A set of benchmarks (opens in new tab) have appeared online for what appears to be Intel’s 13th-generation Core architecture, known as Raptor Lake. The results, which appear to be from a submission to the SiSoftware database, appear to show the chip’s hybrid architecture gives a Ryzen 9 5900X a run for its money, though…
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…
AMD’s new Software Preview Driver for May 2022, has brought about some astonishing performance gains for several DX11 titles, with some titles gaining a 30% boost in minimum fps. However, such gains may not be very common, based on the results of a 50-game benchmark suite tested by Techspot. AMD’s miracle-working driver helped in a…
AMD’s announcement of its AMD Software Preview Driver for May 2022 carried with it substantial performance claims for games built on the now-superseded DX 11 API. AMD’s claims of a 10% average performance increase across a suite of games deserve testing, especially considering the more substantial performance increases, which the company said could reach a…
AMD has released the AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022, which is now available to all Radeon graphics card owners. The latest driver comes with new features and substantial performance improvements for both new and old games. The AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 offers up to 10% higher graphics performance, on average, in various…
The latest Windows Insider build is adding a Windows 11 Xbox controller bar. The new Windows 11 Insider build is available for Dev and Beta channel Insiders right now. Windows 11 gets an Xbox controller bar in the latest Insider build The Xbox game bar will still look like it always has when using the…
Alibaba Cloud has started offering its clients a new type of instance powered by its own 128-core Yitian 710 server-grade system-on-chip (SoC) introduced last October. Apparently, the processor designed by Alibaba’s T-Head subsidiary is now ready to power Alibaba’s instances. But to try it, companies have to get an invitation from Alibaba, and the number of Yitian-powered instances is…
Today’s Windows 11 Insider build is a rare opportunity for those stuck in the Dev Channel to move to safer, more stable pastures. Build 22581 is the rare preview that is being flighted to both the Dev and Beta channels, providing an opportunity for Insiders in the Dev channel to drop down to the Beta…
Microsoft has released another Windows 11 Preview Build for Windows Insiders to test on the beta channel, version 22000.194. This new build features new updates for the Snipping Tool, Calculator and Clock, plus introduces a new system requirement for virtual machines that is necessary to install Windows 11 on Hyper-V clients. If you are updating…
VMWare said this week that it would initiate public technology preview for its hypervisor, designed for systems based on the Apple M1 system-on-chip. The new VMware Fusion hypervisor lets users run Microsoft’s Windows on the latest Macs, but it has a number of limitations. Michael Roy, Product Line Manager for desktop hypervisor products such as VMware…