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Why is AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution Taking So Long To Develop?

Home News (Image credit: YouTube) AMD has kept its new DLSS competitor, FidelityFX Super Resolution, under the radar for quite some time now. Making us wonder what is going on with the technology. Fortunately, LinusTechTips received some insider knowledge from AMD as to why the supersampling tech is taking so long to develop. Apparently, AMD… Read more

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL DDR4-3600 MHz CL18 2×8 GB Review

Introduction With memory prices at one of the lowest points in years, now is a great time to be looking for memory upgrades. Summer hardware releases are in full swing, there is competition from both Intel and AMD, and the Red brand has thoroughly fixed the memory issues of generations past. No longer do users… Read more

MSI MEG Z590 Ace Review: New Ace in Town

Home News (Image credit: MSI) While we still don’t have an Intel Rocket Lake-S Core i9-11900K CPU to use for testing, Intel Z590 boards have been rolling in. So while we await benchmark results, we’ll be walking in detail through the features of these brand-new boards. First up on our bench was the ASRock Z590… Read more

TSMC Rumored to Increase Capacity of Arizona Fab

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. outlined plans to build a fab in the U.S., it set a rather modest production capacity goal of around 20,000 wafer starts per month (WSPM). Nowadays chipmakers tend to build larger fabs in a bid to minimize their costs per wafer. But according to a… Read more

Intel Copies AMD’s Memory Overclocking Approach With Rocket Lake CPUs

Home News CPU IMC : DRAM Clock (Image credit: Chiphell) Intel’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake processors aren’t due until March 30. However, some retailers are already shipping out orders. One user from the Chiphell forums has gotten his hands on a retail Core i7-11700K, and it would appear that Intel is using a similar memory… Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Specs, Pricing, and Launch Date Revealed

Home News We now have official specs for the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, yet another poorly kept secret in the land of GPUs you can’t actually buy. We’ve been expecting Navi 22 to join the ranks of the best graphics cards and land somewhere near the RTX 3060 Ti in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy… Read more

AMD is bringing Smart Access Memory’s frame rate boosts to Ryzen 3000 processors

The bar has just been lowered (in a good way!) for Resizable BAR, the PCI-Express graphics feature that lets CPUs directly access a GPU’s onboard memory to improve gaming frame rates. That’s because AMD just announced it’s bringing the tech to its last-gen Ryzen 3000 series processors, not just the new Ryzen 5000 chips that… Read more

Watch AMD’s Radeon Gaming Livestream Here at 11am ET, 8am PT

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Following the launch of its RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6900 XT graphics cards a few months back, AMD is back again with yet another GPU launch — and it’s happening in just under 3 hours. You can watch the event live here at 11am ET, 8am PT, in… Read more

Cryptominers Prop Up the Gaming Notebook Market: Report

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Gaming notebook manufacturers may have found a new ally: cryptocurrency miners. DigiTimes today reported that the ongoing GPU shortage has led miners in China, Taiwan, and South Korea to purchase laptops featuring RTX 30 series graphics. The lack of available RTX 30 series graphics cards is only part of the… Read more

How to watch AMD’s event introducing the next Radeon RX 6000 GPU

AMD is holding a hardware event today, March 3rd, where the company plans to announce the next graphics card in its Radeon RX 6000 series. This will serve as the fourth GPU in the RX 6000 line, following the GPU’s debut in November. Like the other three cards, the new Radeon RX 6000 GPU will… Read more

Samsung QN95A Neo QLED 4K TV review: Mini LED makes its stunning debut

(Pocket-lint) – Samsung’s Neo QLED TVs employ a revolutionary new LED backlight that’s significantly smaller and more efficient than previous generations. This enables the manufacturer to squeeze extra LEDs behind the panel, allowing for increased dimmable zones and greater precision. This approach is generally referred to as Mini LED, and should not be confused with… Read more

Analysts Forecast TSMC To Double 5nm Output This Year

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Earlier this year Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. outlined plans to increase its CapEx budget to $25 billion ~ $28 billion in 2021, many industry observers attributed the increase to building out 3-nm capacities in preparation to produce CPUs for Intel and other large customers. This is not quite the case,… Read more

Samsung QE65QN95A

Our Verdict Samsung’s first Neo QLED is a force to be reckoned with, and the greatest threat yet to the dominance of OLED For Superbly bright, punchy and sharp Exhaustive feature set Lovely design Against Artificial boost to dark detail Reticence with extreme contrast Still no Dolby Vision This year looks very much like the… Read more

Intel Ordered to Pay $2.2 Billion in Damages for Patent Infringement

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) A federal jury in Waco, Texas, ruled today that Intel must pay $2.18 billion in damages to VLSI, a semiconductor design firm, for violating two of its patents. Damages for one patent violation weigh in at $1.5 billion, while the other totals $675 million. The broader case is still ongoing,… Read more

Asus Launches First AMD B550 Thunderbolt 4 Motherboard

Home News ProART B550-Creator (Image credit: Asus) Asus just announced the ProART B550-Creator, the first AM4 motherboard to come with Thunderbolt 4 support. The motherboard will be available next month with a price tag of $299. Like its other ProART motherboards, the ProART B550-Creator arrives with a minimalistic design that features a black exterior accented… Read more