Category - GPUs

AMD Radeon PRO W7700: New graphics card for content creation, CAD and AI

The AMD Radeon™ PRO W7700 graphics card is a professional graphics accelerator that aims to set a standard with a price of around 950 EURO. According to AMD, it offers an impressive double-digit performance increase in key professional applications compared to the competition and a perfect combination of reliability, stability and exceptional [...]


NVIDIA CMP GPUs: Not suitable for gaming – YouTuber explains why

The CMP 50HX GPU from NVIDIA, which was originally developed for crypto mining, has now been converted into a gaming card. However, its performance is not particularly impressive. Due to limited PCIe lanes and a lack of driver support, NVIDIA’s CMP “crypto” GPUs are woefully unsuitable for gaming. The CMP range was introduced in [...]


Smoldering Headers on NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 – New Insights, Measurements and (Un)known Causes of the 12VHPWR and 12V-2×6 Issue | Update

Today’s article is the result of several months of laboratory work, extensive measurement series, development work, and constant cross-checking. The matter of the 12-volt connectors is unfortunately so complex that I had to look for a new approach to complete the picture. And no, there isn’t THE one cause, but always a causal chain of [...]


Alan Wake 2 Game Review – A very personal counterproposal to the hype train, where only the benchmarks are objective because they have to be

It’s been a long time coming, but after a whole decade, Alan Wake has finally passed the torch to a worthy successor, since the remake doesn’t really cut the mustard. And now, drum roll please, he’s back in the saddle! Every newsroom is over the moon and singing the game’s praises. But to steer clear of the Alan Wake 2 hype [...]


NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER: HWiNFO supports new GPU with preliminary data

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU appears to have early support from the popular HWiNFO diagnostic program. HWiNFO has now added support for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU, while at the same time rumors and leaks are increasing. That’s because reports of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 “SUPER” family of GPUs have [...]


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER: AD103 GPU discovered

The possible existence of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GPU may have been confirmed by the PCI ID repository. TechpowerUp’s GPU database editor, T4CFantasy, has added new PCI IDs that could point to exactly this GPU variant. One of the new device IDs, “2703”, could refer to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER, which has been the [...]


AMD removes anti-lag in all games

AMD has withdrawn support for Anti-Lag in all supported games due to reports of incidents and bans caused by anti-cheat software and game crashes. In their latest driver, Adrenalin 23.10.2, the Anti-Lag feature has been disabled. It was confirmed that Anti-Lag was the main reason for lockups in popular eSports titles like Counter-Strike 2. Other [...]


New PCI IDs in Intel’s Linux drivers point to an Arc Alchemist refresh

Is Intel possibly planning an update of its Arc Alchemist GPUs? For example, new PCI IDs were recently added to the current Linux driver, which could well indicate a future update. The current lineup includes five products: Arc A770, Arc A750, Arc A580, Arc A380 and Arc A310. All of these GPUs use the Alchemist GPU architecture (ACM-G10 / ACM-G11 [...]