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Restructuring at Intel: Arc Graphics will now be part of Client Computing Group as Raja Koduri becomes Chief Architect once again Raja recently announced on Twitter that he was going through extensive health problems so this move seems to be designed to reduce the amount of direct engineering burden on him while he goes through the recovery process after his surgery. Knowing full well what our audience will ask keeping mind recent rumors, Intel has confirmed that this is just a restructure and they will remain absolutely committed to Battlemage and Celestial with Raja still being responsible for the overall direction and roadmap of the architectures....

However, what’s important to know is that the phones are still not available for sale. Sure, you can preorder them right now, but the deliveries do not start until September 16, later this month and of course, these delivery dates can vary based on the region. Can’t Wait for Your iPhone 14 Pro? Someone in China Already Has Their Hands on It That brings us to the fact that someone in China not only got their hands on the iPhone 14 Pro Max but also made an entire hands-on video showing the phone from all angles....

The Khronos Group rolls out Vulkan Video after almost two years of the API in beta The new Vulkan Video 1.0 extensions — four primary extensions — are now available. The new new extensions are as follows: VK_KHR_video_queue: standard APIs for all video coding operations. VK_KHR_video_decode_queue: standard APIs for all video decode operations. VK_KHR_video_decode_h264: H.264 decode-specific capabilities and parameters. VK_KHR_video_decode_h265: H.265 decode-specific capabilities and parameters. The last two video decoder extensions, H....

Defined as a K-Zombie action RPG, the game is being developed for PC and mobile platforms. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement press release. Staying true to the beloved Netflix series, Kingdom: The Blood recreates characters, zombies and vicious action from the show in high-quality 3D graphics. Korean culture is treated with the utmost care in both gameplay and aesthetic. Motion capture was recorded using a professional Korean sword dancer to perfectly replicate deadly Korean-style combat....

Knack: https://t.co/7VbxIEo2OA Stacky Basket: https://t.co/ZMd3vOkvPy pic.twitter.com/Thg8i9naF3 — Gematsu (@gematsu) March 28, 2022 Now, as always, the filing of a new trademark could mean various things. Perhaps Sony is looking to revive the series, or maybe they’re simply planning to re-release the original games. If a Knack 3 is in the works, it will be interesting to see who’s making it, as original developer Sony Japan Studio has been disbanded. The new Knack trademark comes amid rumors of a big week for PlayStation fans....

Intel Boosts Arc DX9 Game Performance By Up To 2.3 Times With Latest GPU Drivers, More Ahead! In its latest blog, Intel has shown us the performance comparison between its latest Arc driver suite (v3959) and how it compares with the previous driver suite from October (v3490). Intel used the Arc A770, its flagship graphics card based on the Alchemist GPU architecture, for testing and the results are simply spectacular. According to Intel, the latest drivers are designed specifically to boost performance in DX9 (DirectX 9) games....

Released worldwide on April 5th for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One, Warner Bros. Games, and TT Games latest entry in the LEGO series has smashed previous sales records of the franchise. “The latest LEGO Star Wars title featuring all nine Skywalker saga films in one brand new game has surpassed all previous LEGO console game launches”, the official press release from WB Games reads....

2022 iPhone SE Retail Box Contents Include the iPhone itself, USB-C to Lightning Cable, No Charger The trend of removing chargers from the retail packaging continues and the iPhone SE 2022 ships without a USB charger in the box. However, if you do plan on buying this new phone from Apple, then you will be pleased to learn that it does ship with a USB-C to Lightning cable this time around which is not a bad inclusion at all, except that you lose on the USB-C charger completely....

AMD & NVIDIA Prepare For A More Brutal Round of GPU Price Cuts For September To Clear Away Inventories Fast The latest report comes from MyDrivers who are quoting industry sources within Taiwan and a major Taiwanese Economic news outlet. It is stated that the current round of price cuts hasn’t moved inventory in a way that AMD & NVIDIA plus their partners hoped for. As such, a second round of price cuts is underway, one which will exceed the price drops we have seen so far on current-gen GPUs....

AMD EPYC Genoa 9000 CPU With Zen 4 Cores & SP5 Socket With Heatsink Pictured - Big, Badass, and Blazing Fast Server Chip The AMD EPYC Genoa 9000 CPUs feature support for new memory and new capabilities. In the most recent details from the company, reports state that the SP5 platform will also introduce a brand new socket, featuring a massive 6096 pins arranged in the LGA socket format. This processor will be AMD’s most significant socket design, adding 2002 pins more than the current LGA 4094 socket set....

Linux sees further assistance for Valve’s Gamesope with the inclusion of AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution for high-end gaming in the open-source operating system. Valve’s Gamescope was created from Valve’s SteamOS Compositor (file name “steamcompmgr”) as a micro-compositor that supplies the most satisfactory gaming performance with the Wayland setting. This process incorporates operating as a nested compositor on a standard Linux desktop. Gamescope is already supporting the integration of integer scaling and other components and will include AMD FSR in its already robust settings....

AMD’s next-generation MCM-based RDNA3 NAVI 31 GPU spotted in changelog: is a GPU revolution coming? It looks like AMD is mostly ready to turn the tides on the GPU industry by introducing its next-generation MCM-based RDNA3 architecture - which will debut in the Navi 31 GPU. All the leaks so far have pointed to there being at least 1 SKU with two chiplets on board and considering AMD has already been highly successful with this strategy on the CPU front - there is no reason why they won’t be able to do the same with GPUs - which are already far more parrallelize-able than CPUs....

Top Overclocker Shows AMD Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” Desktop CPU Running DDR5-6400 Memory The latest or should we say “Alleged” leak comes from TOPPC who is a world-class and renowned overclocker hailing from Taiwan. The overclocker has posted a screenshot of a CPU-z from an alleged AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPU platform that was running DDR5 memory with a 6400 Mbps transfer rate. That’s a DRAM frequency of 3202.7 (6405.4 Mbps effective)....

AMD Ryzen 7000 Non-X CPU Family Leak: Ryzen 9 7900 For $429, Ryzen 7 7700 For $329, Ryzen 5 7600 For $229 The AMD Ryzen 7000 Non-X CPU lineup is no mystery, we have seen specifications and prices of these processors leak out in previous leaks but the latest slide deck that comes from Videocardz not only confirms those but also the chips these Zen 4 parts will be competing against....

AMD’s Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Zen 4 CPU Beats The Core i9-12900K Alder Lake 16-Core Flagship Update: The latest score has been added which improves the ST performance by 35% and multi-threaded performance by up to 45% versus the Ryzen 9 5900X. The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, which as the name suggests, would come equipped with 12 cores and 24 threads. The CPU comes with an even higher base clock of 4....

First, let’s look at CCDs in general. The CPU complex dies, also called the “core complex/compute die,” comprises up to eight CPU cores in each CCD. A CCD carries two CCXs, or complex core clusters, merged using the Infinity Fabric Interconnect. The Infinity Fabric Interconnect uses sensors to scale control and data flow, which was first introduced in the AMD Rome CPUs. On the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, there are a total of 2 Zen 4 CCDs....

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X “Zen 4” CPU with AVX-512 support preferred for PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 The newest processor from AMD surpasses the competition, including rival Intel. Additionally, RPCS3 attained AVX-512 support just a few days ago which we reported here. Luckily for the open-source emulator, AMD’s latest Zen 4 microarchitecture supports AVX-512 instructions. In RPCS3, AVX-512 support obtains a thirty percent improvement on performance, gaining the new AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, the most influential processor to assist with emulating the PS3 environment....

AMD Ryzen 5000 & Ryzen 4000 AM4 Mainstream Desktop CPUs To Hit Store Shelves Next Month, Here Are The Exact Availability Dates In our last post, we reported the specs, prices, and configurations that these new AMD Ryzen 5000 & Ryzen 4000 AM4 Desktop CPUs will be packing with themselves. The whole point of the new line is to offer more options to mainstream users who haven’t had anything new since Zen 3 launched....

Anker’s PowerPort III Pod Lite is a 65W USB-C Charger that Tops up Everything at Full Speed, Save $6 on it Without Doing Anything at All It’s amazing to see pretty much every device transitioning to USB-C for charging. This includes phones, tablets, cameras, laptops and more. If you are looking for the one and only charger to top everything up at full speed then Anker has a deal for you which you cannot resist....

AGON by AOC launches high performance, QHD, 240 Hz, HDR1000 gaming display AGON PRO AG274QZM Press Release: AGON by AOC – one of the world’s leading gaming monitor and IT accessories brands – announces the 27” (68.58 cm) AGON PRO AG274QZM, a super-fast 240 Hz gaming monitor with QHD resolution and a breath-taking MiniLED IPS panel. The AG274QZM beautifully matches the punchy and accurate colors of the IPS panel with a MiniLED backlight that has 576 dimming zones....