Posts by Metal Messiah:
NVIDIA RTX 3080 showcased being faster by 55-70% than the RTX 2080Ti in Doom Eternal
Posted on: 03 Sep 2020
NVIDIA has recently posted a new video highlighting the gaming performance difference between the Geforce RTX 3080 GPU and the RTX 2080 Ti at 4K resolution. They used DOOM ETERNAL which was running in Ultra Nightmare settings, and the RTX 3080 easily outperforms the RTX 2080 Ti by a fair margin.
Intel’s Alder Lake-S iGPU has been spotted having 256 shader cores/32 EUs, & 1.15 GHz clock speed
Posted on: 03 Sep 2020
In a recent 2020’s second-quarter earnings press release, Intel confirmed that the next-gen Alder Lake-S CPU lineup will launch in the second half of 2021. Intel has also confirmed that their 7nm products have been delayed for at least 1 year.
Custom AIB RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Ampere GPU Models’ prices unveiled, Premium SKU to cost more
Posted on: 02 Sep 2020
It appears that prices for some of the custom AIB Ampere GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 & RTX 3070 cards have been listed over at Overclockers.co.uk. The UK based retailer has listed several custom AIB card with varying prices, depending on the GPU model, PCB quality, and design (PCB cooling).
NVIDIA Ampere GeForce RTX 3070 Ti spotted with 16GB GDDR6 VRAM, confirmed by Lenovo
Posted on: 02 Sep 2020
It appears that NVIDIA’s unannounced GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics card has been confirmed in a listing as posted by Lenovo for its Legion T7 desktop Gaming PCs. The link appears to be offline at this moment, but Videocardz managed to grab some screenshots.
NVIDIA introduces RTX IO, a GPU-accelerated storage technology, brings PS5’s SSD performance to PCs
Posted on: 02 Sep 2020
With the recent launch of the RTX 30 series Ampere cards, NVIDIA also announced a new suite of I/O features that they’re calling RTX IO, which is basically an I/O architecture. This is a new feature of Ampere GPUs that helps handle data from high-speed SSDs with the graphics card, thus taking the load off … Continue reading NVIDIA introduces RTX IO, a GPU-accelerated storage technology, brings PS5’s SSD performance to PCs
NVIDIA’s Ampere RTX 3090 GPU PCB pictured, having 20 phase power design, NVLINK & a compact design
Posted on: 01 Sep 2020
It appears that pictures of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition PCB has been leaked out over at Chiphell (coming via @harukaze5719). This is a bare PCB board, since the components are not yet placed. This PCB goes in this current state into another production line.
SABRENT builds world’s fastest M.2 SSD “Rocket 4 Plus”, beats Samsung at their own game
Posted on: 01 Sep 2020
Samsung may have revealed their own PCI-e 4.0 SSD recently, the 980 PRO, but it appears that Sabrent already has a faster product than Samsung’s offerings. Meet the new Rocket 4 Plus SSD, packing insane speeds. To be precise, this SSD boasts sequential read speeds of up to 7000 MB/s and can write at up … Continue reading SABRENT builds world’s fastest M.2 SSD “Rocket 4 Plus”, beats Samsung at their own game
Intel helped develop PC-exclusive graphics improvements for Marvel’s Avengers
Posted on: 01 Sep 2020
It appears that Intel teamed up with Square Enix’s Crystal Dynamics game studio to optimize the graphics for the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers PC game. Thus, Intel is Crystal Dynamics’ exclusive CPU partner.
Samsung reveals its 980 PRO SSD, the fastest consumer-grade PCIe 4.0 SSD, up to 1TB Capacity
Posted on: 31 Aug 2020
It appears that Samsung has created the world’s fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD, its next-generation 980 PRO SSD which comes with the PCIe Gen 4.0 interface. On its Singapore domain website, Samsung has listed SSDs having capacities of 1TB, 500GB and 250GB, promising sequential read speeds of 7,000 MB/s, breaking the 5,000 MB/s speed barrier of … Continue reading Samsung reveals its 980 PRO SSD, the fastest consumer-grade PCIe 4.0 SSD, up to 1TB Capacity
Doom Eternal DLC “The Ancient Gods” can be played without owning the base game
Posted on: 30 Aug 2020
It appears that Bethesda is taking a novel approach to Doom Eternal’s upcoming expansion/DLC titled ‘The Ancient Gods’ part one. This single-player expansion will be a completely standalone episode that can be purchased on its own and played without having the base game.