Wargaming has announced that World of Tanks will support Ray Tracing via Intel’s oneAPI. Wargaming will be using ray tracing for for shadows and lighting in direct sunlight, and will support both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 graphics cards. Continue reading World of Tanks will be using Ray Tracing via Intel’s oneAPI, will support DirectX 11 GPUs
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New security vulnerability affects all Intel CPUs supporting SWAPGS & WRGSBASE instructions
Bitdefender researchers have identified and demonstrated a new side-channel attack. This new attack bypasses all known mitigation mechanisms implemented in response to Spectre and Meltdown. According to the report, all Intel CPUs that support SWAPGS and WRGSBASE instructions are vulnerable to this new attack. Continue reading New security vulnerability affects all Intel CPUs supporting SWAPGS & WRGSBASE instructions
Raja Koduri talks about real-time ray tracing and Intel’s Xe GPUs starting price; $200 in 2020 [UPDATE]
Intel’s Raja Koduri has shared some new details about the pricing of the new Xe discrete graphics cards that the blue team is currently working on. According to Koduri, Intel wants to build Xe GPUs for everyone, with their starting price at $200. Continue reading Raja Koduri talks about real-time ray tracing and Intel’s Xe GPUs starting price; $200 in 2020 [UPDATE]
Intel plans to releases its first 7nm CPUs in 2021, 10nm CPUs coming later this year
Intel CEO Bob Swan has confirmed that the blue team plans to release its 10nm CPUs later this year, and its 7nm CPUs in 2021. This basically means that Intel will be two years late to the 7nm party, something that will give AMD enough time to refine its Zen CPUs. Continue reading Intel plans to releases its first 7nm CPUs in 2021, 10nm CPUs coming later this year
Report: Intel’s 10th generation “Comet Lake” CPU details/lineup leak is fake
Last week, we shared a leaked slide that was supposedly revealing the specs of Intel’s 10th generation “Comet Lake” desktop CPUs. However, Gamers Nexus has reported that this leak is fake and that PC owners should temper their expectations when it comes to Intel’s upcoming CPUs. Continue reading Report: Intel’s 10th generation “Comet Lake” CPU details/lineup leak is fake
Intel’s 10th generation CPUs leaked – Core i9-10900KF to feature 10 cores, 20 threads & priced at $499
It appears that the lineup for Intel’s 10th generation Comet Lake desktop CPUs has been leaked. According to the slide, which appears to be coming straight from Intel, the blue team is preparing twelve CPU models. Continue reading Intel’s 10th generation CPUs leaked – Core i9-10900KF to feature 10 cores, 20 threads & priced at $499
AMD 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs officially released, Intel Core i9 9900K still the best gaming CPU
AMD has officially released its 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs. From today, PC gamers can purchase the AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 7 3700X, Ryzen 7 3800X and Ryzen 9 3900X desktop processors. AMD also introduced a new X570 chipset for socket AM4, supporting the world’s first PCIe 4.0 readiness, which exhibited 42% faster storage performance than PCIe 3.09, enabling high-performance graphics card, networking devices, NVMe drives, and more. Continue reading AMD 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs officially released, Intel Core i9 9900K still the best gaming CPU
Windows 10, Intel and NVIDIA dominate Steam’s June 2019 Hardware & Software Survey
Steam has revealed its June 2019 hardware and software survey and as we can see, Windows 10 dominates the OS charts. Microsoft’s latest operating system has been adopted by 71% of the survey takers, leaving behind Windows 7 with 22% and Windows 8.1 with 3%. Continue reading Windows 10, Intel and NVIDIA dominate Steam’s June 2019 Hardware & Software Survey
Intel acknowledges AMD’s high performance Zen2 CPUs, “competition shaping up to be especially tough”
AMD will officially release its new Zen2 CPUs on July 7th and it appears that Intel has internally acknowledged the impressive CPU models that the red team will bring to the table. Moreover, the blue team claims that competition will be tough in high performance computing. Continue reading Intel acknowledges AMD’s high performance Zen2 CPUs, “competition shaping up to be especially tough”
Report: Intel will slash the prices of its desktop CPUs by up to 15% in order to rival AMD’s Zen2 CPUs
DigiTimes has reported that Intel is planning to cut the prices of its 8th and 9th generation desktop CPUs by 10-15%. Not only that, but it appears that Intel has already notified its downstream PC and motherboard partners about these upcoming cut prices. Continue reading Report: Intel will slash the prices of its desktop CPUs by up to 15% in order to rival AMD’s Zen2 CPUs