Posts by Metal Messiah:

Intel brings Open-Source driver support for Vulkan Ray-Tracing to its “Xe HPG” discrete GPU lineup

Posted on: 31 Oct 2020

In preparation for next year’s Xe HPG graphics cards, Intel’s open-source developers have begun publishing their patches enabling their ANV Vulkan Linux driver to support ray-tracing.

Ubuntu version of Shadow of the Tomb Raider outperforms Windows 10 DX11 API

Posted on: 31 Oct 2020

One game developer recently brought Shadow of the Tomb Raider game to work on Ubuntu by using the Vulkan API, and one YouTuber has benchmarked it against the Windows 10 DX11 version of this game.

AMD in talks with board partners regarding custom Radeon RX 6900 XT AIB designs

Posted on: 30 Oct 2020

Just a few days ago AMD officially announced its Radeon RX 6000-series of Navi graphics cards based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. However, during the announcement, only custom GPU model availability for the Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards was highlighted.

Intel officially reveals upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on “Cypress Cove” cores

Posted on: 30 Oct 2020

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. Intel has been using the same iteration of the 14nm FinFET process node with the Skylake Architecture for many years.

Intel’s Alder Lake-S Hybrid x86 desktop CPUs are currently being sampled, with Sapphire Rapids CPU coming in 2021

Posted on: 29 Oct 2020

Intel recently gave an update to analysts and investors on two crucial CPU projects of the company, namely the client desktop PC Alder Lake CPU lineup, and Sapphire Rapids chips for the HPC/server market.

AMD details three new RDNA 2 features: RAGE Mode, Smart Access Memory and Infinity Cache

Posted on: 28 Oct 2020

AMD has just announced its RDNA 2-based flagship Big Navi graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 6800XT and RX 6800, respectively. The Red team introduced three graphics cards based on RDNA2 GPU architecture with prices ranging from 579 to 999 USD. AMD will be competing with NVIDIA, and directly targeting each of the RTX … Continue reading AMD details three new RDNA 2 features: RAGE Mode, Smart Access Memory and Infinity Cache →

Rumor: Nvidia working on a new Ampere series GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU, sporting 9984 cores and 12/24GB GDDR6X VRAM

Posted on: 27 Oct 2020

It appears that NVIDIA is prepping yet another RTX 30-series flagship SKU which is going to be positioned between the already released RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 GPUs, the RTX 3080 Ti. This leak comes just after NVIDIA was rumored to have cancelled the production of the RTX 3080 20 GB & RTX 3070 16 GB … Continue reading Rumor: Nvidia working on a new Ampere series GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU, sporting 9984 cores and 12/24GB GDDR6X VRAM →

INTEL’s Raja Koduri to speak at ‘Samsung Foundry Forum Event’, regarding company’s outsourcing plans

Posted on: 27 Oct 2020

Intel’s chief architect and senior vice president of discrete graphics division, Raja Koduri will speak at the Samsung Foundry SAFE Forum next week.

Nvidia’s unannounced Geforce RTX 3060 Ti Ampere GPU listed for pre-order in ASIAN retail market

Posted on: 27 Oct 2020

It appears the Chinese online shopping website Taobao has listed Nvidia’s yet to be officially announced RTX 3060 Ti Ampere GPU. Retailers have started taking pre-orders for this upcoming GPU entry in the RTX 30-series lineup, as spotted by @Avery78.

Rumor: Nvidia planning to launch a new RTX 30-series Ampere GA102-based GPU, with 7424 cores and 10GB GDDR6X VRAM [UPDATE]

Posted on: 27 Oct 2020

It appears that NVIDIA is prepping a new RTX 30-series flagship SKU which is going to be positioned between the already released RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 GPUs. This leaks comes just after NVIDIA was rumored to have cancelled the production of the RTX 3080 20 GB & RTX 3070 16 GB Ampere-based SKUs.