Posts by Metal Messiah:

Phison’s PS5018-E18 SSD controller can hit 7.4 GB/s sequential read speed, 1.2 million IOPS

Posted on: 25 Oct 2020

Last year Phison was the first company to introduce an SSD controller with a PCIe 4.0 interface, which allowed the company to capture most of high-end client and commercial SSD market.

Intel tapes out its first discrete Gaming GPU, the Xe-HPG ‘DG2’ graphics processor

Posted on: 23 Oct 2020

According to Intel’s most recent quarterly earnings, coming via SeekingAlpha, the company has announced that it has successfully started shipping its first discrete GPU DG1 in volume, and also revealed that the DG2 GPU, based on XE HPG architecture, has already been taped out and powered on in the labs.

Alleged AMD Navi 21 GPU engineering PCB revealed, featuring dual 8-pin connectors & 256-bit bus

Posted on: 23 Oct 2020

One engineering board PCB picture was recently shared on Twitter allegedly claiming that the board design is for a custom Big Navi 21 GPU variant based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. The original Tweet has since been deleted though.

AMD’s Big Navi 21 GPU lineup rumored to get a new ‘Power Saving’ feature dubbed as MALL

Posted on: 23 Oct 2020

According to one latest report published by Phoronix, AMD appears to be reportedly working on a new feature called Memory Access at Last Level (MALL) for its upcoming next-gen RDNA2-based Big Navi graphics cards.

Darkest Dungeon 2 is coming to the Epic Games Store as early access in 2021

Posted on: 22 Oct 2020

Red Hooks Studios’ landmark RPG sequel Darkest Dungeon 2 is releasing exclusively on the Epic Games Store as early access sometime next year.

NVIDIA rumored to have cancelled the production of the RTX 3080 20GB & RTX 3070 16GB Ampere-based SKUs

Posted on: 22 Oct 2020

If you have been following the latest tech news and Nvidia’s roadmap since past few months or so, then you might have heard rumors that Nvidia was allegedly prepping to launch more SKUs in the current Ampere GPU lineup.

Rumor: Here are some alleged specs of AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6000-series NAVI 21 and NAVI 22 GPU lineup

Posted on: 21 Oct 2020

According to Videocardz’s internal sources some leaked specs for AMD’s next-gen 7nm RDNA 2-based NAVI GPUs have been shared. Even though most of the information posted here may turn out to be true, you should still exercise caution with any early leak or rumor until there is some official confirmation from the company. With that … Continue reading Rumor: Here are some alleged specs of AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 6000-series NAVI 21 and NAVI 22 GPU lineup →

AMD issues preventive measure to retailers to circumvent the scalping of Radeon RX 6000-series RDNA 2 GPUs

Posted on: 20 Oct 2020

As you already know AMD plans to showcase its Radeon RX 6000 NAVI GPU lineup on October 28th, based on the new RDNA 2 architecture.

AMD’s RX 6000 ‘Big Navi 21 XT’ GPU to allegedly feature 320W TBP, 16Gbps GDDR6 VRAM

Posted on: 20 Oct 2020

It appears that we have some fresh details on the power consumption figures and memory specs of AMD’s upcoming Big Navi 21 GPU lineup as reported by Igor’s Lab. Igor Wallossek has also debunked the previous Navi 21 XT TGP value as posted by Patrick Schur.

AMD Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3 CPU final retail samples pictured ahead of launch

Posted on: 20 Oct 2020

As you may already know by now AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3-based Vermeer desktop CPU lineup.  According to AMD these CPUs will offer better single-thread performance in PC games.