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Varmilo MA87M Beijing Opera Review – A Celebration of Chinese Hanfu Culture!

Introduction Ever since I first got involved in the world of custom (think anything outside of OEM) keyboards, there have been three companies on my bucket list: Topre from Japan, Varmilo from China, and Leopold from Korea. I came close to the former with a Cooler Master keyboard review, and Leopold almost came through two… Read more

Asus Publishes List of Mobile RTX 3000 Configs

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Responding to an inquiry from Dutch hardware site Tweakers, Asus has recently made public a detailed list of its different laptops for 2021, which GPUs they will use and what the clock speeds and TGPs are for each. That’s big news, since even though CES 2021 left us knowing… Read more

Mobile RTX 3060 Flexes Geekbench 5 Muscles

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) We have our first benchmark sighting for the highly-anticipated RTX 3060 mobile GPU from Nvidia. The GPU was spotted in a Gigabyte G5 running Geekbench 5’s OpenCL benchmark. The RTX 3060 will be Nvidia’s latest mid-range GPU for mobile devices. The GPU comes with a fully unlocked GA106 core with… Read more

Intel DG1 GPU Teardown, Failed Benchmarks, and Why It Won’t Work on Most Systems

Home News Intel DG1 (Image credit: Igor’s Lab) German publication Igor’s Lab has nailed a world-exclusive look at Intel’s DG1 discrete graphics card. The chipmaker showcased the DG1 last year at CES 2020, running Warframe, but Intel’s entry-level Iris Xe development graphics cards are exclusively available to system integrators and OEMs. In fact, Intel has… Read more

Xbox, Surface, and cloud once again boost Microsoft’s Q2 earnings

Microsoft posted the second quarter of its 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $43.1 billion and a net income of $15.5 billion. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 33 percent. We saw some impressive growth for Surface, Xbox, and cloud-related services in Microsoft’s previous quarter, and it’s very much… Read more

Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 GPUs Are Finally Coming to Desktops, But OEM Only

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s Xe Graphics has been out for a while now, in the form of 11th Gen Tiger Lake laptops, but the discrete variant (Iris Xe Max) has only been in a few notebooks. Now, Intel is finally releasing its Iris Xe for desktops, but they’re not what you would expect,… Read more

AMD Threadripper Pro Listed at $6,000 for 64 Cores, $3,000 for 32 Cores

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD recently announced that it’s Threadripper Pro processors will come to retail outlets, but the company hasn’t listed the official pricing yet. Seeing these chips come to retail outlets is a nice addition after they debuted for the first six months in uber-expensive pre-validated systems, like the Lenovo ThinkStation P620… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile ‘Cezanne’ SoC Deep Dive: Zen 3 Powers Into Notebooks

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD whipped the covers off of its Ryzen 5000 ‘Cezanne’ mobile chips at CES 2021, but today marks the official launch and AMD has unveiled the deep-dive details of the SoC that brings the Zen 3 architecture to the notebook market for the first time. The new chips will power… Read more

XMG and Schenker Get Very Specific on Max-Q for RTX 3000 Series

Home News (Image credit: XMG) The European laptop vendor that sells XMG and Schenker laptops has sent a statement to reporters about recent confusion regarding gaming laptop listings and whether or not Nvidia’s Max-Q technologies were specified. “We always list Max-Q in the spec sheets and product texts and provide detailed information about the TGP… Read more

GeForce RTX 3000 for notebooks: Max-Q disappears, but in reality it's still there

There is a little confusion about which versions of GeForce RTX GPUs are 1859, including standard and Max-Q, which will debut in new gaming notebooks. Let’s try to understand what is the approach taken now by NVIDIA of Paolo Corsini published 22 January 2021 , at 12: 01 in the Video Cards channel Max-Q NVIDIA… Read more

Samsung Display ready with a 14-inch 90Hz OLED for notebooks

Samsung has developed a panel OLED from 14 inches and refresh rate at 90 Hz intended for notebooks. Volume production will start in March. by Manolo De Agostini published 21 January 2021 , at 10: 21 in the Portable channel Samsung Samsung Display announced the start in March of the volume production of an OLED… Read more

Samsung Display is mass-producing 90Hz OLED screens for laptops

Samsung Display has announced plans to mass-produce the world’s first 90Hz OLED screens designed for laptops and says that “several global IT companies” are expected to release models with the new panels this year. Manufacturing will begin in March in “very large quantities,” the company says in a statement attributed to CEO Choi Joo-sun. The… Read more

Rumor: RTX 2060 and 2060 Super Getting OEM Re-Releases

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) Nvidia’s Turing architecture isn’t throwing in the towel just yet, according to a new report from French hardware site Overclocking.com . According to the site’s unnamed sources, Nvidia is currently prepping its OEMs to re-release the RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Super lines of GPUs. This comes about a month… Read more

Will GeForce RTX 2060 and 2060 SUPER die hard? They could return to the market

According to the sources of the Overclocking website. com, Nvidia allegedly delivered old Turing GPUs to partners to restore stock of GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 SUPER. At the moment there is no clear motivation, but here are some hypotheses. by Manolo De Agostini published 20 January 2021 , at 13: 21 in the… Read more

GPU builders reintroduce the RTX 2060 and 2060 SUPER at similar prices to the RTX 3070

by Jordi Bercial Ago 10 minutes ago … Although it seemed that the situation regarding the stock could not have looked worse, now it seems that the expectations on the part of the industry are so low that NVIDIA has started shipping GPU shipments for RTX 2060 and RTX 2021 OVERCOME their AIBs , so… Read more