AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) AMD has finally shared its own official gaming benchmarks of the hotly-anticipated $449 Ryzen 7 7800X3D going toe-to-toe with Intel’s flagship $589 Core i9-13900K and winning by an average of 20%, and up to 24% in one title – but for $150 less. The new benchmarks also…
The World Surf League (WSL) announced the Apple Watch Series 8 and Apple Watch Ultra as the official wearable equipment of the competition. This is the first time the Apple Watch will be used as official competitor equipment in a professional sports environment. Athletes will get access to the new WSL Surfer app to keep…
Nvidia “unlaunched” its 12GB RTX 4080 Ti late last year, amidst backlash over its fundamentally different specs than the full-fat RTX 4080, and its $899 price. But after rebadging and repackaging, that card is returning to store shelves on January 5th as the RTX 4070 Ti, with a $799 starting price that’s at least slightly…
The recently imposed U.S. sanctions against Chinese semiconductor and supercomputer sectors will affect exports from Taiwan, and so will Chinese COVID lockdowns, warned a Taiwanese economic official, reports Bloomberg (opens in new tab). In addition, the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act poses uncertainty to the island’s chipmakers. Chinese companies buy a boatload of chips from TSMC…
For the most part, the iPhone “just works” out of the box. You don’t need to read an iPhone user manual to start using the handset. It’s effortless to set it up and start taking advantage of its most basic functions. Then, the more experience and confidence you gain, the more complex use cases you’ll…
(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) AMD shared its official pricing with us for its Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-series processors, at the same time effectively marking the end of what we would consider the company’s traditional HEDT lineup — AMD isn’t releasing non-Pro Threadripper processors anymore. AMD originally announced the Threadripper Pro chips back in March,…
Update, June 2, 1:42 p.m. ET: Sapphire Technology has published an official product page for the new Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 Non-XT 10GB . It leaked a few hours ago, with some Sapphire data sheet images being widely shared around the internet. In the gallery above, you can see a full specifications table for the…
It seems reasonable to expect first-party accessories from huge technology companies to have at least the same level of quality as third-party products. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be the case for Google’s Pixel 6 cases. As spotted by The Verge, reviews on Amazon reveal a number of major issues with Google’s official case…
AMD has released a new Adrenalin driver to the public, version 22.5.2, featuring AMD’s DX11 optimizations found previously in its May 2022 preview driver. This will give Radeon gamers access to the performance improvement found in some DX11 titles, without diverting to AMD’s preview driver. Other improvements added to the driver include a new Radeon…
Despite countless rumors suggesting the Intel Arc A370M would only be competitive with previous-generation GPUs, it is much faster than we initially thought. According to new official benchmarks from PCWorld, the A370M can go toe to toe with Nvidia’s RTX 3050 mobile GPU in gaming and productivity applications. Intel’s Arc A370M launched around two months…
