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AMD Zen4/5 “extremely competitive”, RDNA3 to bring similar perf-per-watt improvements as RDNA2

Home / Component / CPU / AMD Zen4/5 “extremely competitive”, RDNA3 to bring similar perf-per-watt improvements as RDNA2 João Silva 14 mins ago CPU, Featured Tech News, Graphics Now that Zen 3 processors and Navi 2x GPUs have been released, we can expect AMD will be hard at work on the company’s upcoming CPU and… Read more

SAPPHIRE announces new mining rig in partnership with Cudo

Dominic Moass 2 hours ago Featured Tech News, Graphics There’s been a recent surge in Bitcoin prices, reaching almost £30,000 last week. Sapphire could be looking to capitalise on this, as the company has just announced the new INCA EP-10 GPU Mining Solution, which can support up to 10 graphics cards. Shipping with CudoOS mining software… Read more

TSMC Preps for 3nm Risk Production

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said this week that it would significantly increase its capital expenditures this year as it needs to build and equip new fabs to ramp up its existing and next-generation leading-edge process technologies. Demand for advanced fabrication nodes is on the rise. In Q4 2020, revenue for… Read more

Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO

Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, doesn’t start his new role until February, but he’s already prepping the company to take on Apple’s M1 chips. The Oregonian, a local newspaper in Oregon where Intel maintains a large presence, reports that the chip maker held an all-hands company meeting yesterday, and Gelsinger attended. “We have to deliver… Read more

DisplayPort 2.0 monitors? Late, and it's the fault of the pandemic

DisplayPort 2.0 monitors should have debuted by the end 2020, but the problems created by the pandemic have slowed development by at least a year. Meanwhile, the manufacturers are focusing on HDMI 2.1. by Manolo De Agostini published 15 January 2021 , at 12: 41 in the Peripherals channel Although almost two years have passed… Read more

Best of CES 2021: Laptops from Microsoft, Lenovo, HP, Acer and more

(Pocket-lint) – CES takes place every January – typically in Las Vegas – and while it’s back for 2021, it’s all-digital instead. So while we’ve not been rushing around any real show floors this year, there’s been a lot of virtual running around instead. It’s been a bumper year for laptops at CES 2021, too,… Read more

Nvidia has reportedly delayed the RTX 3080 Ti ‘indefinitely’

João Silva 2 hours ago Featured Tech News, Graphics Initially delayed from January to February, it seems that the Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti has been postponed once again, this time ‘indefinitely’. Besides the RTX 3080 Ti, an alleged refresh of the RTX 30 series SKUs has also been put on hold. According to GamersNexus’ sources,… Read more

Intel NUC 11: Tiger Lake migrates to mini PCs

Intel has updated its NUC series. This includes the Phantom Canyon models with dedicated graphics, but also the Tiger Canyon business solution, the simple home user solution Panther Canyon and finally the compute element intended for the industrial sector. Overall equips Intel 44 NUC models with the new Tiger Lake processors, which differ in terms… Read more

Pandemic delays DisplayPort 2.0

The products with DisplayPort 2.0 originally planned for the end of last year are delayed. Monitors are being developed, but could not be widely tested as usual due to the coronavirus pandemic. The first DisplayPort 2.0-compliant products should come on the market this year. Die Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has already specified the DisplayPort… Read more

Team Group T-Create Classic 10L DDR4-3200 MHz CL22 2×32 GB Review

Introduction With memory prices falling, now is a great time to be looking for memory upgrades. Fall 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 have to worry about memory compatibility or… Read more

QHD screens might be the best thing to happen to gaming laptops in 2021

One of the biggest announcements at CES 2021 seemed to come and go without much fanfare. Overshadowed by Nvidia’s debut of its RTX 3000-series graphics chips for laptops, you might have missed hearing that a growing number of manufacturers are finally building fast-refreshing QHD screens into their portable gaming machines. Standalone QHD (1440p) monitors are… Read more

Ryzen 9 5900HS in ROG Flow X13 Shows on Geekbench

Home News (Image credit: Asus) A Geekbench 5 score for another Zen 3 based Ryzen mobile processor has leaked for AMD’s new Ryzen 9 5900HS in Asus’ newly announced ROG Flow X13 gaming laptop. It’s a very thin 2-in-1 gaming device with an external GPU dock that features an RTX 3080. Ryzen 9 5900HS Geekbench… Read more

Tom’s Hardware CES 2021 Awards: Hot New Hardware for the Year Ahead

Home News (Image credit: Asus, Lenovo, LG, Thermaltake, Razer, MSI, Nvidia, EVGA. iBuyPower, AMD and Shutterstock) Let’s be honest. This wasn’t the CES anyone wanted. We’ve been covering North America’s largest tech show for years, so we can definitively say that, without in-person booths and demos, it’s just not the same. The most interesting things… Read more

Intel Enables Memory Overclocking On H570 and B560 Chipsets

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) With its 500-series chipsets, Intel has finally broken tradition and enabled memory overclocking on a non-Z chipset. For this generation, motherboards that leverage the H570 or B560 chipset will allow consumers to use memory that’s faster than the official supported specification for Rocket Lake-S. Intel’s latest move may look insignificant… Read more

EK-AIO Basic and EK-AIO Elite Aurum: basic models and bling-bling edition

EK Water Blocks still primarily stands for self-made water cooling, but the range of EK-AiO cooling continues to grow. This is proven by two freshly presented basic models – and a special edition for buyers who are looking for a special look. After EK-AIO D-RGB and EK-AIO Elite D-RGB is the EK -AIO-Basic series is… Read more