AMD’s new Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU is rumored to feature 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores and 8 Zen 5 CPU cores – ultimately leading to greater performance and battery life for gaming handheld devices. It will become the new flagship APU for AMD among the Strix Point APU range, with the potential of new handheld…
AMD continues to support its AM4 motherboards well into its AM5 socket with some of the best processors on the market, and a new leak seems to prove that, as it reveals several upcoming AMD Ryzen processors that are compatible with the older gen boards.New leaks, the first coming from reliable X (formerly Twitter) leaker…
AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D processor may not offer the sizeable leap in gaming performance that some leaks have previously suggested, it seems according to some new material shared by German tech site HardwareLuxx (via Tom’s Hardware): namely leaked slides from an MSI presentation.According to the headline at the top of a gaming comparison slide, the Ryzen…
Intel announced its newest desktop processors this week, the Intel Core Ultra 200 series, which is the first desktop processor with a built in NPU for AI workloads.The new processor series, previously known by its codename, Intel Arrow Lake, has been entirely rearchitected to focus on efficiency and performance-per-watt and features the same multi-module die…
Intel’s Lunar Lake processors have caused quite a stir since the mobile chips were launched, and a fresh dive into the capabilities of these CPUs in the world of gaming handhelds won’t do the range any harm in terms of all the positive chatter.Of course, there aren’t any handhelds on sale with a Lunar Lake…
Nvidia has reportedly paused supply of its GeForce flagship RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti to its Add-In Board partners (AIB). Given that these are some of Nvidia’s most popular cards, this decision has raised eyebrows. It isn’t clear why Nvidia has done this; some guesses are that it’s limiting supply to manage inventory more…
Is Qualcomm buying Intel? I saw this question plastered over X (cough, Twitter) today, and it got me thinking: what sort of upside-down world are these people living in? Indeed, even some actual news outlets have posted headlines posing the same question, and I’m here to set the record straight.No, Qualcomm certainly isn’t buying Intel,…
AMD’s mid-range Ryzen 9000 processors are set for another speed boost, at least if a new option MSI has introduced with its AM5 motherboards is anything to go by.Wccftech spotted that MSI’s new BIOS (with AGESA 1.2.0.1) has a fresh option to turn on a ‘105W TDP’ mode for AMD Ryzen 9700X and Ryzen 9600X…
Motherboard makers are seemingly upping the pace with the transition to new designs for PCIe graphics card slots, whereby the traditional latch is being phased out in favor of either a button, or an entirely seamless mechanism in the case of Asus.VideoCardz reports on the proliferation of new motherboards for both AMD’s and Intel’s new…
Following Intel’s run of financial woes and Raptor Lake chip stability issues, the company could use some good news on a Friday. And this week they’re delivering just that, with the first version of the eagerly awaited microcode fix for desktop Raptor Lake processors – as well as the first detailed explanation of the underlying…
