Specs for Intel's unreleased low-power 14th Gen T-series CPUs leak out - 35 watts and up to 5.5GHz By Matthew Connatser published 23 December 23 Intel's upcoming 14th Gen T-series chips have been leaked, and the frequencies look pretty good for their 35-watt power budget.
China's GPU sales fell 8 percent from October to November due to shortages but are still up 11 percent YoY By Matthew Connatser published 22 December 23 Although November's GPU sales in China were 11% higher compared to November 2022, sales are down since last October.
ASRock launches Meteor Lake NUCs supporting up to a Core Ultra 7 155H and 96GB of RAM By Matthew Connatser published 22 December 23 One of the first Meteor Lake NUCs is already arriving in the form of ASRocks Industrial's NUC Ultra 100.
New CPU from China's sole x86 chipmaker grapples with AMD's Bulldozer in Geekbench results — lower-end model isn't the fastest, but it gives Zhaoxin a full roster of CPUs for use in the country [Updated] By Matthew Connatser published 21 December 23 Zhaoxin's KX6640MA G2 x86 processor has popped up on Geekbench 6, and it's about as good as AMD's old Bulldozer chips.
Pricing leaks for three AMD Ryzen 8000G desktop AM5 APUs, ranging from $190 to $400 — new AM4 CPUs, too By Matthew Connatser published 21 December 23 Some retailers have listed Ryzen 8000G desktop APUs ahead of launch, and the prices could be high.
Meteor Lake die shots show off inner workings of SoC and GPU tiles By Matthew Connatser published 20 December 23 Die shots for Meteor Lake's SoC and GPU tiles have just come out, and it's the first time we've seen detailed images of the TSMC-made tiles.
Intel adds support for new Xe-HPCVG and Ponte Vecchio VG variants with disabled AI features By Matthew Connatser published 20 December 23 Xe-HPCVG and Ponte Vecchio VG make an appearance in Intel's latest LLVM compiler update, but there are scant details.
Nvidia's biggest Chinese competitor unveils cutting-edge new AI GPUs — Moore Threads S4000 AI GPU and Intelligent Computing Center server clusters using 1,000 of the new AI GPUs By Matthew Connatser published 19 December 23 Nvidia's biggest Chinese GPU competitor, Moore Threads, announced its brand-new MTT S4000 GPU that will power data center and AI workloads, alongside new 1000-GPU KUAE Kilocard Cluster.
Nvidia Tegra Xavier rides into the sunset as support for ARM- and Volta-based chip is pulled By Matthew Connatser published 18 December 23 Nvidia ends Linux support for its silicon that incorporated Arm cores and a Volta-based integrated GPU.
Intel allegedly experimented with dual CPU chiplet configuration on Meteor Lake engineering sample, but shipping models only have one CPU chiplet By Matthew Connatser published 18 December 23 An engineering sample of Intel's Meteor Lake-P chip reveals that at one point, Intel used two CPU tiles.
AMD's next-gen server chips appear with 192 Zen 5c cores — EPYC Turin can also have up to 128 standard Zen 5 cores, new chips pictured and detailed in leak By Matthew Connatser published 17 December 23 A next-gen AMD Epyc Turin server processor with 192 Zen 5c cores has been photographed for the first time. Chip diagrams have been shared too.
Intel details game-boosting frame generation tech that applies a different technique — ExtraSS uses extrapolation instead of AMD and Nvidia's approach that uses interpolation By Matthew Connatser published 17 December 23 Intel will follow in Nvidia's and AMD's footsteps with ExtraSS, which adds frame generation to the company's XeSS upscaler.
The five worst Nvidia GPUs of all time: Infamous and envious graphics cards By Matthew Connatser published 17 December 23 Although Nvidia has been the leader in gaming graphics for most of the 21st century, it has still released plenty of terrible GPUs. Here's our take on the worst five Nvidia GPUs of all time.
PS5 APU-powered mining GPU hits eBay for $500 — a PS5 chip with two less CPU cores and half the memory that consumes around 90W By Matthew Connatser published 16 December 23 A pile of BC-250 GPUs, based on the APU used for the PS5, have arrived on eBay at a relatively low price.
Intel may have finally caught up to AMD in iGPU performance — Meteor Lake's Arc iGPU edges out AMD Phoenix's RDNA 3 iGPU in gaming and synthetic benchmarks By Matthew Connatser published 16 December 23 Intel's Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs have seemingly dethroned AMD's Ryzen 7040 Phoenix APUs in integrated graphics.
Liquid-cooled laptop features AMD EPYC 64-Core Zen 4 CPU and RTX 4080 desktop GPU — vendor promises RTX 4080 Super upgrade down the line By Matthew Connatser published 16 December 23 Yunguai has launched a liquid-cooled laptop with a 64-core EPYC CPU and an RTX 4080 with the option to upgrade to the RTX 4080 Super.
Linux patch drops support for 17-year-old Intel 'Carillo Ranch' motherboards because they don't seem to exist By Matthew Connatser published 13 December 23 Linux patch removes 17-year-old drivers for Intel's Carillo Ranch motherboards — which seem to have never come to market.
Enthusiast builds PC with 1200 watts of RGB lighting, includes dual 360mm liquid coolers just for the LED lights — pumps out eye-searing 100,000 lumens By Matthew Connatser published 13 December 23 The PC has twelve 100-watt LEDs cooled by two 360mm radiators and is said to have 100,000 lumens.
The only Chinese chipmaker with an x86 license releases surprisingly modern new chips made with a mystery process node — Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU launches with eight cores, 3.7GHz clocks, PCIe 4.0, DDR5 memory support, and chiplet-based design By Matthew Connatser published 13 December 23 One of China's premier CPU designers, Zhaoxin, has finally launched its next-generation KX-7000 chip for PCs, boasting big improvements.
First AirJet-equipped mini PC tested, Zotac's new ZBox has an incredibly thin chassis with N300 CPU By Matthew Connatser published 11 December 23 AirJet fanless coolers have finally been tested in one of Zotac's mini PCs, and the results are impressive.
New space-saving RAM sticks that jam up to 128GB of memory in a laptop get industry's stamp of approval - CAMM2 standard ratified by JEDEC By Matthew Connatser published 10 December 23 We will probably see laptops switching from traditional SO-DIMM memory to CAMM2 in the coming years, now that JEDEC made it official.
Acer's liquid cooled GPU loser - custom GeForce RTX 4090 hotter and louder than air-cooled rivals By Matthew Connatser published 10 December 23 Acer's Predator Orion X prebuilt features a liquid cooled 4090 that doesn't require an external radiator, but it's not great.
Meteor Lake laptop chip performs like Ryzen 7 desktop PC chip in leaked benchmark — next-gen 16-core Ultra 9 185H flaunts 5.1 GHz at 45W By Matthew Connatser published 9 December 23 Images of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Book 4 show off its Meteor Lake processor and some technical specs.
MSI says some of its popular coolers are faulty, issues refunds and replacements for MAG Coreliquid E coolers with bad pumps — impeller impacts the cavity at speeds over 1,600 RPM By Matthew Connatser published 9 December 23 MSI's Japanese arm apologized for pump issues that some of its AIO liquid coolers have and is offering refunds and replacements.
Core i5-14600 is only 5% slower than the Core i5-14600K in leaked benchmark — cheaper chip is only slightly slower but a lot more power-efficient By Matthew Connatser published 9 December 23 Leaked benchmarks for the Core i5-14600 show how far its cores will boost, how much power it uses, and how fast it is.
