing, as up until now, we’ve been hearing that it’s just the RTX 5080 and 5090…
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