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Xbox Series X stock will be scarce until June, warns Microsoft

Home News (Image credit: Future) Microsoft has admitted the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles could be in short supply until June 2021 or later. The company’s head of investor relations, Mike Spencer, told The New York Times that Microsoft company “sold every Xbox unit it had last quarter,” adding that supply is “likely… Read more

Intel’s Rocket Lake Core i9 Hits 98C and Gulps 250W, Just Like Comet Lake

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Unknown hardware enthusiasts have run a burn-in test on Intel’s 11th-Gen Rocket Lake processor to expose its power consumption under extreme loads and compare it to its predecessors from the Comet Lake-S family. It turns out the upcoming Core i9-11900KF CPUs can get extremely hot and power hungry under extreme… Read more

Free Open Source GPU Under Development for RISC-V

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The days of open-source GPUs may soon be upon us. The RISC-V architecture enables small companies to develop purpose-built processors and microcontrollers without paying a royalty. There are numerous free and commercial IP building blocks for RISC-V-based system-on-chips (SoCs), but the portfolio lacks a graphics option. This will change in a… Read more

Apple Wants More Macs in Businesses: Can It Take on Intel vPro, AMD Ryzen Pro?

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Having posted its all-time quarter record revenue of $111.4 billion this week, Apple is looking for ways to expand. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, sees selling Macs to businesses as one of the main growth opportunities for Apple, especially with the Apple M1 chip and its successors in tow. But with Intel appealing… Read more

The gorgeous Asus ROG Flow X13 will be $1,800 cheaper without its eGPU

The Asus ROG Flow X13 was one of the most-hyped announcements of CES 2021, with good reason — how often do you see a 13-inch convertible gaming laptop, especially one that looks so cool? — but there was a catch. On Asus’ store, the ROG Flow X13 was only listed in a $3,000 bundle with… Read more

Asus’ WRX80 Motherboard for AMD’s Threadripper Pro Is Surprisingly Cheap

Home News (Image credit: Asus) AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPUs for workstations are prohibitively expensive due to their exclusive capabilities and positioning. Asus this week announced the pricing of its AMD WRX80-based motherboard, and unlike the processors, the platform isn’t too costly by today’s standards. In Europe, it will carry a price tag that is significantly below a psychologically… Read more

How to Buy a Motherboard: A Guide for 2021

Home Buying Guides Choosing the best motherboard is in many ways the most integral part of your PC build, although choosing the best graphics card and best CPU often get more attention. Every part of your PC plugs into the motherboard you choose. Its form factor dictates the size of your computer and how much you can plug into… Read more

Samsung Exynos With AMD RDNA SoC Smashes A14 Bionic in Leaked GPU Benchmark

Home News (Image credit: YouTube) During the Exynos 2100 launch, Samsung revealed that the company was on track to deliver a Radeon equipped Exynos SoC relatively soon. However, it appears the timeline for this product has been accelerated; there are leaked reports of a new unnamed Exynos SoC with Radeon graphics smashing Apple’s A14 bionic… Read more

Razer’s new Viper 8K promises the fastest performance of any gaming mouse

Razer’s Viper 8K is a refresh of the 2019 true ambidextrous Viper. For the most part, it’s identical and is now available at the same $79 asking price, but it has some key upgrades for competitive gamers who are hoping that tech might help them get the edge over their opponents. First off, Razer now… Read more

AMD’s RDNA2 ‘Duty Cycle Scaling’ Shuts Down GPU to Meet TDP

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Modern CPU and GPU architectures support numerous features to temporarily boost performance or reduce power consumption. Some of these capabilities are advertised, others are not. AMD’s RDNA2 GPUs appear to support the so-called Duty Cycle Scaling (DCS) , according to a Linux patch discovered by Phoronix. DCS can momentarily turn off graphics… Read more

Industry Group Accuses Nvidia of Twisting TPCx-BB Benchmark Results

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), an industry consortium that develops performance benchmarks for servers and data centers and includes names like AMD, Intel, and IBM, has accused Nvidia of violating the TPC’s Fair Use Policy. To compare the performance of its GPUs against other machines, Nvidia presented results from workloads derived… Read more

Leaked Benchmarks From Core i9-Powered iMac Surface

Home News (Image credit: Apple) A mysterious system packing a Core i9-10910 Comet Lake CPU and a (currently unheard of) AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 65GB of RAM has been spotted on an Ashes of the Singularity benchmark score. All data indicates this system could possibly be a prototype for the next generation iMac… Read more

GDDR6X in 3080 and 3090 Hits 110C While Mining Ethereum

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Popular hardware monitoring tool HWInfo64 has just received a new update, version 6.42 that adds support for “GDDR6X Memory Junction Temperature.” This feature will allow you to check your VRAM temperature if you have a GDDR6X equipped Ampere card like the RTX 3080 or RTX 3090. This could be… Read more

Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 Graphics Cards Not Compatible with AMD, Older Systems

Home News (Image credit: Intel) As reported yesterday, Intel’s first discrete graphics cards for desktops in more than two decades will not be available at retail and will only be sold as parts of pre-built mainstream systems. Apparently, they will also only be compatible with select Intel platforms and will not work with AMD’s CPUs at all. … Read more

Tesla’s new Model S will apparently play Witcher 3 on a built-in 10 teraflop gaming rig

If you can’t find a PS5 or Xbox Series X, how about an $80,000 electric sports car with comparable performance? Tesla just announced its refreshed Model S today, and a new “Plaid” powertrain isn’t its only performance enhancement — the company claims the car can now compete with next-gen gaming consoles, thanks to a 10-teraflop… Read more