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Huawei P40 vs P40 Pro vs P40 Pro Plus: What’s the difference?

(Pocket-lint) – Not content with bringing its usual two-model flagship series release programme, for 2020 Huawei stepped things up by bringing not just one, not two, but three different P series handsets: the P40, the P40 Pro, and the P40 Pro+. It’s a move that came as no surprise, in a world where many competitors… Read more

Sapphire Rapids Uncovered: 56 Cores, 64GB HBM2E, Multi-Chip Design

Home News (Image credit: Intel) A leaked slide purported to be from Intel’s roadmap summarizes what we know about Intel’s upcoming 4th Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processor, with some additional details. (Thanks, VideoCardz.) Intel has always envisioned its Sapphire Rapids processor and the Eagle Stream platform as a revolutionary product. Paired with Intel’s Xe-HPC ‘Ponte Vecchio’… Read more

Intel Ice Lake Xeon Platinum 8380 Review: 10nm Debuts for the Data Center

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s long-delayed 10nm+ third-gen Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors mark an important step forward for the company as it attempts to fend off intense competition from AMD’s 7nm EPYC Milan processors that top out at 64 cores, a key advantage over Intel’s existing 14nm Cascade Lake Refresh that tops out… Read more

Graphics Card Power Consumption and Efficiency Tested

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) How much power do the best graphics cards use? It’s an important question, and while the performance we show in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy is useful, one of the true measures of a GPU is how efficient it is. To determine GPU power efficiency, we need to know both performance… Read more

Arm Unveils Armv9 Instruction Set Architecture

Home News (Image credit: Qualcomm) Arm this week announced Armv9, its latest instruction set architecture that will power a broad range of processors and system-on-chips that will be launched in the coming years. The new ISA promises to enable designers to build SoCs with multiple special-purpose accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI), machine leading, digital signal processing (DSP),… Read more

Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU’s 600W OAM Module Commands Liquid Cooling

Home News Intel Ponte Vecchio (Image credit: Intel) New Intel documents shared via Komachi_Ensaka have emerged, providing more details on Intel’s upcoming “Ponte Vecchio” Xe-HPC graphics card in its Open Accelerator Module (OAM) presentation. As opposed to the PCIe form factor, the OAM is perfect for environments where scalability is a top priority. Ponte Vecchio… Read more

Samsung Develops 512GB DDR5 Module with HKMG DDR5 Chips

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung has announced that it has developed the industry’s first 512GB memory module using its latest DDR5 memory devices that use high-k dielectrics as insulators. The new DIMM is designed for next-generation servers that use DDR5 memory, including those powered by AMD’s Epyc ‘Genoa’ and Intel’s Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids’… Read more

Intel’s Ponte Vecchio Xe-HPC GPU Boasts 100 Billion Transistors

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel uploaded a detailed description of its upcoming Ponte Vecchio Xe-HPC GPU for supercomputers just hours after outlining its IDM 2.0 strategy that involves usage of internal and external manufacturing capabilities. Ponte Vecchio, which employs components produced by Intel, Samsung, and TSMC using a variety of process technologies, demonstrates Intel’s vision of the future… Read more

The $159 OnePlus Watch is OnePlus’ first smartwatch

It’s taken years, but OnePlus is finally getting in the smartwatch game with the newly announced OnePlus Watch, starting at $159. The new watch (as was revealed last week) has a round design that looks similar to a regular wristwatch, instead of the oblong rectangle popularized by the Apple Watch and its imitators, like the… Read more

Intel Starts Xe-HPG GPU Scavenger Hunt

Home News (Image credit: Intel) In a surprising move, Intel this week began its Xe-HPG graphics architecture promotion campaign. So far, the company has posted a teaser video that leads to a website which announces an Xe-HPG-dedicated scavenger hunt game that starts on March 26, next Friday. Also, the video may give a clue about… Read more

Sapphire Announces the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro+ and Pulse Graphics Cards

Home News (Image credit: Sapphire) Sapphire is back with new custom graphics cards designed around the RX 6700XT graphics card that launches today. Sapphire’s new 6700XT models come in the form of the NITRO+ and the lower-end Pulse. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Sapphire) Image 2 of 4 (Image credit: Sapphire) Image 3 of… Read more

HPE Briefly Lists 40-Core Ice Lake CPUs: Intel’s Next-Gen HEDT Chips Incoming?

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Hewlett Packard Enterprise briefly listed Intel’s 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable ‘Ice Lake-SP’ processors and inevitably revealed their specifications. As spotted by @9550pro, it turns out higher-end extreme core count (XCC) versions of these products will carry up to 40 cores, significantly more than expected a few months ago. For servers, such… Read more

Here’s where to buy AMD’s Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card

AMD’s new Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU will be available to purchase today starting at 6AM PT / 9AM ET, with a retail price of $479.99. Like other GPUs released within the last few months, AMD’s latest Radeon RX graphics card will likely sell out quickly, though AMD tells The Verge that you should be… Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Review

Introduction The Radeon RX 6700 XT is the new kid on the block from AMD, and arguably its most important RX 6000 series graphics card launched to date as it’s the most affordable (on paper) and targets the heart of the performance segment. The card is designed for high refresh-rate 1440p gaming and capable of… Read more

ASUS Radeon RX 6700 XT STRIX OC Review

Introduction We have with us the ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 6700 XT O12G, the company’s top custom-design RX 6700 XT graphics card. AMD today launched the RX 6700 XT along with the new Navi 22 silicon, to take the fight to NVIDIA’s sub-$500 performance segment, including popular SKUs such as the GeForce RTX 3060… Read more