After months of build-up, we finally see a GPU-Z validation (courtesy of Matthew Smith) for Nvidia’s looming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. Barring any last-second surprises, the information from the validation entry should be the final specifications for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. If you haven’t been following the rumor mill, the GeForce RTX…
(Image credit: Acer) Acer is joining the likes of Razer and Corsair in pushing gaming peripherals that changes the rate at which your mouse sends data to your PC. Most gaming mice offer polling rates of 1,000 Hz max, meaning it sends a report to your PC telling it of your mouse’s position 1,000 times…
Gaming is big business at Nvidia right now, with its most recent financial quarter closing at a record $5.66 billion high mostly due to its GeForce GPU sales. Demand (partially driven by mining) for the cards has been so high that it continually outstrips supply, even with Nvidia amping up production this quarter. While that’s…
AMD’s Zen 4 processors haven’t even launched yet, and rumors are already emerging about the chipmaker’s future Zen 5 chips. Given the time frame that we expect for the Zen 5 chips to debut, the information from the leaks makes sense. Nevertheless, we still recommend you approach all rumors with caution. The partial AMD roadmap,…
In a post from Coelacanth’s Dream; There is new information suggesting that some of Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs could have a configurable TDP as high as 115W. Making Alder Lake the most power-hungry Intel chips ever produced for the laptop market. The post reveals three core configurations for Alder Lake-P, consisting of a 2+8+2, 4+8+2,…
Unisantis Electronics, a startup led by Fujio Masuoka, the inventor of NAND memory, has developed Dynamic Flash Memory (DFM), a volatile type of memory that promises four times higher density than dynamic random access memory (DRAM) along with higher performance and lower power consumption. DRAM memory relies on arrays of charge storage cells consisting of one capacitor…
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti launch appears to be imminent, especially as Nvidia has teased a new announcement on May 31. With GeForce RTX 30-series Ti graphics cards set to be available in early June, the majority of Nvidia’s partners already have the boards on hand. Therefore it is inevitable that benchmark…
The dev team for Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi shared a blog post this week detailing key new features in the latest update for Ubuntu 21.04. The most recent version of Ubuntu is confirmed to officially include enhanced GPIO support on the Raspberry Pi via a new Python library. The new Python library is known…
Acer’s bringing Intel’s new high-powered 11th Gen Tiger Lake chips to its gaming laptops, alongside new mobile RTX 3000 GPU options and a new design for one laptop in particular. New, more budget-friendly RTX 3000 gaming desktops are also joining those mobile options, giving gamers who haven’t been able to try Ampere yet another avenue…
Acer announced the Swift X, its first laptop in the Swift line to use discrete graphics, during a virtual event today. The laptop will use AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti when it launches in June starting for $899.99. The laptop, which Acer says is meant for creators, editors…
