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The GeForce RTX 3050 will be one of two laptop GPUs to use the GA107M. (Image source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU appears on Geekbench with 2,048 CUDA cores and 4 GB of VRAM

The GeForce RTX 3050 is on its way for laptops and has 4 GB of VRAM like the RTX 3050 Ti. Geekbench has seemingly confirmed that the entry-level dedicated graphics card will have 2,048 CUDA cores, while the PCI ID Repository sugge...

Alex Alderson, 16 Mar 2021 18:08

The AMD Radeon RX 67000 XT will be difficult to source at launch. (Image source: AMD)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT stock levels tipped to be lean across multiple regions at launch

Several sources have commented on the Radeon RX 6700 XT's expected availability, AMD's first Navi 22-based graphics card. While the new midrange card will arrive in two days, March 18 may not be the date when stock levels are at t...

Alex Alderson, 16 Mar 2021 15:30

High-end RTX 3000 desktop GPU stocks will most likely remain very limited. (Image Source: BBC)

Nvidia RTX 3000 shortages expected to last at least until 3Q21

A new DigiTimes report suggests that the RTX 3000 shortages could persist towards the end of the year, despite Nvidia's efforts to limit the crypto miners and introduce GPUs specifically designed for miners. Samsung's 8 nm nodes a...

Bogdan Solca, 16 Mar 2021 14:47

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 will be even more scarce now

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060's Etherium mining limit has been bypassed for real this time

Multiple sources have confirmed that they have managed to bypass the Nvidia GeForce RX 3060's Etherium mining rate limiter. Installing the GeForce 470.05 development driver seems to do the trick, but one party insists that a custo...

Anil Satyanarayana, 15 Mar 2021 15:18

The NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti may get a mid-April launch. (Image Source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti rumored to launch mid-April for US$999, specs still unconfirmed but 12 GB GDDR6X and 10,240 CUDA cores speculated

New rumors indicate that the RTX 3080 Ti may finally launch sometime in mid-April. The exact specifications of the RTX 3080 Ti are still elusive, but rumor is that the card would feature 12 GB GDDR6X VRAM and 10,240 CUDA cores at ...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 14 Mar 2021 16:23

Cryptocurrency miners in Vietnam have figured out an innovative technique to keep eight RTX 3090s chilly

Crazy mineral oil rig with eight Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards could be the future of cryptocurrency mining

A bunch of Vietnamese cryptocurrency miners quite literally have taken PC hardware to new depths by submerging eight Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards in mineral oil. While their operating parameters are not visible, empirica...

Anil Satyanarayana, 14 Mar 2021 15:49

The Xe-HPG (DG2) GPUs will be Intel's first competitive discrete GPUs in decades. (Image Source: Intel)

Raja Koduri teases Intel Xe-HPG (DG2) graphics engineering board with ray tracing capabilities

The engineering card appears to be equipped with CPU-grade heatsink + cooler and it is connected to an Alder Lake motherboard through a PCIe riser. Koduri does not really mention that this is the DG2 card, but the test system is r...

Bogdan Solca, 13 Mar 2021 14:16

The Radeon RX 6700 XT recorded 89 FPS in Crazy 1440p on the AotS benchmark. (Image source: AMD/AotS - edited)

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT takes apart the RX 5700 XT by up to +35% on gaming benchmark and even posts 4K score that's higher than the Navi 10-based card's 1080p score

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card has been baring some serious fangs on the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark. In a case of Navi 22 XT vs. Navi 10 XT, the upcoming board scored up to +35% higher than the RX 5700 XT. The RX ...

Daniel R Deakin, 13 Mar 2021 08:34

Deal | Get US$500 off a Lenovo Legion 7i gaming laptop with 10th-gen Intel silicon

The last weekend of Lenovo's Annual Sale in the US has arrived. It still has some decent deals, however, which include dropping the price of the Intel Core i7-10750H-powered Legion 7i to US$1,199. Alternatively, the Legion Tower 7...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 13 Mar 2021 00:13

Crysis Remastered finally acquires DLSS support for RTX 20- and 30-series graphics cards

Crytek has announced that DLSS can be switched on in Crysis Remastered with the game's latest update. Therefore, its performance while running on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards with RTX may be boosted considerably. Then again, the ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 12 Mar 2021 23:27

The new Tuxedo Book XP15 and XP17 laptops come with some expensive high-end options. (Image Source: 9to5Linux)

Tuxedo launches Book XP15 / XP17 Linux laptops with Nvidia RTX 3000 GPUs

The latest Linux-based laptops from Tuxedo offer quite a wide array of options when it comes to displays and GPUs. The i7-10870H CPU might not be the best solution when the AMD Ryzen 5000H are already available, but users can choo...

Bogdan Solca, 12 Mar 2021 15:39

AMD GPUs may be better than NVIDIA ones if you have a low-end CPU. (Image source: Forbes)

NVIDIA GeForce GPUs appear to be performing up to 30% worse than AMD Radeon GPUs when bottlenecked by older CPUs

High-end NVIDIA Turing and Ampere GPUs are not friends with older CPUs, according to new findings. Apparently, the likes of the RTX 3070 and RTX 3090 struggle so much when bottlenecked by a CPU that they performance worse than AMD...

Alex Alderson, 12 Mar 2021 13:39

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT's gaming prowess has been tested

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT gaming benchmarks surface online

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card has pitted against its main competitors, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. The AMD mid-ranger manages to best the RTX 3070 in only a handful of titles while managing to consistent...

Anil Satyanarayana, 12 Mar 2021 01:49

The NVIDIA CMP 30 HX is one of four crypto mining cards set to arrive this year. (Image source: Videocardz)

First pictures of NVIDIA's CMP 30HX mining graphics card leak

NVIDIA officially unveiled its suite of mining GPUs a few weeks ago, albeit without any pictures of what they look like. Now, Videocardz has leaked a CMP 30HX model produced by Gigabyte, which has a dual-fan design. As expected, N...

Alex Alderson, 11 Mar 2021 21:52

More references to AMD Nashira GPUs have appeared online. (Image source: AMD)

AMD Nashira Summit, Nashira Point and Nashira Creek codenames leak with references to consumer gaming, Radeon Pro and a possible mobile variant mentioned

Another reference to an AMD Nashira Summit GPU has appeared online. This time, Nashira Summit has been joined by five Nashira Point codenames and one for Nashira Creek. At least two of the codenames imply Radeon Pro models, while ...

Alex Alderson, 11 Mar 2021 18:44

The RX 6700 XT has shown up in a few early benchmarks. (Image source: AMD)

Initial AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT benchmarks appear online as ASUS registers the RX 6700 with 12 GB of VRAM at the EEC

Benchmark data for the Radeon RX 6700 XT has been published online ahead of the card's launch next week. It seems that AMD still plans to release the RX 6700 though and with 12 GB of VRAM instead of 6 GB.

Alex Alderson, 11 Mar 2021 14:59

An all-AMD laptop with Zen 3 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU architectures could be on the cards for 2021. (Image source: Dell (G5 15)/AMD - edited)

AMD Radeon RX 6600M GPU joins surprising choice of Ryzen 5000 CPU as gaming benchmark leak hints at upcoming Zen 3/RDNA 2 laptop

An AMD Radeon RX 6600M has been spotted as part of the hardware configuration for a device apparently being tested on a well-known gaming benchmark. Not only does this seemingly confirm the RX 6600M should be coming soon, but the ...

Daniel R Deakin, 11 Mar 2021 09:52

MSI has decided to test the MSI GE76 Raider's mining prowess

MSI blog post explores the GE76 Raider's crypto mining capabilities

An intrepid MSI employee tried to mine cryptocurrency on the MSI GE76 Raider gaming laptop. It can apparently mine at 52.8MH/s, a smidgen slower than the desktop Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070's 52.9MH/s hash rate. MSI says that it will ...

Anil Satyanarayana, 10 Mar 2021 15:16

Miners have successfully bested the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060's hash rate limiter

Updated | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 hash rate limiter allegedly hacked by Chinese crypto miners

Ambitious miners have successfully managed to best the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060's hash rate limiter less than a month after it was launched. The graphics card can now mine crypto at 45MH/s. With the restriction in place, its mining...

Anil Satyanarayana, 10 Mar 2021 14:04

It turns out that the GeForce RTX 3070 could have 16 GB of VRAM, not 8 GB. (Image source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 mod confirms that there was a 16 GB VRAM configuration in development

It is possible to modify the GeForce RTX 3070 to support 16 GB of VRAM, a YouTuber has discovered. Enabling support on the GA104 card requires setting 'strap' resistors to the correct values too, which all but confirms that NVIDIA...

Alex Alderson, 09 Mar 2021 18:43

AMD may introduce Navi 10 and Navi 12 mining SKUs soon. (Image Source: AMD)

AMD may soon offer Navi 10 and Navi 12 headless GPUs for cryptocurrency mining similar to NVIDIA's CMP HX cards

AMD could be introducing mining-specific headless GPUs similar to NVIDIA's new CMP HX cards, according to recent patch notes spotted in the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. While we've already seen a Navi 10 being indicated for blockch...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 06 Mar 2021 17:32

Entry-level performance: RTX 3050 Ti only offers 4 GB of VRAM. (Image Source: Asus)

Asus leaks RTX 3050 Ti GPU option with 4 GB VRAM for its TUF Dash F15 laptops

The entry-level RTX 3050 Ti GPUs might first launch on laptops. According to the latest listings from Asus and Acer, the RTX 3050 Ti models only come with 4 GB of GDDR6 memory, so they are most likely limited to a 128-bit memory b...

Bogdan Solca, 05 Mar 2021 17:39

AMD Radeon RX 6000 mobile GPUs will likely launch during Q2 2021.

AMD hints laptops powered by Radeon RX 6000 mobile GPUs will be coming soon, Navi 22 Radeon RX 6700M to offer 32 CUs, 90-135 W TGP, and likely 12 GB VRAM

AMD has been pretty tight-lipped about RX 6000 mobile GPUs but finally hinted during the RX 6700 XT unveil that laptops powered by RDNA2 mobile are indeed coming soon. So far, we do know about Navi 22 offerings including the RX 67...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 05 Mar 2021 16:34

Ray-traced reflections could make Lady Dimitrescu even more terrifying (Image source: Capcom)

AMD flaunts Resident Evil Village ray-tracing trailer with FidelityFX support

A new ray-tracing focused trailer snippet highlights Resident Evil Village's ray-tracing chops, set to arrive on console and AMD graphics cards.

Arjun Krishna Lal, 04 Mar 2021 12:48

SAM can improve framerates by as much as 10 percent in certain titles (Image source: AMD)

AMD's Smart Access Memory comes to Ryzen 3000 CPUs like the Ryzen 5 3600 as NVIDIA starts its own Resize BAR rollout: could help push the RX 6700 XT past the GeForce RTX 3070

Alongside the launch of its midrange RX 6700 XT, and shortly after the arrival of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, which brought resizable BAR support to a range of chipsets and CPUs, AMD announced that Smart Access Memory would be ma...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 04 Mar 2021 12:28

The Radeon RX 6700 XT has a suggested estimate price (SEP) of US$479. (Image source: AMD)

AMD announces the Radeon RX 6700 XT for 20% more than the RX 5700 XT but with 40 CUs, 192-bit VRAM and a lower memory bandwidth

AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT is official, and will be the cheapest way to experience the RDNA 2 architecture on a PC, at least for the time being. AMD insists that the Radeon RX 6700 XT is a foil for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and ...

Alex Alderson, 03 Mar 2021 23:13

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 has enjoyed popular adoption with Steam users. (Image source: Steam/Nvidia - edited)

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, RTX 2060, and RTX 3080 enjoy greatest percentage changes for their respective generations in Steam survey chart for February

Nvidia has unsurprisingly completely dominated the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for February in terms of PC video card usage. Once again, 18 out of the top 20 places are taken up by Nvidia GPUs, with the GeForce GTX 1650, RTX ...

Daniel R Deakin, 03 Mar 2021 20:38

The Asus ROG Flow X13 with the Asus ROG XG Mobile

Asus ROG XG Mobile in review - Gaming convertible with AMD Ryzen 5980HS and GeForce RTX 3080

Full performance! We recently presented the Asus ROG Flow X13 in a detailed review. The external XG Mobile graphics card turns the compact convertible into a small gaming desktop PC. This review will reveal the performance that can actually be expe...

Sebastian Bade, 03 Mar 2021 05:13

The ASUS Radeon RX 6700 XT TUF Gaming looks like other TUF Gaming models, in our opinion. (Image source: ASUS)

Leaked Radeon RX 6700 XT custom cards show what to expect from AMD's upcoming mid-range RDNA 2-based series

AMD is on the cusp of unveiling the Radeon RX 6700 XT, its answer to NVIDIA's RTX 3060 or RTX 3060 Ti. Ahead of tomorrow's launch, Videocardz has revealed two ASUS custom cards, underlining that AMD plans to bring two versions of ...

Alex Alderson, 02 Mar 2021 22:08

The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 iCafe looks like its RTX 3060 Ti sibling. (Image source: Colorful via Videocardz)

Colorful launches the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti iCafe series for internet cafes

There may be an ongoing graphics card shortage, but Colorful has found enough stock to produce iCafe editions of the RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti. The two iCafe models look almost identical, even though they have different GPUs. Ultim...

Alex Alderson, 02 Mar 2021 20:34

The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT's alleged price has shown up online

New leak sheds light on the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT's price and tentative sale date

A new leak suggests that the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT could hit shelves sometime in the third week of March 2021. It will allegedly retail at US$479 or US$499. Lastly, there are two variants of the graphics card in the works.

Anil Satyanarayana, 01 Mar 2021 15:30

The ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO is one of the blower-fan models to get the axe (Image source: ASUS)

NVIDIA's AIB partners are discontinuing blower fan designs for the GeForce RTX 3090

AIBs including Gigabyte and ASUS have removed a number of GeForce RTX 3090 models with a blower-style fan from their websites. A Videocardz report hints that this could be in order to make way for cryptocurrency mining cards with ...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 01 Mar 2021 11:03

Intel DG2 Xe-HPG will top-out at 512 EUs and 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM. (Image Source: igor'sLAB)

Intel DG2 Xe-HPG specs leak, 512-EU part with 16 GB GDDR6 VRAM can potentially challenge NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and AMD Radeon RX 6800

Intel's upcoming DG2 Xe-HPG GPU for mainstream gamers and content creators may be available in a total of six SKUs, according to leaks doing the rounds. DG2 Xe-HPG variants start from 96 EUs and 4 GB GDDR6 VRAM and will top-out at...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 27 Feb 2021 11:17

Extensive crypto mining appears to suck the life out of cards like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. (Image source: NVIDIA)

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is a shadow of its former self after 18 months of crypto mining

A new video has demonstrated the effects of prolonged crypto mining on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Seemingly, stressing the Turing card for so long in this way causes noticeable in-game performance drops, including to average ...

Alex Alderson, 27 Feb 2021 00:39

The Aorus RTX 3060 Elite. (Source: Gigabyte)

Gigabyte launches the Aorus RTX 3060 Elite desktop card as NVIDIA unlocks Resizable BAR for its GPU

NVIDIA has just announced updates for the RTX 3060 that bring Resizable BAR to the new GPU, as promised earlier. It is compatible with a range of relevant chipsets, processors, motherboards and cards - the new Aorus GeForce RTX 30...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 26 Feb 2021 22:40

NVIDIA's CMP crypto mining cards may take supply pressure off gaming GPU supply (Image source: NVIDIA)

Some of NVIDIA's CMP mining chips will leverage the 12nm Turing architecture: however, specs indicate that CMP 50HX and CMP 90HX could put supply pressure on Ampere gaming cards

A Videocardz report indicates that NVIDIA's upcoming CMP (cryptocurrency mining processors) will be variants on last-gen Turing parts. The CMP 40HX will be based on TU106, while the CMP 30HX will use the same TU116 GPU found in th...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 26 Feb 2021 08:12

AMD's Radeon RX 6700 teaser confirms that the series will use Navi 22 GPUs. (Image source: AMD)

AMD schedules Radeon RX 6700 launch for March 3, over two weeks earlier than expected; reference card design and Navi 22 GPUs confirmed

AMD has confirmed that the Radeon RX 6700 series will arrive in just a week, contrary to previous reports. The March 3-bound cards will have a dual fan design and will be based on Navi 22 GPUs, AMD has also confirmed.

Alex Alderson, 24 Feb 2021 23:00

Two VRAM modules are not populated because of the 192-bit bus limitations. (Image Source: VideoCardz)

First look at MSI's custom RTX 3060 PCB design for the Gaming X series

The MSI PCB includes a 8+6-pin power connector instead of an 8-pin one, which should provide more stability for the overclocked core. Despite the increased boost speeds, the TGP matches the reference 170 W. The number of inductors...

Bogdan Solca, 23 Feb 2021 17:53

Nvidia could launch a lower-specced variant of the GeForce RTX 3060 soon (image via Croteks)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 variant with 6GB VRAM reportedly in the works

A new leak suggests that Nvidia could launch a 6GB variant of the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards soon. The Palit-branded graphics card showed up on the South Korean National Radio Research Agency website alongside other SKUs. How...

Anil Satyanarayana, 23 Feb 2021 14:28

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be available to purchase from February 25. (Image source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 breezes past the GeForce RTX 2060 and the GeForce RTX 2070 in early Ashes of the Singularity benchmarks

The GeForce RTX 3060 has arrived on the Ashes of the Singularity database, where it has outscored the RTX 2060 and the RTX 2070. The RTX 3060 appears to offer comparable performance to the RTX 2070 SUPER, despite having a US$170 l...

Alex Alderson, 23 Feb 2021 14:16

NVIDIA's decision to launch dedicated CMP cards for miners may have totally different ramifications in the long run. (Image Source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA's hash rate limitation will apply only to RTX 3060 for now, segregating gamers and miners with CMP cards may eventually do more harm than good

Currently, it looks like only the upcoming RTX 3060 will be affected by NVIDIA's recent move to limit hash rates via drivers and firmware. NVIDIA recently launched dedicated CMP cards for miners seemingly to put more GeForce cards...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 23 Feb 2021 05:36

The Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC has an 18.2% GPU overclock and a 5% VRAM overclock. (Image source: Sapphire)

The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC lives up to its name with colossal price rises over MSRP at launch

The most powerful Radeon RX 6900 XT has arrived, which Sapphire has paired with a 360 mm AIO. The Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC should retail for £1,299 in the UK and US$1,499 in the US, but the RDNA 2 card is currently listed ...

Alex Alderson, 22 Feb 2021 23:30

Some key Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 price details have been revealed online (image via Reddit)

Custom Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 models could cost as much as US$514

A new report has shed some light on how much some custom Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 models could cost upon launch. At US$484.99 MSI's Ventus X2 is the most affordable of the lot. On the flip side, the MSI Gaming X Trio will cost an e...

Anil Satyanarayana, 22 Feb 2021 15:53

RX 6700 series reference cards are expected to look like this, which JayTwoCents leaked last year. (Image source: JayzTwoCents & Andreas Schilling)

New Radeon RX 6700 XT leak suggests that AMD will release two models next month with different specifications

Supposed specifications for the Radeon RX 6700 series have leaked, ahead of next month's anticipated release. Apparently, AMD plans to release two RX 6700 XT models, while the RX 6700 will arrive in April with just 6 GB of GDDR6 V...

Alex Alderson, 21 Feb 2021 19:31

Nioh 2’s DLSS 2.0 update will offer significant performance headroom without an image quality cutback (Image source: Koei Tecmo

Nioh 2 finally gets its DLSS 2.0 patch post-launch, enabling playable 4K framerates on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 on up

Koei Tecmo’s Souls-like finally received some PC love with the addition of DLSS 2.0 support. While cards like the GeForce RTX 3080 were already capable of hitting 4K/60, DLSS 2.0 opens up that possibility to a wider range of RTX c...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 19 Feb 2021 20:33

NVIDIA may revise its entire RTX 30 series product stack to limits its appeal to crypto miners. (Image source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA may re-release the RTX 3080, RTX 3090 and others with anti-mining features built-in; current SKUs to be phased out

While NVIDIA has announced plans to scupper the crypto mining capabilities of the RTX 3060, multiple sources are claiming that the company will extend this to the rest of its RTX 30 series product stack. Apparently, NVIDIA may do ...

Alex Alderson, 19 Feb 2021 19:44

AMD is rushing the RX 6700 XT GPU launch despite the ongoing semiconductor shortages. (Image Source: AMD)

AMD rumored to launch its RX 6700 XT mid-range gaming GPUs on March 18

Latest rumors claim that AMD is preparing a March 18 launch for the RX 6700 XT mid-range gaming cards, even though Team Red is among the companies that have been hit the hardest by the global semiconductor shortages. This will mos...

Bogdan Solca, 19 Feb 2021 14:05