According to the latest findings from TrendForce, the global SSD market returned to normal in 2022 due to a solution to the shortage of master control ICs that had impacted the market in 2021. Despite the normalization of supply, global SSD shipments saw a decline, with only 114 million units shipped in 2022 – a 10.7% decrease from the [...]
Today, I’m doing a self-experiment: Browsing and shopping at Temu, of course with a set budget and a detailed review of all products in mind, if they all arrive. You guys triggered me recently, and so the time finally came. Ordered on 10/15/2023 and delivered on 10/24/2023, so a delivery time of 9 days. That’s acceptable for now, even [...]
Today’s article refers to the two articles already published and linked again in the footer about the unsuccessful purchase of an item declared to be in stock and the subsequent hurdles for the customer, which should actually not be any, because here the process is very clearly regulated by law. But since most customers do not know the [...]
With the growing global demand for gaming, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are both actively seeking to establish themselves in the market for “Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR)” products. These products represent a specialized type of high-performance DRAM designed specifically to meet the needs of graphics processing. A recent report [...]
Actually, everything looked so good when I recently started the big roundup of workstation graphics cards and also published the first part with all four new Radeon Pro graphics cards. The cards didn’t perform badly, on the contrary. But I already noted things during benchmarking back then that I definitely wanted to re-test. Especially [...]
MSI, as a motherboard manufacturer, has recently released the latest AMD AGESA 1.0.0.7c BIOS firmware for its AM5 motherboards. This new firmware enables some important improvements for the AM5 platform, including support for high-speed DDR5 frequencies, which were not possible before. Several memory OC records have already been set with DDR5-9000 [...]
Fan search and overview (ranking) Direct 1:1 comparison of two fans Test methods and equipment Our fan measurement chamber and claim Since there is currently no source that offers realistic and usable data even in direct comparison, we invested a lot of time and money and simply developed our own fan measurement station with the advice of a large [...]
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 [...]
Innodisk has proposed an innovative solution to implement PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs. Instead of keeping the M.2 form factor, they propose to design them as PCIe add-in cards. This would eliminate the need for oversized cooling with noisy 20mm fans, and SSD designers could instead use cooling solutions similar to those used on graphics cards. Gen 5 NVMe [...]
It’s that time again: Latency Time for eSports enthusiasts and of course those who want to become one. Besides high FPS and low – constant – frame times, latency can make the difference between victory and defeat. Everyone has to reflect on their own skill in the respective game – self-critically – because [...]
It seems that there was a brief mention on a LinkedIn profile that Zen 6 server processors might already be available. However, the existence of the entry was very short-lived, but screenshots prove that this could even be a possible leak. It is important to be extremely cautious in such cases and not jump to conclusions, as unconfirmed [...]
Sometimes unusual situations require unusual solutions. In the circle of relatives there was a momentous accident. A glass of a certain brand of cola had tipped over and the broth ran straight from the desk into the perforated PC case. Igor’s LAB rushed to the rescue and tried to save what could be saved. When I receive calls for help from [...]
This is the first update for the NVIDIA SDK since version 2.4.0 was released in March 2022. It includes some new features and an updated guide for developers who want to enable DLSS in their games. The NVIDIA DLSS development team has provided new samples for Linux and Windows applications, as well as a new precompiled DLSS library that can now be [...]
GALAX enters the gaming display market with the announcement of its new 27-inch gaming monitor. The monitor features a high-resolution quantum dot-in-plane switching display with a refresh rate of up to 165 Hz and an MPRT response time of 1 ms. The new display is the first gaming display in the VIVANCE series to have NVIDIA G-Sync certification [...]
The final driver for the integrated RDNA3 graphics is probably still a few weeks away. Nevertheless, some preliminary results on the Bilibili platform with the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor, codenamed Phoenix, have now been published. This processor type features the latest AMD architectures like the Zen4 CPU with 8 cores and RDNA3 for graphics [...]
YuuKi was one of the first to publish Intel’s Sapphire Rapids engineering samples. No photos of the Sierra Forest processor have been released, but a photo of the new socket design has surfaced. However, it does not show the socket itself, but a protective cover with the inscription LGA-7529, which indicates a higher pin count than Sapphire [...]
Colorful was the first to submit a factory overclocked RTX 4070 non-Ti graphics card to the GPU-Z validation database, which is presumably the source for this information. This could mean that the card is already running in the labs and is now being tested with non-standard clocks. Allegedly, the RTX 4070 has a base clock of 1920 MHz and a boost [...]
Soon the Arc Control software, which is now integrated in the graphics drivers for all Arc Alchemist GPUs and Iris Xe graphics cards (although it is optional), will receive an overdue update. According to Linus Sebastian, the update will affect the software’s display. It will no longer be (just) an overlay, which was the main reason why the [...]
By using the GPU to decompress game content, Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology can certainly improve load times. Could, at least in theory. Consequently, the more data that is then processed via the GPU, the more likely it is that gamers will notice a loss of graphics performance. The German PC Games Hardware team demonstrated just that [...]
Gainward was the first company to directly confirm the new variant of the AD103 GPUs, with MSI, Galax/KFA2 and Colorful also confirming this chip internally when asked by igor’sLAB. An updated chip, now called AD103-301, does not bring any changes for the end users, but can help board partners to simplify the board layout a bit, save space [...]
