Unfortunately, Intel only provided us with the latest information late yesterday evening and I was still busy in the lab with the Radeon Pro W7600 at that time and fully booked this morning. Nevertheless, I took the time and summarized the most important things from the recording for you. Basically, it’s a really noteworthy driver update [...]
Significant increase in speed: NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver with new caching function
ASRock and Biostar announce support for AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” support for their AM5 motherboards
Unreal Engine 5.4: Smooth 60fps gaming and lightning-fast shader compilation
Lenovo presents its new ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 with LPCAMM2 memory
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If you were to continuously look at the development of Intel’s temporary upscaling technology, known as XeSS, you could definitely see noticeable progress. Apparently, a new version was recently released in conjunction with the current Software Development Kit (SDK). It can be assumed that this update contains a freshly revised libxess.dll [...]
Courage for the gap! Why nothing is sometimes more than normal and everything somehow needs its time
Actually, after almost 2 weeks of endless benchmarks and the first roundup of the new workstation graphics cards, I wanted to quickly cover the new Radeon Pro W7000 series as a separate article and draw a preliminary line before the next cards. So, the four new cards with beautiful, unique product images (which I’ve already done) and all the [...]
Who hasn’t experienced this, one year after purchase, you take a first look at the condition of the battery and believe that everything is in perfect order. Fiddlesticks! Even though the current iPhone 14 is in the headlines because of its battery, today’s example within the family shows that excessive use of things like YouTube [...]
News from SIGGRAPH 2023: NVIDIA and leading manufacturers showcase powerful RTX workstations for the era of AI and digital creativity.These powerful computers are ideal companions for creating AI applications and digital artwork. BOXX, Dell Technologies, HP and Lenovo showcased their high-tech systems here, based on NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation [...]
The latest version 1.01 of the MoreClockTool is online. With the use of the AMD Device Library eXtra Software Development Kit (ADLX SDK) RDNA3 is now also included. For older cards we still recommend the MorePowerTool MPT and the use of alternative drivers, which can be found e.g. as “resurrected” Omega drivers at . The new MCT offers [...]
The next generation APU, internally called “Strix”, will be based on a 4-nanometer process. This process promises a balanced combination of performance and energy efficiency. The APU is aimed equally at professional users and those looking for sophisticated entertainment experiences. One particularly notable feature of the [...]
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 was released this morning as the latest update for AMD’s official open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver. This represents the first update since mid-June and brings several new features and improvements. One of the significant changes in AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 is the integration of support for Phoenix APUs. This will enable smooth [...]
The French company nPerf, based in Lyon, has a worldwide server network that is also optimized to measure your connection speed precisely. We have included the GUI ourselves on our homepage and have been using this service for our readers for years. Today’s study is based on tests conducted by users of the nPerf mobile app, which is [...]
Intel’s 14th generation Raptor Lake Refresh processors are already scratching their hooves and it should certainly not be very long before Intel releases its new chips. The Core i9-14900K is a processor with 24 cores and 32 threads, which contains eight P-cores and 16 E-cores. It serves as a direct replacement for Intel’s Core i9 [...]
This news is based on a press release from Epomaker and thus does not represent a test. However, the whole thing could be interesting, because the Epomaker Shadow-X mechanical keyboard presents a quite innovative technology. With high-quality mechanical switches, it offers precise typing and durability. The modern design combines form and [...]
Today Bruce takes on the nasty weather and makes sure everyone is back in full contact. US Engineering FTW…
AMD hat kürzlich die Instinct MI300 Serie vorgestellt, eine Kombination aus CDNA3 und Zen4 Architekturen. Ein herausragendes Modell dieser Serie ist der MI300X, ein reiner GPU-Beschleuniger mit 192 GB HBM3-Speicher, der speziell für große Sprachmodelle (LLMs) entwickelt wurde, die eine hohe Speicherkapazität und Bandbreite erfordern. Und wir [...]
If the best solid state drives (SSDs) can’t meet the need for ultra-fast storage, it might be worth considering trying HighPoint’s latest RocketAIC card. This enterprise-class PCIe 4.0 add-in card (AIC) is designed for reliability and longevity, according to the manufacturer. The RocketAIC is offered with up to 122 TB of storage [...]
AMD today announced two new professional graphics cards, the Radeon Pro W7600 and Radeon Pro W7500. Both cards are based on the new RDNA 3 architecture and offer a range of features that make them suitable for a variety of professional applications. AMD thus rounds off the product family at the bottom. A Radeon W7700 has not yet been colped [...]
AMD is currently developing two new professional graphics cards based on the RDNA 3 architecture: the Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500. These graphics cards have a memory capacity of 8 GB and are specifically designed for entry-level professionals. So far, AMD has served the high-end professional market with the Radeon Pro W7900 and W7800 RDNA 3 GPUs [...]
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 [...]
It has been repeatedly rumored that AMD’s Radeon drivers have a long and not always stable history in terms of reliability and performance issues. Nevertheless, this seems to be happening less frequently as mature and stable driver releases (with certain exceptions) seem to be becoming the norm for Team Red. The assumption that AMD drivers [...]
AMD’s HIP SDK is now part of the ROCm ecosystem and provides support for CUDA on professional and consumer GPUs. AMD’s HIP SDK is an open source solution in the ROCm ecosystem designed to easily port CUDA applications to consumer and professional GPUs. Today’s launch of the HIP SDK enables the porting of a CUDA application to a [...]
One potential downside to technological development is environmental sustainability. Each year, large quantities of discarded electronic materials could be improperly disposed of, missing opportunities to recover rare precious metals and risking ecological damage. To help curb the growing amount of electronic waste, semiconductor and printed [...]