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Benchmarks from an Asus ROG Flow X13 featuring the AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS have leaked online. Compared to the Core i9-12900H in the ROG Flow Z13, the Ryzen 7 6800HS trails considerably. However, the 16 GB of LPDDR5-6400 RAM does help the Radeon 680M in offering a significant advantage over the GeForce MX450 bringing it closer to a GTX 1650 Max-Q.

The Steam Deck has been officially released and just in time for the launch of Elden Ring. Gamers interested in buying both Valve’s handheld console and FromSoftware’s gorgeous RPG with the intent of mobile monster-slaying will be pleased to learn Elden Ring has been classified as “Deck verified”.

The latest version for AMD's System Management Unit driver is suggesting that the RDNA2 iGPUs found in the upcoming Ryzen 7000 desktop processors could run at 1.1 GHz, and, according to industry insiders, there could be a lower-end model with 4 CUs that only has a third of the Steam Deck's RDNA2 performance.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 manages to score 9,673 on the 3D Mark Fire Strike benchmark. In terms of performance, it sits between the Turing-based GeForce GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 Ti and could match the Ampere-based GeForce MX570, as they both share the same GA107 GPU.

Zotac has officially listed three Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti desktop graphics card variants featuring a GA103 GPU. Other than the GPU swap, it seems to have identical specs to its GA104-toting sibling, including 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and 4,864 CUDA cores.

(Update: Malware warning) A public beta of the nifty little piece of software for cryptominers will be released in the coming few days, and it could possibly impact the prices of all Nvidia's RTX GPUs with the infamous hashrate limiter.

China is reacting to new outbreaks of the Omicron variant of the Coronavirus with partial lockdowns. This could further delay the availability of laptops with 12th Gen Intel Core processors and Nvidia's Ti graphics cards, which debuted at the beginning of the year. The first factories have already been closed in Suzhou in the east of the country. Supply chain and logistics bottlenecks, a shortage of certain chip types and price increases are already on the horizon.

Multiple industry insiders and Twitter users have speculated that TSMC has run into several snags with its upcoming N3 process node. Hence, AMD may have to fabricate its Ryzen 8000 Zen 5 processors and Radeon RX 8000 RDNA 4 graphics cards on TSMC's 4 nm process.

Intel has finally commented on how many graphics cards it will ship this year. Supposedly to counteract the GPU shortage, Intel has also announced where its GPU business is headed under Project Endgame.

Lenovo's Vantage software is included from the factory in most of the OEM's laptops nowadays. While it provides the usual warranty and diagnostic information, here are some extra-neat features that may prevent you from uninstalling it immediately.

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 6000 series of processors were benchmarked across various games and synthetic benchmarks. Both the Ryzen 5 6600H and Ryzen 6800H easily trounced their 12th-generation Intel Alder Lake counterparts. The former uses an RDNA2-based Radeon 680M iGPU with 12 CUs, and the latter cuts that down to 6 CUs.

Generational performance improvement estimates for the upcoming Nvidia Lovelace family and AMD RDNA3 next-gen graphics cards have seemingly left the rivals looking evenly matched. Figures were compared to the performance of the GeForce RTX 3090. A noted tipster has also signaled that GPU prices will fall “dramatically” in March.

Mobile workstations are primarily supposed to be reliable companions for professional users and offer a lot of performance at the same time. The ZBook Fury 17 G8 basically meets these criteria, but we think HP wastes a lot of potential in terms of GPU performance.

While the i7-12700H + RTX 3050 Ti combo may seem questionable, the US$1,099 price point is undoubtedly enticing. Colorful's latest X15 XS models also come equipped with 16 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and a 512 GB NVMe SSD, plus there is an i5-12500H model for US$999, as well.

According to insider sources, the RX 6x50 XT refresh would include RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT and RX 6650 XT SKUs, but no RX 6850 XT. The new GPUs are rumored to get upgraded with 18 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM and the high-end cards would also see a TGP bump.

YouTuber Erdi Özüağ who has access to both the Exynos 2200 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 variants of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra showed that the Xclipse 920 RDNA 2 GPU in the Exynos 2200 SoC puts up an underwhelming performance in benchmarks compared to the Adreno 730 in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. While a future OTA update may potentially reduce the performance deltas, the possibility that Samsung's 4 nm process could be having an impact on the Xclipse 920's performance cannot be ruled out.

Nvidia has officially declared that it has no new information about the GeForce RTX 300 Ti in a statement to The Verge. Initially slated for a January 2022 launch, the graphics card got pushed back due to hardware issues, presumably because of its high power requirements.

GPU prices are falling drastically and availability is the best it has ever been since January 2021 according to a report by 3DCenter. The current fall in the prices can be attributed to the recent cryptocurrency crash that has seen the price of ETH go down as low as US$2,242.

Igor's Lab reports that Nvidia is working on a GeForce RTX 3050 version. It will be powered by a GA107 GPU and draw 115 W of power. The graphics card could be launched alongside the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB variant in the coming weeks.

The next generation of GPUs coming from both AMD and Nvidia have been broken down into subsequent chips, models, and manufacturing process by a well-known leaker. The breakdown is a best guess scenario, with one of the tipster’s followers offering suggestions of relative VRAM amounts.

Price predictions for both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT have been offered up by a YouTuber who focuses their channel mostly on graphics cards. Estimates for the RTX 4090 and RX 7900 XT come in at just under US$2,000, with the AMD Navi 31-based card expected to outperform the Lovelace AD102 GPU-powered rival.

An EEC listing for an unknown Nvidia GPU has shown up with the model number PG136C. The entry is rumored to be for the upcoming RTX 3090 Ti. The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti was previously reported to have been delayed indefinitely.

As a part of its supposed anti-bot measures, Best Buy allowed only users with a US$199 Totaltech subscription a chance at buying Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards. However, there wasn't a limit on the number of purchases per account, which effectively allowed scalpers/bots to walk away with a good chunk of the GPUs.

You can now grab the NVIDIA T1000 graphics card aimed at workstation professionals for less than $400 in the U.S. The T1000 specs include four DisplayPort 1.4 outputs and support for up to five 5K or two 8K@60Hz monitors, a very slim design with one active fansink, as well as low 50W power consumption.

YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead has heard from multiple sources that the Intel Arc Alchemist graphics cards will not be launched in Q1, 2022. Intel is expected to shed more light on the lineup at PAX East, and low-end mobile SKUs could be launched first.

Nvidia's upcoming GH100 Hopper HPC accelerator has aroused quite the interest owing to recent leaks. First, it was the rumored massive die area close to 1000 mm square and now, it is the massive 140 billion transistor count. It is not yet clear how Nvidia would achieve such a high transistor density on the 5 nm package, but it is likely that Hopper will include both monolithic and multi-chip module (MCM) architectures and cater independently to HPC and DL workloads.

An AMD engineer has confirmed several details about the Radeon RX 7000 series of GPUs. As expected, the Radeon RX 7000 series will arrive as 3 GPUs, the Navi 31, Navi 32 and Navi 33. Only Navi 31 and Navi 32 will utilise Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM), too.

The Nvidia GeForce MX550 laptop graphics card has shown up on the PassMark benchmark database. It nets an overall score of 5,014, which is 37% faster than the GeForce MX450. The entry-level graphics card runs a TU117 GPU, but the rest of its specs are unknown.

MSI could soon introduce an upgraded Summit E16 Flip Evo featuring the 14C/20T Intel Core i7-12700H Alder Lake-H, Arc A370M discrete graphics, and LPDDR5-6400 RAM that will supplant the current configuration with a Core i7-1195G7 and RTX 3050 Ti. The new Summit E16 Flip Evo leaked on PugetBench, and it seems to be about 8% slower than another laptop with a Core i7-12700H and RTX 3080 Ti.

A short video showcasing an Intel Arc Alchemist GPU has appeared on Twitter. The video depicts someone picking up an Intel-branded GPU from the box. The card on display has a dual-fan, dual-slot design and is identical to the one that was leaked a few days ago by VideoCardz.

Fresh retailer prices for the missing-in-action GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card have turned up online, and if accurate they indicate price tags in the range of the equivalent of US$5,000. This time, they were SKUs from Asus while unpriced boards from Palit’s GameRock range have also been spotted.

IdeaCentre may be one of Lenovo's more business-like lines, yet still has a Gaming version of its desktop that it has released over the years as of late. According to a new leak, the latest variant with 12th-gen Intel processors and a variety of graphics options (RTX 3060-series cards included) may be released soon. A new case design with subtle RGB accents might also be involved.

Videocardz has managed to get their hands on the Intel Arc graphics card pictures. We can see its PCB, memory modules, port selection and overall design, which suggests that it could be a high-end part.

A Japanese retailer has listed the MSI RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X 24G for backorder on its website with an absurd price tag. RTX 3090 Ti, which NVIDIA announced at CES 2022, has yet to hit the market. Till today, NVIDIA has given no official release date or the MSRP of the GPU.

YouTuber Moore's Law is Dead has confirmed that AMD's upcoming RDNA2-based RX 6X50 refreshes will be based on the 7nm manufacturing node. Coreteks adds that the Radeon RX 6950 XT will be launched in mid-April and that the Radeon RX 6850 XT and the RX 6750 XT do not exist.

Dr Lisa Su, AMD's CEO, has informed investors that the Ryzen 7000 and Radeon RX 7000 series will be ready this year, both major product launches. While Ryzen 7000 processors will arrive with Zen 4 cores, AMD will base Radeon RX 7000 GPUs on its new RDNA 3 architecture.

A couple of troubling rumors have been shared about Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card. The Ampere board still hasn’t been properly launched yet and now it appears that its release has been delayed “indefinitely”. On top of that, an astronomical price tag for the RTX 3090 Ti from a Vietnamese retailer is supposedly right on the money.

After being the subject of a few leaks quite some time ago, the Nvidia GT 1010 was found listed on Chinese marketplace Tabao for about US$70. The GT 1010 is based on the Pascal GP108 GPU and a look at the leaked 3DMark scores suggests that it trails the GT 1030 based on the same chip by about 40%. Today's low-end desktop GPUs such as the RTX 3050 and the RX 6500 XT are many orders of magnitude faster than this 2017 entry-level GPU.

More high-end performance options are now available for Linux-based users through the introduction of the updated System76 Kudu6 laptops that now feature the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X APU and Nvidia's RTX 3060 GPUs.

Reportedly, AMD is targeting a spring release for the RX 6500, a graphics card that will rival the lowly RX 6400. By contrast, the company is tipped to release four mid-cycle refreshes of its more powerful RDNA 2 cards this summer, including the RX 6950 XT.

GPU fingerprinting is facilitated through websites relying on the WebGL 2.0 rendering API. This technique is currently 67% faster than any other tracking methods, but could become even faster with newer API versions. WebGL developer Khronos is looking to mitigate this type of vulnerability with a future update, while web browser developers can deactivate the API by default.

Dell is offering a couple of incredible deals on RTX 30-series laptops at the moment. There is a choice between a notebook from the well-respected Dell XPS line and the powerful Alienware gaming range, in the form of an XPS 17 and M15 R4, respectively. Shoppers can save over US$1,000 on the M15 R4 gaming laptop with RTX 3070 GPU.

Nvidia's upcoming Hopper HPC accelerator, the GH100, is now being rumored to sport a 21% higher surface area compared to Ampere's GA100. And contrary to reports so far, Hopper will continue to be a monolithic die and not a multi-chip module (MCM), though it is also possible that both monolithic and MCM variants of Hopper exist targeting different use cases.

Authorities in the Spanish town of Santiponce busted upon a cryptocurrency mining operation and seized €50,000 worth of equipment. It was initially suspected to be a marijuana farm due to its high energy consumption. The miners were found to be stealing €2,000 worth of power every month via an illegal electricity connection.

The refreshed models include Z TRIO and TRIO PLUS variants for the AMD Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT and 6900 XT SKUs. The Z TRIO lineup has slightly higher clocks for the XT SKUs, while the TRIO PLUS one mostly features the same clocks with one exception. Both lineups get redesigned backplates similar to the ones on the X TRIO 6900 XT.

It's another GPU launch gone awry. And this time, it is the high-demand entry-level segment that is feeling the pinch. The Nvidia RTX 3050 that is supposed to have a US$250 MSRP, with some variations in AiB pricing, is already out of stock at major retailers around the world. What's worse is that the odd card or two in stock is being sold at significant markups putting the budget gamer at a serious disadvantage.

Twitter user BISO BISO has managed to push his Intel Core i9-12900K and AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT to score 62,389 in the 3D Mark Fire Strike benchmark, beating legendary overclocker Kingpin's score of 61,206. The Alder Lake processor was pushed to 7 GHz and the RDNA2 graphics card to 3.1 GHz.

The E1 beast from EVGA packs powerful components like the unreleased RTX 3090 Ti Kingpin edition and Z690 Dark Kingpin mobo with overclocked i9-12900K processor, but it is also quite lean with a custom open air carbon fiber frame and patent pending independent suspension system comprised of steel cables.