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TSMC to Start Dedicating New Capacity to Auto Chips First

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) In a move that flies in the face of our new telecommuting-heavy culture, TSMC will apparently be prioritizing automobile chip production as we move into 2021. This news comes from the Taiwan Economics Ministry (via Reuters) and was announced a day after a meeting between Minister Wang Mei-hua and the… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus RGB Memory DDR4-3600 C18 2x8GB Review: Unexpected Strong Performer

Our Verdict Gigabyte’s Aorus RGB Memory DDR4-3600 C18 is a very nice memory kit that’s thwarted by a high price tag and limited availability. For Excellent performance Faster than the similarly-specced competition Against Too expensive Little room for overclocking Lighting requires proprietary software In today’s world, computer hardware vendors have to venture into new markets… Read more

Hitman 3 Benchmarks and Performance

Home News (Image credit: IO Interactive) Hitman 3 just launched, and IO Interactive’s latest stealth assassination sandbox game has garnered high ratings from many publications — PC Gamer gives it a 90, for example. But what sort of hardware do you need to run the game properly? We’ve grabbed a copy from the Epic Games… Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Defeats Intel Tiger Lake in Early Benchmarks

Home News (Image credit: AMD) The first alleged independent benchmark results of AMD’s recently introduced eight-core Ryzen 9 5980HS “Cezanne” laptop processors have been published. AMD’s Zen 3-based chip uses integrated Radeon graphics, and, according to the new numbers, beats its predecessor and Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake in single- and multi-core workloads, as well… Read more

DIYer Builds Bootleg AMD Threadripper Laptop

Home News (Image credit: YouTube) Putting an AMD Threadripper HEDT chip inside a laptop might sound strange, but someone was determined to make it a reality. As spotted by Hackaday, Jeff from the Excursion Gear YouTube channel went the extra mile with his DIY laptop, by including a 16-core, 32-thread AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 1950X. To… Read more

Intel Core i9-11900K Spotted at 5.3Ghz, Beating Zen 3 in Single-Core Performance

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Hardware detective APISAK spotted Intel’s Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K running full blast at 5.3Ghz (single-core) in Geekbench 5 and PassMark. Surprisingly, the chip manages to beat all of AMD’s Zen 3 parts in the single-threaded tests. This somewhat verifies what we saw at CES 2021 where Intel showed its 11900K… Read more

Best Cheap CPUs of 2021, Tested and Ranked

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) AMD’s Ryzen 3000 and Athlon processors (including the unlocked $49 Athlon 3000G) have shaken up the low-cost landscape and made a splash on our CPU Benchmark Hierarchy, but crushing shortages of chips has gripped the industry, which impacts the low end of the market in a particularly painful way. So… Read more

Intel Core i9-11900K @ 5.3 GHz beats competitors in Geekbench. Here comes the single thread performance leader

Upcoming 11. the generation of Intel Core processors promises to be very intriguing. So far, the results of the engineering samples of the new chips have promised a big leap in performance, but the grain of uncertainty in this topic has been sown by the recent leaks on the 6-core Core i5 model – 11400… Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX tops the laptop and portable CPU ranking on PassMark

Home / Component / CPU / AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX tops the laptop and portable CPU ranking on PassMark João Silva 57 mins ago CPU, Featured Announcement, Laptop / Mobile The PassMark CPU Mark ranking for laptop and portable CPUs has a new entry in the number one spot. The Ryzen 9 5900HX is the… Read more

Passmark: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX dominates Intel competition in benchmarks

AMD recently introduced one of its new top models of the mobile Ryzen series, the Ryzen 9 5900 HX before. The first benchmark results are now available. And they can all be seen, both in single-core use and when using all cores, the Ryzen 9 lands 5900 HX ahead of the Intel competition and takes… Read more

RTX 2070 with 16 GB of memory? There are those who have tried the 'do it yourself'

A Russian youtuber tried to double the VRAM of the RTX 2070, taking it from 8 to 16 GB. By removing the 1 GB Micron chips and soldering 2 GB Samsung memory, he managed to create an unprecedented solution that worked (or almost). by Manolo De Agostini published 22 January 2021 , at 10: 21… Read more

Intel confirms the arrival of its 7 nanometers by 2023

by Antonio Delgado Ago 20 minutes ago … In his fourth quarter financial results conference, Bob Swan, an executive who held the title of CEO of the company during that period, commented that its first processors manufactured at 7 nanometers will arrive during the year 2023 , at which point most of its processors and… Read more

AMD released new Radeon Software 20.1.1 drivers for its graphics cards and APUs

AMD’s new drivers bring official support for the Quake II RTX and Hitman 3, the latter of which promises to improve performance at its best 10%. AMD has released new drivers for its graphics cards and APUs. Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 21 1.1 drivers are available for Windows 7 and 10 operating systems and… Read more

View 40: Honor shows first smartphone after separation from Huawei

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor has presented its first smartphone after separating from Huawei. The View 40 has so far only been announced for the Chinese market, but could also come onto the market in Europe at a later date. Huawei had deported its former subsidiary brand Honor last November. The Chinese tech giant justified… Read more

2020 was profitable for Intel, but problems are looming ahead

Intel has published the figures for the fourth quarter and the full year 2020. For the fifth year in a row, the chip giant can report a sales record. In the fourth quarter, sales were exactly 20 billion US dollars, which is about 200 Millions below the result a year ago, but is still a… Read more