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The Arc graphics cards are slated to be released in the beginning of 2022. Intel has stated that its new series of GPUs will not be restrictive in terms of cryptomining performance. Intel aims to entice gamers and contest AMD and NVIDIA in the competitive market.

The Cypress lineup is Simply NUC's first with 4x4-inch motherboards supporting the Ryzen Embedded V2000 processors with Vega 7 iGPU. Processor options include the Ryzen V2516 / V2546 / V2748 APUs and users can configure these models with up to 64 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and up to 10 TB SSD storage. By default, there is support for quad-4K video outputs through 2x HDMI 2.1 and 2x USB-C 3.2 DP 1.4 ports.

Early benchmarks of the upcoming Intel 12th gen Alder Lake Core i9-12900K in combination with AMD's just announced Radeon RX 6600 GPU were posted on Chinese social media. The results show good gains for the Core i9-12900K compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 9 5950X, and the Core i9-11900K in 3DMark CPU tests. However, real-world gaming benchmarks do not seem to show very high differences, especially when paired with DDR4 RAM.

AMD has unveiled the Radeon RX 6600, its answer to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060. The RDNA 2-based card arrives with a US$329 MSRP and supposedly delivers 'the ultimate 1080p gaming experience'.

AMD and Microsoft have finally acknowledged poor L3 cache performance in Windows 11, and a fix for the same is on the way in the form of a Windows update later this month. AMD also notes that CPPC2 may not schedule threads properly on preferred cores in Windows 11 and is investigating a fix.

Leaked benchmarks of the upcoming Intel Alder Lake Core i5-12400 suggest that Intel may match up very well to the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. The Core i5-12400 offers six Golden Cove cores that seem to be perceivably better than the Ryzen 5 5600X and significantly faster than its predecessor, the Core i5-11400.

Tipster @momomo_us spotted a listing on HP’s website for 24 and 27-inch AIO systems which seem to offer the AMD “Ryzen 7000” series as a CPU option.

AMD has released GPUFORT with the purpose of tackling rival NVIDIA and its CUDA platform. CUDA currently has a firm grip on the parallel computing industry. However, AMD hopes that its continued strategy of providing open-source alternatives will sway developers to its own platform.

New Linux graphics kernel patches with USB4 DisplayPort Tunneling are now available from AMD. The tunneling feature allows the USB, DisplayPort and PCIe transfer protocols to operate simultaneously by sharing the available bandwidth. For now, only the DisplayPort 1.4 specs are supported with AMD's tunneling drivers. Hopefully, DisplayPort 2.0 specs could be added by the time AMD introduces its next gen embedded and laptop solutions in early 2022.

AMD's Ryzen 5000 processors with the new B2 stepping may not offer any improvements in terms of performance, but they could possibly improve the availability and supply of these hard to get gaming CPUs.

A UK retailer has leaked the price of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 6600 graphics card. Sapphire expects to sell the Navi 23-based card for over £435, equivalent to US$475 without sales taxes. VideoCardz has leaked several other custom cards too, including an ITX model.

The launch of AMD's cheapest Radeon RX 6000 graphics card is imminent, with the card expected to arrive on October 13. Now, the final specifications and official gaming benchmarks have leaked online, pitting the card against the Radeon RX 6600 XT, GeForce RTX 2060 and GeForce RTX 3060.

Samsung has confirmed the presence of ray-tracing technology on a future Exynos GPU. Ray tracing should produce images in games that create a higher immersion factor due to lighting and shadow refinements. However, the screenshot comparison provided by Samsung for Exynos ray tracing has been met with a mixed response.

AMD has finally breached the 30% processor usage wall it had been facing on Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey. It is the strongest position AMD has held in the survey for over 16 months and seemingly reverses the trend for Intel's growth. Intel’s ambitions in this particular arena will now mostly lie on the success of Alder Lake.

A new rumour from South Korea suggests that Microsoft and AMD are developing an Arm processor for laptops. It will use Cortex-X1 CPU cores, an AMD mRDNA2 GPU with 8CUs, and an Exynos 5G modem. The mystery SoC will be fabbed on TSMC's 5nm node.

The new Windows 11 roster includes three Xiaoxin Air 14 Plus SKUs and another three Xiaoxin Pro 14 SKUs with a mix of Intel Tiger Lake and AMD Ryzen 5000 U/H processors, plus a new Yoga 13s model that is powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 5600U APU. All models are under $900, with the most affordable being the Xiaoxin Air 14 Plus Ryzen 5 5600U priced at $680, and the most expensive being the Xiaoxin Air 14 Plus Intel version with Nvidia MX450 dGPU priced at $850.

With the Omen series, HP has been offering visually attractive gaming laptops that are also interesting in terms of their price-performance ratio. Now, the manufacturer introduces a new gaming series to the market with the Victus laptops.

We are still a few months away from the official Steam Deck release, so the dev kit performance could actually be improved in the meantime. Still, demanding games like Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Cyberpunk 2077 appear to be hitting 30 fps even on high settings thanks to the included LPDDR5-5500 quad channel RAM.

Unlike the usual VAIO models that are overpriced, the new 15.6-inch FL15 notebook costs around $710, but offers some modest specs with an AMD Ryzen 3 4300U processor, plus 8 GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 256 GB NVMe SSD. Port selection is not really generous either, yet it does feature a microSD card reader.

Honor has made good on some earlier teasers with a launch for the new MagicBook 16 series, with an up-to-date Ryzen 7 platform and 144Hz displays. They have been joined with a less expected variant: the V 14. It will now join the first wave of laptops to ship with Windows 11, and will do so with a 2K display and Tiger Lake-H35 processors.

A benchmark preview of the Intel Core i9-12900K has been accidentally posted online, and it shows the 12th Gen Alder Lake hybrid chip offering a seesaw-like performance against the Rocket Lake i9-11900K. While the engineering sample does show promise even without the AVX-512 instruction set, it could not shine against the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Zen 3 part.

We're not sure if a different processor and color are enough to justify a completely different model name between the two visually identical models. For shoppers, this can be more confusing than it needs to be when researching laptops before purchasing.

If your gaming rig is due for a CPU upgrade, this latest deal on the powerful AMD Ryzen 7 5800X may be worth a look, especially since it is quite likely that the chip shortage will keep prices high for the foreseeable future.

Rumor has it that the joint venture would focus on notebook SoCs with integrated Wi-Fi 6, 5G and high bandwidth wired controllers. AMD could also be looking to use future MediaTek custom ARM cores in combination with RDNA graphics for high-end notebook processors competing with Apple's M models.

Thanks to a very productive community that is working diligently on an open source driver for the alternative operating system Linux, older AMD graphics cards are about to receive raytracing support in the near future.

The schematics posted a few days ago teased the modular port design, and the new renders now reveal that the Pocket 3 is actually a 2-in-1 laptop that includes a stylus. GPD's tweets are also suggesting that the Pocket 3 will come with Intel and AMD processor options.

Honor has confirmed that it will unveil the MagicBook Pro 16 in China on September 26. The laptop will ship with a 144Hz screen and a few other upgrades, such as 11th-generation Intel Tiger Lake and AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors.

Notable features include non-Steam game compatibility for Proton, ext4 and exFAT file system support for the SD cards, user-accessible BIOS with multi-boot option along with SD card OS boot, plus PC game controller mode through Remote Play. The updated FAQ also confirms that external GPUs are not supported and the console is not specifically optimized for VR games.

According to a leak from a reliable source, AMD plans to release its next RDNA 2-based graphics card in a few weeks. The Radeon RX 6600 will be the cheapest offering in AMD's current product stack, but with only slightly worse specifications than the Radeon RX 6600 XT.

Xiaomi has now announced the launch of its second-gen affordable gaming laptop, the Redmi G (2021), in China. The Redmi G (2021) arrives with the options of an 11th gen Intel or AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, and with a starting price tag that converts to under US$900.

The story of AMD CPUs in Lenovo's ThinkPad laptops is a story of inequality. AMD systems were disadvantaged from the beginning, particularly in the displays. Finally Lenovo has remedied this disparity, so there's not much missing anymore until all the features are the same.

AotS might not be a popular benchmarking tool due to its convoluted results, yet its reliance on CPU power seems to be great for highlighting Intel's Alder Lake performance. It is still unclear if the i9-12900K benefits from some overclocking treatment in this case, but the Alder Lake processor does seem to be 39% faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X when coupled with an RTX 3080 running at High_1440p settings.

Xiaomi has now released a new teaser showing the upcoming Redmi G (2021) compared to what would be its closest rivals, the Lenovo Legion 5 and Asus TUF A15. As expected, the Redmi gaming laptop looks to have an advantage. On paper, at least.

The prices of current AMD and NVIDIA desktop graphics cards are continuing to move away from MSRP, having bottomed out in July. Both the RX 6000 and RTX 30 series are now selling for around 1.7x MSRP, with second-hand prices remaining at inflated levels, too.

The upcoming AMD RDNA 3 Navi 31-based RX 7900 XT will be based on a 5 nm + 6 nm MCM and could use a 256-bit memory bus but stick to GDDR5 VRAM. Navi 33 (RX 7700 XT) will be a 6 nm monolithic die with 128-bit GDDR6 VRAM and offer more performance than the current RX 6900 XT. The Nvidia Lovelace AD102 RTX 4090 will continue to use 384-bit GDDR6X memory and have GPU clocks greater than 2.2 GHz.

Xiaomi is set to release a second-gen product in its Redmi G gaming laptop series. The Redmi G (2021) will launch on September 22 and the company has now revealed some details of the laptop's cooling hardware and display via a series of teasers.

Some AMD customers are asking for ARM-based processors, and AMD is willing to fulfill this demand. Moreover, AMD seems to be open to explore other architectures like RISC-V, as well. It is not yet clear what markets would benefit from the increased ARM demand, but, seeing that AMD is already planning to use Xilinx tech for its datacenter products, we could infer that ARM may be destined for Team Red’s desktop and laptop product stacks.

XMG has unveiled the APEX 17 M21, the APEX 15 M21's bigger sibling. The APEX 17 M21 is configurable with up to an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and 64 GB of RAM. The machine supports HDMI 2.1 and Mini DisplayPort 1.4, too.

The XMG APEX 15 M21 has arrived with up to an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. The 15.6-inch laptop starts at €1,439 and is freely configurable up to nearly €5,000. The XMG APEX 15 M21 will start shipping in October and is available to pre-order today.

Redmi is set to launch its second-gen gaming laptop, the Redmi G (2021) on September 22. The company has now confirmed that the laptop will feature an AMD CPU and an Nvidia GPU, a decision that should see the Redmi G (2021) handily outperform its predecessor.

Honor has unveiled refreshed versions of the MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15, two relatively inexpensive laptops. The MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15 retain the designs of their predecessors but gain AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processors. Both machines come with 512 GB of storage and at least 8 GB of RAM.

A new leak claims to reveal the official details of Samsung's upcoming flagship SoC, the Exynos 2200. This new leak essentially confirms significantly better peak performance than current-gen SoCs like the Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100, thanks to a new Cortex X2 super-core.

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is finally getting its eagerly awaited update that will bring with it support for its currently dormant M.2 SSD internal drive bay. The update also includes some other goodies with 3D audio support being added for built-in TV speakers and new UX features and customization options.

Gaming laptops are powerful, but they're often loud, hot, power-hungry, and not very portable. Multimedia laptops frequently lack the necessary performance for demanding games. The ThinkBook 16p attempts to strike a balance, and it doesn't do a bad job - but you have to accept compromises here as well.