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AMD Pinky Promises FidelityFX Super Resolution Is Still on Track for 2021 Debut

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) AMD Radeon CVP and GM Scott Herkelman said in a video interview with PCWorld that FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), the company’s response to Nvidia DLSS, is “progressing very well internally” and that he believes it could debut later this year. Nvidia introduced DLSS in 2018 and released DLSS 2.0 in… Read more

HPE Briefly Lists 40-Core Ice Lake CPUs: Intel’s Next-Gen HEDT Chips Incoming?

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Hewlett Packard Enterprise briefly listed Intel’s 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Ice Lake-SP’ processors and inevitably revealed their specifications. As spotted by @9550pro, it turns out higher-end extreme core count (XCC) versions of these products will carry up to 40 cores, significantly more than expected a few months ago. For servers, such… Read more

Here’s where to buy AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card

AMD’s new Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU will be available to purchase today starting at 6AM PT / 9AM ET, with a retail price of $479.99. Like other GPUs released within the last few months, AMD’s latest Radeon RX graphics card will likely sell out quickly, though AMD tells The Verge that you should be… Read more

BIOS Updates Arrive to Fix AMD Ryzen’s USB Connectivity Issues

Home News (Image credit: SMZDM) Finally, AMD’s motherboard partners have begun rolling out new BIOS updates to fix the widespread USB stability and connectivity issues. However, the current revisions are still in Beta form, with final firmware revisions due in April. The firmware addresses widespread USB connectivity issues present on a number of Ryzen… Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Review

Introduction The Radeon RX 6700 XT is the new kid on the block from AMD, and arguably its most important RX 6000 series graphics card launched to date as it’s the most affordable (on paper) and targets the heart of the performance segment. The card is designed for high refresh-rate 1440p gaming and capable of… Read more

ASUS Radeon RX 6700 XT STRIX OC Review

Introduction We have with us the ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 6700 XT O12G, the company’s top custom-design RX 6700 XT graphics card. AMD today launched the RX 6700 XT along with the new Navi 22 silicon, to take the fight to NVIDIA’s sub-$500 performance segment, including popular SKUs such as the GeForce RTX 3060… Read more

MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming X Review

Introduction We have with us the MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming X, a premium custom-design graphics card based on the new RX 6700 XT AMD is debuting today. With this, AMD is taking the fight to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070, heating things up in the sub-$500 market segment. With the… Read more

Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro+ Review

Introduction Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro+ is the company’s most premium take on AMD’s new RX 6700 XT graphics card that’s debuting today. Positioned bang in the middle of the performance segment, with a starting price under $500, the RX 6700 XT launches AMD’s second, smaller silicon based on the RDNA2 architecture, and brings… Read more

XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT Merc 319 Black Review

Introduction XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT Speedster Merc 319 is the company’s premium custom-design Radeon RX 6700 XT card debuting today. With this, AMD intends to dominate the performance segment, taking the fight to popular NVIDIA Ampere SKUs such as the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and even RTX 3070. The card is targeted at serious… Read more

PowerColor RX 6700 XT Red Devil Review

Introduction PowerColor announced its top custom design AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, the RX 6700 XT Red Devil. After surprising everyone with competitive graphics cards in the enthusiast segment with the RX 6800 series and the flagship RX 6900 XT, AMD is turning its attention to the segment that earns NVIDIA the most… Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT review: Nvidia wins this round

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Unless AMD actually sells them for $479, of course AMD and Nvidia are pretending they live in a fantasy world, one where you can buy a state-of-the-art graphics card for under $700. Heck, a fantasy world where you can buy a new AMD GPU at all — though… Read more

DDR5-6400 RAM Benchmarks Show Major Performance Gains Over DDR4

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Shenzhen Longsys Electronics Co. Ltd, a Chinese NAND flash memory manufacturer, has demonstrated the power of its DDR5-6400 memory with one of Intel’s Alder Lake-S processors. The company’s results show that DDR5 will be an absolute delight for next-generation hardware. Longsys currently has two DDR5-6400 memory modules in development. The… Read more

Noctua Updates the NH-U12S as the Redux Product Line’s First CPU Cooler

Home News (Image credit: Noctua) Noctua today announced two new members of the Redux product line: An updated NH-U12S, the line’s first CPU cooler, and the NA-FK1 second fan kit to complement it. The company billed the NH-U12S Redux as “a streamlined, accessibly priced version” of the original cooler that features “the same proven heatsink… Read more

Geekbench Results Appear For Eight-Core Tiger Lake-H Processor

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Performance results for Intel’s unreleased eight-core Tiger Lake-H parts are already being posted online. Benchleaks shared Geekbench 5 scores of the upcoming Core i7-11800H Tiger Lake-H CPU with impressive results. Rumor has it that the Core i7-11800H will be one of Intel’s beefy 45W Tiger Lake-H parts featuring eight cores… Read more

Intel’s 11th Gen desktop chips are here with faster speeds but fewer cores

Intel’s next-generation desktop chips are finally here: after a brief preview at CES, the company is fully unveiling its 11th Gen Core desktop chips (better known by their codename, Rocket Lake-S.) Leading the pack is Intel’s new flagship chip, the Core i9-11900K, with eight cores, 16 threads, boosted clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, support for… Read more