AMD has announced a new Ryzen 5 9600 processor at CES 2025This is a slightly slower version of the already existing Ryzen 5 9600XIt has a boost speed that’s 200MHz slower, but it’ll be cheaper – though we don’t have a launch price yetAMD will doubtless be launching a few fresh Zen 5 processors this…
AMD’s Frank Azor has fired shots at Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop CPUsHe called the Core Ultra 200S CPUs ‘horrible’ and said this increased demand for the Ryzen 9800X3DThat higher demand has led to stock woes, Azor claims, and inventory issues won’t likely ease anytime soonAn AMD executive fired flak at Intel, calling Team Blue’s latest…
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 laptop GPU shows inconsistent Geekbench 6 performance scoresFails to score higher than the RTX 4080 or 4090 laptop GPUs in VulkanIt hasn’t launched yet, and there aren’t any official drivers availableCES 2025 finally gave us a look at Nvidia’s new RTX 5000 series of graphics cards, and the flagship RTX 5090 GPU’s…
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AMD announced its latest RDNA 4 graphics cards at CES 2025 this week, the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and AMD Radeon RX 9070, both targeting the midrange graphics card segment, as was widely expected.There isn’t much that we know about the two new cards yet, other than the new numbering scheme is intended to…
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Microsoft had to recall the Recall AI feature on Copilot+ Windows PCs earlier this year. In theory, Recall was supposed to be a great AI trick to quickly resurface information from your past activities on a computer. In practice, it turned out to be a privacy and security nightmare.Researchers proved that Recall data could be…
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The Nvidia App has been out for just over a month now – it’s Team Green’s replacement for GeForce Experience – but the new software is reportedly slowing down gaming performance for some folks.A user named Sebastian Castellanos on X flagged up this issue, noting that with the Nvidia App installed, their gaming PC was…
Inno3D has leaked that Nvidia has “advanced DLSS technology” to show off at CES 2025This may be DLSS 4, as it makes sense to reveal it alongside RTX 5000 GPUsNew neural rendering capabilities are also set to be aired which could be even more intriguingInno3D has again been leaking material relating to Nvidia’s upcoming revelations…
Intel’s Battlemage Arc B580 GPU just scored higher than the RTX 4060 in Vulkan testingAMD’s RX 7600 loses to both Nvidia and Intel GPUs in Vulkan testsThe new GPU will launch on December 13, for $249 / £249 / around AU$439It’s easy to place AMD and Nvidia as leaders within the GPU market, with the…
GPU sales for Q3 are down almost 8% year-on-yearThis is normally a strong period for sales of discrete graphics cardsIt seems that gamers are holding off for RTX 5000 and RDNA 4 GPUsNormally, this time of year would witness strong sales in the desktop GPU market, but one analyst firm observes that Q3 2024 has…
Intel’s top-selling CPU is a lowly number 13 in Amazon rankingsTeam Blue is doing better in the Newegg CPU chart, but still not wellThis may reflect fallout from Intel’s recent fumbles with chip instability and the rocky Arrow Lake launchAMD is totally cleaning up in the world of desktop processors, with Intel lagging way behind…
