Small wonder: Samsung announces 2TB T3 portable SSD
…USB 3.1 Gen 1 is identical to USB 3.0, with the same performance and the same controllers. Size comparison of the T3 against a typical mobile device. Samsung claims that…
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Why you shouldn't pre-order an Oculus Rift
…After months of dodging and weaving on price, he unveiled an Oculus Rift that cost $600 , a far cry from earlier statements that claimed it would be around $350. More recently, Luckey…
AMD Brings Its Zen 3 Architecture, Up to Eight CPU Cores to Chromebooks
…AMD is claiming one of the biggest benefits its newest CPUs bring to the platform is improved battery life. According to the release, it's claiming its six-core chip provides 94…
AMD slashes GPU prices, but can the company's margins take the loss?
…While the company's Hawaii-class GPUs were top-line performers a year ago, Nvidia's Maxwell delivered an excellent price/performance ratio and undercut AMD badly. Today, AMD is solving that…
4 New AMD Ryzen CPUs Target Lower Power, Higher Performance
…With these chips, AMD has shifted to using a single CCX cluster instead but claims that overall performance should be 8-10 percent higher for the new parts compared with the old…
Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti Replaces 3090 for Many Gamers, 3070 Ti Coming Soon
…The RTX 3070 Ti will launch on June 10 with claimed performance 1.5x higher than the RTX 2070 Super. Unlike the RTX 3080 Ti, it will continue to offer just 8GB…
AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU Prices Drop Ahead of Black Friday
…Its new 13th Gen CPUs undercut AMD's new Ryzen 7000 pricing and gave Intel an edge in overall performance per dollar. Raptor Lake also doesn't demand the same cover charge…
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Rumored to Get Mid-December Price Cut
…The GPU hasn't been met with a warm reception at retail, as people think its price-to-performance ratio is simply unacceptable. In addition to flagging sales, it's also generating…
Nubia Just Stuffed the First Active Fan Inside a Smartphone
…Nubia claims that the fan can improve cooling performance by up to 500 percent compared with passive cooling, which seems entirely reasonable. Using active cooling as opposed to relying solely on a…
Intel Core i9-7980XE Review: Reclaiming the Desktop Performance Crown
Last month, AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 1950X slipped past Intel to claim the overall high-end performance crown for the first time in over a decade. Threadripper's workstation-class benchmark performance…