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 [...]


Computex 2023 – News at MSI and an annoying data glitch

Before we bring another launch article today around 8 am (so please check back), I’ll quickly close the gap of my Computex coverage. I had already put some videos online, but unfortunately the very first video from the MSI booth is missing, as the infrastructure had set me a nasty trap. Since I had scheduled everything floor and row by row [...]


Computex gleaning and a not so nice post-test including a sick note

Catch me if you can? Congratulations to Computex 2023! Based on the unfortunately positive feedback from many colleagues, it almost seems as if the global tech event has not only presented the latest innovations in the industry, but also established itself as a superior competitor in the field of “superspreader events”. A heartfelt [...]


Innodisk has the right idea for Gen 5 SSDs to make them passively coolable

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 [...]


AMD’s EPYC Rome chips fail after 1,044 days of operation

AMD’s latest processor revision guide for the EPYC 7002 “Rome” server chips reveals an interesting errata that could lead to a potential core freeze. After about 1,044 days (~2.93 years) of operation, a core could get stuck on the chip, requiring a server reboot to get the chip working properly again. AMD has stated that they [...]


NVIDIA RTX 3070 with 16GB? GXORE shows how it works

NVIDIA’s RTX 3070 GPU has been introduced in several variants, but the official memory configuration is limited to 8 GB GDDR6. Interestingly, it is possible to modify the card to support double the amount of memory expansion relatively easily. However, this requires custom modifications, as we have seen several times before. Recently, it was [...]


Computex 2023 – Day two with even more videos and interesting visits

Computex 2023 is definitely an event not to be missed, so let’s take a look at some moments from this legendary tech show. First of all, yes, there was the return of physical presence, with some of the exhibitors seemingly forgetting how to do such a thing in the first place. You’d have thought they were organizing a home-office zoom [...]


Computex 2023 – Day one with many videos and faces

After four years of forced isolation, Computex is bursting at the seams this time. We haven’t seen each other for so long, and everyone wants to talk about the past years as extensively as possible. This can be quite exhausting, because I had 15 appointments yesterday, which I could work off all on time despite various incidents. Sometimes [...]


Not again: Intel ‘Core Ultra 7’ Meteor Lake CPU spotted.

A mobile chip from Intel has once again been discovered that is part of the Meteor Lake series and has the suffix “Ultra” in its name. This confirms earlier leaks and rumors that Intel is deviating from its traditional Core naming format. The processor, originally known as the Core i7, has been replaced with the Intel Core Ultra 7 [...]