The highly anticipated Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has hit the headlines in a bad way with a report flagging up that it can chomp your bandwidth when streaming the in-game world to the tune of up to 180Mbps.Tom’s Hardware observes that this works out at something like 81GB of data per hour of gameplay when…
There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a recent rise to prominence with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). You may have also heard of tensor processing units (TPUs), which are a…
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Could Nvidia be planning to release multiple versions of its upcoming GeForce RTX 5070? Potentially, if recent claims are to be believed – but it’s hard to see where it will fit into Nvidia’s RTX 5000 lineup.Tom at Moore’s Law is Dead recently mentioned in a livestream on Patreon that he has heard rumors that…
Don’t buy a new PC until after October 25, 2024! Yes, I know that’s extremely specific, but I promise, it’ll all make sense shortly – as it seems like that date is when we’re going to finally know the truth of what’s in AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D box.It was leaker HXL on X who recently…
Something weird might be happening with Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs, because if the rumor mill is to be believed, we’re going to get a whole bunch of Blackwell GeForce graphics cards in the near future – including RTX 5070 and RTX 5060 models.As you may recall, all the chatter on Blackwell was about the flagship RTX…
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When Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 series in early September, the company introduced the A18 Pro chip as “the fastest CPU in any smartphone.” The A18 chip that powers the non-Pro iPhone 16 models has to be almost as fast. But I knew going into the Glowtime event that I would not buy an iPhone 16…
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Samsung has announced that it’s cooked up some new faster GDDR7 video RAM that might just power up Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell GPUs at some point next year.The innovation comes in what Samsung boasts is the industry’s first 24Gb GDDR7 RAM, which builds on its previous 16Gb GDDR7 memory modules (the latter are strongly rumored to…
A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak provides us with a tempting glimpse of some potentially major advances made by this next-gen CPU in terms of clock speeds for 3D V-Cache chips, where a large cache has been a considerable drag factor on the clock frequency achieved.Maybe that isn’t the case anymore, at least not…
Numerous IT service providers and consulting businesses have ramped up their artificial intelligence (AI) practices in recent weeks in a bid to drive demand for enterprise AI. The latest announcement is Accenture’s expansion of its partnership with Nvidia, resulting in the formation of the Accenture Nvidia Business Group, through which it plans to help enterprises…
