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Average GPU Pricing Skyrockets as Market Quadruples to $12.1 Billion, Report Says

Home News (Image credit: MSI) Discrete GPU suppliers for desktop PCs nearly quadrupled the cash they raked in during Q1 2021 compared to this time last year. That’s due to the skyrocketing increases in average selling prices (ASPs), according to Jon Peddie Research. Nvidia retained its leadership and outsold its rival AMD four-to-one in the discrete… Read more

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AMD’s Instinct MI200 GPU Uses Multi-Chip Design for Exascale Supercomputer

Home News (Image credit: AMD) A recent Linux patch posted by AMD reveals that the company’s Instinct MI200 next-generation compute GPU, codenamed ‘Aldebaran,’ will use a multi-chip module (MCM) design. That means the GPU will come with two dies in a single chip package instead of the single die we’re accustomed to with standard GPUs…. Read more

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Graphics Memory Prices Expected to Increase Next Quarter

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Just when you thought things were as bad in the GPU market as they could be, something new pops up. Demand for gaming graphics cards, game consoles, and GPUs used for mining cryptocurrencies have driven prices of graphics cards and graphics memory to new heights in recent months, but according… Read more

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Review: More Bandwidth, More Power, More Money

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti continues the Ampere architecture rollout, which powers the GPUs behind many of the best graphics cards. Last week Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, a card that we felt increased the price too much relative to the next step down. RTX 3070… Read more

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition Review

Introduction The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is the company’s attempt at bolstering its sub-$700 lineup targeting a segment of the gaming market that predominantly games at 1440p, but needs an upgrade path toward 4K UHD. Cards from this segment are very much capable of 4K gaming, but require a tiny bit of tweaking. There… Read more

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MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Suprim X Review

Introduction The MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Suprim X is the company’s top custom-design graphics card based on the swanky new RTX 3070 Ti high-end graphics card by NVIDIA. The Suprim series represents MSI’s best efforts in the areas of product design, factory-overclocked speeds, cooling performance, and more. NVIDIA debuted the RTX 3070 Ti and… Read more

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Palit GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GameRock OC Review

Introduction Palit GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GameRock OC is the company’s most premium custom-design implementation of NVIDIA’s latest high-end graphics card launch. The RTX 3070 Ti along with last week’s RTX 3080 Ti launch, form part of an attempt to refresh the high-end segment in the face of competition from AMD and its “Big Navi”… Read more

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Zotac GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMP Holo Review

Introduction Zotac GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMP Holo is the company’s premium custom-design offering based on NVIDIA’s latest addition to its RTX 30-series “Ampere” product family. The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, along with last week’s RTX 3080 Ti, are additions to the higher-end of NVIDIA’s product stack, in response to competition from AMD’s Radeon RX… Read more

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Nvidia Increases Market Share as GPU Sales Explode: JPR

Home News (Image credit: AMD) According to IDC, PC sales in the first quarter were up 55% year-over-year, and since the demand for personal computers is growing, component sales in Q1 2021 were high, too. Jon Peddie Research reports that shipments of integrated and standalone graphics processing units (GPUs) for PCs increased 38.74% year-over-year in the… Read more

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AMD Radeon Pro W6800, W6600 and W6600M: RDNA2 Goes Pro

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD has officially launched its latest round of professional graphics cards, the Radeon Pro W6800, Radeon Pro W6600, and for laptop users, the Radeon Pro W6600M. Like many of the best graphics cards, these new GPUs leverage AMD’s latest RDNA2 architecture, aka Big Navi, which means they bring ray tracing… Read more

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AMD’s New Quad-Core Ryzen 3 5300G Overclocks to 5.6GHz, With Exotic Cooling

Home News (Image credit: AMD) An overclocked named Yosarianilives has published a cool 5.6GHz overclock result for the all-new Ryzen 3 5300G, AMD’s first quad-core Zen 3 chip to date. Paired with the 5300G were an Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming motherboard and 16GB of DDR4 RAM running at 4600MHz, with very low timings of… Read more

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AMD’s Liquid-Cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT Arrives Flexing High Clocks

Home News Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT LC (Image credit: Kabum) AMD’s liquid-cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT appears to be making its way to the retail market. VideoCardz has spotted a Sapphire listing over at a Kabum, a Brazilian retailer. Speculation around the graphics card world is that the Radeon RX 6900 XT LC could… Read more

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Noctua’s Colossal NH-P1 Passive Heatsink Arrives For $100

Home News Noctua NH-P1 (Image credit: Newegg) FanlessTech has spotted Noctua’s highly anticipated NH-P1 passive heatsink at Newegg for $100. Noctua hasn’t revealed the highly-anticipated heatsink to the public yet, but Newegg’s listing suggests that an official announcement shouldn’t be far behind. The NH-P1 features a fanless design with six heatpipes that transfer heat from… Read more

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Liquid-Cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT Surfaces With Puny 120mm AIO Cooler

Home News AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT LC (Image credit: Tmall) User from the Chiphell forums has spotted an interesting Radeon RX 6900 XT over in China. The Big Navi graphics card, forms part of a pre-built gaming PC on Tmall, features an exterior that’s very similar to AMD’s reference design, but with added liquid… Read more

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Alienware to Return Abducted GPU Cores to m15 R5 Laptop With vBIOS Fix

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Alienware is addressing an error affecting the Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 that limits CUDA cores on models with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card. “We have been made aware that an incorrect setting in Alienware’s vBIOS is limiting CUDA Cores on RTX 3070 configurations,” the company told… Read more

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