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AMD Ryzen 5000 The Witcher 3 Full HD benchmark RTX 3070 (Source: Wccftech)

New AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 desktop CPU lineup benchmarks spotted online, Intel should worry

The tests that included three Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 processors in a fight against the Intel Core i9-10900K, both parties using 16 GB of memory and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card revealed what we already knew: Intel needs to...

Codrut Nistor, 05 Nov 2020 11:18

A retailer in Saudi Arabia has been bragging that it has already stock of RTX 3060 Ti custom cards. (Image source: Videocardz)

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is already purchasable, but for nigh on US$1,000

The first RTX 3060 Ti custom card has been spotted, and it is already available to purchase in for nearly US$1,000. Sold by Saudi Arabian retailer Silicon Valley Computers, the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti EAGLE OC will probably c...

Alex Alderson, 04 Nov 2020 19:39

The RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3060 will supposedly arrive early next year. (Image source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA is plotting to release the budget RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3060 on GA106 GPUs with 6 GB of VRAM and up to 3,840 CUDA cores

NVIDIA has another two RTX 30 series cards up its sleeve, according to a prominent leaker. Apparently, the company will release the RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3060 early next year on its GA106 GPU with up to 3,840 CUDA cores and 6 GB of ...

Alex Alderson, 04 Nov 2020 19:33

The Xe-HP NEO has reared its head on Geekbench. (Image source: Intel)

The Intel Xe-HP NEO hits Geekbench with 512 compute units, 4,096 shading units and 6 GB of HBM2 VRAM

A new Geekbench listing has revealed multiple aspects about the Xe-HP Neo, Intel's high-powered graphics chip. The listing not only shows the volume of compute units that the chip has, but shows the volume of cores, clock speeds a...

Alex Alderson, 04 Nov 2020 18:15

Can AMD reach 50% desktop X86 market share with the new Ryzen 5000 CPUs by mid-2021? (Image Source: EnterpriseAI)

AMD hits highest overall X86 market share in 13 years

AMD's overall X86 market share at the end of Q3 2020 reached 22.4%. The desktop CPU market share is already higher than 20% and, with the launch of the Ryzen 5000 CPUs, it may quickly climb to new all-time-highs in the next few qu...

Bogdan Solca, 04 Nov 2020 14:29

AMD's lowest rung card of this generation, the Radeon RX 6800, features the exact 16 GB VRAM as the flagship RX 6900 XT. (Image Source: AMD)

Godfall makes good use of Radeon RX 6000's memory — requires 12 GB VRAM at 4K Ultra, but it is not all gloom for RTX 3080 owners yet

Godfall's creators claim that the game would use up to 12 GB of the Radeon RX 6800 series cards' VRAM when using 4Kx4K textures at Ultra settings. This does concern owners of cards such as the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 casting doubts ...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 04 Nov 2020 13:30

The GA104 SKU is significantly smaller than the flagship models. (Image Source: Videocardz)

Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti mid-range GPU now believed to launch on December 2

Apparently, the previous rumors saying that the RTX 3060 Ti is expected to launch in mid-November are not true. Chinese site Expreview now claims that the actual launch date is set for December 2. This card is expected to cost US$...

Bogdan Solca, 03 Nov 2020 16:53

The EliteMini Box X400 is slightly bulkier than your average Intel NUC. (Image Source: MINISFORUM)

MINISFORUM announces new EliteMini Box X400 mini PCs with AMD Renoir desktop APUs

The upcoming EliteMini Box X400 mini PCs will support Ryzen 2000 / 3000 / 4000 APUs up to a Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G processor. Even though the chassis is the same as the Intel version that comes with a GTX 1050 Ti GPU, the AMD models do...

Bogdan Solca, 03 Nov 2020 16:28

Raspberry Pi 400 — a complete PC within a keyboard. (Image Source: Raspberry Pi)

Raspberry Pi 400: a faster Pi 4 within a keyboard starting from US$70

Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the launch of the Pi 400 — a complete PC within a keyboard aimed at getting users up and running without much hassle. The Raspberry Pi 400 is much similar to the Pi 4 in terms of specs but com...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 03 Nov 2020 13:58

The Ryzen 5 5600X' retail box. (Source: AMD)

AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X is allegedly spotted running at 6GHz via CPU-Z

According to a prominent chipset leaker, the impending Ryzen 5 5600X has been overclocked to just over 6.0GHz. This is shown in a set of CPU-Z detection results that appear to confirm the processor can indeed be pushed this far. T...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 02 Nov 2020 21:54

The RTX 3090 Founders Edition. (Source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA announces revised pricing for the RTX 3000 FE series in India

NVIDIA launched the RTX 3000 Founders Edition (FE) series starting at US$499 in the United States. Therefore, Indian flagship GPU fans may not have been impressed to find that the same prices in their market were far above these l...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 02 Nov 2020 18:50

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Cinebench performance shows almost Ryzen 7 3700X performance (Source: APISAK on Twitter)

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X destroys the Intel Core i5-10600K in Cinebench

The new AMD Ryzen 5 5600X is almost as fast as the Ryzen 7 3700X and its level of Cinebench performance simply blows the Intel Core i5-10600K out of the water: 42% better in multi-threading and 25% faster in the single-core test. ...

Codrut Nistor, 02 Nov 2020 17:31

Intel Rocket Lake comes really close to Ryzen 9 5950X's single-core performance. (Image Source: Intel)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Intel Rocket Lake face off in UserBenchmark — Rocket Lake leads single-core tests but trails in multi-core and overall scores

Intel Rocket Lake seems to have an edge in single-core performance over the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, if a leaked UserBenchmark score is to be believed. The Rocket Lake part is shown to be just 5% behind the Ryzen 9 5950X in overall scor...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 02 Nov 2020 15:53

GALAX GeForce RTX 30 HOF series (Source: GALAX VIRTUAL SHOW)

All-white GALAX GeForce RTX 30 HOF series graphics card unveiled with massive triple-fan cooling

With more than a decade since its introduction, the HOF brand by GALAX is now returning in an all-white design with a massive triple-fan cooling solution. Unsurprisingly, these two key-elements were combined to accommodate the NVI...

Codrut Nistor, 02 Nov 2020 14:13

The RX 6000 series more than holds its own in early gaming benchmark results. (Image source: AMD)

Gaming benchmarks reveal that the AMD Radeon RX 6800, RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT conquer NVIDIA GeForce cards at 1440p and 4K

AMD has released a slew of gaming benchmark results for the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT, offering a look at how its RDNA 2 cards stack up against NVIDIA's recent efforts. The initial results are encouraging, and suggest tha...

Alex Alderson, 01 Nov 2020 21:01

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X looks to threaten the Core i9-10900K's hegemony in single-thread workloads. (Image Source: @GawroskiT on Twitter)

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X ends Intel's hegemony in single-thread perf; 10% faster than Core i9-10900K and 23% faster than Ryzen 9 3900X

CPU-Z scores of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X are now available, and they show good leads over the Core i9-10900K in single-threaded workloads while also showing significant leads over the Core i7-10700K and Ryzen 9 3900X. From the availa...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 01 Nov 2020 18:44

Alleged AMD Radeon RX 6800 demonstrates 23% lead over RTX 3070 Founders Edition in leaked Time Spy score

A 3DMark Time Spy result of an alleged AMD Radeon RX 6800 has surfaced. Though not confirmed to be an RX 6800, the leaked Time Spy graphics score shows a healthy 23% lead over the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition.

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 01 Nov 2020 13:37

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will likely be based on a cut-down variant of the RTX 3070's GA104 GPU (Image source: NVIDIA)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti slated for November 17th launch: NVIDIA gunning for the midrange market?

According to a Videocardz report, NVIDIA is planning to launch a cheaper GeForce RTX 3060 Ti on November 17th, featuring 4864 CUDA cores and a 180W TDP. The card will likely be competitive with the popular GeForce RTX 2070 Super, ...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 01 Nov 2020 09:22

AMD is woking on a super sampling technique of its own to rival NVIDIA DLSS. (Image Source: AMD)

AMD's Frank Azor confirms Radeon RX 6000's ray tracing and super sampling info will be available in the run up to launch

AMD is working on its own implementation of super sampling similar to NVIDIA's DLSS technology. AMD's super-sampling technique is likely to be based on DirectML and is touted to be open source and cross-platform, which means this ...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 31 Oct 2020 23:16

The midrange Radeon RX 6800 performance exceptionally in Shadow of the Tomb Raider with ray-tracing on (Image source: Square Enix)

Big Navi ray-tracing could be better than expected: leaked benchmarks show the Radeon RX 6800 compete with the GeForce RTX 3070 with DLSS enabled

Leaked DXR benchmarks indicate that AMD's hardware ray-tracing solution could be better than expected. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the Radeon RX 6800 at native-res trails the GeForce RTX 3070 by only a slight margin, even with t...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 31 Oct 2020 14:16

AMD's Smart Access Cache might not deliver massive performance gains, but Big Navi's raw raster performance could compensate

Benchmarks compiled and aggregated by tipster @_rogame indicate that AMD's new Smart Access Cache technology might not offer a game-changing performance uplift in most cases. Nevertheless, the same benchmarks indicate that Big Nav...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 31 Oct 2020 08:31

The new ROCCAT Vulcan series. (Source: ROCCAT)

ROCCAT introduces new Vulcan keyboards and a Burst Pro mouse

ROCCAT has announced new additions to its gaming peripheral line-up. The new Vulcan keyboard series consists of Pro, Pro TKL and vanilla TKL variants. They are equipped with this OEM's Titan switches and AIMO lighting system, as i...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 30 Oct 2020 22:44

AMD is not pulling any punches in its fight against NVIDIA. (Image source: AMD)

AMD trolls NVIDIA over the size, power requirements and the 12-pin power connectors of the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090

AMD is seemingly in a buoyant mood, trolling NVIDIA about the size and power requirements of its RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 cards. The red team has poked fun at NVIDIA's new 12-pin power connector too, but responses online suggest that...

Alex Alderson, 30 Oct 2020 21:53

Water-cooled RX 6900 XT cards could be released in early 2021. (Image Source: AMD)

AMD may allow AIB partners to release custom RX 6900 XT cards soon

Now that AMD officially announced the top-of-the-line Navi 21 GPUs, there is no reason to restrict AIBs from designing custom RX 6900 XT versions anymore. Industry insiders are hearing that AMD is already in talks with its partner...

Bogdan Solca, 30 Oct 2020 17:26

Mini-ITX form-factor for increased ease of use (Image Source: SiFive)

SiFive readies the HiFive Unmatched, world's first RISC-V-based desktop PC platform

SiFive's HiFive Unmatched mini-ITX platform is designed for DiY developers. It comes with a 5-core RISC-V processor complemented by 8 GB of onboard DDR4 RAM. Users can add an NVMe SSD, a wireless card and a dGPU or any other PCIe ...

Bogdan Solca, 30 Oct 2020 16:37

Apple could be prepping three new Macs for released before the year is out. (Image: Apple)

Apple could have three new Macs to release before year's end according to macOS code

At yesterday’s conference call, Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted that it had a few more products to release before the end of the year. A developer taking a deep dive into the new macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 beta has found what could be three n...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 30 Oct 2020 10:08

Did you manage to secure an RTX 3070 Founders Edition card? (Image source: NVIDIA)

The GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition launch was another mess for NVIDIA

Today's launch of the GeForce RTX 3070 was another bust for fans of Founders Edition cards, following a major retailer emptying customer baskets to attempt to cope with the influx of website traffic. Unsurprisingly, resellers have...

Column by Alex Alderson, 30 Oct 2020 01:25

The ROG Strix LC is the first liquid-cooled Radeon RX 6800 XT card on the market. (Image source: ASUS via Videocardz)

AMD partners line up with custom versions of the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT

AMD's partners have started announcing custom versions of the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT, including a liquid-cooled card by ASUS. Gigabyte will be selling what look like reference cards, while MSI has at least a GAMING X TRIO v...

Alex Alderson, 29 Oct 2020 19:10

Intel's Rocket Lake-S is based on the Cypress Cove architecture. (Image Source: Intel)

8C/16T Intel Rocket Lake-S Cypress Cove is based on Ice Lake CPU and Xe GPU, promises double-digit percentage IPC improvements over Comet Lake-S

Intel has offered a high-level overview of the architectural changes coming to Rocket Lake-S next year. Rocket Lake-S will be based on a Cypress Cove architecture, which is a combination of an Ice Lake CPU and an Xe iGPU. Rocket L...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 29 Oct 2020 15:00

The Logitech ERGO M575 focuses on user ergonomics. (Image: Logitech)

Logitech ERGO M575 wireless trackball mouse reduces fatigue with less movement

Logitech has rolled out its latest trackball-based mouse. The ERGO M575 is designed for use in small spaces and also aims to reduce arm and hand fatigue with thumb-based scrolling greatly reducing overall movement and effort.

Sanjiv Sathiah, 29 Oct 2020 11:59

A leaked Asus RTX 3080 Ti card's faceplate. (Image Source: Videocardz)

NVIDIA GA102-250 RTX 3080 Ti with 9,984 CUDA cores and 384-bit memory interface allegedly in the pipeline

NVIDIA apparently has an RTX 3080 Ti with 9,984 CUDA cores in development and is likely to position it between the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. Details of the rumored RTX 3080 Ti are not fully available except for the fact that it uses ...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 29 Oct 2020 10:58

Noctua's latest chromax.black products. (Source: Noctua)

Noctua unveils chromax.black editions of the NH-D15 cooler and NH-U9S fan

Noctua has announced new additions to its chromax.black line-up. For the uninitiated, they are versions of this Austrian OEM's PC coolers or fans in an all-matte black finish. These latest examples are new versions of the award-wi...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 28 Oct 2020 23:35

The Radeon RX 6800 offers AMD's latest RDNA 2 GPU design and features for less than US$600

AMD introduced the RX 6800 as the most vanilla of its all-new RDNA 2-based line-up today (October 28, 2020). However, based on its specs, it may pack a punch of its own. It offers the same GDDR6 memory and Infinity Cache as its hi...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 28 Oct 2020 19:56

The Radeon RX 6800 series will come in many flavours. (Image source: AMD)

Gigabyte and MSI certify multiple Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT cards; RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC Pro registered too

Gigabyte and MSI have filed multiple Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT with the EEC, following their launch by AMD. Gigabyte has certified another RTX 3060 Ti SKU with the regulator too, following the ones that it registered earlier t...

Alex Alderson, 28 Oct 2020 19:47

The RX 6900 XT is expected to arrive on December 8 in limited quantities. (Image source: AMD)

AMD pitches the Radeon RX 6900 XT as an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 beater for US$999

The RX 6900 XT is here, and AMD claims that it takes on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 for just US$999. AMD's most-powered RDNA 2 GPU will debut in December, albeit only as a reference card initially.

Alex Alderson, 28 Oct 2020 19:43

AMD Ryzen 5000 processors may very well turn out to be a gamer's delight. (Image Source: AMD)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X outpaces Intel Core i9-10900K by up to 20% in leaked single-core tests, Ryzen 5 5600X is ahead too

Initial benchmark leaks of the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X show excellent leads in single-core performance over the Intel Core i9-10900K in PassMark and Geekbench 5. The scores seem to indicate anywhere between 16 to 20% benefits in single-...

Vaidyanathan Subramaniam, 28 Oct 2020 19:39

$50 less compared to the RTX 3080 MSRP will get you slightly faster raster performance and 16 GB of VRAM, but not quite on par ray tracing performance. (Image Source: AMD)

AMD announces the Radeon RX 6800 XT gaming GPU and claims a win against Nvidia's RTX 3080

Seems like AMD is winning in so many markets now. Desktop CPUs, server CPUs, AI soon (with the Xilinx acquisition?) and now it finally reclaims the GPU crown with the announcement of the RX 6000 series. The RX 6800 XT model is bea...

Bogdan Solca, 28 Oct 2020 19:21

The RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti may be NVIDIA's next entry-level RTX 30 desktop series cards. (Image source: NVIDIA)

Early NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti retailer listings point to US$450 price tags and possible late November arrival for AIB cards

The RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti should be arriving before the end of November, according to multiple pre-order listings on Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao. The RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti may cost upwards of US$450 too, which would m...

Alex Alderson, 28 Oct 2020 15:25

The next-gen consoles are set to deliver an enhanced 60 FPS PUBG experience (Image source: PUBG Corporation)

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will deliver a much-improved PUBG performance, with 60 FPS "Framerate Priority Mode"

Acclaimed battle royale PUBG will deliver enhanced performance on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. According to the PUBG Corporation, both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will deliver a 60 FPS experience when running under...

Arjun Krishna Lal, 27 Oct 2020 20:01

NVIDIA will apparently utilise its GA102 GPU for the RTX 3070 Ti. (Image source: NVIDIA)

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is back and it could be launching soon with a 320 W TGP and 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM

NVIDIA is rushing to release an RTX 3070 Ti after all, keen to take on AMD's impending 'Big Navi' cards. The card will be based on the company's GA102 GPU and will feature a 320 W TGP, along with 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM. 7,424 CUDAs ...

Alex Alderson, 27 Oct 2020 18:17

Qualcomm's new products may make for better next-gen mesh Wi-Fi. (Source: Google)

Qualcomm's latest solution for mesh networking may deploy gigabit-level Wi-Fi to the entire home with smaller footprints

Mesh networking is based on a set of repeaters that can be placed strategically around a building (usually a home) to ensure a good Wi-Fi signal in every room. Qualcomm has just announced its latest series of chipsets for this use...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 27 Oct 2020 18:03

AMD could surprise us even more with the Navi 21 presentation tomorrow. (Image Source: PCGamer)

Nvidia RTX 3080 in trouble: AMD rumored to show the RX 6800 XT GPU winning in considerably more games, both in 4K and 1440p

Info regarding the official Navi 21 presentation tomorrow has been leaked and things are not looking good for the RTX 3080 GPUs from Nvidia. Sources close to RedGamingTech claim that the RX 6800 XT cards will show better raster pe...

Bogdan Solca, 27 Oct 2020 14:58

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Zen 3 CPU-Z benchmark (Source: CPU-Z)

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Zen 3 benchmarks leak, 11% faster than the Intel Core i9-10900K

The CPU-Z benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Zen 3 are out and everything looks impressive: 11% faster than the Intel Core i9-10900K and 25% faster than the AMD Ryzen 7 3800X in single-core, as well as 10% slower than the...

Codrut Nistor, 27 Oct 2020 06:07

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is due to be released soon

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti spotted on GPU-Z with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM; mid-November launch imminent

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti's specs are all but confirmed, thanks to a new GPU-Z listing. It will feature a GA104-200 GPU, 4,864 CUDA cores, and 8GB of VRAM with a memory bandwidth of 448GB/s. NVIDIA is expected to launch the c...

Anil Satyanarayana, 27 Oct 2020 02:48

The Ryzen 5000 series is based on a 7nm manufacturing process. (Image source: AMD)

AMD Ryzen CPUs hold top 13 places in Mindfactory retail sales chart as Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 series looms over the horizon

New sales data from Mindfactory has revealed the continued success story that is AMD Ryzen. The top 13 places are occupied by Ryzen CPUs, with the evergreen Ryzen 5 3600 still selling by the truckload. With the Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 se...

Daniel R Deakin, 25 Oct 2020 11:35

Some Spectrum manufacturing samples. (Source: Eve Devices)

Eve Devices announces a shipping delay for the Spectrum monitor

Eve Devices is adamant that it should not ship its upcoming Spectrum monitor "until it is ready". To this end, it has revealed that the shipping date for its QHD/240Hz and 4K/144Hz SKUs has been pushed back to February 2021. This,...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 24 Oct 2020 00:57

The Ryzen 5 5600X has some serious chops. (Image source: AMD)

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X posts an astonishing CPU benchmark result in PassMark; 10% above all Intel processors and 47% faster than the Ryzen 5 3600X

The Ryzen 5 5600X has flexed its muscles on PassMark, leaving Zen 2 and Intel processors in its wake. AMD's budget Vermeer and Zen 3 chip outscores all before it by at least 10% in PassMark's single-threaded test and is 47% faster...

Alex Alderson, 24 Oct 2020 00:11

The RTX A6000 has been found wanting in SPECviewperf 2020. (Image source: NVIDIA)

Leaked NVIDIA RTX A6000 benchmark result points to uninspiring performance with only an 11% uplift over the RTX 6000

The first benchmark result for the RTX A6000 is in, and it does not look good for NVIDIA's enterprise card. Based on a full-fat GA102 GPU with 10,752 CUDA cores supported by 48 GB of VRAM, the RTX A6000 only managed 11% higher sco...

Alex Alderson, 23 Oct 2020 19:41