Tom's Hardware

Musk announces Grok 3-powered xAI gaming studio to develop ‘AI games’ with photo-realistic graphics

(Image credit: xAI on Twitter/X) During a broadcast showcasing the newly-launched Grok 3, Elon Musk and xAI announced their intentions to begin building a new games studio. While details remain light for now, the developers showcased that Grok 3 can generate a facsimile of Tetris using Python. “We’re launching an AI gaming studio at xAI…. Read more

Eero launches new Wi-Fi 7 mesh routers starting at $169

(Image credit: Amazon) Following the launch of the Eero Max 7 mesh router in late 2023 and the Eero Outdoor 7 in late 2024, Eero is delivering two new products that leverage the improved capabilities of the Wi-Fi 7 standard. The most important thing to know about these new products is that they come with… Read more

The Raspberry Pi Pico’s RP2040 has been certified for 200 MHz clock speeds, up from 133 MHz

The latest Pico-SDK includes many new features, including certification for 200 MHz clock speeds for the RP2040. Boards designed around the Raspberry Pi 2040 microcontroller can now officially be clocked at 200 MHz, up from the previous 133 MHz limit—an elevated clock speed yields faster processing speeds. The RP2040 can benefit significantly from higher frequencies… Read more

AMD Ryzen 9900X3D & 9950X3D benchmarks surface with strong single-core uplift

(Image credit: AMD) AMD just showcased the power of its Strix Halo APU yesterday, but now the company’s upcoming desktop X3D chips, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, have surfaced in a pair of Geekbench 6 benchmarks (h/t @Olrak29). The benchmarks showcase both single-threaded and multi-threaded results for both high-end 3D V-cache-equipped… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: A proper high-end GPU

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti takes the Blackwell architecture and GB203 GPU and trims down performance and price while keeping the 16GB of VRAM. It’s a great 1440p native solution, or 4K with upscaling, but not a massive generational performance increase — unless you want to count the marketing-heavy multi-frame generation. Pros… Read more

Asus TUF Gaming 850W Gold power supply review

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Asus TUF Gaming 850W Gold PSU delivers solid performance with excellent efficiency and quiet operation, especially at moderate loads. Though its “military-grade” claims may be overstated, its build quality and design are commendable. However, its price may be slightly steep compared to similarly spec’d competitors. Pros + Excellent voltage regulation +… Read more

Building a chipmaking fab in the US costs twice as much, takes twice as long as in Taiwan

(Image credit: TSMC) The semiconductor industry is expanding rapidly as countries race to build new fabs. While it takes around 19 months to build a fab in Taiwan, it takes a whopping 38 months to build a fab in the U.S. due to the extensive time it takes to get a permit and because fabs… Read more

Nvidia to consume 77% of wafers used for AI processors in 2025: Report

(Image credit: Nvidia) Over the past few years, we have seen a lot of AI-market-related metrics, starting from petaflops of performance and going all the way up to gigawatts of power consumption. A rather unexpected metric is perhaps the one from Morgan Stanley (via @Jukanlosreve) that counts the wafer consumption of AI processors. There are… Read more

PhysX quietly retired on RTX 50 series GPUs: Nvidia ends 32-bit CUDA app support

Nvidia has quietly retired 32-bit PhysX support on RTX 50 series GPUs — a game-specific graphics technology that was advertised heavily during the 2000s and early 2010s. Nvidia confirmed the technology’s end-of-life status (at least the 32-bit version) on the Nvidia forums as a result of 32-bit CUDA applications support deprecation starting with the RTX… Read more

Chinese chipmaker claims new Loongson 3B6600 CPU could hit 13th-Gen Intel performance

Chinese chipmaker Loongson recently announced in an investor call its 3B6600 CPU, which will likely succeed the 3A6000 processor that debuted in April 2024. According to Fast Technology (machine translated), the new desktop chip features eight cores and will have an integrated GPU. But, more importantly, the company claims that the Loongson 3B6600 is competitive… Read more

12VHPWR adapters sporting heatsinks and thermal pads show how problematic the connector is

The 12VHPWR connector (and its 12V-2×6 successor) is notorious for their vulnerability to high temperatures on power-hungry GPUs, to the point where it can melt. To combat this on the adapter side, third-party manufacturers such as Ezdiy-fab and Cablemod have been forced to resort to “exotic” solutions sporting copper PCBs, thermal pads, and aluminum heatsinks… Read more

AMD’s game-changing Strix Halo APU, formerly Ryzen AI Max, poses for new die shots

(Image credit: Tony Yu) AMD’s Strix Halo reviews are no longer guarded by an embargo. So we’re seeing a wave of new die shots that underline the impressive engineering that went into the design of these chips. Thanks to Kurnal, Asus’ Tony Yu (at Bilibili), and Decap at X (formerly Twitter), we’re getting our first… Read more

Retailer held RTX 5080 ransom unless buyer paid more after the sale had been completed

(Image credit: Aorus) An RTX 5080 buyer in Taiwan was asked to pay more for a graphics card that had already been paid for and shipped or to return it, reports Chinese language tech news outlet MyDrivers. Before we tell the tale, though, it is important to note that the retailer backed down after its… Read more

DeepSeek GPU smuggling probe shows Nvidia’s Singapore GPU sales are 28% of its revenue, but only 1% are delivered to the country: Report

(Image credit: Shutterstock) A senior government official in Singapore said that only a fraction of Nvidia’s sales in the country actually make it into the country. Bloomberg said that Singapore’s Second Minister for Trade and Industry, Tan See Land, made this statement as Washington is investigating whether the firm behind DeepSeek used banned Nvidia GPUs… Read more

Multiple Raspberry Pi create ‘wigglegram’ 3D photos using this AI enhanced camera

There’s one way to get us excited about a Raspberry Pi project and that’s to cram as many Pis as possible into one build. This “wigglegram” camera, created by a maker known as Low-Junket9298 over at Reddit, has put five Raspberry Pis inside his project to make this really cool camera with a 3D effect…. Read more