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Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S platform’s PCIe gen-4.0 capabilities tested on Z490 LGA1200 socket motherboard
Posted on: 10 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. Comet Lake-S was also fabbed on this aging process … Continue reading Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S platform’s PCIe gen-4.0 capabilities tested on Z490 LGA1200 socket motherboard
Intel’s next-gen Alder Lake-S “Gracemont” core CPU architecture to support AVX/AVX2, AVX-VNNI instruction sets
Posted on: 09 Oct 2020
Intel’s next generation of Alder Lake-S Core processors are said to be the company’s first 10nm-based mainstream desktop processors, and we have already seen documents, datasheets, and release notes for these CPUs which also appeared on Intel’s own developer website. These processors have been confirmed to support a new LGA 1700 socket as well.
Rumor: NVIDIA Ampere GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GB GPU variants to possibly launch this December
Posted on: 08 Oct 2020
Videocardz’s internal sources have just given us some update on the launch window of Nvidia’s yet to be announced Ampere-based RTX 3080 20 GB SKU.
12th gen Intel Alder Lake-S CPU reportedly spotted in “SiSoftware benchmark” database [UPDATE]
Posted on: 07 Oct 2020
Intel’s next generation of Alder Lake-S Core processors are said to be the company’s first 10nm-based mainstream desktop processors, and we have already seen documents, datasheets, and release notes for these CPUs which also appeared on Intel’s own developer website. These processors have been confirmed to support a new LGA 1700 socket as well.
MSI accused for selling their Ampere GeForce RTX 3080 cards at an inflated price on EBay
Posted on: 07 Oct 2020
According to a recent Reddit thread MSI was earlier accused for scalping their branded RTX 3080 cards on Ebay via its US subsidiary ‘Starlit Partner’. Customers have been blaming MSI for selling their GPUs at a much higher price, but the company has issued an official statement on this issue.
Nvidia Ampere GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 GPU shortages to last until 2021, according to CEO Jensen Huang
Posted on: 06 Oct 2020
Nvidia recently launched the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 Ampere lineup of GPUs, but the launch was plagued with stock availability issues since day one. NVIDIA has also delayed the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU launch by two weeks to October 29th.
NVIDIA’s upcoming GA104-300 based Ampere RTX 3070 GPU goes through the validation process
Posted on: 05 Oct 2020
NVIDIA recently delayed the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU launch to October 29th, and the reason behind this delay could be due to the high demand expected for this mid-range GPU at launch, and it is also possible that Nvidia wants to give the board partners/AIBs more time to finalize and test their custom design GPU … Continue reading NVIDIA’s upcoming GA104-300 based Ampere RTX 3070 GPU goes through the validation process
AMD Radeon RDNA 2-based RX 6900 XT “Big Navi” GPU DIE shot allegedly pictured
Posted on: 04 Oct 2020
AMD’s Big Navi GPU lineup is going to land later this year, and we also expect these RDNA 2 cards to offer stiff competition to Nvidia’s current Ampere GPU stack. AMD plans to showcase its Radeon RX 6000 NAVI GPU lineup on October 28th, based on the new RDNA 2 architecture.
AMD processors achieve 25% market share according to the recent Steam hardware survey
Posted on: 03 Oct 2020
As we all know by now that AMD has been quite dominant in the CPU market segment, be it Gaming or professional, and has given Intel a run for their money. It is also no secret that AMD’s new processor division/branch has undergone a significant revival since past few years or so.
AMD denies the halt of the RX 5700 series GPU production rumors circulating on the web
Posted on: 03 Oct 2020
According to one recent report from Cowcotland, AMD was about to cease the production of the Navi 10-powered RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 gaming GPUs. This included both the reference and custom AIB design SKUs. However, AMD has debunked this rumor in an official statement to Tom’s Hardware.