Security advisory published for ASUS router products

If you own one of the newer ASUS router models, ASUS strongly recommends updating the firmware to the latest version. A number of critical vulnerabilities have been identified, including the two most serious ones labeled CVE-2022-26376 and CVE-2018-1160. These vulnerabilities are rated 9.8 on a scale of 1 to 10. However, if you are using third [...]


Ryzen 7 5700 without integrated graphics: Cezanne lives on

AMD’s Zen 4 processors are powerful and can easily compete with the leading CPUs on the market. Nevertheless, AMD has not given up on Zen 3 development. According to VideoCardz, Gigabyte has listed a previously unannounced Zen 3 chip from the Ryzen 5000G (Cezanne) era. The Ryzen 7 5700 is an octa-core processor with 16 threads, a [...]


NVIDIA capitalizes, but TSMC controls production of AI processors

While the whole world admires Nvidia for its market capitalization of over $1 trillion at the beginning of the year and praises the company for its prominent positioning in the megatrends of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), there is another company that both benefits significantly from these megatrends and has [...]


NVIDIA allegedly interested in SK Hynix HBM3E memory

According to DigiTimes, it is reported that Nvidia is interested in evaluating SK Hynix’s HBM3E samples, as indicated by “industry insiders.” If this information is accurate, the next generation of Nvidia GPUs for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing applications could potentially use HBM3E memory instead of [...]


The never-ending story: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 and the 12VHPWR connector – New data from CableMod and open questions

The problems around this connection do not stop, but exact numbers about real cases of damage are always rare. Even lists in social networks, forums, or collective threads on Reddit do not accurately reflect the real damage that has occurred. The number of people who do not speak out publicly could be much higher. Unfortunately, retailers and [...]


The RTX 4090 only just misses the 4 GHz limit by 70 MHz

The PC community is known for its ability to push hardware performance to ever new peaks. The days there was an impressive benchmark from a user called CENS on HWbot. CENS managed to overclock an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU to an amazing 3,930 MHz. This graphics card, which is one of the absolute top models, already has a boost clock of 2,520 MHz [...]


AMD EPYC 9754: In the benchmark, a single Bergamo is supposed to be 42% faster than two Sapphire Rapids chips

AMD officially presented its new EPYC Bergamo CPUs, which are equipped with the Zen 4C CPU cores. Thanks to this potent core architecture, AMD can achieve an impressive doubling of core density compared to the conventional Genoa chips. This allows the Bergamo CPUs to support up to 128 cores and 256 threads, a 33.3% increase over the standard Zen 4 [...]


Apple’s M2 Ultra SoC – No faster than last year’s desktop CPUs from AMD and Intel and slower than an NVIDIA RTX 4080.

The Apple M2 Ultra SoC represents the company’s top model. With an impressive number of 134 billion transistors, it offers outstanding performance. The CPU consists of a total of 24 cores, which operate in a configuration of 16 (for maximum performance) and 8 (for optimal efficiency). In addition, the SoC has up to 76 GPU cores and a unified [...]


NVIDIA BETA driver provides significant performance boost for SSDs in DirectStorage 1.2, Gen5 up to 50% faster than Gen4

Compusemble recently released a new video using the DirectStorage GPU Decompression benchmark. This video highlights the benefits of a Gen5 SSD compared to a Gen4 SSD and shows how current performance is optimized by the latest version of the API, which is used in conjunction with optimized NVIDIA GPU drivers. The NVIDIA driver, version 535.50 [...]