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Intel announces “Marvel’s Avengers” Collector’s Edition KA Series of Core processors
Posted on: 18 Aug 2020
Last year, Intel became the official PC hardware partner for the PC version of Marvel’s Avengers, and now the Blue team seems to take advantage of this new tie-up/collaboration by releasing limited edition KA Marvel’s Avengers series of processors. @momomo_us already spotted few entries of these Intel KA series of processors being listed on a … Continue reading Intel announces “Marvel’s Avengers” Collector’s Edition KA Series of Core processors
Rumor: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 ‘Ampere’ GPU’s price expected to be around $2,000 USD ballpark
Posted on: 17 Aug 2020
A ChipHell forum user has recently posted a screenshot which appears to be taken from an insider account, and it provides us with some info on the expected pricing of the upcoming flagship RTX 3090 GPU.
Intel’s discrete XE-HPG Gaming GPUs likely to be fabbed on TSMC’s 6nm process node, launching in 2021
Posted on: 17 Aug 2020
Just a few days ago. it was reported that Intel is expected to launch its first discrete gaming GPUs based on the XE-HPG GPU architecture in 2021. The company plans to target the enthusiast gaming market. Intel will be directly competing against AMD’s upcoming RDNA 2 and NVIDIA’s Ampere GPU lineup.
NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 GPU spotted in the Userbenchmark database, with 2.1GHz clock & 10GB VRAM
Posted on: 16 Aug 2020
It appears that the first entry of Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 30 series GPU has been spotted. The Geforce RTX 3080 GPU has been listed in the Userbenchmark database. This leak comes via LaptopVideo2Go, and @_rogame.
NVIDIA’s “Founders Edition” RTX 30 ‘Ampere’ GPUs may utilize a new 12-Pin power connector interface
Posted on: 16 Aug 2020
There was some chatter before on the web that NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 30 series Ampere gaming GPUs may utilize a new 12-Pin power connector interface. And now, according to TweakTown’s industry sources, it has been confirmed that only the reference Founders Edition RTX 30 GPUs may use this new 12-PIN PCI-E power interface.
Huawei’s upcoming 7nm ‘24-Core Kunpeng’ CPU is faster than Intel’s Core i9-9900K, leads in Multi-Core performance
Posted on: 15 Aug 2020
According to the Chinese news outlet IThome, Huawei is launching its own brand’s new desktop PC for the domestic market, internally codenamed as ‘Pangu’. Huawei is trying hard to position itself despite the technology bans levied against it by the United States government.
EA rebrands its subscription game services, EA Access and Origin Access, as EA Play
Posted on: 15 Aug 2020
EA has rebranded EA Access and Origin Access as ‘EA Play’, and the new subscription service will be known as EA Play as of August 18th. EA Access and Origin Access Basic will become ‘EA Play’, irrespective of whether you’re subscribed on Xbox One, PS4, Steam, or Origin directly, whereas the Origin Access Premier will … Continue reading EA rebrands its subscription game services, EA Access and Origin Access, as EA Play
MICRON confirms that the NVIDIA ‘Ampere RTX 3090’ card will get 21Gbps GDDR6X memory
Posted on: 14 Aug 2020
In a recent technology brief Micron has confirmed that it has been developing GDDR6X memory for NVIDIA’s next-generation Ampere graphics card lineup. Micron has been a memory module supplier for the Geforce graphics cards, and this new partnership with Nvidia takes things to a whole new level, by bringing GDDR6X memory type support.
GDC 2021 has been announced as a physical/digital hybrid event for July 2021
Posted on: 13 Aug 2020
Game Developers Conference organizer ‘Informa Tech’ has just announced the GDC 2021 event scheduled for next year from July 19 through 23, as part of a ‘hybrid’ physical and digital show. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) will be both a physical and digital event when held in July 2021. As announced on its official website, … Continue reading GDC 2021 has been announced as a physical/digital hybrid event for July 2021
Intel plans to unveil its new “XE-HPG” Gaming GPU architecture with hardware ray-tracing in 2021
Posted on: 13 Aug 2020
According to Videocardz’s sources, Intel is expected to launch its first discrete gaming GPUs based on the XE-HPG GPU architecture in 2021. The company plans to target the enthusiast gaming market. It appears that Intel will be directly competing against AMD’s upcoming RDNA 2 and NVIDIA’s Ampere GPU lineup.