Gaming

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 company behind the F(x)tec Pro1-X has developed a new display option for the Valve Steam Deck. Dubbed the DeckHD, the 7-inch IPS display outputs at 1200p (WUXGA) with improved colour accuracy. FX Technology will sell the DeckHD for US$99, which also has an anti-glare coating and offers 400 nits peak brightness.

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.

UGREEN has waded into the Steam Deck docking station game with its take on the 6-in-1 accessory for the handheld console. It features a USB type-C port for up to 100W charging as well as HDMI for external monitor support at up to 4K/60Hz. The OEM has also indicated that this version might also fit the ROG Ally.

Take-Two's CEO has dropped a heavy hint about the release window for new games. Apparently, the company hopes to launch 'several groundbreaking titles' between April 2024 and March 2025, fuelling speculation about the arrival of Grand Theft Auto VI.

Anbernic is preparing to release the RG Nano, a tiny gaming handheld built around the Allwinner K3S chipset. The Anbernic RG Nano will also have a miniature display and is rumoured to cost about US$70, including shipping.

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of October 2020 with a list price of US$499 for the reference design, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 can be considered an outdated, yet still capable (in some scenarios) video card.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 Asus ROG Ally is capable of handling a host of popular console emulators thanks to AVX-512 support in its Ryzen Z1 APU. The Ally was shown to effectively run popular console emulators — from light ones such as the PPSPP for the PSP to the more complex ones including Xenia for the Xbox 360 and RPCS3 for the PS3.

Analogue has confirmed new pricing and availability for the Analogue Duo. Launching later this week, the Analogue Duo will be available in two colour options for US$249.99.

Little known company SZDiiER has started selling the D-007, a compact gaming handheld that clearly takes inspiration from the Powkiddy RGB20S. Accordingly, the SZDiiER D-007 relies on a Rockchip RK3326 SoC and has a 3.5-inch IPS display, among other features.

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.

One disadvantage of the current QD-OLED monitors is the matte finish that reduces the contrast and produces slightly raised blacks when hit by light sources. This problem is finally alleviated with the introduction of the glossy finish on the upcoming second generation QD-OLED gaming monitors.

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.

Logitech has announced European and UK pricing for the G Cloud, its 7-inch gaming handheld based on the Snapdragon 720G. Despite always having the G Cloud on sale in the US, Logitech has decided to sell the device for about as much as a Steam Deck in Europe and the UK.

Philips is on the verge of releasing the Evnia 25M2N3200W, a 24.5-inch gaming monitor with a 240 Hz refresh rate and a 1080p native resolution. The Evnia 25M2N3200W will be available later this month in multiple markets, including in the Eurozone for €219.

Philips continues to expand its Evnia gaming monitor. The Evnia 25M2N5200P has a fast IPS panel with 1 ms response times that also delivers 400 nits peak brightness. Philips combines the bright panel with a 280 Hz refresh rate and numerous ports, among other features.

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 is now going for US$650 off at Best Buy for the Ryzen 9 6900HS and Radeon RX 6800S configuration. The laptop is highly rated with an average rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars on Best Buy and for good reason, as it is both portable and powerful.

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.

Unveiled at the end of 2022 with a list price of US$1,499.99, the 34-inch Samsung Odyssey G85SB QD-OLED curved gaming monitor (model number LS34BG850SNXZA) is now available for US$1,299.99 via both Amazon and Samsung US. Its highlights include a 175 Hz refresh rate, a minimum response time of 0.03 ms, HDR True Black 400, and more.

Jensen Huang received compensation for his role as Nvidia president and CEO totaling US$21.356 million for Fiscal 2023. Astonishingly, the executive could have actually earned almost US$25 million if Team Green had met all its sales targets for the year. However, a “tough 2022” meant that Huang had to settle for a few dollars less.

A relatively small but certainly welcome 7% discount makes the Acer Nitro 16 configuration with an RTX 4070 a reasonable choice for impatient gamers who cannot wait for the inevitable price drops that these 2023 gaming laptops will eventually experience.

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.

Asus' latest Android gaming flagship smartphone builds on the most advanced and unusual features of its most premium forebears, an in-built AeroActive cooling portal included. However, none of that prevented the 6 Pro's JerryRigEverything bend-test fail. Can its 2023 counterpart do any better?

Available on Amazon since mid-October 2020, the Asus ROG Swift PG329Q gaming monitor has been priced for a long time at US$699.99. A few days ago, it dropped to the lowest value recorded so far, which is US$483.12. According to Camelcamelcamel, its average price based on the last 50 changes is US$634.33.

A possible Nintendo Switch 2 release date has emerged out of a mixed bunch of rumors, leaks, and news lately. An eclectic mixture of incidents has led some observers to believe that Nintendo will release a Switch 2 console in 2023, despite some seemingly convenient mistranslation work in recent reports.

Also available with Intel Core i7-12700H and i9-12900HK processors, the Alienware x17 R2 gaming laptop with i9-12900H is now available for US$1,999.99, US$900 less than Dell's estimated value of US$2,899.99. This discounted configuration also comes with GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics, 16 GB RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and Windows 11 Home.

Sometimes you don't want to play a battle royale or MOBA game and instead want to feel like you're part of an expansive world brimming with colour and adventure. Well, action adventure games tend to deliver that in spades. This May, some of Steam's best action adventure game releases in recent years are on sale.

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.

A Taiwanese retailer has shared details about the Predator XB323KRV, a forthcoming Acer gaming monitor with a high resolution and fast IPS panel. The Predator XB323KRV will also feature plenty of ports and DisplayHDR 600 certification.

ASUS is now selling the ROG Ally, its first gaming handheld. For now, the ROG Ally only comes in its most expensive Ryzen Z1 Extreme trim. A Ryzen Z1 model is on its way, but not until Q3 2023 at the earliest.

RTX 4000-powered gaming laptops are gradually receiving bigger and bigger discounts, which has now resulted in a decent deal for the current Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8 that sports a quick AMD processor and Nvidia's RTX 4070 dGPU.

Even though Ed Boon and WB's CEO specifically mentioned that Mortal Kombat 12 would be the title of the next MK game, it looks like this is no longer the case. According to Twitter leak, the title has been changed to Mortal Kombat 1 and it will be launched this year for PS5, Xbox Series S/X, PC and Nintendo Switch.

GPD is now offering its G1, which it claims is the world's smallest eGPU. The GPD G1 relies on the AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT with OcuLink and USB4 ports for connecting compatible devices.

GPD is now taking orders for a 2023 refresh of the Win Max 2. As expected, the Win Max 2 2023 features AMD Phoenix APUs, faster RAM and an OcuLink port for connecting eGPUs. Prices start at US$799 or US$1,049 for Ryzen 7 7840U models.

Available on Amazon since the end of February 2022, the 32-inch Samsung Odyssey G50A (model ‎LS32AG500PNXZA) is a WQHD flat gaming monitor sporting an IPS panel with a 165 Hz refresh rate and 1 ms response time. Thanks to a 28% discount, it is now available for the lowest price so far: US$299.99.

AYN Technologies has revised plans for its LOKI gaming handheld series. Previously, the company hoped to deliver seven models consisting of two Intel SKUs and five AMD options. However, the company claims that limited demand has forced it to abandon three SKUs, including all Intel models.

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.

The new RedMagic 8 Pro is an Android flagship with the claim to fame of being the only gaming smartphone with an under-display camera (UDC). Then again, its 2022 counterpart the 7 Pro can say the same - and also has an attractive discount as part of the brand's upcoming fifth anniversary celebration. RedMagic is also doing a giveaway on some of its PC accessories as well as its mobile devices to mart the event.

The higher-end Ryzen 9 7000X3D sales are certainly eclipsed by the Ryzen 7 7800X3D ones all over the world. Retailers like Newegg are now trying to entice AMD fans with 10% discounts on the more expensive models with 3D V-Cache.

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.

Powkiddy is now selling its X55 gaming handheld directly. While a third-party retailer priced the Powkiddy X55 at just under US$150, Powkiddy has listed the same device for over 40% less.