Although many see the PCI SIG as the originator of the ill-fated 12VHPWR or 12V2x6 connector, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) is an industry-wide non-profit organization founded in 1992. Its members consist of hundreds of companies from the computer and electronics industry who work together to develop and promote standards for peripheral [...]
The company AAEON has presented its new Intel graphics card, based on Intel’s Arc A 770 GPU architecture. This is the next player after Biostar to enter the market with Intel graphics solutions. AAEON, an industrial PC company, has unveiled its new GRA-A770, which contains some interesting technical details. It measures 99 mm x 291 mm x 44 [...]
The two new GPUs, based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, offer real-time ray tracing and support for generative AI tools on any workstation. The integration of AI into design and productivity applications is not only en vogue right now, but is continuously becoming the new standard and increasing the demand for more and more specialized [...]
Sapphire had already launched a white Radeon RX 7900GRE Pure 16GB shortly after the launch of the GRE in Germany, which I will test again today. Now that availability, prices and drivers have stabilized somewhat, today’s test was practically a must. Firstly, this GRE card lacks the drinker gene, as was the case with the Nitro, and secondly [...]
ASUS presented two new monitors from its Pro Art Display series at the NAB 2024 trade fair, which may be of interest to some. The first of these is the ProArt Display PA32KCX, which measures 7680 x 4320, i.e. 32 inches with 8K picture quality. This is said to be the world’s first professional 8K mini LED monitor. The average ΔE value is said [...]
In a significant move to strengthen Linux support for future graphics products, AMD has integrated major updates for its RDNA 4 and RDNA 3 GPUs into the latest Linux graphics drivers, reports Phoronix. These updates bring both performance enhancements and new features, laying the foundation for optimal support of the next generation of AMD [...]
Yes yes, the Philips EVNIA 34M2C8600. A name that goes down the gullet like liquid sunlight. All joking aside! The Philips offers the same first-generation Samsung QD-OLED panel that Alienware, MSI and Samsung themselves also have in their range. So we get a 3440 x 1440p ultrawide monitor with 175 Hz refresh rate and 1800R Curved. It also comes [...]
Gaming has become an important part of life for many people. Be it on a PC, console or cell phone. Everyone has something they like to spend their time with. Many developers go to great lengths to offer their customers something. However, there are also illegal ways to push their games, for example. This is precisely why the Japanese company KOEI [...]
The MESA RADV Vulkan driver makes it possible: Hardware-accelerated H.264/H.265 encoding for AMD GPUs brings smooth video streaming and faster content creation, according to our colleagues at Phoronix. Fast H.264/H.265 encoding with RADV under Linux MESA’s open source RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs has received a significant update that [...]
Don’t touch it! Anyone who works with a multi-monitor setup or has had the pleasure of setting one up will be familiar with the situation – once you’ve accidentally touched it, days of adjustment are a waste of time. Read on to find out how to prevent this situation. When I was asked some time ago whether I had the time and [...]
But it’s about time there were 32-inch monitors with OLED panels – or what do you think? Today we take a closer look at the ASUS ROG Swift PG32UCDM. A monitor in 16:9 format with a resolution of 3840 x 2160p and a refresh rate of up to 240 Hz. The built-in panel comes from Samsung Display, a 3rd generation QD-OLED panel with a slightly [...]
Just a while ago, there was a test between Intel’s Gaudi 2 and NVIDIA’s H100 accelerator. Now the latest generation, Gaudi 3, has been presented, which is even better than its predecessor. Gaudi 3 is equipped with the latest, i.e. 5th generation of the Tensor Core series with a structure width of 5 nm. Gaudi 3 contains 64 cores and is [...]
According to various media, including our colleagues at Computerbase, Intel’s next generation of Arc graphics cards, which are based on the Battlemage “Xe2” architecture, are about to be launched on the market. According to a report by Computerbase, Intel is planning to launch the new GPUs at the end of 2024, shortly before Black [...]
The next generation of NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards is already in the starting blocks and according to rumors, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2024. The new GPUs are based on the Blackwell architecture, which combines Nvidia’s latest innovations in graphics performance and energy efficiency. The [...]
This time it was Asus and the ears of the buyer, who had purchased an Asus RTX 4080 TUF Gaming just over a year ago. Why did I even bother with the root cause research and repair? As always, it’s a bit down to my curiosity and the fact that I find it hard to say no in justified damage situations once something has triggered me. The affected [...]
Spring has arrived and the first cherry blossoms are showing their leaves. Cherry blossom petals are particularly eye-catching due to their white-pink color and for this reason PowerColor has introduced a new Hellhound Radeon RX 7800 XT, which has been designed entirely in the sakura style. Sakura is a Japanese word and means cherry blossom. But [...]
The unexpected often happens. And perhaps an Asian graphics card manufacturer is returning to the German market, which has scored highly in the past with interesting graphics card conversions. In addition to all the gaming products, where this manufacturer has made quite a splash in Asia in recent years with its exuberant coolers and add-ons, it [...]
The PCI-SIG company announced in a new update that it is continuing to work on its new PCIe 7.0 generation and has now revealed further details about its work and development. PCI-SIG is the company responsible for the entire PCIe generations and is therefore the brains behind the whole thing. Since the announcement at the US DevCon in June 2022 [...]
AMD has announced that it will release parts of its ROCm software stack and hardware documentation as open source in a future update. This is in response to community feedback requesting improvements to software and AI support for Radeon GPUs. In the past, AMD has been criticized for the lack of software support for ROCm. Companies such as The [...]
New information on the upcoming AMD RDNA 4 “Radeon RX 8000” GPUs and their performance placement has been published by Twitter user @All_The_Watts. According to this, the GPUs will comprise two different chipsets: the top-of-the-range Navi 48 chip and the mid-range Navi 44 chip. The Navi 48 chip is said to be slightly slower than the [...]
