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Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Master Preview: Remastered for Z590

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) While we still don’t have an Intel Rocket Lake-S Core i9-11900K CPU to use for testing, the Intel Z590 motherboards are arriving in our labs and on store shelves. So while we await the ability to talk benchmarks, we’ll be walking in detail through the features of these brand-new boards…. Read more

Intel 12th-Gen Alder Lake Release Date, Benchmarks, Specifications, and All We Know

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel’s 12th-Gen Alder Lake chip will bring the company’s hybrid architecture, which combines a mix of larger high-performance cores paired with smaller high-efficiency cores, to desktop x86 PCs for the first time. That represents a massive strategic shift as Intel looks to regain the uncontested performance lead against AMD’s Ryzen… Read more

Intel Claws Back Desktop PC and Notebook Market Share From AMD, First Time in Three Years

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The Mercury Research CPU market share results are in for the fourth quarter of 2020, with the headline news being that Intel has clawed back share from AMD in the desktop PC market for the first time in three years. Intel also stopped its slide in notebook PCs, gaining share… 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

Intel Swaps Core i9-10900K Retail Box For Cheaper Packaging

Home News Intel Core i9-10900K (Image credit: Amazon) Intel has announced that it will exchange the Core i9-10900K’s fancy retail packaging in favor of the standard, folding carton box. Basically, the Core i9-10900K’s will soon share the same packaging as the Core i9-10850K. The change will come into effect starting February 28 and will affect… 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

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

Intel’s new desktop GPUs won’t work in AMD systems

Intel launched its first Iris Xe desktop graphics cards yesterday, but you won’t see them appearing in AMD-powered systems. While Nvidia and AMD’s desktop GPUs typically work across a variety of Intel and AMD processors, Intel’s new desktop GPUs are a little more limited for now. “The Iris Xe discrete add-in card will be paired… Read more

Alienware m15 R4 Gaming Laptop Review: RTX 30-Series Performance, Eye-Popping Color

Our Verdict The Alienware m15 R4 packs plenty of RTX 30-series performance in an attractive design with an amazing screen. For Sleek design Strong performance Snappy Keyboard Vibrant optional OLED Screen Against Warm temperatures Relatively short battery life Nvidia’s RTX 30-series “Ampere” graphics cards have been burning up the desktop market since they launched last… 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

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 i5-11400 slightly faster than Core i5-10400 in Geekbench test. A surprisingly low score for the Rocket Lake system

The leaks so far indicate that the upcoming Intel Rocket Lake processors will literally dethrone their predecessors and raise the Blue on the seat again a leader in the segment of gaming systems. Everything clearly indicated that the new Cypress Cove architecture will bring a noticeable increase in performance, while the network has seen quite… Read more

Intel Partners Unveil More Than 50 Z590 Motherboards: An Overview

Idriz Velghe 20 January 2021 08: 15 7 Comments Introduction During the CES fair last week Intel unveiled its latest desktop processors: Rocket Lake. These CPUs have a maximum of 8 cores and 19 threads. In addition to an estimated IPC improvement of up to 19%, the integrated Xe GPU should reach % more powerful… Read more

Biostar Unveils Flagship Valkyrie Z590 Motherboards

Home News (Image credit: Biostar) Biostar has introduced two motherboards based on Intel’s Z590 platform that belong to its all-new Valkyrie range. The new premium family includes two new boards, the ATX Z590 Valkyrie and a Mini-ITX Z590i Valkyrie, models which are expected to address the needs of demanding gamers and enthusiasts offering them advanced… Read more

Intel Partners Unveil More Than 50 Z590 Motherboards: An Overview

Idriz Velghe 20 January 2021 08: 15 0 Comments Introduction During the CES fair last week Intel unveiled its latest desktop processors: Rocket Lake. These CPUs have a maximum of 8 cores and 19 threads. In addition to an estimated IPC improvement of up to 19%, the integrated Xe GPU should reach % more powerful… Read more