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Steam survey suggests Nvidia’s RTX 3070 is actually trickling into the hands of gamers

Now that the street price of an Nvidia RTX 3070 is over $1,200, it’s temping to think scalpers, bots and cryptocurrency miners got them all — but the latest Steam Hardware Survey suggests at least some of them are making their way into gaming PCs, too. As TechSpot reports, the 3070 in particular appears to… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX 3070 Out-Sold Every Other GPU in March of 2021

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Despite the massive graphics card shortage taking place right now, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 has somehow made it up the ranks in Steam’s hardware survey and racked in an additional 0.17% of market share in under a month. Which makes Nvidia’s RTX 3070 seemingly the most popular graphics card purchased… Read more

Next-Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper Might Be Coming Soon

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD’d next-generation Ryzen Threadripper might be coming soon, according to the latest patch notes for the popular HWiNFO diagnostic suite. Realix, the developer behind HWiNFO, said earlier today that the upcoming version of the software will improve its work with AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro as well as “next-generation Ryzen Threadripper”… Read more

Steam Survey Reveals: 6-Core and 8-Core CPUs Are More Popular Than Ever

Home News (Image credit: JCET Group) Sourced from Twitter; The day has finally come where higher core count six-core and eight-core CPUs are ready to overtake aging dual-core and quad-core solutions in market share. Thanks to Steam’s hardware survey, we are able to get precise details on how popular both AMD and Intel’s hexacore and… Read more

Gigabyte Resurrects GeForce GT 1030: Pascal Returns, Again

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) How badly do people want a standalone graphics card even though modern integrated GPUs offer decent performance and media playback capabilities? Apparently a lot, as discrete GPU vendors are resurrecting their ancient entry-level products and returning them to store shelves. CFD (via Hermitage Akihabara), a store in Japan, has restarted selling Gigabyte’s… Read more

Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 GPU Is Seemingly Slower Than The Radeon RX 550

Home News Asus DG1-4G (Image credit: Intel) The first benchmark (via Tum_Apisak) of Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 is out. The graphics card’s performance is in the same ballpark as AMD’s four-year-old Radeon RX 550 – at least in the Basemark GPU benchmark. If we compare manufacturing processes, the DG1 is obviously the more advanced offering…. Read more

Asus Prepares for Another Round of Graphics Card Price Hikes

Home News (Image credit: Asus) Shortages on the best graphics cards — and really, any graphics card — as well as other components will persist through the end of the year, which is why GPU vendors are preparing to hike the prices of their products once again. Asus reportedly intends to increase its prices for… Read more

Razer May Finally Launch Its First AMD Gaming Laptop

Home News Razer Blade 14 (Image credit: Razer) Razer has been a loyal supporter of Team Blue. However, the tech giant may have finally bitten the bullet and joined up with Team Red. If the recently discovered 3DMark submissions (via _rogame) are accurate, Razer will release the company’s first-ever AMD-powered gaming laptop soon. The mysterious… Read more

NVIDIA PCI-Express Resizable BAR Performance Test – 22 Games, 3 Resolutions, RTX 3090, 3080, 3070, 3060 Ti

Introduction Through its GeForce 465 driver update, NVIDIA formally introduced the PCI-Express Resizable BAR feature to its GeForce RTX 30-series “Ampere” graphics cards. This feature was invented by PCI-SIG, custodians of the PCI-Express bus, but only became relevant for the PC when AMD decided to re-brand it as “AMD Smart Access Memory” (which we separately… Read more

ASROCK Z590 Phantom Gaming Velocita Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 APU Specifications Revealed

Home News AMD Ryzen 5000 Processor (Image credit: AMD) HP México has inadvertently revealed the specifications for AMD’s forthcoming Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) desktop APUs. Hardware detective momomo_us spotted the details in a document for the HP Pavilion gaming desktop TG01-2003ns. AMD has been diligently transitioning its entire processor portfolio over to the latest Zen 3… Read more

Cisco CEO Expects Chip Shortage to Last Longer than a Year

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Here’s some bad news: Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told Yahoo Finance Live today that he thinks it could take “a couple years” for the ongoing chip shortage to finally end. Here’s some worse news: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger agreed with Robbins. “We can’t build fabs overnight,” he told Yahoo, “it… Read more

LG Gram 16 review: Large-yet-lightweight laptop delivers big

(Pocket-lint) – The LG Gram 16 is never going to make sense to some people. For many, a large-screen laptop has to be a super-powered desktop-replacer. And if it’s not, why does it exist? LG’s Gram series has quietly challenged that view for the last few years. And the LG Gram 16 should make this… Read more

Ice Giant Prosiphon Elite Review: Catch the Biggest Air

Our Verdict Performing as well as premium air cooling and costing less than expensive 360 AIOs, the IceGiant ProSiphon Elite makes for an interesting alternative for high-end performance builds. Standing tall as a monstrous, monolithic cooling solution with a commanding presence, the IceGiant ProSiphon Elite shows that big air really doesn’t get any bigger than… Read more

New AMD Adrenalin Driver Adds Support For Dirt 5’s Ray Tracing Update

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Yesterday, AMD release a new Adrenalin driver to the public, version 21.3.2 with support for several new titles including Dirt 5, along with several bug fixes. Specifically, driver 21.3.2 adds support for Dirt 5‘s new DirectX Raytracing (DXR) update. Dirt 5 originally launched late last year, and CodeMasters worked with… Read more