Tom's Hardware

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

Leading DRAM makers may stop producing DDR4 and DDR3 by late 2025

Leading DRAM makers — Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix — may cease production of DDR3 and DDR4 memory by the end of the year. The decision is due to low prices caused by dumping (by Chinese makers) and declining demand, reports DigiTimes. This may potentially cause shortages of DDR4 memory that is still used in… Read more

ASRock B850I Lightning WiFi Review: Well-rounded $210 mini-ITX, but no USB4

Tom’s Hardware Verdict As a budget option, the roughly $200 B850I Lightning is a worthwhile lower-cost board in the AMD Mini-ITX space. But if you need Wi-Fi 7 and USB4, you’ll have to spend an additional $100 or more. Pros + Good price + Capable power delivery + Good all-around performance + Worthy update over… Read more

Elon Musk’s Grok 3 is now available, beats ChatGPT in some benchmarks — LLM took 10x more compute to train versus Grok 2

(Image credit: xAI) Elon Musk just launched Grok 3, the latest version of xAI’s LLM that was trained at the Colossus Supercluster in Memphis, Tennessee using 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. He had previously said, about a week ago, that its full release was imminent and claimed that it would outperform its rivals. Today he launched… Read more

FSP Vita GM 850W Power Supply Review

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The FSP Vita GM 850W PSU delivers excellent efficiency, strong power delivery, and a 10-year warranty, making it an appealing choice for typical gaming or workstation builds. However, its performance degrades under heavy thermal stress. Pros + ATX 3.1 / PCIe 5.1 compliant + 80Plus Gold / Cybenetics Platinum certifications + Exceptional… Read more

Modder crams LLM onto Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn’t fast enough to be practical

Local LLM usage is on the rise, and with many setting up PCs or systems to run them, the idea of having an LLM run on a server somewhere in the cloud is quickly becoming outmoded. Binh Pham experimented with a Raspberry Pi Zero, effectively turning the device into a small USB drive that can… Read more

RTX 5080 is allegedly only 17% faster than RTX 5070 Ti, according to 3DMark benchmarks

(Image credit: Asus) 3DMark benchmarks featuring the upcoming RTX 5070 Ti have cropped up ahead of the GPU’s review embargo, giving us a sneak peek at the GPU’s potential gaming performance. Videocardz retrieved a set of RTX 5070 Ti 3DMark benchmarks from an undisclosed media outlet and compared it against its own 3DMark figures of… Read more

Melting RTX cables solution proposed — embed over temperature and current protection on each wire

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs are facing serious melting connector cables issues, a repeat of the incidents involving RTX 4090 GPUs which the company has previously claimed has already been addressed. However, the number of reports surfacing in recent weeks suggest that that is not the case, so hardware testing group Hardware Busters is… Read more