Anyone hoping for a leap in performance for the integrated GPUs of the next APU generation can immediately lower their expectations. According to the latest GPUOpen drivers, AMD will continue to rely on RDNA 3.5 for the Medusa Point APUs and reserve RDNA 4 exclusively for dedicated GPUs. Sounds pragmatic, but also a little uninspired. RDNA 4? Only [...]
With the ROG XG Mobile 2025, ASUS is launching a new version of its external GPU dock – this time with a GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile. Sounds impressive, but as always with such high-end products, the question arises: Is this still innovation or just an expensive gimmick? Technical specifications – numbers that dazzle The latest XG Mobile [...]
The Blackview Hero 10 is a smartphone that is characterized by its robust design and functional hardware at an acceptable price. And a big mouth. In this review, we look at various aspects of the device, including design, display, performance, camera, software, battery life and more. In this case, clamshell doesn’t mean rickety, as a small [...]
Even though today is primarily about the Insta360 Flow, I also have to explain in detail why I now bitterly regret buying the DJI Osmo Mobile 6 and have found a much better alternative for my purpose. I bought the DJI gimbal for Computex last year and cursed it the day after I bought the microphone. Along with all the influencing YouTubers, none [...]
When normal sales are no longer enough, companies naturally like to look for other lucrative sources of income. Today’s article will show you how this can easily be done and proves once again that companies like Asus or Samsung are just the tip of the iceberg that can cause your wallet to sink with a big crash. Let’s say you have a [...]
Once upon a time in the vast expanses of digital Asgard, the mighty Odin, the All-Father of the Gods, was looking for a new challenge. After centuries of fighting, writing poetry and occasionally losing his eye, Odin found that life in Asgard had become a little… well, boring. “What good are all these runes and ravens if I can’t [...]
The AMD Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” SKUs will be launched as an update to the current Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” family. The Phoenix APUs are still very popular and AMD plans to update them first before launching the larger upgrades in the form of the Strix Ryzen 8050 series in mid-2024. The Hawk Point APUs will continue to utilize [...]
AMD recently introduced the Ryzen 3 7440U “Phoenix” APU, the only Zen 4 quad-core chip released so far. The first benchmarks of the processor have now surfaced on Geekbench and show quite promising results. The Ryzen 3 7440U is the entry-level Phoenix APU in the Ryzen 7040 stack and features 4 Zen 4 cores, 8 threads, a base clock of 3 [...]
Anyone who buys from Amazon Marketplace generally knows the risk they are getting into with third-party retailers, because Amazon is then only a sales platform, but not the seller. That is at least sufficiently transparent. Galaxus, on the other hand, has refined the whole thing gallantly and if you try price search engines, you will find the [...]
Who would have thought that after all these years, Apple still hasn’t figured out how to produce enough phones to meet demand? It’s almost as if they’re doing it on purpose to increase excitement. Or maybe it’s a new marketing ploy: “Make it as rare as a unicorn, and the misguided lemmings will want it more!” [...]
In a small country beyond the seven beer seas and seven bratwurst mountains, the excitement was once again palpable. The iPhone 15 (Pro Max) had been announced with much fanfare in a nicely done live stream, and members of the illustrious Apple cult could hardly wait to warm their hands on it, given the rising gas prices and the looming harsh [...]
A pre-production model of the new iPhone 15 was subjected to the Geekbench 6.2 benchmark earlier this week. The device ran iOS 17.0 and had the Logic Board name “D83AP”. The A17 Pro chipset, which is built into the iPhone 16.1, is the industry’s first “3nm” chip. Apple has set high goals for this chip, promising [...]
The world of power banks is truly an adventure in its own right. When you look at the shelves in electronics stores and all the online offers, one might think that they are all gallantly growing in competition with each other. They come in all sizes, colors, and shapes, as if they were part of a power bank fashion show. But there’s a catch [...]
The A17 Pro introduces hardware ray tracing in a new GPU, and console-quality games have been announced for the phone. Apple’s A17 Pro chip brings console gaming to the smartphone. Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max will get the first 3-nanometer chip, the A17 Pro. The A17 Pro has 19 billion transistors and a 6-core CPU with [...]
Intels 18-A-Prozess könnte ARM zum Durchbruch im mobilen Markt verhelfen. Intels neueste Prozesstechnologie, der 18-A-Prozess, hat das Interesse der Branche geweckt. Analysten gehen davon aus, dass ARM einer der ersten Kunden sein könnte, der den Prozess nutzt. Dies könnte ARM dabei helfen, Marktanteile im mobilen Markt zu gewinnen, da der 18-A [...]
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 [...]
I rarely test any smartphones, unless it is for personal use. The Doogee V30 presented today is ultimately the upgrade to the already tested Doogee S89 Pro and has to compete with the Hotwav Cyber 7 again. Both smartphones are privately owned (by my children) and I have already written about the background and the sense or nonsense of smartphones [...]
Why I took a closer look at the Doogee S89 Pro today and let you participate in the self-experiment (of my kids)? Because, as the father of two young boys, I see myself once again confirmed in the fact that it is rather counterproductive to pass on the discarded parental smartphones to the squirts. Rugged smartphones are certainly a niche, and yet [...]
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With the CPUs and APUs, AMD obviously makes it like a highly infectious virus, you mutate quickly and attack Intel’s general health on all fronts. There is no other way to look at it, because under the code name “Lucienne” the first engineering samples of a new APU from AMD are in circulation. Let’s first look at the [...]
