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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 scores 105,630 points in Geekbench's OpenCL benchmark and 99,419 points in Vulkan. It has 8 GB of VRAM, 3,072 CUDA cores (24 SMs) and outperforms its predecessor by 18%.

Syntech touts its 6-in-1 Docking Station as the ideal accessory for handheld consoles from Steam or Asus ROG (but not AYA NEO) thanks to its stand-like form-factor that also integrates useful ports such as HDMI 2.0 and USB type-C with Power Delivery. Now, it is on sale on Amazon at the best price since its launch.

Until OEMs decide to offer laptops featuring AMD's Phoenix 7040 APUs without any dGPU for US$800 or lower, Lenovo's LOQ budget gaming models that are now on sale for a little over US$1,000 seem to be the next best thing.

Dell has started the Alienware AW2724HF, a 27-inch Fast IPS gaming monitor that combines a 1080p native resolution with a 360 Hz refresh rate. The Alienware AW2724HF also has a USB hub with USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports and supports Adaptive-Sync technologies to minimise image tearing at high refresh rates.

The Alienware AW2724DM is a US$399.99 gaming monitor with a 27-inch Fast IPS panel. Dell bases the Alienware AW2724DM around a 1440p panel that also offers a 180 Hz refresh rate, 600 nits peak brightness and 95% DCI-P3 colour space coverage, among other features.

MSI has dropped the price of the factory-overclocked RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 2X Black by US$20 one month into the launch of the RTX 4060 Ti at US$399.99. The price cut comes as NVIDIA is preparing to launch the RTX 4060 non-Ti for US$299.99 on June 29.

Sony could soon sell a new PlayStation 5 bundle with a two-year PlayStation Plus Premium subscription in the box. It could debit in Germany initially, and then gradually spread to other regions. There is no information about when it will launch or how much it could cost.

ViewSonic has confirmed US pricing and a release window for the X2-4K, its 'Designed for Xbox' projector. The ViewSonic X2-4K can create up to 120-inch projections with 2,900 Lumens peak brightness and offers 4.2 ms input lag.

Images and a video of the Anbernic Win701 have leaked online. Reputedly, the gaming handheld will combine a 7-inch display with a 38 Wh battery and an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U, a Zen 4 and RDNA 3-based APU.

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 can now be had for 32% off the list price for the SKU rocking a Ryzen 9 6900HS processor and and RTX 3060 laptop GPU. Enjoying an average rating of 4.4 stars from 397 reviews, the ROG Zephyrus G15 packs good performance, a color accurate display, and long battery life.

The Sony PlayStation 5 console God of War Ragnarök bundle is currently on sale via multiple retailers and over at the official PlayStation store. Various bundles are offered for the PS5 but only the one with the latest God of War game with it is offered at a cut price. The base model of the PlayStation 5 with disc drive was released in 2020 at a launch price of US$499.

The latest driver package from Nvidia arrives with DLSS 2 and Reflex support for F1 23 and Aliens: Dark Descent. It also adds 8 new G-SYNC compatible gaming monitors to the list of supported hardware while GeForce Experience receives optimal settings for 7 titles, including The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum and Diablo IV.

GeForce NOW has announced that it has added Xbox Game Pass to its list of supported account and platform types. Therefore, users with both services will be able to stream titles from the latter on NVIDIA GPUs over the cloud soon. In the meantime, the platform now supports Age of Empires IV's (AoE IV) Anniversary Edition as well as Dordogne, a new release from Steam.

The discounted configuration also comes with 16 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM, 512 GB NVMe SSD storage, 17.3-inch IPS screen with 1440p resolution and 165 Hz refresh rate, a Thunderbolt 4 connector and a full-size SD card reader.

One-netbook has announced plans to offer the ONEXFLY globally. The ONEXFLY will combine a 7-inch IPS display with an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U APU for 1080p and 120 Hz gaming. One-netbook has included a 48 Wh battery but has kept the console's weight to 580 g.

ASUS is now shipping the ROG Ally, for which it has also released a new BIOS update. BIOS 319 appears to reduce in-game performance by up to 20%, with even ASUS advising fans that they can skip updating for now.

The 17-inch Alienware m17 R5 is now on sale for 40% off the list price. The discounted SKU features starkly mid-range hardware in the Ryzen 7 6800H CPU and the RTX 3060 GPU alongside a bonkers 480 Hz refresh rate display. Furthermore, the laptop can be upgraded thanks to two SO-DIMM and M.2 slots for memory and storage expansion.

Although the first dropped by 0.19% and the latter faced a 0.7% descent compared to April, the 1080p primary display resolution and Windows 10 64-bit reign supreme in last month's Steam hardware and software survey. No less than 60.51% of Steam users use Microsoft's previous operating system, while 64.33% play their games in FHD.

The RX 7800 XT is rumored to be using a fully-enabled Navi 32 GPU that potentially allows the GPU to perform better than the RTX 4070. Igor’s Lab has tested a Radeon Pro W7800 under certain conditions to simulate the RX 7800 XT. The results depict the RX 7800 XT to be 14% faster on average vs the RTX 4070 at 4K.

Retroid has confirmed the launch date of the Pocket 3 Plus Metal Edition, a revised gaming handheld with a new metal shell. Retroid has also added hall effect joysticks, which were missing from the original Pocket 3 Plus.

The AOC AGON AG405UXC is a new 40-inch ultra-wide gaming monitor. Equipped with an IPS panel, the AGON AG405UXC operates at 1440p and 144 Hz with 400 nits peak brightness. AOC has included five USB ports too, among other features.

Unisoc has reportedly broken into the 5G mobile processor market with the T820, a new 6 nanometer chipset with a 1+3+4 core configuration. The chip-maker has partnered with Nubia to debut its new SoC in the Neo, a gaming smartphone with a "futuristic aesthetic design" and at least two cameras. It will go to pre-order later in June 2023.

One-netbook has revealed various details about the ONEXFLY, nine months after it shared initial teasers. The company has now torn up plans to release a 6-inch and AMD Mendocino gaming handheld, with the ONEXFLY an exact replica of the AOKZOE A2 instead.

NVIDIA has brought forward the launch of the GeForce RTX 4060, which it originally scheduled for a July release. Instead, the GeForce RTX 4060 will be coming in two weeks' time. The GeForce RTX 4060 will start at US$299, making it the cheapest way to obtain a desktop RTX 40 series graphics card.

The second major update to War Thunder, dubbed "La Royale" and released yesterday, comes with more than 50 new/updated vehicles, including 14 new ships for the French naval tree (in Closed Beta stage for now). There is also a first Indian tank (Vijayanta), two new locations, and much more.

The Blade 14 2023 is Razer's most powerful 14-inch laptop yet, with promised gains of around 20% in modern triple-A titles. The Blade 14 2023 comes packed with AMD's most powerful Ryzen 7040HS APU, plus a choice between 140 W variants of the GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4070. Razer has included various other quality-of-life changes from last year's model too, such as a bigger battery, a larger trackpad and various upgrade options.

AMD sneakily included this easter egg in an interview from 2 weeks ago, but no one noticed it until yesterday. It looks like this chip is going to power the upcoming RX 7800 / XT cards, which could launch in just a few months to compete with Nvidia's RTX 4070 GPUs.

The 2023 Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8 with an 8-core Ryzen 7 7745HX processor, a 140 W RTX 4070 board, and 16 GB of DDR5 5200 MHz memory is now enjoying a generous 27% off at Lenovo’s official store. For the price, the Legion Pro 5 is a stellar option as it has excellent performance, a good display, and upgradeable RAM/storage.

Priced over US$170 in late 2022, the 23.6-inch Acer Nitro ED240Q Sbiip curved gaming monitor now carries an attractive US$109.99 price tag thanks to a generous 39% discount. This FHD monitor has a VA panel with 165 Hz refresh and 1 ms minimum response time, as well as AMD FreeSync Premium support and DP/HDMI connectivity.

Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its Xbox Series S. The console is still "all-digital" - however, this variant comes in black, to denote internal storage specs that have doubled in size compared to the original model. For Series X fans, the Redmond giant has partnered with Bethesda to hype Starfield with limited editions and themed versions of its first-party peripherals.

ASUS has revealed more specifications about the ROG Swift PG38UQ, one of several new gaming monitors it recently showcased at Computex 2023. The ROG Swift PG38UQ will be available later this year as the world's first 38-inch gaming monitor with HDMI 2.1 ports.

Anbernic has launched the RG Nano, a compact gaming handheld that weighs just 75 g. Built around an aluminium housing, the RG Nano has a 1.5-inch display, will emulate numerous game libraries and starts at just US$59.99.

AOKZOE is preparing to launch its second gaming handheld of the year, following the release of the A1 Pro in May. The AOKZOE A2 will be noticeably smaller than its counterpart but will still pack a powerful AMD Ryzen 7 7840U APU and Radeon 780M iGPU.

Good sub-US$200 GPUs seem to be more and more rare in the post-pandemic era. With the launch of Nvidia's and AMD's subpar lower-mid-range solutions like the RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7600, previous gen GPUs like the RX 6600 appear to offer the best bang for the buck, especially when they go on sale for only US$180.

The Odyssey OLED G9 is now orderable in the US, five months after its debut at CES 2023. Samsung is also offering a US$250 gift card with pre-orders before shipping the 49-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor later this month.

Dell has now slashed US$1,750 off the list price of the 2022 Alienware x17 R2. The notebook comes with a Core i9-12900H processor, an RTX 3080 laptop GPU, 16 GB of DDR5 memory, and a 512 GB PCIe SSD. Aside from strong performance and a speedy 480 Hz display, the Alienware x17 R2 also features upgradable RAM and storage thanks to two SO-DIMM and M.2 slots.

Starfield is Bethesda Game Studio’s first new IP in 25 years. The game is releasing on September 6 on both the Xbox Series S|X and PC. According to the title's Steam listing, Starfield requires, at a minimum, an RX 5700/GTX 1070 Ti GPU and a Ryzen 5 2600X/Intel Core i7-6800K CPU.

NVIDIA confirmed last month that the RTX 4060, the cheapest RTX 40 board, will be available to buy in July. However, according to a new report from Paul of RedGamingTech which was later supported by MEGAsizeGPU on Twitter, the RTX 4060 will release later this month. Additionally, Paul has confirmed that the RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs will follow the release pattern of previous GeForce launches.

CrossCheck In this article, we'll be comparing two great Razer Blade gaming laptops to explore how small gen-to-gen leaps band together to become unbelievable gains in a matter of just a few years. While this is predictably a numbers game, some of the changes improve user experience much more than one could possibly expect.

The RX 7800 XT is rumored to feature the fully-enabled Navi 32 RDNA 3 GPU. Reportedly equipped with 60 Compute Units, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and 64 MB of Infinity Cache, the card could be a direct competitor to the RTX 4070 if the latest report from RedGamingTech about the price and performance of the board is accurate.

A modder has released an unofficial patch for the popular Ubisoft game, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. The game suffered from nagging bugs, mouse deadzones, and all sorts of haphazard camera movements that Ubisoft hasn't fixed at all. The new patch fixes most of these issues and also enables DirectX 11, 4x MSAA, and support for 4K monitors.

An RTX 3080 Ti-powered configuration of the unique but usually quite pricy Alienware m15 R7 has received an intriguing discount as Dell has almost slashed the original list price of its high-end 15-inch gaming laptop in half.

Minisforum's first ever mini PC model with a laptop-grade Intel Arc dGPU is now available for pre-orders starting at $649 for US customers (late July shipping) or €759 for EU customers (late June shipping).

This model has not seen these low prices since last November. With the RTX 4060 models not impressing too much, heavily discounted RTX 3060 laptops like the Zephyrus G14 from 2 years ago seem to be a better deal right now.