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Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Pops Up in Unreleased Tiger Lake-H Laptop

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) The ever-insightful benchmark database detective @TUM_APISAK has just shared Geekbench 5 results for a Samsung laptop powered by unreleased hardware from both Intel and Nvidia. The mysterious laptop in question is called the 760XDA, and it comes equipped with a Core i5-11400H processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 mobile… Read more

Nvidia Hacks Its Own GeForce RTX 3060 Anti-Mining Lock (Updated)

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Early reports are piling up that cryptominers have deciphered Nvidia’s anti-mining algorithm on the GeForce RTX 3060. Theoretically, it’s one of the best graphics cards, if you could find one for anything close to the official $329 MSRP. The Ampere graphics card was also supposed to be less attractive to… Read more

AMD Unveils EPYC ‘Milan’ 7003 CPUs, Zen 3 Comes to 64-Core Server Chips

Home News (Image credit: AMD ) AMD unveiled its EPYC 7003 ‘Milan’ processors today, claiming that the chips, which bring the company’s powerful Zen 3 architecture to the server market for the first time, take the lead as the world’s fastest server processor with its flagship 64-core 128-thread EPYC 7763. Like the rest of the… Read more

Benchmark Your Spectre Vulnerabilities With Google’s Exploit Page

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Spectre continues to go bump in the night. The vulnerability was revealed in 2018, but even though it’s largely faded from public consciousness, it’s still a threat. Case in point: Google has published a proof-of-concept website called Leaky.Page that shows how attackers can use JavaScript to exploit Spectre via popular… Read more

Intel’s Core i7-11700K ‘Rocket Lake’ Delidded: A Big Die, Revealed

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Although Intel has not yet officially launched its 11th-Gen Core processors for desktops codenamed Rocket Lake, these CPUs were available from a single retailer for a brief period of time, so enthusiasts have already begun experimenting. Recently, one experimenter decided to remove the Core i7-10700K’s lid (delid) to reveal the… Read more

Gigabyte CMP 30HX: A GeForce GTX 1660 Super Without The Display Outputs

Home News Gigabyte CMP 30HX (Image credit: VideoCardz) Nvidia announced its Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) just three weeks ago. Today, VideoCardz shared what appear to be renders of the first custom CMP 30HX, which originates from Gigabyte’s camp. Although Nvidia hasn’t admitted it, there is enough evidence to suggest that most of its CMP graphics… Read more

How Facebook could escape the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit

I. In December, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to sue Facebook for illegally maintaining a monopoly in social networking. The lawsuit, which was accompanied by a separate suit joined by 49 US attorneys general, alleges that Facebook used acquisitions and software restrictions on developers to prevent competitors from succeeding. The government’s case appeared shaky… Read more

Building the ultimate retro computer

Although I assembled it myself, and its software all comes from an open-source DIY project, in many ways my MiSTer is the most versatile computer I own. It’s a shapeshifting wonderbox that can change its own logic to make itself run like countless other machines as accurately as possible. From old arcade boards to early… Read more

Tens of thousands of Verkada cameras were easily accessible to employees as well as hackers

Employees of cloud-based surveillance firm Verkada had widespread access to feeds from customers’ cameras, according to new reports from Bloomberg and The Washington Post. Verkada’s systems were recently breached by a “hacktivist” collective which gained access to more than 150,000 of the company’s cameras in locations ranging from Tesla factories, to police stations, gyms, schools,… Read more

Launching A GeForce GTX 1050 Ti In 2021? Sure, Why Not?

Home News GF-GTX1050Ti-E4GB/SF/P (Image credit: Kuroutoshikou) You know the graphics card market is in a bad place when vendors resort to rereleasing five-year old graphics cards. Kuroutoshikou, a Japanese vendor, has announced that its GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (GF-GTX1050Ti-E4GB/SF/P2) will hit the domestic market in mid-March. In reality, the GF-GTX1050Ti-E4GB/SF/P2 is a rebranded version of… Read more

GPU Test System Update March 2021

Introduction TechPowerUp is one of the most highly cited graphics card review sources on the web, and we strive to keep our testing methods, game selection, and, most importantly, test bench up to date. Today, I am pleased to announce our newest March 2021 VGA test system, which has one of many firsts for TechPowerUp…. Read more

Photoshop now runs natively on Apple’s M1 Macs

Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon, and now the much-anticipated release of Photoshop is here. According to the company, Photoshop for M1 Macs completes most tasks 1.5 times faster than when running on Intel. But the speed improvements extend beyond actual editing; Adobe says a lot about… Read more

EU aims to double chip manufacturing amid growing fears about ‘digital sovereignty’

The European Union wants to double its chip manufacturing output to 20 percent of the global market by 2030. The goal is part of its new Digital Compass plan, announced yesterday, which aims to boost “digital sovereignty” by funding various high-tech initiatives. As well as doubling chip output, the EU also wants all households to… Read more

Apple reportedly overestimated iPhone 12 mini demand, by a lot

Apple is cutting production of the iPhone 12 mini in the first half of this year, Nikkei Asia reports. Planned production of the smallest iPhone 12 model has reportedly been reduced by 70 percent or more in the first half of this year, making up the majority of a 20 percent cut in total iPhone… Read more

Samsung 980 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Going DRAMless with V6 V-NAND

Our Verdict If you aren’t looking for the best of the best like Samsung’s 980 Pro but still want solid performance for large files or graphics-heavy games at a more affordable price point, Samsung’s 980 is worth your consideration. For Competitive performance Attractive design AES 256-bit hardware encryption Software package 980 Pro-like endurance and 5-year… Read more