Apple’s M5 has appeared in a benchmark leak with GeekbenchIt posted an impressive single-core result for CPU performance, beating out Qualcomm’s powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme SoCThe M5 is also shown getting the better of some beefy desktop CPUs, but we need to tread carefully hereIf you were wondering how fast Apple’s new M5 chip…
China is introducing new export controls on rare-earth elementsThose elements are used in making a whole lot of PC componentsThis could exert further pricing pressures on the makers of those components, on top of already-existing market forces pushing up the cost of drives and RAMIf you didn’t want to hear more negativity about further pressures…
Karlis Dambrans/Shutterstock Google’s business model is simple when it comes to its budget line of phones. Wait a few months after releasing the new flagship phone to sell a more affordable version that takes the best bits, like the chip and display. That’s exactly what happened with the Google Pixel 9a, releasing roughly eight months…
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The MSI Afterburner tool is getting a feature to overclock RTX 5000 GPUs in new waysIt’ll allow for memory voltage and auxiliary voltage to be pushed up, which isn’t currently possibleWhile it’s only for MSI GPUs to begin with, other card makers will hopefully follow suitThe developer of a popular utility for overclocking graphics cards…
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Nvidia has a 94% share of the desktop GPU market according to JPRThat leaves AMD with just 6%, and Intel with next-to-nothingAMD’s problems could be wrapped up in a lack of supply for RDNA 4 GPUs and therefore prices that are over the MSRP, by some way in certain casesNvidia has achieved an even greater…
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DDR4 RAM is getting more expensiveAI is partly driving that increase in pricing, but it’s also a natural processPrice increases are likely to continueThe PC components market has taken something of a twist as slower last-gen DDR4 memory is now a good deal more expensive than cutting-edge DDR5 RAM – or at least that’s broadly…
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AMD’s Ryzen CPU burnouts have been an issue for some timeTeam Red has now clarified that this is a problem because some motherboards don’t run with AMD’s recommended valuesInstead they push too hard with power and voltage – and burnouts are still reported on a daily basisAMD has officially commented on the chip-destroying burnouts that…
AMD has accidentally leaked the source code for FSR 4Clues within that code suggest it could be working to bring FSR 4 to older Radeon GPUsIt’s feasible this could happen, and it seems AMD is certainly trying to make it workIt seems AMD has accidentally released the full source code for FSR 4, and clues…
Karlis Dambrans/Shutterstock Last year at WWDC, Apple introduced Apple Intelligence to the world. In the weeks that followed, Apple’s share price soared, with the understanding that Apple was finally going all in on AI. Now, more than a year later, many of the AI features Apple promised would ship soon are still nowhere to be…
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AMD has announced the Radeon RX 9060 GPU for pre-built gaming PCsIt will use 8GB of VRAM similar to its 9060 XT counterpartIt seems as though Team Red isn’t giving up on 8GB GPUsThe GPU market has seen a handful of additions recently, mostly from Nvidia and AMD with the RTX 5000 series and Radeon…
