Tag: Computing Components
AMD has a new trick to make games run smoother – but only for RX 7000 GPUs
All the focus has been on FSR 3 launching yesterday (finally), but AMD has also implemented a separate Fluid Motion Frame feature at a driver level, which aims to boost frame rates considerably using frame generation tech. What’s the difference between these technologies? We’ll come back to that in a…
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Easy cash for your old GPU? Newegg now offers trade-in deals, but don’t expect too much
Retailer Newegg is offering a new trade-in scheme in the US, where you can get some money for an old GPU when you’re buying a new graphics card. It works pretty much how you’d expect – find the upgrade of a graphics card you want, and then enter your existing…
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Intel Core i9-14900KF leak is good and bad news for those hoping for a speedy flagship CPU
Intel’s inbound Core i9-14900KF flagship has been spotted in a leaked benchmark which shows some impressive single-core performance, though the multi-threaded result isn’t quite such an eye-opener. As VideoCardz noticed, we’ve had some PassMark results pop up for the 14900KF (so not technically the 14900K, but pretty much identical –…
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Look out, Nvidia RTX 4070 – AMD’s RX 7800 XT GPU proves surprisingly fast when power usage is dropped
AMD’s RX 7800 XT – currently our best graphics card of the moment – can be run with considerably less power usage than the default, without affecting performance to a huge extent, it seems. That’s the conclusion of Techtesters, a YouTube channel (from The Netherlands) which conducted testing on a…
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Intel announces new Core Ultra CPU with AI processing engine coming in December
Intel announced its newest processors, the Intel Core Ultra series, during the Intel Innovation keynote on Tuesday, which it says will usher in the age of the “AI PC” later this year when the chip hits the market. The new Intel processors, codenamed Meteor Lake, will be the company’s first…
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Apple A17 Pro is a match for Intel and AMD CPUs, and this is great news for Apple M3
Newly leaked benchmark scores for Apple’s A17 Pro system-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones reveal that it can challenge AMD and Intel’s processors in Geekbench 6. According to Apple’s A17 Pro scores in Geekbench 6’s single-core test, it scored within 10% of AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel’s Core i9-13900K processors. The…
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