Students Build DIY Supercomputer Out of Nvidia Jetson Nanos
…Nvidia's blog post (Opens in a new window) references the idea of upgrading the current 16-board system with Jetson Orin Nano hardware. The performance boost from any such jump would…
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At a Glance: Acer Predator Helios 300 (2019) Review
…Design and Hardware Along with the upgraded hardware comes an updated appearance that helps the new 2019 systems stand apart from their 2018 predecessors (Opens in a new window) . Instead of the…
Nvidia Ampere GPUs Destroy Early Benchmarks, Won't Require PCIe 4.0
…While a 16x 4.0 slot has higher bandwidth, the card will perform almost exactly as well in either type. The performance gain from upgrading to 4.0 would probably only be…
Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. S6 vs. S5: How does the new model stack up?
…While we recommend waiting for device reviews before drawing conclusions on whether or not to upgrade, we now the basic specs and positioning of the new hardware. If you've already got…
New Mi Box Mini from Xiaomi packs Roku competition into tiny form factor
…Neither one of these are going to blow the doors off a device, but they'll offer reasonable performance for chosen workloads. The upgrade to the Cortex-A7 makes sense, in fact…
Intel rolls out the rest of the Kaby Lake CPU family
…OEM uptake on these cores has never been high, even though they can improve integrated graphics performance by almost 100%. All of the new 7th-Generation chips support VP9 hardware decode, as…
Apple's iPhone Debacle Doesn't Prove It Deliberately Slowed Older Phones
…We've used a two-OS upgrade to examine iPhone 4s performance, but only a single OS upgrade to represent the iPhone 5s. Nevertheless, the differences are instructive. Consider the iPhone 4s…
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 845 With 4K HDR Video Capture
…The company also claims the Snapdragon 845 will be able to perform faster AI processing than the 835 , courtesy of its Hexagon DSP. This implies the DSP has been upgraded again, though…
AMD Radeon RX 480 review: the best $200 GPU you can buy today
Last week, AMD launched its largest midrange hardware update in years, codenamed Polaris. Polaris isn't a brand-new architecture -- that's Vega, which arrives late this year -- but it's arguably…
Seagate unveils PCIe x16 SSD with 10GB/s bandwidth at Open Compute Summit
…upgrade from hard drive to SSD remains one of the most important you can make to improve overall system performance. Solutions like Intel's Optane could break this bottleneck, though that hardware…