GPUs

The curtains are drawn and it’s almost showtime for Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X SoC team. After first detailing the SoC nearly 8 months ago at the company’s most recent Snapdragon Summit, and making numerous performance disclosures in the intervening months, the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus launch is nearly upon us. The chips have already shipped to Qualcomm’s laptop partners, and the first laptops are set to ship next week. In the last 8 months Qualcomm has made a lot of interesting claims for their high-performance Windows-on-Arm SoC – many of which will be put to the test in the coming weeks. But beyond all the performance claims and bluster amidst what is shaping up to be a highly competitive environment for...

Lenovo Develops Mini-ITX Form-Factor GeForce RTX 4060

One of design perks of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 is its relatively low power consumption, which has allowed graphics cards makers to produce compact add-in-boards without the massive heatsink...

19 by Anton Shilov on 7/17/2023

ASRock Goes Low-Profile with New Arc A380 Graphics Card

As Intel's slate of video card board partners has expanded over the last year, so has the variety in the ecosystem, as the newly minted partners set out to...

18 by Anton Shilov on 7/5/2023

AMD: Partial RDNA 3 Video Card Support Coming to Future ROCm Releases

AMD this morning is formally announcing the launch of the latest version of its GPU compute software stack, ROCm 5.7. Along with making several important updates to the software...

15 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2023

Micron Expects to Debut GDDR7 Memory in 2024

Micron late on Wednesday revealed plans to introduce its first GDDR7 memory devices in the first half of 2024. The memory is expected to be used by next generation...

12 by Anton Shilov on 6/29/2023

Intel Discontinues Arc A770 Limited Edition Graphics Card

In a rather unexpected move, Intel this week discontinued its Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card, which was its flagship discrete graphics offering for desktops. Intel's partners will continue...

11 by Anton Shilov on 6/22/2023

AMD Expands AI/HPC Product Lineup With Flagship GPU-only Instinct MI300X with 192GB Memory

Alongside their EPYC server CPU updates, as part of today’s AMD Data Center event, the company is also offering an update on the status of their nearly-finished AMD Instinct...

28 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023

Microsoft to Bring Game Pass Games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now

Microsoft on Sunday announced plans to bring select PC Game Pass games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now cloud streaming service later in 2023. The move will allow gamers to enjoy...

2 by Anton Shilov on 6/12/2023

Intel Expands ProViz Offerings with Arc Pro A60, Arc Pro A60M Graphics Cards

Intel this week introduced its highest performing products aimed at professional visualization market: the Arc Pro A60 12 GB graphics card for desktops as well as the Arc Pro...

8 by Anton Shilov on 6/7/2023

Biostar Joins Intel Arc Camp, Preps Arc Video Cards

Without much fanfare, Biostar has introduced its first graphics card based on Intel Arc graphics processors. The add-in-board is aimed at entry-level gaming PCs, and is admittedly not very...

2 by Anton Shilov on 6/1/2023

Asus Details ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090: Liquid Cooling Meets Liquid Metal

Asus has introduced a new flagship RTX 4090 graphics card that uses an all-in-one liquid cooling system combined with liquid metal thermal interface. Dubbed the ROG Matrix GeForce RTX...

6 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2023

NVIDIA: Grace Hopper Has Entered Full Production & Announcing DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer

Teeing off an AI-heavy slate of announcements for NVIDIA, the company has confirmed that their Grace Hopper “superchip” has entered full production. The combination of a Grace CPU and...

8 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2023

NVIDIA Reports Q1 FY2024 Earnings: Bigger Things to Come as NV Approaches $1T Market Cap

Closing out the most recent earnings season for the PC industry is, as always, NVIDIA. The company’s unusual, nearly year-ahead fiscal calendar means that they get the benefit of...

23 by Ryan Smith on 5/25/2023

Intel HPC Updates For ISC 2023: Aurora Nearly Done, More Falcon Shores, and the Future of XPUs

With the annual ISC High Performance supercomputing conference kicking off this week, Intel is one of several vendors making announcements timed with the show. As the crown jewels of...

15 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2023

Asus Unveils Two Slimmer GeForce RTX 4090 Video Cards: ROG Strix LC and TUF OG

Asus has expanded the company's GeForce RTX 40-series product portfolio with two new RTX 4090 graphics cards. The ROG Strix LC GeForce RTX 4090 and TUF Gaming GeForce RTX...

6 by Zhiye Liu on 5/12/2023

NVIDIA Launches Diablo IV Bundle for GeForce RTX 40 Video Cards

NVIDIA is launching a new game bundle for its latest generaiton GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards and OEM systems. This time, NVIDIA has teamed up with Activision Blizzard to...

11 by Anton Shilov on 5/9/2023

AMD To Host AI and Data Center Event on June 13th - MI300 Details Inbound?

In a brief note posted to its investor relations portal this morning, AMD has announced that they will be holding a special AI and data center-centric event on June...

2 by Ryan Smith on 5/9/2023

AMD Reports Q1 2023 Earnings: Slipping Back into the Red as Client Sales Crumble

Continuing our earnings season coverage for Q1’2023, today we have the yin to Intel’s yang, AMD. The number-two x86 chip and discrete GPU maker has been enjoying a growing...

6 by Ryan Smith on 5/3/2023

Matrox Adopts Intel Alchemist GPUs for New Luma Graphics Cards

While they've long since given up developing GPUs, Matrox has remained a notable player in the video card industry for over four decades. These days, the company has settled...

26 by Anton Shilov on 4/28/2023

SK hynix Now Sampling 24GB HBM3 Stacks, Preparing for Mass Production

When SK hynix initially announced its HBM3 memory portfolio in late 2021, the company said it was developing both 8-Hi 16GB memory stacks as well as even more technically...

1 by Anton Shilov on 4/21/2023

AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7900 & W7800: RDNA 3 Comes To Workstation Cards

With their initial consumer desktop and mobile RDNA 3 graphics products now out the door, AMD today is turning their attention to the professional visualization market. The more lucrative...

31 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2023

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