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NVIDIA Launches New Workstation, Mobile & Enterprise GPUs At GTC 2021

Posted on April 12, 2021 5:15 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA A5000 Workstation Graphics Card

NVIDIA’s latest GPU Technology Conference begins today, and to say the company has a lot to talk about is a true understatement. This may be the newsiest GTC that NVIDIA has ever had, making it difficult to figure out where to even begin. Well, given our love for the latest graphics tech,…..

Alienware Launches First AMD Notebook In 14 Years, With m15 Ryzen Edition R5

Posted on April 7, 2021 3:30 PM by Rob Williams
Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 Gaming Notebook

Prior to the launch of AMD’s first Ryzen CPUs in 2017, no one knew what kind of impact they’d ultimately have. We vividly remember that launch, both because the product was good, and also because there were a fair number of platform issues out-of-the-gate. Fortunately, AMD got on top of those issues…..

Official Graphics Driver For Intel’s 11th-gen CPUs To Land In A ‘Few Weeks’

Posted on April 2, 2021 3:14 PM by Rob Williams
Intel Rocket Lake-S Desktop Packaging

6:30PM ET update: It appears that the driver will land much quicker than a ‘few weeks’. The latest is that it will drop this coming Monday. Earlier this week, Intel launched its 11th-gen CPUs, and to say it was a bit of a rough launch is an understatement. We’re still in the…..

TSMC To Spend $100 Billion Over Next Three Years To Expand Fab Capacity

Posted on April 1, 2021 2:14 PM by Rob Williams
TSMC's 5nm Producing Fab 18

With ongoing chip shortages plaguing companies and consumers alike, we’ve all been hoping that the situation would be improved sooner than later, and that the world’s largest fabs would move to expand. At this point, it seems incredibly unlikely that any efforts to expand would be regretted later, as chip demand doesn’t…..

Computex Cancels On-site 2021 Event, Will Hold Virtual Alternative Instead

Posted on April 1, 2021 1:30 PM by Rob Williams
Computex 2019 Press Conference

Here’s a quick reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for far too long: on-site Computex has been canceled for the second time in a row. You might recall that last March, once the pandemic became well-known to the entire world, Mobile World Congress was the first trade show to…..

World Backup Day Is Your Reminder To Prevent Data Disasters

Posted on March 31, 2021 3:50 PM by Rob Williams

Today is World Backup Day, as it is every March 31st. It acts as an annual reminder to YOU that backing up your data is important, and shouldn’t be treated haphazardly. If you don’t take proper measures to protect your data, you can’t be surprised if you wake up one day and…..

NVIDIA Releases Feature-packed GeForce 465 Series Drivers For Linux & Windows

Posted on March 30, 2021 4:15 PM by Rob Williams
Outriders

It’s not often that NVIDIA releases both a Linux and Windows driver on the same day that bring their own notable changes, but the newly-released 465 versions do just that. On the Windows side, the new 465.89 driver adds NVIDIA Reflex low-latency technology to Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, with promises of…..

14nm Refined (Again): Intel Launches Its 11th-gen Core Processor Series

Posted on March 30, 2021 9:22 AM by Rob Williams
Intel Core Rocket Lake - Chip Shot Thumbnail

It’s been a fairly busy year so far for CPU launches, with AMD being responsible for the lion’s share up to this point. Intel’s beginning to make some big moves, however, starting today, with the official launch of its 11th-gen Core processors. While Intel targets many folks with its new series, gamers…..

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB Rumored To Launch In May

Posted on March 29, 2021 3:28 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - Bare Card

There seem to be few product lines that get as much rumor treatment as NVIDIA’s GeForce. Long before the latest Ampere generation kicked-off, we all knew what the cards would look like, and largely how they would perform. With five Ampere cards released so far, it’s been both the (supposedly) upcoming RTX…..

Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.2 Patch Includes Huge List Of Fixes, Adds Support For Radeon Ray Tracing

Posted on March 29, 2021 1:45 PM by Rob Williams
Cyberpunk 2077

If you’re a Cyberpunk 2077 who has been dying to see a major patch drop for the game, your wish has been granted today. While CD Projekt has been hard at work patching the game ever since its launch in December, today’s 1.2 patch is the first truly major update. In fact,…..

Qualcomm Announces Newest 7-series Flagship SoC: Snapdragon 780G

Posted on March 25, 2021 3:30 PM by Rob Williams
Woman's hand taking a photo of local city street view in Hong Kong with smartphone

Qualcomm has just announced the launch of its latest top-end 7-series Snapdragon SoC: 780G. This launch comes just a few months after the company released its latest top top-end Snapdragon, the 888. The new 780G takes some features from the 888, with the overall package giving consumers a new high-end 5G option…..

Autodesk Launches 2022 Versions Of 3ds Max & Maya

Posted on March 25, 2021 1:25 PM by Rob Williams
Autodesk 3ds Max 2022 Banner by Rashed Abdullah

It’s that time of year again, when Autodesk unveils the latest major versions of its popular M&E products. This time around, both 3ds Max and Maya see their 2022 releases happen at the exact same time, which is something that will nicely complement anyone who wants to take Autodesk’s new custom installer…..

AMD’s Radeon Pro 21.Q1 Enterprise Driver Delivers Overhauled UI

Posted on March 24, 2021 5:10 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon Pro W5700 - Angle

AMD has just released the first Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver of 2021, and as it happens, it packs a nice punch. After installing this new driver, Radeon Pro users will immediately notice that the entire Radeon Software interface has been overhauled, now aligning with the latest update that launched on…..

Intel To Launch Foundry Business, Team Up With IBM & Relaunch IDF

Posted on March 23, 2021 7:30 PM by Rob Williams
During recording of the “Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Futu

Months ago, Intel’s future seemed to be a bit murky. Previously downed competition returned to the fight in a big way, and other mainstay competitors have only grown stronger. Naturally, as we’ve seen with AMD’s recent adventures, any company that seems down-and-out still has the ability to strike back. The needed ingredient…..

Qualcomm Rumored To Be Developing Nintendo Switch-like Gaming Device

Posted on March 23, 2021 5:00 PM by Rob Williams
Nintendo Switch

Here’s a rumor we sure weren’t expecting. It’s being reported that Qualcomm is working on its own game console, one that wouldn’t be hugely different from Nintendo’s ultra-popular Switch. If Qualcomm were to pursue its own console, the Switch would be an obvious target, but there’s a lot that would need to…..

OnePlus Unveils 9 & 9 Pro: Brings 120Hz Displays, Ultra-fast Charging & Hasselblad Tuned Cameras

Posted on March 23, 2021 1:15 PM by Rob Williams
OnePlus 9 Pro - Front and Back

OnePlus has today launched its newest flagship, the not-so-surprisingly named OnePlus 9 Pro, as well as the OnePlus 9. Interestingly, it wasn’t only these phones that have been announced today, but also coming is the company’s first smart watch, simply named OnePlus Watch. If you’ve been paying any attention to the rumor…..

Intel To Launch Its Third-gen Xeon Scalable Platform On April 6

Posted on March 22, 2021 1:10 PM by Rob Williams
Intel Third-gen Xeon Scalable - What Will You Solve For

Hot on the heels of AMD’s launch of its third-gen EPYC processors (our deep-dive here), Intel has just made it clear that more competition is coming – in the form of the third-gen Xeon Scalable series. The company has announced that it will be launching its new series on April 6, and…..

NVIDIA Releases New Studio Driver To Polish Latest Creator AI Features

Posted on March 18, 2021 12:11 PM by Rob Williams
Adobe Super Resolution Example

NVIDIA updated its three core driver releases this week (GeForce, Studio, Quadro) to 461.92, and bundled within is a bunch of optimization for cool new AI features that are found in various creative applications, such as from Adobe and Blackmagic Design. NVIDIA wants you to “work smarter, not harder”, and AI can…..

NVIDIA’s DLSS Added To Crysis Remastered, The Fabled Woods & System Shock

Posted on March 17, 2021 4:40 PM by Rob Williams
System Shock (2021) Thumbnail

March has proven to be a pretty busy month for PC hardware, but so too has PC gaming. We found out last month that NVIDIA’s DLSS (deep-learning super-sampling) technology has become integrated with Unreal Engine via a new plugin, and since then, Crysis Remastered, The Fabled Woods, and even the System Shock…..

AMD Slots New Radeon RX 6700 XT Into Its RDNA2 Lineup; Priced At $479

Posted on March 17, 2021 3:40 PM by Rob Williams
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As mentioned in a previous post, AMD has had one seriously busy week so far. On Monday, the company launched third-gen EPYC (our performance look here), and yesterday, it unveiled three Zen 3-based chips targeting the Ryzen PRO mobile lineup. Today, the company continues its relentless launch attack with the Radeon RX…..

AMD Brings Zen 3 To Its Ryzen PRO Mobile Processor Series

Posted on March 17, 2021 1:52 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Ryzen PRO 5000-series Chip Shot

AMD has had an almost ridiculous amount of launches going on this week. It all started on Monday when the company unveiled its third-gen server-bound EPYC series, which we took an in-depth look at. Today, the company unveils its gaming-bound Radeon RX 6700 XT, while yesterday, the company announced its latest-generation Ryzen…..

Intel Wants You To ‘Get Real’ And ‘Go PC’ While Throwing Shade At Apple M1

Posted on March 17, 2021 12:51 PM by Rob Williams
Intel's Go PC Form Factors

Who could forget those infamous Apple ads which pit the PC (John Hodgman) against the Mac (Justin Long)? As hard as it might be to believe, those originally aired well over a decade ago, and since then, they’ve been referenced heavily, and have become known as really effective advertising. Well, now Intel…..

Intel Announces 11th-gen Core ‘Rocket Lake-S’ Desktop Processor Lineup

Posted on March 16, 2021 4:00 PM by Rob Williams
Intel Core Rocket Lake - Chip Shot Thumbnail

Intel has today unveiled its 11th-gen Core processor lineup, dubbed Rocket Lake-S. This latest crop of chips is built around the company’s 14nm Cypress Cove core architecture, and brings both Xe graphics and Deep Learning Boost to the desktop. Today’s announcement isn’t aligned with the review embargo, so our deep-dive look at…..

AMD Unveils Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB GPU, Smart Access Memory Support For Ryzen 3000

Posted on March 3, 2021 12:00 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Graphics Card

AMD has today unveiled the fourth model to become part of its RDNA2-based gaming Radeon series: RX 6700 XT. To date, the company has catered its new series exclusively to the high-end market, with the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and top-end RX 6900 XT coming before it. Before today, that meant…..

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors Begin To Land In Stores

Posted on March 2, 2021 1:45 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Packaging

We learned in January that AMD was planning to make its Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors available directly to consumers in March, but we weren’t quite expecting the company to waste basically no time at all into the month before pulling the trigger. Starting today, Threadripper PRO processors and supporting sWRX8 motherboards will…..

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