Posts by Metal Messiah:
Intel’s 9th Gen “Coffee Lake” Desktop CPUs get a massive price cut, up to 25 %, Core i9-9900K for $435 USD
Posted on: 12 Aug 2020
It appears that Intel has announced price cuts for the current 9th Generation ‘Coffee lake’ Desktop CPU lineup as part of its promotional price drop. TomsHardware has spotted several Intel processors listed with up to 25% discounts, at some of the major retail outlets.
AMD’s Ryzen 5000 ‘Cezanne’ mobility APU spotted, features faster Vega GPU & Zen 3 CPU Cores
Posted on: 12 Aug 2020
AMD’s next-generation Ryzen 5000 APUs codenamed as ‘Cezanne’ were spotted before with proper device IDs for these chips. AMD Cezanne APUs will fall under the 1638 Device ID and several PCI IDs have already been spotted before by _Rogame, coming via Komachi.
Nvidia is hosting a “Geforce Special Event” on September 1st, will announce Ampere Gaming GPUs
Posted on: 11 Aug 2020
After the latest teaser reveal yesterday, NVIDIA has just now announced that it will be hosting a special GeForce Event on September 1st. NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, will host this special event which we expect to be a digital or a pre-recorded show, since the company has not mentioned any livestream event.
Both Custom AIB and ‘Founders Edition’ RTX 30 series Ampere cards will launch simultaneously next month
Posted on: 11 Aug 2020
Nvidia recently shared a teaser on their official Twitter account, and while the green team did not reveal any additional details, we can only assume that this teaser is for its upcoming Ampere RTX 30 series graphics cards. We have been hearing a lot of rumors on the exact release date and purported specs of … Continue reading Both Custom AIB and ‘Founders Edition’ RTX 30 series Ampere cards will launch simultaneously next month
EA Access is coming to Steam soon after years of exclusivity on Origin
Posted on: 11 Aug 2020
It appears that Electronic Arts’ subscription service for PC games, EA Access, will soon become available on Steam. “Don’t just get the game. Get more from your game with EA Access — it’s the ultimate game membership for anyone who loves EA games,” EA said on the service’s Steam page. “Follow EA and you’ll be … Continue reading EA Access is coming to Steam soon after years of exclusivity on Origin
AMD files a patent for a similar ‘big.LITTLE’ hybrid computing CPU architecture as ARM
Posted on: 09 Aug 2020
In a surprise move AMD has recently filed a patent for a hybrid computing approach similar to ARM’s big.LITTLE technique and CPU design, in which high performance cores are paired with power efficient low-power smaller cores. This was spotted by tipster @Underfox3, and more details of this patent can be found here.
Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 “Ampere” GPUs to be announced on September 9th
Posted on: 08 Aug 2020
Nvidia is expected to release their next-gen GeForce RTX 30 series of Ampere Gaming graphics cards later this year. We have been hearing a lot of rumors lately regarding the launch dates. We have previously heard about the September 17th launch date. And now according to a new report posted by GamerNexus, the RTX 30 … Continue reading Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 “Ampere” GPUs to be announced on September 9th
20GB of Intel’s IP ‘confidential data’ has been breached online, hacker also mentions backdoors
Posted on: 08 Aug 2020
Intel seems to have been hit by a massive data-breach earlier this week. Tillie Kottmann, who is a Swiss IT consultant/engineer, posted a link on his Twitter account of a file sharing service and archive that contains the data breach, which is almost 20-gigabyte in size. A 20GB folder containing the confidential intellectual property of … Continue reading 20GB of Intel’s IP ‘confidential data’ has been breached online, hacker also mentions backdoors
Intel claims 37% faster Gaming Performance with its 10th Gen Comet Lake-H CPU, when compared with AMD’s APU
Posted on: 07 Aug 2020
Intel has released a new set of Gaming and real-world benchmarks which compares its 10th Gen Comet Lake-H CPU lineup against AMD’s Ryzen 4000 processors codenamed as ‘Renoir’. These are part of Intel’s internal ‘Real World Performance’ testing methodology, which has been criticized heavily in the past. We have already seen examples where Intel used … Continue reading Intel claims 37% faster Gaming Performance with its 10th Gen Comet Lake-H CPU, when compared with AMD’s APU
Rumor: Zen 3 “Vermeer” CPU engineering sample clock speeds revealed, per-Core overclocking coming to Ryzen 4000
Posted on: 07 Aug 2020
During the latest earnings call for the second quarter of 2020, AMD reaffirmed its plans to introduce Zen 3-based Ryzen 4000 client Desktop CPUs and RDNA 2-based ‘Navi 2X’ GPUs in the second half of 2020. This means Zen 3 and Navi 2x product lineup from AMD is on track. AMD confirmed that they plan to release … Continue reading Rumor: Zen 3 “Vermeer” CPU engineering sample clock speeds revealed, per-Core overclocking coming to Ryzen 4000