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Nvidia Accidentally Releases RTX 3060 Driver With No Mining Limiter
…GPU Availability Is Not Improving In other news, DigiTimes is reporting that Nvidia GPU availability is "unlikely to ease by the third quarter of this year." This could still change as the…
Acorn Founder Claims Nvidia Will Compete Unfairly, Fails to Explain Why
…As ServeTheHome writes (Opens in a new window) , "With the Grace model, GPUs will have to go to the CPU to access memory. In the CXL 2.0 model, GPUs can directly…
Nvidia's GTX 800M brings improved Kepler and Maxwell cores to mobile, new Battery Boost driver to double gaming battery life
…The new GTX 800 Mobile series will introduce Maxwell to the mobile gaming world -- but Nvidia isn't just pushing a new GPU with this update. It's also designed a new…
Intel Roadmap Details Plans for Arc GPUs, New Cloud Gaming Service
…Although the presentation didn't reveal a lot of new information and was largely a retread of previously discussed technologies, the company did divulge some new information about its upcoming Arc GPUs…
Rumor: Nvidia's Volta to be built on TSMC's 'new' 12nm process
Nvidia's Pascal GPU family has been tremendously successful, but the company is already looking ahead to a new architecture, codenamed Volta. Details on the chip are scarce, though Nvidia has previously…
Valve Launches Steam Deck, a New PC Gaming Handheld Shipping in December
…This sounds like a custom chip, because Valve also specifies eight GPU compute units clocked between 1GHz and 1.6GHz and power consumption between 4-15W. The Ryzen 7 5700U (1.8GHz…
Skylake-X Packs a Punch, but It's Not Intel's Best Gaming CPU
…High core count CPUs, generally speaking, are not the best gaming chips you can buy. That's the conclusion PC Gamer came to (Opens in a new window) during their work testing…
Intel rolls out the rest of the Kaby Lake CPU family
…These new chips feature what Intel is calling "Iris Plus," meaning they incorporate a 64MB EDRAM chip alongside the GPU core. The 128MB EDRAM cores that Intel has previously shipped with Skylake…
Intel Announces Tiger Lake Coming Mid-Year, 10nm Ramp Accelerating
…plan to launch 10nm desktop chips. Despite this omission, Intel is taking several steps to ensure a large supply of Tiger Lake CPUs (Opens in a new window) comes to market. The…