AMD could use much slower video RAM than Nvidia when it comes to next-gen graphics cards, a new rumor contends.This one is from regular leaker Kepler on X (formerly Twitter), who posted a very brief snippet to the effect that with RX 8000 graphics cards, AMD will only use GDDR6 VRAM running at 18Gbps –…
AMD’s RX 7700 XT has dropped to new pricing lows over in the US, making this mid-range GPU a tempting proposition.As you may have seen, just last week the RX 7700 XT was treated to an official price cut by AMD, with Team Red dropping the MSRP in the US by 7%, down to $419.Tom’s…
Later this fall, Apple will enable customers and independent repair shops to utilize used Apple parts in repairs, which helps improve the product’s longevity while minimizing the environmental impact of a repair.With that, used genuine Apple parts will now benefit from the full functionality and security afforded by the original factory calibration, just like new…
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Nvidia GTX 16 and RTX 20 series GPUs can get a bit of a performance boost thanks to a new mod that brings the Resizable BAR (or ReBAR) feature to these graphics cards.A quick refresher: ReBAR first came to light at the turn of the decade as AMD’s Smart Access Memory feature, which tweaks PCIe’s…
With the launch of their flagship Snapdragon 8 SoC firmly behind them now, Qualcomm this morning is turning their collective head towards the premium market with the launch of another new Snapdragon 8 family SoC, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. The first of Qualcomm’s ‘s’-subseries of down-market parts to be released under the Snapdragon 8…
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Intel’s long-rumored Core i9-14900KS finally went on sale yesterday and already the CPU has broken records, including becoming the fastest ever processor.Tom’s Hardware reports that a team of expert overclockers at Asus took the Core i9-14900KS – which runs at a mighty 6.2GHz boost right out of the box – and pushed it to 9.117GHz…
Microsoft recently brought in a new feature for DirectX 12 that could considerably improve gaming performance, and thanks to AMD, we have a clearer idea of what it might mean for frame rates in the future.This is Work Graphs, a tech previously in testing but now officially introduced for DX12. It’s a feature that aims…
AI is going to be a literal game-changer, eventually – in revolutionizing how games are created and realized – and that could happen sooner than you think, or so Nvidia’s CEO believes.No, we’re not talking about the near future, of course, but a world where games are fully driven by AI may arrive by the…
MediaTek this week has introduced a new lineup of Dimensity Auto Cockpit system-on-chips, covering the entire market spectrum from entry-level to premium. And while automotive chip announcements are admittedly not normally the most interesting of things, this one is going to be an exception to that rule because of whose graphics IP MediaTek is tapping…
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Micron this week announced that it had begun sampling of its 256 GB multiplexer combined (MCR) DIMMs, the company’s highest-capacity memory modules to date. These brand-new DDR5-based MCRDIMMs are aimed at next-generation servers, particularly those powered by Intel’s Xeon Scalable ‘Granite Rapids’ processors that are set to support 12 or 24 memory slots per socket.…
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