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AMD Debuts FidelityFX Super Resolution to Take on DLSS at Computex

Home News (Image credit: AMD) After a long wait , AMD has finally introduced FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), the company’s upscaling technology to rival Nvidia’s machine learning-powered DLSS. It was introduced during AMD chief executive Dr. Lisa Su’s virtual keynote address at Computex, which is being held online this year. The new feature will launch… Read more

AMD announces the Radeon RX 6000M series with RDNA 2 architecture

AMD has announced its long-awaited Radeon RX 6000M series of mobile GPUs, featuring its RDNA 2 architecture. Today’s release consists of three chips: the RX 6800M (configurable at 145W and above), the RX 6700M (up to 135W), and the RX 6600M (up to 100W). AMD says the flagship 6800M delivers the fastest AMD graphics for… Read more

Watch AMD’s Computex 2021 Keynote Live Here at 7pm PT, 10pm ET Tonight

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to deliver the Computex 2021 “AMD Accelerating – The High-Performance Computing Ecosystem” keynote tonight, May 31, 2021. Due to the global pandemic, Computex is an all-virtual event, but the activities, such as the AMD keynote, are scheduled to occur on Taipei time. As… Read more

Short on Memory? TeamGroup Announces 256GB RAM Kit

Home News T-Force Xtreem ARGB (Image credit: TeamGroup) TeamGroup’s Xtreem ARGB memory, which holds a spot on our list of best RAM, now arrives with a kit capacity up to 256GB. Conscious that not everyone chases speed, the memory vendor has cooked up a big memory kit for Intel and AMD HEDT owners that want… Read more

ASRock’s AMD X300TM Thin Mini-ITX Motherboard Has USB-C & COM Ports

Home News (Image credit: ASRock) In a world where the vast majority of all-in-one and small form-factor PCs rely on proprietary motherboards, the Thin Mini-ITX form-factor is not particularly widespread, making it difficult for PC shops and DIY enthusiasts to build AIO and SFF computers. However, Thin-Mini-ITX motherboards are not going the way of the… Read more

XPG to Release New DDR5 ‘Caster’ RGB Memory Kits Later This Year

Home News (Image credit: TechPowerUp) Memory maker Adata is preparing to release its first-ever DDR5 memory modules aimed at the gaming market, possibly adding a new tier to our list of Best RAM. Adata will release these new DDR5 modules under the new ‘Caster’ series branding. The kits will come in three capacities, including 8GB,… Read more

AMD Zen 4 ‘Raphael’ CPU Renders Show Fascinating Design

Home News AMD Zen 4 CPU (Image credit: ExecutableFix/Twitter) ExecutableFix, the leaker with an excellent track record that brought us the first news of AMD’s Zen 4 chips, has shared some homemade renders of how the processors may look based on his knowledge of the silicon. Because these are unofficial renders, and even the author… Read more

Intel at Computex 2021: New Tiger Lake Processors, Beast Canyon NUC, 5G Chips

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel kicked off Computex 2021 by adding two new flagship 11th-Gen Tiger Lake U-series chips to its stable, including a new Core i7 model that’s the first laptop chip for the thin-and-light segment that boasts a 5.0 GHz boost speed. As you would expect, Intel also provided plenty of benchmarks… Read more

Intel’s Xe-HPG DG2 Graphics Card Pictured: Big, Green and Power Hungry

Home News (Image credit: Intel) YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead has published what it claims to be one of the first images of Intel’s upcoming enthusiast-grade DG2-series graphics card based on the Xe-HPG architecture (possibly codenamed ‘Niagara Falls’). The board does look like a graphics card, but it doesn’t have any Intel logotypes (they might… Read more

Intel Secretly Launches 65W B-Series Tiger Lake Desktop CPUs (Updated)

Home News Intel Tiger Lake Processor (Image credit: Intel) Update 28/05/2021 3:13 pm PT: Intel has provided us with the following statement that sheds more light on the latest Tiger Lake desktop processors: “Intel has partnered with customers interested in expanding their product portfolio with enthusiast, small form-factor desktop designs. The Intel Core i9-11900KB processor… Read more

AMD and Nvidia to Power Four ExaFLOPS Supercomputer

Home News (Image credit: NERSC) The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) this week announced its new supercomputer that will combine deep learning and simulation computing capabilities. The Perlmutter system will use AMD’s top-of-the-range 64-core EPYC 7763 processors as well as Nvidia’s A100 compute GPUs to push out up to 180… Read more

Marvell’s New PCIe 5.0 SSD Controllers Have 14 TB/s of Throughput

Home News (Image credit: Marvell) Marvell has introduced the industry’s first SSD controllers for NVMe 1.4b-compliant drives that will feature a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. The Bravera SC5 controllers are designed primarily for bandwidth and performance-hungry servers used in cloud data centers. They will provide up to 14 TB/s throughput as well as up to… Read more

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti’s Final Specs May Have Just Been Leaked

Home News GeForce RTX 3080 (Image credit: Nvidia) After months of build-up, we finally see a GPU-Z validation (courtesy of Matthew Smith) for Nvidia’s looming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. Barring any last-second surprises, the information from the validation entry should be the final specifications for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. If you haven’t… Read more

AMD’s Zen 5 CPUs, APUs Will Likely Tap TSMC’s 3nm Process Node

Home News AMD Ryzen Processor (Image credit: AMD) AMD’s Zen 4 processors haven’t even launched yet, and rumors are already emerging about the chipmaker’s future Zen 5 chips. Given the time frame that we expect for the Zen 5 chips to debut, the information from the leaks makes sense. Nevertheless, we still recommend you approach… Read more

Acer Swift X initial review: Enter the fast lane

(Pocket-lint) – Acer is entering the fast lane with its Swift line, by introducing the discreet looking Swift X – but it packs a punch, as it includes discrete graphics in the form of Nvidia’s RTX 3050 or 3050Ti under the hood. It’s not the first time we’ve seen Acer step towards a more graphically… Read more