NVIDIA RTX 4070 launching soon as well Both the NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti and non-Ti are going to be based on the AD104 GPU with the Ti variant getting the full fat die and the non-Ti getting binned dies with 5888 CUDA cores. The memory specification has not been confirmed yet but could remain the same at 12 GB of GDDR6 memory as NVIDIA is unlikely to ship a GPU in 2023 with just 6 GB of vRAM (hopefully)....

Intel pressures vendors with looming price hikes to oversupply their current stock of Intel CPUs Sources for Digitimes are unsure of Intel’s success with the aggressive strategy but are stating that we should begin to see cost increases as soon as the fall season for processors and Wi-Fi chips. Intel’s current plan for success will require both vendor’s needs and own strategies, as well as calculating the amount of overstock they can maintain....

Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake To Roar With 6 GHz Clock Frequencies According To Rumor, Overclocking Features In XTU Include Efficient Thermal Velocity Boost Mode The Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs are confirmed to feature new and enhanced overclocking features but the blue team didn’t explain what enhancements we can expect. However, it looks like details of some of these upcoming features have been revealed in XTU (Extreme Tuning Utility)....

GUNNIR Unveils The Arc A380 Photon 6 GB Graphics Card, The First Intel Arc Custom Design Starting at $150 US GUNNIR has become a very popular graphics card manufacturer in the Asian Pacific OEM & Pre-built PC segment. They have been amongst the first to offer custom flavors of the DG1 graphics card in custom flavor and they are now back with the first custom DG2 graphics card, the GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon which features 6 GB of GDDR6 memory and the full ACM-G11 GPU from Intel....

Intel’s Top 24-Core “8+16” Raptor Lake CPU Die Pictured In Full Wafer Shot, Coming Soon To 6 GHz Core i9’s Intel has invited tech media from all around the globe to IDC (Intel Design Center) based in Haifa, Israel. Today, the tech and press community was invited over to the FAB28, a leading fabrication plant that is responsible for making Intel’s next-gen Raptor Lake CPUs. The bleeding-edge fab is located in Kiryat Gat, Israel, just a few kilometers south of Tel Aviv....

Intel’s payable software-upgrading CPU feature to see Spring release in Linux 5.18 support Twitter user Andreas Schilling notes that this is not the first time Intel has attempted to block computer processors’ features behind a paywall. He notes that in 2010, Intel created a part to unlock higher clock speeds and increased memory cache for the Intel Core i3-2xxx series, also known as the Sandy Bridge family of processors. It’s not the first time Intel is trying something like Software Defined Silicon....

Apple’s New iPad Air 5 Features a Stretch-Release Battery Pull Tab For Easy Repairs and Replacement The news was shared by the repair website iFixit, suggesting that the new iPad Air 5’s battery comes with stretch-release battery pull tabs for easier removal and replacement. In contrast, the previous models feature a completely glued-in battery which was quite difficult to remove. Moreover, it required a solvent like an isopropyl that technicians commonly use to loosen the grip of the adhesive under the battery....

iPhone 14 Pro Models Are Reported to Feature 8GB Of RAM, Same as Samsung’s Galaxy S22 The news was shared in a post from “yeux1122” on the Korean blog Naver, suggesting that the iPhone 14 Pro models will feature 8GB of RAM. The post cites supply chain sources, suggesting that the memory components have been confirmed and mass production is accelerating. The source has a mixed track record and it all depends on Apple if it sees to continue with its plans till the launch....

Judas is a narrative sci-fi shooter with a decidedly BioShock-esque tone to it, but it looks like it will be much more open-ended. You’re a passenger on a doomed starship full of colorful characters, and it’s up to you to recruit a team and find a way to escape. Doesn’t sound easy, but then, you don’t have a lot of other options. You can check out the first teaser trailer for Judas, below....

AirPods Pro 2 Asking Users To Replace The Battery Soon The bug in AirPods Pro 2 seems to be originating from the Find My app on devices nearby whenever the MagSafe Charging Case or earbuds battery is low (via MacRumors). Since the second generation of AirPods Pro houses a U1 chip for Precision Finding, it also aids in the transmission of battery levels all the time. Henceforth, it is possible the bug in AirPods Pro 2 is associated with it....

With the game now set to launch on October 18th, the developers at Asobo Studio have been interviewed in the latest issue of EDGE magazine to discuss some of the game’s features. For example, Game Director Kevin Choteau mentioned the benefits of leaving behind older platforms like PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. We started from the basics to rebuild our gameplay, our AI and our visual effects. In Innocence, some parts could look a bit like a theatre set due to technical limitations....

The hardware specifications are downright impressive, with the Acer Swift X packing a Ryzen 7 5800U, which sports eight cores and 16 threads, clocking up to 4.40GHz. You also get a 4GB GDDR6 NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti GPU and can enable ray tracing and DLSS in supported games to get an image quality and performance boost. The 4GB VRAM might become a limiting factor in a few games, but DLSS can still help to bring that performance up....

AMD EPYC Exceeds Opteron’s Historical 26% Market Share, Big Win For Team Red In The Server Segment & The Best Is Yet To Come! Almost three years back, AMD set a goal to achieve not only a 10% market share by 2020 but also to hit the historical high of 26% that was once amassed by its older Opteron CPUs. Within 5 years, the company not only achieved its first goal but its latest EPYC CPUs now amount to an x86 server CPU share of well over 25%....

Various global online stores showing AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT Graphics Cards in stock before the official launch and selling for as high as $1000 Canada Computers & Electronics is the first retailer to show the cards in a banner advertisement. However, the link takes the user to their AMD Radeon RX 6000 series page but does not have the cards listed for sale. While we have already seen the pictures of the new cards before release, this is the first on a retail level to see anything promoting the unreleased series....

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Refresh Synthetic Performance Benchmarks Leaked: RX 6950 XT Flagship Faster Than NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti In Time Spy and Fire Strike Yesterday, we gave you the first look at the full and final specifications of AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 refresh lineup which will include the Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT cards. The performance results we are sharing for these cards are based on reference designs that run at the boosted clock speeds we reported yesterday....

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Drivers Carry Fixes For Higher Power Draw Usage & Other Bugs During launch, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards were seen sipping in much higher power draw than the competition when idling and during normal video playback. The power draw was at times 4x higher than NVIDIA’s RTX 40 series graphics card in multi-monitor & video playback. AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Power Consumption (Image Credits: TechPowerUp): Also, despite AMD claiming to offer a power efficiency improvement of 54% over RDNA 2, the RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards came nowhere close to that figure....

The official statement from AMD is below: From the above advisory, AMD states that not only is the Ryzen 7000 processor an issue, but also the internal game engine for each game, the GPU, and the memory being utilized, which sounds as though it is more of an overall compatibility issue of the system and games as a whole. Many factors affect gaming performance, including the game engine, CPU architecture, GPU selection and memory choices....

AMD Ryzen, Threadripper, EPYC CPU Launches Rumored For March: Include Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Threadripper PRO 5000 & EPYC Milan-X The rumor comes from Videocardz sources which have told that AMD is expected to launch CPUs from each segment in the month of March. There will be data center EPYC, consumer Ryzen, and workstation Threadripper CPUs, all launching on different dates within this month. We will know for sure soon since the first launch of the month is planned for next week....

AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ Official: World’s First 5nm CPUs Launching This Fall With Over 5 GHz & Over 15% Performance Uplift Versus Ryzen 5000 The AMD Ryzen 7000 processors will be powered by the brand new Zen 4 core architecture which is going to be a total architecture overhaul. The CPUs will retain the chiplet design along with high-core counts. AMD hasn’t confirmed anything in terms of specifications but it is stated that they will be powered by TSMC’s 5nm process node and are designed for gamers first....

AMD Ryzen 7000 Laptop CPUs & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Laptop GPUs Leak Out: Phoenix, Rembrandt-R, Barcelo-R & RTX 4050 Designs In The Works We have already seen various AMD Ryzen 7000 Mobility SKUs leak out over the past few months & now we have a confirmation from Lenovo whose specifications list of the IdeaPad Pro 5 & IdeaPad Slim have been leaked Notebookcheck. The CPUs that have been listed by the laptop manufacturer include:...