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 [...]
I wrote today’s article less than a year ago, so it’s not really “retro” yet, but somehow it’s time to bring it back up in this section on Saturday. I receive so many letters and enquiries on the subject that I think this article simply deserves to be here, and it certainly takes some of the pressure off me because I [...]
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 [...]
Even 10 years ago, I was already taking apart graphics cards and looking for causes of anomalies. At that time, of course, I still wrote in “we” form, because the big editorial offices almost always demand the subordination of one’s own ego to the conformist mass of employees. Just in case anyone was wondering, that was the way [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since people keep asking: Today’s test will once again show in measurement series how to properly apply a purpose-built thermal paste on large GPUs. The selection of a suitable paste and the appropriate method determine success or failure. And I’m not just making this up as I go along, because much of what is shown here in a manual [...]
Hardware leaker All_The_Watts!! has published alleged benchmark results of AMD’s upcoming performance mainstream RDNA 3-based graphics cards Radeon RX 7700 and Radeon RX 7800 in 3DMark Time Spy. The performance numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, but for what it’s worth, both products show comparable performance compared to [...]
Lenovo presents the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card in a mini-ITX form factor. The card will initially be available in the company’s PCs, but could possibly also be available in retail stores, as is often the case with Lenovo graphics cards. Lenovo’s GeForce RTX 4060 mini graphics card is a typical mini-ITX graphics card with a length [...]
The Raptor Lake refresh is expected to arrive this year as the 14th CPU generation for the desktop. But the real successor, Arrow Lake-S for desktop, is also increasingly materializing along with the new 800 series chipset, which again brings a new processor socket, of which I will soon publish the exact details including the drawings and data [...]
Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake processors are expected to feature an all-new iGPU based on the Arc Alchemist Xe-LPG IP. It is also expected that this GPU will be an important component of the chip and will have excellent graphics and computing capabilities compared to the previous generation Iris Xe chips. According to the information provided [...]
We saw that the GeForce RTX 4060 8GB, including a non-functioning telemetry, consumes much more power in reality in the launch tests and with overclocking. Instead of the promised maximum power consumption of 115 watts in the spec sheet and a typical gaming value of 110 watts, it was a whopping 132 watts in some games and the average was still far [...]
Sometimes you are blind or just don’t look closely enough. This surprises me, frankly, with the mass of reviewers, but then again, I wasn’t any better. After having examined some headers of the Founders Editions from the current Ada series more closely, I noticed something interesting. Since the GeForce RTX 4070 FE, NVIDIA has already [...]
ASUS has presented an interesting concept where they want to use the potential of unused PCIe lanes inside a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card. Tony Yu, the General Manager of ASUS, has presented the idea of integrating a true Gen 4 M.2 SSD slot right next to the GPU on the same board. For this innovation, a Samsung 980 PRO 2TB SSD was used and [...]
ASUS has set a new world record with its upcoming GeForce RTX 4090 ROG MATRIX by overclocking the graphics card to an impressive GPU clock of 3.94 GHz. The GeForce RTX 4090 ROG MATRIX was unveiled during Computex 2023 and is the top-of-the-line NVIDIA GPU from ASUS. The graphics card features an advanced AIO liquid cooler with TIM liquid [...]
The king is dead, long live the king. Or the other way around: The findings of the last few months are finally taken seriously and the connector is modified, work is done on a new standardization and tests are carried out ad nauseam. The product is given a new name, although in the end it is only a further development that should have been [...]
During the announcement of its financial results for the third quarter of 2023, Micron shared information about the latest developments in various DRAM and memory products, including the future GDDR7 memory for graphics applications. The company said that it is working hard on the next generation of GDDR7 memory and that it is expected to be [...]
Yesterday we had the review of the MSRP cards, and today we mere mortals finally get to test the somewhat better cards. The fact that there was still a lot of room for improvement, without the test object having to drink itself to a cripple, shows once again that the “entry-level” models, which are sewn to the edge, should once again [...]
Coffee fund was yesterday, today we have the pun fund. And to be honest, I’m exhausted. Not destroyed, but mentally and physically drained. When you compare the effort of the past seven days to what has been achieved and, above all, who has been reached and how, you just want to turn over and go back to sleep. Whether the card tested [...]
