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More AI power for the upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs (Image Source: profesionalreview.com)

AMD execs detail AI-powered technologies that could be implemented in the upcoming RDNA 4 gaming GPUs

Instead of limiting AI-powered processing to image quality improvements, AMD wants to utilize the RDNA 4 inference cores to make games more fun and life-like with better moving characters and more complex pathfinding. Image render...

Bogdan Solca, 21 Feb 2023 18:17

Three Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 variants are reportedly in the works (image via Nvidia)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070: Mid-range graphics card could be launched in three flavours.

A new leak has spotted three GeForce RTX 4070 variants with 10 GB, 12 GB and 16 GB of video memory. The list, found on Gigabyte's website, doesn't reveal anything else about the graphics cards.

Anil Ganti, 20 Feb 2023 17:36

Somebody might want to ask GALAX "what's your game?" in regard to the RTX 3080 clearance price. (Image source: GALAX & Nvidia - edited)

GALAX clears out its RTX 3080 stock for US$699 oblivious of the fact that a new RTX 4070 Ti can be had for around US$850

GALAX has been promoting a clearance sale of its remaining GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB) graphics cards. The company is offering the boards, which have a “1-click” overclocking feature, at a price of US$699.99. However, it is possible ...

Daniel R Deakin, 20 Feb 2023 11:18

TSMC's 4 nm transistors are doing wonders for the mobile RTX 4090 GPU. (Imge Source: TechPowerUp)

Overclocked Nvidia mobile RTX 4090 GPU can beat even a desktop RTX 3090 Ti

Although the new mobile RTX 4090 GPU is still limited to 175 W TGP, it still manages to score slightly more points in 3DMar's Time Spy test over the 400+ W RTX 3090 Ti with a bit of tinkering. The generational leap in efficiency i...

Bogdan Solca, 17 Feb 2023 17:20

The white color scheme reminds of an Alienware model. (Image Source: MSI)

Deal | MSI Sword 15 laptop with Intel i7-12650H and RTX 3070 Ti dGPU drops to US$1,199 at BestBuy

Besides the RTX 3070 Ti dGPU, another excellent feature for this price point is the 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage solution. The 15.6-inch display is just decent with 1080p resolution and 144 Hz refresh rate.

Bogdan Solca, 16 Feb 2023 21:02

Mechrevo ignores Nvidia's US$999 MSRP. (Image Source: JD)

Mechrevo is pre-selling laptops with AMD Ryzen 7 7735H APUs and RTX 4060 dGPUs for US$875

The 16 K gaming laptop from Mechrevo also packs 16 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM, 512 GB NVMe SSD storage, a 16-inch display with 16:10 aspect ratio, 2560 X 1600 resolution and 165 Hz refresh rate, plus an SD card reader.

Bogdan Solca, 16 Feb 2023 20:44

The AORUS RTX 4090 Gaming Box will be available later this year. (Image source: Gigabyte via VideoCardz)

New Gigabyte AORUS Gaming Box to offer liquid-cooled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Gigabyte is preparing to release a next-generation AORUS Gaming Box. Based on pre-release marketing materials, the AORUS Gaming Box has fewer HDMI ports than its predecessor but an additional USB Type-C connection. Gigabyte will a...

Alex Alderson, 16 Feb 2023 18:27

AMD's RT implementation sees some improvements (Image Source: AMD)

AMD Adrenalin 23.2.1 GPU drivers discovered to improve RX 6000 ray tracing performance, but mostly in synthetic tests

The release notes for the latest AMD Adrenalin 23.2.1 drivers do not specifically mention ray tracing improvements for the RX 6000-series, but some Twitter users are reporting uplifts of almost 40% in 3DMark. These gains unfortuna...

Bogdan Solca, 15 Feb 2023 16:48

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has 12 GB of GDDR6X memory. (Source: Notebookcheck)

Deal | Deeply-discounted RTX 3070, RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti, and RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition GPUs hit Best Buy's clearance sale

Nvidia is expected to launch the RTX 40 mid-range GPUs in the coming months. However, for people who want a card right now, Best Buy has some Founders Edition RTX 30 cards at significant discounts. For instance, the RTX 3070 Found...

Fawad Murtaza, 15 Feb 2023 08:49

The GeForce RTX 4060 may be the only desktop graphics card based on the AD107 GPU. (Image source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060: Desktop graphics card specifications leak online with 8 GB VRAM and AD107 GPU

Specifications for the desktop version of the GeForce RTX 4060 have surfaced online. Reputedly, the desktop-class card will match its laptop equivalent in most areas, with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, an AD107 GPU and a 115 W TGP.

Alex Alderson, 14 Feb 2023 18:10

A fair price for the current market conditions (Image Source: Asus)

Asus ROG Strix G18 featuring Intel’s i9-13980HX and Nvidia’s RTX 4080 dGPU blows competing laptops out of the water with unbeatable US$2,499.99 launch price

Even though it costs at least US$400 less compared to similar configurations from other competitors, the Asus ROG Strix G18 still offers the faster CPU and there are no compromises when it comes to performance, as it integrates th...

Bogdan Solca, 14 Feb 2023 15:40

ThunderRobot Zero laptop features an Intel Core i9-13900HX and a GeForce RTX 4060 laptop GPU. (Source: Zhongzheng Evaluations on YouTube)

Impressive RTX 4060 laptop GPU performs on par with RTX 3070 Ti laptop and beats RTX 3060 mobile by 27% in preliminary review

The RTX 4060 laptop GPU is set to appear later this month. Based on the AD107 “Lovelace” GPU, the card packs 3,072 CUDA cores, 8 GB of VRAM, a 128-bit memory bus, and a TGP of up to 115 W. Although Nvidia has yet to lift the embar...

Fawad Murtaza, 14 Feb 2023 07:33

Ampere mobile workstation GPU (Image Source: Ebay)

Unannounced Nvidia Ada-based mobile workstation GPUs get leaked in MSI driver

Four upcoming laptop-grade professional GPUs based on the Ada Lovelace architecture were spotted by LaptopVideo2Go in a recent MSI driver build. Top-of-the-line would be the RTX 5000 model that is rumored to be based on the same A...

Bogdan Solca, 09 Feb 2023 16:30

Rare 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 card currently auctions for US$14,100 on Ebay

This legendary quad-GPU prototype that never saw commercial availability is said to be part of a later development batch that had most of the pre-production bugs ironed out. On top of that, the seller claims this card was reworked...

Bogdan Solca, 08 Feb 2023 20:13

Nvidia's AD106 GPU has been benchmarked online (image via Nvidia)

Mystery Nvidia graphics card with uncut AD106 GPU fails to impress in leaked benchmarks

A Chiphell user pitted Nvidia's upcoming AD106 GPU against the last-gen GA104 and TU104. While the Ada Lovelace silicon easily outperformed its Turning-based counterpart, the same can't be said for Ampere.

Anil Ganti, 05 Feb 2023 03:45

Last-gen AMD Radeon graphics cards will get new drivers soon (image via AMD)

AMD executive says new drivers for Radeon RX 6000 series will be released in the next two weeks

AMD's Frank Azor has promised new drivers for gamers with Radeon RX 6000 series (and older) hardware. The update is slated to arrive in two weeks and might not have anything for the current-gen Radeon RX 7000 SKUs, although AMD pr...

Anil Ganti, 03 Feb 2023 22:44

AD107 RTX 4050/4060 die shot (Image Source: MLID)

NVIDIA RTX 4070 and RTX 4050/4060 laptop GPU die shots get leaked along with increased prices

Moore's Law Is Dead leaks AD106 and AD107 die shots complete with size and starting price estimates. The new chips appear to be significantly smaller than their previous gen counterparts, but this is to be expected from GPUs produ...

Bogdan Solca, 03 Feb 2023 14:38

The Nvidia RTX 6000 workstation GPU features a near-complete AD102 die. (Image Source: u/Healthy-Blood-54 on Reddit)

Nvidia RTX 6000 with 18,176 CUDA cores and 300 W TDP 15% slower than RTX 4090 in 3DMark Time Spy

A Redditor posted Time Spy scores from an RTX 6000 workstation GPU. The RTX 6000 sports a near-complete AD102 die with 18,176 CUDA cores and managed scores that are about 15% lower than an average RTX 4090 (after a Windows update)...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 03 Feb 2023 00:47

The RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX launched with US$899 and US$999 MSRPs. (Source: Notebookcheck)

AMD RX 7800 XT specs and performance leak alongside hardware details for RX 7700 XT and RX 7600/XT

RedGamingTech has revealed hardware specifications and performance estimates of the upcoming mid-range RX 7800 XT, RX 7700 XT, and RX7600/XT. The purported specifications of the RX 7800 XT and the RX 7600/XT appear to have been sc...

Fawad Murtaza, 02 Feb 2023 17:59

Intel's upcoming Xe 2 graphics architecture will focus only on iGPUs and discrete cards

Instead of modifying the Xe 2 architecture for the low power, gaming, datacenter and HPC market segments, Intel is planning to increase cost-efficiency and reduce segmentation, focusing only on integrated (LPG) and discrete (HPG) ...

Bogdan Solca, 02 Feb 2023 17:10

Console-size mini PC with laptop-grade components. (Image Source: AliExpress)

Chatreey readies console-size G2 mini PC with Intel i9-12900H processor and RTX 3050 dGPU

Resembling a mini PS5, the Chatreey G2 can be configured with i7-12700H or i9-12900H processors and an RTX 3050 dGPU, plus up to 64 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and up to 4 TB of storage. Prices range between US$687 and US$1,194.

Bogdan Solca, 01 Feb 2023 15:54

New evidence of the Nvidia Titan RTX Ada's existence has emerged online (image via MEGAsizeGPU on Twitter)

Nvidia Titan RTX Ada engineering sample spotted online with 48 GB of GDDR6 VRAM

Nvidia could still be testing its supposedly shelved Titan RTX Ada graphics cards in India, as confirmed by a recent shipping manifest. It bore a familiar PG137 EB2 SKU0000 codename and packed 48 GB of GDDR6 VRAM.

Anil Ganti, 31 Jan 2023 23:37

THe first RTX 4090 laptop available for pre-order on Amazon (Image Source: Gigabyte)

Gigabyte's AORUS 17X gaming laptop with i9-13900HX CPU and RTX 4090 GPU now up for pre-orders on Amazon

The AORUS 17X can now be pre-ordered for US$3,899. The configuration includes a 17.3-inch 1440p display with 240 Hz refresh rate, Intel's i9-13900HX processor, an RTX 4090 GPU, 32 GB DDR5-5600 and 2 TB of SSD storage.

Bogdan Solca, 31 Jan 2023 20:33

Predator-branded AMD Radeon cards are coming later this year. (Image Source: Acer)

Acer rumored to become AMD AIB partner and launch Predator Radeon 7000 cards later this year

A new GPU AIB maker backed by Acer's expertise could prove beneficial for the market as a whole. However, rumor has it that the Predator cards will not feature any Nvidia GPUs any time soon, focusing only on intel and AMD models a...

Bogdan Solca, 31 Jan 2023 19:45

The GeForce RTX 4070 could have a two-slot design. (Source: Nvidia)

Massively-increased RTX 4070 clock speeds could see the card boost 43% more than the RTX 3070

The rumor mill has it that the RTX 4070 will match or slightly exceed the RTX 3080 in rasterization performance. One of the primary contributors to the performance bump is likely the significantly increased base and boost clock sp...

Fawad Murtaza, 31 Jan 2023 19:34

The RTX 4090 FE launched with an MSRP of US$1,600. (Source: Notebookcheck, MLID-edited)

Slowing RTX 4090 sales and smash hit RX 7900 XTX could cause Nvidia some concern as report claims last-gen GPUs dominate sales

Serial hardware leaker Tom of Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID) has published a video claiming that although the RTX 4090 continues to sell well, the sales are losing momentum. The leaker also alleges that the RX 7900 XTX cards are movin...

Fawad Murtaza, 31 Jan 2023 12:21

The PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 XT features dual BIOS with separate OC and Silent modes. (Source: PowerColor on Amazon)

Deal | PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT drops to the lowest price in 120 days after a cool 6% discount on Amazon

Amazon is selling the PowerColor Red Dragon AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT for US$35 off the normal US$555 retail price. In the absence of any next-gen mid-range cards from AMD and Nvidia, the RX 6800 XT with the slashed rate is a tempting...

Fawad Murtaza, 30 Jan 2023 12:40

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT features a Navi 31 GPU with 80 MB of Infinity Cache. (Source: Notebookcheck)

AMD Radeon cards with 3D V-Cache may become a reality as Navi 31 GPU found to integrate possible connection site for 3D cache

Back in August 2022, rumors were swirling that AMD was developing RDNA 3 GPUs with 3D V-Cache. However, the RX 7900 XT/XTX launched without a stacked cache. As it now turns out, it looks like Navi 31 GPU featured inside the RX 790...

Fawad Murtaza, 30 Jan 2023 10:44

The Nvidia Ada Titan features a quad-slot design (image via MEGAsizeGPU)

New Titan Ada real-world images show up online alongside revised GeForce RTX 4090 Ti specs

A new leak has shown off the now-cancelled Titan RTX Ada graphics card from Nvidia. The engineering sample orients its I/O vertically and features a massive quad-slot design. Twitter leaker Kopite7kimi has also posted some new inf...

Anil Ganti, 30 Jan 2023 04:34

Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 Trinity OC 24GB drops below US$1,800 on Amazon (Source: Zotac)

Deal | Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 Trinity OC 24GB drops below US$1,800 on Amazon

Although the launch price of the reference design was US$1,599, finding the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 below US$1,800 is quite tricky, especially when talking about custom designs. In this case, the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 Trin...

Codrut Nistor, 28 Jan 2023 13:29

Turning the 3-slot monster into a 1-slot compact champ. (Image Source: Optimum Tech)

World's smallest RTX 4090 card: Alphacool's latest waterblock transforms the Nvidia beast into a compact 1-slot GPU

Turning the massive RTX 4090 GPU into a 1-slot compact card is easy with the Alphacool reference design enterprise-level waterblock with backplate. The compact design also reduces the card length by almost 50%, but it only works w...

Bogdan Solca, 27 Jan 2023 18:31

The fresh coat of paint also includes realistic looking inscriptions. (Image Source: Iskandar Souza)

Cryptominers are selling used GPUs as new with repainted VRAM chips

Brazilian YouTuber Iskandar Souza and GPU repair specialist Paulo Gomes expose a new scheme involving used mining GPUs sold as new from Chinese online retailers. In order to hide the yellow tint on VRAM, cryptominers are now repai...

Bogdan Solca, 25 Jan 2023 17:56

The Radeon RX 6650 XT has 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. (Source: Notebookcheck)

Underwhelming AMD RDNA 3 Navi 33 performance leak suggests a mediocre generation for midrange GPUs might be on the cards

AMD is expected to reveal midrange RDNA 3 cards, possibly the RX 7600/XT, with the Navi 33 GPU sometime in the coming months. Now, the latest rumor claims that the chip will only present measurable yet ultimately unexciting perfor...

Fawad Murtaza, 25 Jan 2023 10:47

Ketchup used as a thermal compound on the AMD Radeon R7 240 GPU. (Image Source: AssasinWarlord on ComputerBase.de)

Ketchup and toothpaste shown to be effective thermal paste substitutes for cooling 30 W AMD Radeon R7 240

An enthusiast over at the ComputerBase forums has demonstrated that common household items like ketchup, cheese, potato, toothpaste, skin cream, and copper tape among others can substitute for thermal paste in case of an urgent ne...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 25 Jan 2023 09:35

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the RX 7900 XT have MSRPs of US$999 and US$899 respectively. (Source: Notebookcheck)

Dismal AMD RDNA 3 refresh rumor suggests all RDNA 3+ RX 7000 SKUs have been canned

Launch reviews of the RX 7900 XT/XTX found that the GPUs weren’t performing as well as AMD had advertised. This disparity between the marketed and the measured performance sparked speculation that the Navi 31 GPU might be sufferin...

Fawad Murtaza, 23 Jan 2023 10:33

Onyx BOOX Tab X debuts as a new e-ink tablet with a dedicated "Smooth Refresh" GPU

BOOX touts its latest 13.3-inch Android e-reader as one with the GPU power to confer the "Super Refresh Technology" necessary to make different tasks such as scrolling or note-taking as "smooth" as it can. The Tab X also benefits ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 22 Jan 2023 19:56

The Adreno 740 iGPU part of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra's chipset has been flexing its muscles on Geekbench. (Image source: Winfuture/Unsplash - edited)

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra's Adreno 740 GPU thrashes S22 Ultra's Adreno 730 in Vulkan by over 56%

The iGPU for the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, the TSMC-manufactured Qualcomm Adreno 740, has once again been showing its teeth on Geekbench. The S23 Ultra’s graphics processing unit was tested on Vulkan and produced another promising...

Daniel R Deakin, 22 Jan 2023 11:29

The Nvidia GeForce MX series may have been abandoned. (Image Source: Nvidia)

Absence of laptops with GeForce MX GPUs at CES 2023 indicates Nvidia may have abandoned their entry-level discrete GPU

It is possible that Nvidia may have discontinued making GeForce MX discrete GPUs for laptops. With integrated GPUs such as the AMD Radeon 680M and entry-level Arc discrete GPUs like the A350M and A370M now capable of media acceler...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 21 Jan 2023 06:04

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti comes with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. (Source: Notebookcheck)

Uninspiring GeForce RTX 4060 Ti performance and sub-US$500 price targets leak

The RTX 4060 Ti is rumored to pack an AD106 Lovelace GPU, 4352 CUDA cores, 8 GB of GDDR6, and a TDP of 160 W. Latest reports from leaker kopite7kimi and MyDrivers suggest that the board will only bring a conservative performance u...

Fawad Murtaza, 20 Jan 2023 22:47

GPU die crack most likely caused by increased humidity levels (Image Source: KrisFix-Germany)

Improper storage believed to be the number one suspect in the strange case involving 48 broken AMD Radeon RX 6800 / 6900 XT cards

AMD's latest Adrenalin drivers for the RX 6000 series were ruled out from the list of possible suspects after more than a week of testing with brand new GPUs. Digging even deeper into the root of the problem, the German GPU repair...

Bogdan Solca, 20 Jan 2023 16:40

Next II to be All-AMD only? (Image Source: AYANEO)

AYANEO revises specs for the Next II handheld console, AMD Ryzen 7000 processor and laptop-grade dGPU now expected

AYANEO is ditching the Alder Lake or Ryzen 6000 processor options for the more advanced Ryzen 7000 chips with Zen 4 cores and RDNA3 iGPU. A discrete GPU will also be included, possibly from the Radeon RX 7000S series, and the hand...

Bogdan Solca, 19 Jan 2023 17:39

Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti retails for US$850. (Source: Notebookcheck)

Divisive RTX 4070 Ti reportedly leads the GPU sales race on Mindfactory

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is allegedly dominating the GPU sales at the German retail outlet Mindfactory during the ongoing week. Additionally, midrange boards like the RTX 3060, the RX 6700 XT, and the RX 6600 are also moving quite ...

Fawad Murtaza, 18 Jan 2023 18:27

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is reportedly based on the AD106 Lovelace GPU. (Source: Nvidia)

Surprisingly-low RTX 4060 Ti TDP figure could see the GPU consume much less power than the RTX 3060 Ti

After reporting RTX 4060 Ti’s hardware specifications last month, kopite7kimi is back with a revised power target for the card. The leaker now maintains that the midrange RTX 4060 Ti will have a much lower TDP than previously assu...

Fawad Murtaza, 18 Jan 2023 10:46

MSI Radeon RX 6600 MECH 2X 8G video card (Source: MSI)

Deal | MSI Radeon RX 6600 MECH 2X 8G 23% off on Amazon

Using a chipset often hailed as the best budget solution for 1080p gaming, the MSI Radeon RX 6600 MECH 2X 8G is a video card coming with a high list price of US$399.99. However, the ongoing 23% Amazon discount takes its price tag ...

Codrut Nistor, 17 Jan 2023 18:49

First RTX 4000 laptops are scheduled to ship in early February. (Image Source: MSI)

Microcenter lists February 8 / 22 shipping date for some MSI gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX 4000 dGPUs

MSI's high-end Titan GT77HX packing the RTX 4090 and the Raider GE78HX with RTX 4090 or RTX 4080 are expected to ship on February 8. The Pulse and Katana models with RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 / RTX 4050, respectively will ship on Febr...

Bogdan Solca, 17 Jan 2023 17:52

AMD Strix Point APUs supposedly feature Zen 5 and Zen 4D CPU cores. (Source: AMD, RedGamingTech-edited)

Powerful AMD Strix Point APUs with 9 TFLOP RDNA 3+ iGPU and hybrid Zen 5 CPU could make low-end discreet GPUs "irrelevant"

AMD Strix Point APUs are slated to release in 2024. The chips reportedly sport a hybrid architecture through a combination of big and small CPU cores. Serial leaker Paul from RedGamingTech now alleges that the Strix Point’s iGPU h...

Fawad Murtaza, 16 Jan 2023 16:58

Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming OC video card (Source: Amazon)

Deal | Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming OC 38% off on Amazon

With a boost clock of up to 2622 MHz and 12 GB GDDR6 192-bit memory, the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming OC video card is now available on Amazon with a generous 38% discount. However, the discounted price of US$599 is still hig...

Codrut Nistor, 16 Jan 2023 10:16