AMD this week issued a teaser post in Twitter that pre-announces formal launch of the company’s Radeon Pro graphics card based on the RDNA2 architecture on June 8. While the company did not officially disclose specifications of the Radeon Pro W6800, an unknown leaker disclosed a Geekbench 5 entry early on Friday June 4. As this…
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Today’s best HP Envy x360 15 (Ryzen 7) deals Whether it’s due primarily to the ongoing chip shortages, the increased demand for laptops during the pandemic, or just general performance impressiveness, HP’s Envy x360 15 is the latest convertible to launch in both Intel and AMD flavors. The $999 (eu0097nr) model we’re looking at here…
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Regardless of which router you choose (be it one of the best gaming routers or something more affordable and basic), any competitive online gamer will tell you that if you want good gaming performance, you need to be hardwired to the nearest Ethernet jack. That’s largely true. And hey, if you are in a position…
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Sales of discrete GPUs in the first quarter were up both sequentially and year-over-year due to high demand for PCs in general and gaming PCs in particular, according to Mercury Research. Nvidia continued to dominate the market, AMD has been gaining CPU sales and market share in the recent years particularly in the gaming segment…
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A California man has filed for a class action lawsuit against PC manufacturer Dell, claiming that the company “intentionally misled and deceived” buyers of its Alienware Area 51-m R1 gaming laptop, which was advertised to be more upgradeable than other gaming notebooks. The plaintiff, Robert Felter, who is based in San Francisco, alleges that Dell…
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AMD has begun to enable driver support for what could possibly be its new GPU based on the RDNA-series architecture and equipped with the company’s next-generation DCN 3.1 display controller. At present, it is unclear whether the new “Yellow Carp” GPUs are high-end, midrange, or low-end graphics solutions, but we have some ideas. AMD’s post about its…
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Google has designed its own new processors, the Argos video (trans)coding units (VCU), that have one solitary purpose: processing video. The highly efficient new chips have allowed the technology giant to replace tens of millions of Intel CPUs with its own silicon. For many years Intel’s video decoding/encoding engines that come built into its CPUs have…
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The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) researchers announced this week a natural language processing model called WuDao 2.0 that, per the South China Morning Post, is more advanced than similar models developed by OpenAI and Google. The report said WuDao 2.0 uses 1.75 trillion parameters to “simulate conversational speech, write poems, understand pictures and…
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The RTX 3080 Ti is finally out, and it’s occupying a firm if niche spot in between the regular RTX 3080 and the RTX 3090. That means it’s got plenty of power, but also veers (hard) toward the expensive, premium end. Granted, stock for the best graphics cards is low enough right now that they…
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