Posts by Metal Messiah:

Google releases proof of concept (PoC) code to demonstrate the practicality of “Spectre” side-channel attacks

Posted on: 15 Mar 2021

You must have heard of Spectre vulnerability which was revealed back in 2018, alongside Meltdown, and it still continues to be a threat till this day. Spectre is a vulnerability that affects modern microprocessors that perform branch prediction, and targets the process in modern CPUs called speculative execution to leak secrets such as passwords from … Continue reading Google releases proof of concept (PoC) code to demonstrate the practicality of “Spectre” side-channel attacks →

GPU-Z software update adds support for AMD Radeon RX 6700/RX 6600XT/RX 6600 GPUs

Posted on: 13 Mar 2021

As you may already know GPU-Z software is the most popular graphics subsystem information and monitoring utility. TechPowerUp website recently released a new updated version 2.38.0 of this GPU monitoring utility which adds support for the Resizable BAR feature.

AMD’s unannounced Ryzen 3 5300G Zen 3 APU spotted on EBay, shows decent 1080p gaming performance

Posted on: 13 Mar 2021

AMD plans to release its next-gen APUs by this year, most probably in the first half of 2021. The Ryzen 5000 series “Cezanne APU” lineup will be a direct successor to Renoir. These are based on the ZEN 3 microarchitecture fabbed on the 7nm process node.

First leaked gaming and ray tracing benchmarks for AMD’s RX 6700XT [UPDATE]

Posted on: 12 Mar 2021

On March 3rd, AMD officially announced its latest RDNA2 graphics card, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT. According to the red team, this new GPU will release on March 18th, will have a $479 MSRP, and will be available from both AMD and AIBs.

Rumor: AMD “Nashira Point” XTX, XT and XL consumer gaming NAVI GPU codenames leaked

Posted on: 12 Mar 2021

A well-known industry leaker Roland Quandt of WinFuture has recently shared some codenames of AMD’s Nashira Point GPU lineup on Twitter. Though, this is not the first time we are hearing this NAVI GPU codename, since  back in January, Nashira Point A0 entry appeared in a filing on USB-IF implementers forum website as well.

INTEL’s future “Raptor Lake” desktop CPU architecture lineup spotted in a leaked roadmap

Posted on: 11 Mar 2021

It appears that Videocardz has just received one internal roadmap of INTEL, which highlights a new CPU architecture codenamed as RAPTOR LAKE, which would be succeeding the upcoming 12th gen Alder Lake-S desktop CPU lineup.

Epic Games has purchased Photogrammetry Software Developer “Capturing Reality”

Posted on: 10 Mar 2021

Epic Games today announced the purchase of photogrammetry software developer Capturing Reality for an undisclosed fee, to help the company improve how it handles 3D scans of environments and objects. This acquisition will make it easier to bring real-life objects into Unreal Engine.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 “Ampere” GPU modded to support 16GB of VRAM

Posted on: 08 Mar 2021

Hardware modding is not what an average gamer or end-user might be doing on a daily basis, but that has never stopped anyone to experiment with it, since some people have the knack for it. It now appears that Russian hardware enthusiast VIK-on has once again modded a GPU to support higher quantity VRAM than … Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 “Ampere” GPU modded to support 16GB of VRAM →

Here are the first gaming benchmarks for Intel’s Core i7-11700K “Rocket Lake” CPU

Posted on: 06 Mar 2021

At the recent CES 2021 event, Intel officially announced its 11th gen Rocket Lake-S core series of processors during the press briefing, notably the Core i9-11900K flagship SKU. Official announcement slides were leaked as well, which showed an almost 19% IPC boost with this new CPU.

Intel may be implementing a similar memory OC feature to AMD’s Infinity Fabric Clock for its Rocket Lake CPUs

Posted on: 04 Mar 2021

Intel has officially confirmed that its 11th gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPUs will be launching on the 30th of March, 2021. In response to Hardwareluxx, an Intel spokesperson confirmed the Rocket Lake CPU’s launch schedule.