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The RX 7800M XT performs identically to the desktop RTX 4070 if the latest leaked 3DMark TimeSpy Graphics score of the GPU is any indication. Based on the score, the mobile RDNA 3 GPU matches the RTX 3080 desktop card while leaving the mobile RTX 3080 in the dust.

MacOS Sonoma beta appears to be running DX12 games with relative ease on the M1 and M2 processors via the Wine emulator included with the Game Porting Toolkit. Cyberpunk 2077 struggles on the M1 with Ultra settings, but the M2 processors can run Diablo IV, Hogwarts Legacy and Spider-Man at more than 30 fps.

The new DLAA performance Quality mode would make it easier for game devs to integrate the AI-powered anti-aliasing algorithm as a selectable mode along with the various DLSS performance and quality modes.

Leaker All_The_Watts has revealed specifications of five upcoming RDNA 3 mobile GPUs. The RX 7800M XT occupies the top of the leaked lineup with bring 60 Compute Units, 16 GB of RAM, and a 165 W TDP, while the bottom is served by the RX 7800S with 48 CU, 12 GB of memory, and a 120 W TDP.

Blizzard wants to celebrate Diablo IV's launch by giving away two GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards with a custom backplate. Gamers can try their luck via the social media platform of choice. Entries are valid till June 20, and Nvidia will announce the winner on June 31.

GPD has announced crowdfunding details for the G1, its first eGPU. Built around the AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT, the GPD G1 will feature OcuLink and USB4 connectivity, among other features. The GPD G1 will also be the smallest eGPU to date and should match the performance of modern NVIDIA RTX 40 series graphics cards.

The APEX 15 / 17 models as well as a new 16-inch CORE laptop are scheduled to receive the AMD Phoenix treatment with a Ryzen 7 7840HS APU later this summer. However, even though the integrated Radeon 780M GPU is already good enough for 1080p gaming, XMG cannot eliminate the dGPU options.

After releasing the RX 7600 and the RTX 4060 Ti, AMD and NVIDIA are expected to follow the boards up with more cost-effective cards such as the RX 7500, and the RTX 4050. Per a new report by RedGamingTech, the RX 7500 and the RTX 4050 could have multiple SKUs differentiated solely by the amount of VRAM and the resulting lower MSRPs.

NVIDIA released the RTX 4060 Ti on May 24 to a generally cold reception. According to various reports, consumer interest in the GPU was quite low and much of it could be due to the bad launch reviews. 3DCenter has now published a launch review roundup of the board alongside the AMD Radeon RX 7600.

The RX 7600 is AMD’s debut sub-US$300 RDNA 3 GPU. The board brings 32 Compute Units, 8 GB of VRAM, and has a TDP of 165 W. 3DCenter has now published a detailed review roundup of the card and, sadly, the GPU doesn’t look as impressive as it ought to be thanks to poor performance/price and performance/watt showings over the last-gen Radeon RX 6600.

NVIDIA's share price has finally propelled it into the US$1 trillion market cap club today (May 30, 2023). Its meteoric valuation is attributed to its (abundantly clear) focus on AI hardware and services. The company's new status has also been seen to buoy up the stock of other tech companies, AMD included.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks about a possible collaboration with Intel in an effort to diversify production venues and alleviate supply chain issues rising with the escalating tensions between the US, China and Taiwan.

It appears AMD’s bet of reducing the price of the RX 7600 mere days before the press reviews went live seems to have worked as the newest report from Moore’s Law Is Dead claims that the RDNA 3 GPU outsold Team Green’s mid-ranger at launch. Per the leaker’s sources, the RTX 4060 Ti appears "to have sold 1/10th as well as the RTX 4070 did on its launch week".

Although Asus skipped giving the RTX 3000 series this treatment, the ROG Matrix custom video card design is back with a metal liquid-cooled Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090. The card sports a thick 360 mm radiator with three 12 cm fans and also marks the first use of indirect Aura Lighting. Sadly, sales will kick off in the third quarter.

ASUS is reportedly preparing a new line of RTX 40 GPUs without any traditional power connectors. The GPUs will instead rely on a proprietary interface that slots in and draws all power from the motherboard.

Nvidia has unveiled its new Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination of a CPU and GPU connected via Nvlink. The Grace CPU has 72 Arm cores and up to 480 GB of LPDDR5X RAM, while the Hopper GPU packs up to 96 GB of HBM3 memory.

Introduced at the end of June 2021, the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC LHR video card reached its highest Amazon price of US$669.99 at the end of March 2022. Now, a 29% discount is keeping it at the lowest price until now, so those interested can grab it for a tempting US$377.99 (Camelcamelcamel reveals an average price of US$449.04).

After getting roasted by reviewers, the RTX 4060 Ti and the RX 7600 GPUs are also getting abandoned by gamers if the newest report from 3DCenter is any indication. Per 3DCenter, the RTX 4060 Ti and the RX 7600 has had an extremely slow launch day on MindFactory compared to the RTX 4070 Ti and the RTX 4070 that also went on sale this year.

Despite its very recent release, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB graphics card has reportedly already been subject to a price cut by one retailer. In addition, it appears the RTX 4060 Ti has also been spurned in the key Japanese market with sales looking lethargic at the moment. The current SKU comes with just 8 GB of VRAM, with a 16 GB variant planned for a July launch.

The RTX 4060 Ti is the direct successor to the RTX 3060 Ti. Although the Lovelace GPU offers a meaningful bump in rasterization performance at 1080p, it reportedly fails to provide a decent enough pure rasterization performance uplift at high resolutions like 1440p and 4K owing to a few questionable decisions by NVIDIA like the narrow bus width.

The RTX 4060 Ti is now up for sale at an MSRP of US$400. However, per the latest information from Moore’s Law Is Dead, the sales of the GPU could be very low based on pre-launch data from the leaker’s retail sources. Furthermore, the RTX 4060 Ti stock at launch is reportedly similar to the RTX 4080 launch supply.

AMD has announced the Radeon RX 7600, a US$269 mid-range graphics card designed for 1080p gaming. Based around the RDNA 3 architecture and with 32 CUDA cores, the Radeon RX 7600 is said to outperform the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 while offering modern features like AV1 encoding, DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1.

Mostly on par with the RTX 3060 8 GB, even when it comes to image super sampling techniques and ray tracing, the Arc A750 8 GB LE represents the best budget option right now, seeing that the price difference between the two GPUs is bigger than US$100 with the latest Newegg discount.

According to the latest report from 3DCenter based on TechEpiphany’s analysis of GPU sales on German retailer MindFactory, board sales have reached a new yearly low after dropping for the 5th consecutive week. Sales in the 20th week of 2023 declined by a troubling 53% since the 15th week.

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 is expected to launch within a couple of days with a performance that should ideally be a big step up vs the RX 6600. Now, according to an allegedly official spec sheet that pits the RX 7600 against the RX 6600, the RX 7600 power requirement appears to be significantly more than its predecessor.

Path tracing is significantly more taxing even on high-end RTX 4000 GPUs compared to traditional ray tracing methods. Nvidia's real-time neural radiance caching for path tracing is designed to solve the severe performance hit. This new AI-accelerated method has been in development for a couple of years now and the first implementation could soon be featured in the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty.

The Radeon RX 7600 is expected to be AMD’s first affordable RDNA 3 GPU. So far, leaks have alleged the RX 7600 MSRP to be US$300, matching the newly-announced RTX 4060. But, based on a handful of listings for AIB RX 7600 boards, Team Red could end up pricing the GPU below US$300.

The RX 7600 is reportedly launching on May 25 with reviews landing on May 24. The GPU allegedly employs a Navi 33 XL chip and could be priced at or less than US$300. Now, a reference Made by AMD RX 7600 has leaked featuring a design that resembles other RDNA 3 cards.

A new leak from Weibo says next-gen SoC from Qualcomm and MediaTek cannot output a steady 60 FPS in Genshin Impact at 1080p. It is unknown if this is due to the SoC's inability to run the game at the said resolution or poor software optimization.

PNY has confirmed that it has integrated the latest RTX 4000 graphics into new XLR8 Gaming VERTO RGB- and VERTO-series cards. The two new lines will support both the 4060 and 4060 Ti between them, in sizes of 8GB as well as 16GB. Their release will start with those of the Ti 8GB variety later in May 2023.

With the latest Memorial Day deals, HP is offering an RTX 4060-powered Victus for just over US$1,200. This is the 16.1-inch model with 1080p 144 Hz IPS screen, 16 GB DDR5-5200 RAM and 512 GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage.

Colorful, Inno3D, Gainward, Palit and Zotac have revealed their small form-factor RTX 4060 GPUs. The cards are at most 17 cm in length and occupy only two slots, making them ideal for mini-ITX HTPC / 1080p gaming builds.

Serial hardware leakers Moore’s Law Is Dead and RedGamingTech have leaked the price of the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 7600 GPU. According to the leakers, the RX 7600 MSRP could match the RTX 4060 MSRP. However, MLID also alleges that AMD might lower the price further.

The RTX 4070 might not be a hot seller. Citing supply chain sources, ITHome explains that the RTX 4070 is selling well below expectations which is why Team Green is expected to extend the current supply halt into June.

AMD is a few days away from bringing the Radeon RX 7600 series to market, likely to combat NVIDIA's new trio of mid-range graphics cards. In the meantime, various specifications for the entry-level Radeon RX 7600 have now leaked online, which also hint at the existence of the Radeon RX 7600 XT.

Introduced at the end of October 2020 with a list price of US$499 for the reference design, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 can be considered an outdated, yet still capable (in some scenarios) video card. The 31% discount on the Asus Dual V2 OC Edition of this card brings it from US$579.99 to US$399.99.

Nvidia, today, made the RTX 4060 series official. The RTX 4060 series is comprised of three SKUs — RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB, RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB, and the RTX 4060. The RTX 4060 Ti sports a 32 MB L2 cache for an effective 554 GB/s bandwidth and is rated at a 160 W TGP. Pricing starts from US$299 for the RTX 4060, which puts doubts on whether we will get to see an RTX 4050 after all.

The GeForce RTX 4060 is on the horizon, with NVIDIA also set to release two RTX 4060 Ti models soon. In the meantime, initial performance numbers for the RTX 4060 have emerged, pitting the AD107-based graphics card against the RTX 2060 and RTX 3060. Official RTX 4060 specifications have surfaced too.

NVIDIA is on the verge of launching the RTX 4060 Ti series, consisting of 8 GB and 16 GB VRAM variants. While US$100 will separate the pair, they will feature the same GPU, memory subsystem and TGP.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB scores 146,10 and 144,910 points in Geekbench's CUDA benchmark. It packs 4,325 CUDA cores and has a boost clock of 2.54 GHz. Nvidia is expected to announce the graphics card later this month.

This discounted configuration also includes 16 GB of DDR5-5200 RAM, 512 GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage and a 15.6-inch IPS screen with 1080p resolution and 144 Hz refresh rate. As a bonus, Lenovo is throwing in a 3-month Xbox game pass.

It appears GPU sales in the German market are experiencing a considerable slowdown. According to TechEpiphany’s data compiled by 3DCenter, MindFactory’s total GPU unit volume of the 19th week of 2023 came in at 2,775 which represents a 22% decline compared to the 2022 annual average and a stark 38% fall vs the 15th week of the current year.

Although the discount to US$2,999 may still feel steep for an RTX 4070 laptop, the XPS 17 does include premium features like a 17-inch 4K touchscreen, quad-speaker setup and a sturdy chassis made of CNC machined aluminum and carbon fiber. This configuration also packs 32 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM and 1 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage.

MediaTek has reportedly joined forces with Nvidia to develop mobile GPUs for smartphones. One could get to see it in action as early as 2024 alongside the Dimensity 9400.

VideoCardz claims to have obtained more information about the forthcoming GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. Purportedly, NVIDIA plans to bring an abundance of VRAM to its next mid-range graphics card, which will also be joined with a TGP bump.

Nvidia's next gen RTX 50 Blackwell with purported 144 SMs isn't reaching ambitious performance gains in internal testing, according to latest rumors. Apparently, Blackwell's performance gains vis-à-vis AD102 are in the range of what we've seen from Pascal to Turing, but Nvidia wants more. This could imply that Nvidia might go for higher SMs counts with GB102 and possibly even a multi-chip module architecture similar to the purported GB100 datacenter GPU.

According to a recent report by 3DCenter, consumers are seemingly moving away from buying GPUs with 8 GB RAM as users are apparently choosing cards with more than 8 GB of memory. 3DCenter’s analysis is based on the sales data collected by TechEpiphany from German retailer MindFactory.

A listing from an unknown Singapore-based retailer says the AMD Radeon RX 7600 will cost S$545 (US$410). The graphics card hits shelves locally on May 26.