Posts by Metal Messiah:

AMD plans to bring its “Smart Access Memory (SAM)” tech to Nvidia GPUs, ensuring compatibility on both Intel/Nvidia platforms

Posted on: 21 Nov 2020

In case you didn’t know, AMD recently detailed three new RDNA 2 features: RAGE Mode, Smart Access Memory and Infinity Cache. The SAM or Smart Access Memory is a new feature that allows AMD CPUs to access all the VRAM in a Radeon RX 6000-series GPU.

AMD to manufacture MBA “reference-design” RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Navi 21 GPUs only until early 2021

Posted on: 20 Nov 2020

A couple of days ago, AMD officially launched its Big Navi graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture. The red team lifted the review/sales embargo for the AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800XT cards, respectively.

The ‘Embracer Group’ has recently acquired 13 new game companies, including 11 game developers

Posted on: 20 Nov 2020

It appears that Embracer Group has acquired a dozen of gaming companies, including the developers of Phoenix Point, Shadow Warrior, Redout, and Pinball FX among others.

Here are some alleged specs of INTEL’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S CPU lineup, Core i9-11900K to sport 8C/16T

Posted on: 19 Nov 2020

Intel has already revealed its upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on the Cypress Cove core architecture. Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned micro-architecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices.

Microsoft announces a new “Pluton” Security CPU in collaboration with AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm

Posted on: 19 Nov 2020

It appears that Microsoft is working on a new security processor, dubbed as PLUTON.  Microsoft is doing this in collaboration with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm. These companies will integrate the technology into their own processors.

Here are the first official AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Ray Tracing gaming benchmarks

Posted on: 17 Nov 2020

Last month AMD officially announced its RDNA 2-based flagship Big Navi graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 6800XT and RX 6800, respectively. Even though the RDNA 2 Live event showcased benchmarks that favored the Radeon RX 6900 XT, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and Radeon RX 6800 over the competition, none of them included metrics related to … Continue reading Here are the first official AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Ray Tracing gaming benchmarks →

Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPU sample shows promising single-threaded performance

Posted on: 17 Nov 2020

Last month, Intel officially revealed its upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on the Cypress Cove core architecture. Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices.

Official Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 Ti Ampere GPU gaming benchmarks leaked, faster than the RTX 2080 SUPER

Posted on: 17 Nov 2020

It appears that Videocardz has just managed to grab one official Nvidia press slide which shows the performance of the Green team’s new mainstream/mid-range RTX 3060 Ti Ampere GPU.

Latest Half-Life: Alyx update adds three hours of developer commentary

Posted on: 14 Nov 2020

Valve recently released an update for Half-Life: Alyx which contains 3 hours of developer audio commentary explaining in detail how the game was actually made. The commentary is subtitled in over 10 languages.

NVIDIA Ampere RTX GPUs to get their own “Smart Access Memory (SAM)” tech

Posted on: 13 Nov 2020

In a recent statement to GamersNexus NVIDIA has just confirmed that they are also working on their own SAM or Smart Access Memory feature similar to what AMD has enabled on their RDNA 2 GPU lineup.