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Posted on February 2, 2025 by Eternity Lab

Nvidia abandons the problematic 12VHPWR RTX 4080 power connector with a much longer one for the RTX 5080 FE according to leaked images

Chinese reviewer showcases the RTX 5080 FE and its new power connector
The embargo is expected to be on January 29, a day before its launch
The new power connector has new wires for a more secure connection

Following Nvidia‘s RTX 5000 series unveiling at CES 2025, we’re waiting for our first look at the RTX 5090’s performance from user benchmarks to find out how well the new Multi Frame Generation feature really works – but for now, we’ve got our first look at its little brother, the RTX 5080 Founders Edition, and its new power connector.

This comes from a reviewer on the Chinese social media site Bilibili (as reported by VideoCardz), who showcased the RTX 5080 FE along with its new power adapter and stated that the embargo date for reviews will be January 29 (a day before launch) – although this conflicts with a previous VideoCardz report that embargoes will lift on January 24. At the time of writing, the Bilibili post appears to have been taken down – potentially due to a legal notice from Nvidia – but the VideoCardz article is still live, at least for now.

The RTX 4080 and 4090 power connector, called the 12VHPWR connector, wasn’t ideal for users – considering it was a potential fire hazard, and its short length left a lack of space and flexibility for side panels on PC cases to close (it also wasn’t very pleasant to look at, frankly).

Based on the early image shown in the VideoCardz article (which we’re not posting here because we’d rather not invoke the fury of Nvidia’s legal department), it seems that Nvidia is providing a much longer and more flexible power adapter now – I recently covered the RTX 4080 Super and its performance in the Resident Evil 4 remake, and the only glaring issue I found wasn’t with the card’s performance itself, but rather the finicky power adapter.

While there’s only so much information we can take from a leaked image like this, it looks to be a little more case-friendly if it operates in the same manner as the likes of Seasonic’s 12VHPWR power cable – VideoCardz also pointed out the additional sense wires that have been added to ensure a secure 8-pin connection, hopefully preventing any connection issues that caused the connector meltdowns we saw with the previous generation.

(Image credit: Nvidia)

What solutions are available for the RTX 4080 GPU power adapter?

For those sticking with the RTX 4080, depending on your PC’s power supply, there are plenty of options on the market that work as viable alternatives to the problematic RTX 4080 power connector. It’s important to buy the correct cable that provides a sufficient amount of power and is compatible with your PSU – you don’t want to run the risk of buying a cheap, unreliable one either.

It isn’t exactly clear from the provided pictures whether the new power adapter for the RTX 5080 (and the RTX 5090) will be compatible with the RTX 4080 or any other RTX 4000 cards, but if it is, that could be the easy solution to this matter.

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January 30 is on the horizon, so we’ll be seeing more of what Nvidia’s new powerhouse GPUs will have to offer – hopefully, there are no recurring issues concerning potential melting cables on this occasion.

A possible Nvidia RTX 5090 prototype shows what might have been – an absolute monster with nearly 25K CUDA cores and an 800W TDP

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 is already shaping up to be a beast of a GPU, given the specs unveiled at CES 2025, but if a new report is correct, it could have been even more of a monster.

A well-regarded rumor miller, HXL, shared a post on the Chinese hardware forum ChipHell that claims to show the PCB for an early prototype RTX 5090, along with some rather eye-watering specs well beyond those for the production model RTX 5090 due out next week.

According to the poster, the prototype was an engineering sample produced in mid-July 2024 and was sent to AIB partners to help them prepare their own versions of the GPU. How the user got their hand on the prototype – assuming it’s real, which is not at all certain, so take everything with a heap of salt – they did not say, but they did provide some of the supposed specs on the sample.

This includes the GPU SKU of GB202-200-A1, a CUDA core count of 24,576 (or about 13% more than the 21,760 in the production RTX 5090), a slightly higher clock speed of 2,100MHz base and 2,514MHz boost, and slightly faster GDDR7 memory modules clocked at 32Gbps (compared to the 28 Gbps chips in the production RTX 5090). These would have pushed the card’s memory bandwidth to 2TB/s rather than 1.79TB/s for the production 5090.

Given the CUDA core count, we can also extrapolate that there would have been 192 SMs for the GPU, so 192 ray tracing cores and 768 Tensor cores for AI workloads.

The most incredible spec, however, is the 800W TDP, which is almost double the power draw of the RTX 4090 and about 40% more than the RTX 5090. As such, it would require two 12VHPWR connectors to supply enough power for the card.

Could it be a Blackwell Titan RTX?

As our buddies over at Tom’s Hardware note, this card could also fit the specs of a Titan RTX card built on Blackwell or an RTX 5090 Ti. We haven’t seen a Titan RTX since the Turing era, though the argument can be made (and has) that the RTX 3090 and RTX 4090 graphics cards are the successors to the Titan RTX cards of old, and it’s definitely possible that an RTX 5090 TI could sport these kinds of increased specs.

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Personally, if the GPU posted to ChipHell is legitimately an early engineering sample of the RTX 5090 that has made its way to production, I think it is simply that: a sample. It’d be analogous to a first- or second-draft GPU before refining the architecture down to the RTX 5090 that will go on sale next week.

While it’s interesting to see some behind-the-scenes engineering compared to the actual production model, ultimately, it probably isn’t much more than that.

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Posted on January 23, 2025 by Eternity Lab

Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition is possibly the best-looking GPU I’ve seen in a while

Nvidia‘s RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU is almost here, promising to step performance up across the board from the previous generation’s RTX 4090 – fortunately, we’ve got our hands on it with an early unboxing. While we won’t be able to share more about its performance with the new Multi Frame Generation feature until the January 24 review embargo lifts, today we’re able to unveil its box and everything inside.

RTX 5090’s Box & Power Connector

Now, tell me that box doesn’t at least remind you of the PS1 in some way… I’m waiting. (Image credit: Future)

Starting with the box itself, Team Green has changed the packaging, opting for a cool retro design (at least in my eyes) – and I love the look, which reminds me of Sony‘s PlayStation 1 with its grey color scheme for the paperboard design protecting the GPU. This is a huge contrast to the RTX 4090’s packaging, which had a much bigger box catering to the GPU’s large form factor size, and that’s changed here (something I’ll dive into later).

Whilst the box itself is a purely cosmetic change that will likely end up in the garbage of many buyers, the new power connector deserves some attention here – the previous adapter was an issue for myself and many other PC gamers attempting to shut their case or at least maintain an appealing build, with its short and stiff design, while also posing a potential fire hazard based on user reports.

No more stiff power connectors… I’m forever grateful Nvidia (Image credit: Future)

I had similar troubles with the Asus RTX 4080 Super TUF OC Edition, as I couldn’t close my PC case’s side panel without excessively bending the connector – this eventually forced my hand to buy a more flexible Seasonic 12VHPWR Cable so I could finally shut the case.

With the new power connector, we hopefully won’t need to worry about this, as Nvidia has taken extra care regarding the matter by introducing additional sense wires (which was previously rumored). This should improve and secure the 8-pin connection, while also being much longer and more flexible.

Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU

This paperboard packaging is 100% recyclable, which is a nice plus – though as you can see here, it’s a little difficult to get inside! (Image credit: Future)

Now moving on to what you came here for – the RTX 5090 Founders Edition in all its glory is much sleeker with its new design. Team Green has paid attention to those who prefer slim PC builds, as this is much smaller than the previous generation’s flagship GPU – this was evident with the new box used to house the new dual-slot GPU compared to the 4090’s triple-slot design.

While some rumors hinted at the 5090 being much louder compared to previous GPUs, some videos have already been enough to debunk it such as PC Centric’s CES video, showcasing just how quiet it is under heavy load in Cyberpunk 2077.

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While it’s a lot smaller than the previous RTX 4090 FE, the 5090 FE is still a chunky card. (Image credit: Future)

While the new power connector I mentioned earlier will surely help many PC builders, Nvidia has taken an extra step to alleviate any potential issues by setting the power connector at an angle to avoid cables pushing up against side panels.

It’s insane to imagine that a GPU this small packs greater power than the RTX 4090, so I must say I’m impressed with Nvidia’s efforts here. There’s still a lot left to be unveiled in terms of the power consumption leap from the previous 450W to 575W (with rumors suggesting that it’s actually 600W) and whether an upgrade to this GPU will be worthwhile – but from what I’ve seen so far with the unboxing, it’s certainly so far so good from Team Green.

AMD CES 2025 Keynote live blog: as it happened

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Good morning folks. We’re queueing up outside the South Seas Ballroom at Mandalay Bay, awaiting the start of AMD’s CES 2025 keynote, and it’s sure to be a packed 45 minutes to an hour. I’ll be here bringing you all the latest news as it breaks, as well as my thoughts on what’s being announced.

I’ll keep you updated once I’m in my seat, so stay tuned!

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(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

We’re five minutes away from the start of AMD’s press conference, so it’s time to settle in.

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AMD Senior VP Jack Huynh is taking the stage now, No Lisa Su this time.

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The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D are up first.

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(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

Not to brag or anything…

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(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D coming in March 2025.

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AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D coming to laptops, along with a pair of non-X3D HX chips (I missed the model names of the other two, I’ll grab those in a sec).

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(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

AMD’s SVP of Client Business Rahul Tikoo is on stage now to talk about AI PCs.

New Ryzen AI 300 chips, targeting the midrange user with Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen 5 340.

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Now we’re moving on to the new Ryzen AI Max series, which are workstation CPUs with up to 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, which is a hell of a lot for an integrated GPU. Up to 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU, and up to 256GB/s memory bandwidth.

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Ok, so we’re on to enterprise products, namely AMD Epyc and AMD Instinct data center CPU and GPUs.

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We’ve also got some discussion of AMD Ryzen AI 300 Pro.

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I have no idea what TCO means, but Shell says AMD Ryzen CPUs offer the best, so there’s that.

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Now PC manufacturer executives are singing AMD’s praises, including HP, Lenovo, and Asus.

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(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

So Dell is now on stage with AMD talking about the first Dell professional PCs and laptops to feature AMD chips. Oh, and Dell is completely rebranding its entire product portfolio, but that’s for another news story.

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Everyone keeps talking about the ‘AI revolution’, but honestly, I’ve yet to see anything from AI PCs so far that is truly revolutionary. I’m sure its coming at some point in the future, but the future isn’t here just yet.

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OK, so the press conference has wrapped, and there was no discussion of AMD Radeon graphics cards, as we were expecting, but we know they’re coming so there might be more to come on that over the next few days.

For now, though, the big news is the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D chips due out in March, as well as new high-performance mobile ships for both enthusiasts, gamers, and enterprise users.

There’ll be more from me today, but for now, we have to clear out of the ballroom, so stay tuned for more from us here at CES 2025.

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Posted on January 8, 2025 by Eternity Lab

Intel announces new Core Ultra 200 series mobile CPUs at CES 2025, targeting enthusiasts and edge users

Intel announced its latest series of mobile processors at CES 2025, the Intel Core Ultra 200HX series, the Core Ultra 200H series, and the Core Ultra 200U series, targeting enthusiasts, premium, and thin and light laptop users, respectively.

The new chips, hot on the heels of the incredibly well-received Intel Lunar Lake chips (sold as the Intel Core Ultra 200V series), offer even more variety of processing power for users who found the Core Ultra 200V series to be good, but not quite powerful enough for their needs.

The new chip lines, which are built off the same Intel Arrow Lake architecture used in the Intel Core Ultra 200S series desktop processors (including the Intel Corez Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 265K), have a bit of an expectations problem.

Arrow Lake for desktop was rather underwhelming (for gamers at least) at launch and the arguably more advanced Intel Lunar Lake laptop chips currently on the market are simply some of the best laptop processors anyone has ever made, so following that up with an already maligned architecture will be tough.

That said, Intel Arrow Lake has a lot going for it, especially once you step away from gaming. In everyday and professional workloads. On desktop, The Intel Core Ultra 200S series chips came out pretty much even with the previous-gen Intel Raptor Lake Refresh chips (Intel’s Core 14000 series), while using less power to do so. The hope, it appears, is that Intel is offering at least even or better laptop chip performance compared to the previous generation with meaningfully less power consumption, something that actually matters for laptops.

It remains to be seen if any of this will sway anyone expecting big performance gains, but at least for these mobile chips, improved energy efficiency could be enough to tip the scales in their favor.

New Intel mobile SKUs

(Image credit: Intel)

Here are all of the new Intel Core Ultra 200HX, Core Ultra 200H, and Core Ultra 200U SKUs announced during Intel’s CES 2025 keynote.

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Intel Core Ultra 200HX SKUs

Header Cell – Column 0	Core Ultra 9 285HX	Core Ultra 9 275HX	Core Ultra 7 265HX	Core Ultra 7 255HX	Core Ultra 5 245HX	Core Ultra 5 235HX
P-Cores	8	8	8	8	6	6
E-Cores	16	16	12	12	8	8
Total Threads	24	24	20	20	14	14
L3 Cache (MB)	36	36	30	30	24	24
P-Core Max Clock (GHz)	5.5	5.4	5.3	5.2	5.1	5.1
E-Core Max Clock (GHz)	2.8	2.7	2.6	2.4	3.1	2.9
Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics
Base TDP (W)	15	15	15	15	15	15
Max TDP (W)	57	57	57	57	57	57

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Intel Core Ultra 200H SKUs

Header Cell – Column 0	Core Ultra 9 258H	Core Ultra 7 265H	Core Ultra 7 255H	Core Ultra 5 235H	Core Ultra 5 225H
P-Cores	6	6	6	4	4
E-Cores	8	8	8	8	8
LPE-Cores	2	2	2	2	2
Total Threads	16	16	16	14	14
L3 Cache (MB)	24	24	24	18	18
P-Core Max Clock (GHz)	5.4	5.3	5.1	5.0	4.9
Graphics	Intel Arc Graphics	Intel Arc Graphics	Intel Arc Graphics	Intel Arc Graphics	Intel Arc Graphics
Base TDP (W)	45	28	28	28	28
Max TDP (W)	115	115	115	115	115

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Intel Core Ultra 200U SKUs

Header Cell – Column 0	Core Ultra 7 265U	Core Ultra 7 255U	Core Ultra 5 235U	Core Ultra 5 225U
P-Cores	2	2	2	2
E-Cores	8	8	8	8
LPE-Cores	2	2	2	2
Total Threads	12	12	12	12
L3 Cache (MB)	12	12	12	12
P-Core Max Clock (GHz)	5.3	5.2	4.9	4.8
Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics
Base TDP (W)	15	15	15	15
Max TDP (W)	57	57	57	57

(Image credit: Intel)

There are some notable things about the specs we’ve gotten on these new SKUs.

For one, only the Core Ultra 200H series has integrated Intel Arc graphics, while the HX and U series chips all opt for the basic, lower-end Intel Graphics GPU. This makes some sense, as the 200HX series will likely be paired with a discrete GPU, so the basic integrated GPU will be more than enough for basic Windows use to save power.

The 200U series, meanwhile, won’t have a discrete GPU, but it also won’t likely be called upon to do any heavy-duty graphics like 3D gaming, so Intel Graphics is fine for the U series.

The 200H series, however, might need to do a little bit more gaming or video processing/encoding than the U series, but not enough to get a discrete GPU, so Intel opted to give it its higher-end integrated Arc GPU.

This is likely the same integrated Arc graphics found in Intel Meteor Lake chips since Arrow Lake is largely built off that architecture rather than the more advanced Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics. It also has a higher max TDP, likely to account for more GPU power than the other two chip series.

We also don’t have the max clock for the E-cores and LPE-cores on the 200H and 200U series SKUs yet, but hopefully, Intel will provide more detail in the days ahead.

The battle of the Core Ultra 200 series chips

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I’ll be honest, there’s simply no getting around how good Intel’s recent laptop chips are (the Intel Core Ultra 200V series, based on Lunar Lake).

Intel has had an Apple problem ever since Apple moved to its own M-series silicon based on ARM‘s BIG.little processor design, with several generations of its laptop chips simply not being able to keep pace with the best Apple had to offer.

However, all that changed with Intel Lunar Lake, released late last year. While Lunar Lake laptop chips still lag well behind Apple’s latest M4 chips, they are more than capable enough that you’d only be able to tell the difference if you had the two side-by-side.

Meanwhile, Lunar Lake’s greatly improved energy efficiency and powerful integrated GPU based on Intel Arc Battlemage architecture turned out to be an incredibly powerful combo that offered incredible battery life on a Windows PC to rival even the best MacBook Air models and a GPU powerful enough to play the best PC games remarkably well for a thin and light laptop processor.

Intel Lunar Lake isn’t an enthusiast-class processor, however, and those who demand the highest levels of performance from their laptops, whether for work or play, haven’t had much to look forward to for a least a year or more.

Needless to say, there’s a lot of pressure on Intel’s newest laptop chips to avoid the mistakes that undercut their desktop counterpart, and it remains to be seen if Intel can deliver.

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Posted on January 7, 2025 by Eternity Lab

AMD CES 2025 Keynote live blog: as it happened

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I’ll keep you updated once I’m in my seat, so stay tuned!

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(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

We’re five minutes away from the start of AMD’s press conference, so it’s time to settle in.

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AMD Senior VP Jack Huynh is taking the stage now, No Lisa Su this time.

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The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D are up first.

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(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)

Not to brag or anything…

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Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D coming in March 2025.

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AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D coming to laptops, along with a pair of non-X3D HX chips (I missed the model names of the other two, I’ll grab those in a sec).

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AMD’s SVP of Client Business Rahul Tikoo is on stage now to talk about AI PCs.

New Ryzen AI 300 chips, targeting the midrange user with Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen 5 340.

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Ok, so we’re on to enterprise products, namely AMD Epyc and AMD Instinct data center CPU and GPUs.

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We’ve also got some discussion of AMD Ryzen AI 300 Pro.

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I have no idea what TCO means, but Shell says AMD Ryzen CPUs offer the best, so there’s that.

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Now PC manufacturer executives are singing AMD’s praises, including HP, Lenovo, and Asus.

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For now, though, the big news is the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D chips due out in March, as well as new high-performance mobile ships for both enthusiasts, gamers, and enterprise users.

There’ll be more from me today, but for now, we have to clear out of the ballroom, so stay tuned for more from us here at CES 2025.

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Posted on December 27, 2024 by Eternity Lab

AMD RDNA 4 GPU rumors flood forth, including possible name change to RX 9070 – because bigger is better, compared to Nvidia’s RTX 5070?

AMD is supposedly launching RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 next-gen GPUs
Previous rumors suggested these would be the RX 8000 series
Performance is rumored to be a bit slower than previous chatter from the grapevine

Rumors around AMD’s next-gen GPUs have gone into overdrive this past weekend, and we’ve learned that these RDNA 4 graphics cards may not be the RX 8000 series as previously thought – and we’ve been treated to further speculation on price and performance, too.

So, the theory now is that AMD is going to launch an RX 9070 XT, as first flagged up by an editor on Chiphell, which was pointed out by HXL on X. This will supposedly be the top RDNA 4 GPU, previously rumored to be the RX 8800 XT.

It’ll come alongside a vanilla RX 9070 as a lower-tier offering, if another presence on X – All The Watts, a name we’re not familiar with in the rumor scene – is correct. They believe that the RX 9070 XT will be slightly slower than the current 7900 XT, and that the plain RX 9070 will be about equivalent to the performance of the 7800 XT.

All The Watts spilled some purported price ranges, too, and it seems AMD is looking at around $449 to $649 (in the US) for the Navi 48 graphics cards, which will put the RX 9070 XT at that $650 or so level, and the plain RX 9070 perhaps at $550 to $600. It all feels very vague, though – we’re also told that dropping down a chip, Navi 44 GPUs will range in price from $179 to $349 (RX 9060 models and downwards, presumably).

Another regular rumor peddler on X, Hoang Anh Phu, also shared that the RX 9070 XT is coming at CES 2025, where AMD is rumored to be revealing RDNA 4 – and that FSR 4 will debut alongside it (plus a whole bunch of other stuff, too, in theory).

Finally, Hoang Anh Phu also claimed that a render of a GPU that cropped up in an official AMD advert is supposedly a reference design for one of the next-gen graphics cards from AMD. Season that, and all of this chatter, liberally, of course.

It’s worth further noting that All The Watts reckons there’ll be mobile 9070 variants too, which would be no surprise, but that we may also get some new GPUs for the current RDNA 3 range, namely the RX 7750 and 7650. The latter in particular might be an interesting addition for more affordable GPUs (hopefully).

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(VideoCardz spotted all these various posts, by the way, so a hefty four hat tips goes their way – 1, 2, 3, 4).

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Analysis: Turning it up to 9070?

There’s been a lot of spillage in a very short time around AMD’s next-gen GPUs, and it seems that the RX 9070 XT and 9070 might really be happening. The story is that this was a late switch from AMD in terms of next-gen naming, as until recently, Team Red was going to run with RX 8000 as had been claimed via the rumor mill.

Why switch the name? Well, in some ways, the change to RX 9070 performs that trick of making it seem ‘better’ than Nvidia’s xx70 class graphics card, which this time round will be the RTX 5070 (and 5070 Ti, apparently). So, your mid-range choices early next year could be the RTX 5070 (Ti) or RX 9070 (XT), so the bigger number must be better, right?

It’s that kind of Spinal Tap (turning it up to 11) marketing thinking, we assume (if it happens) – and it’s interesting to note that rather than the 9700 XT, it’s the 9070 XT. (Although that’ll help avoid confusion with AMD’s Ryzen CPU names, to be fair, and the Ryzen 9700X – but it does seem angling very much towards ‘outplaying’ Nvidia too).

The other reason could be that – again, according to rumors – AMD is looking to switch away from the RDNA brand entirely after this next generation of graphics cards. We won’t have RDNA 5, in other words, but UDNA, the ‘U’ meaning unified as this architecture will supposedly bring together CDNA (data center) and RDNA (gaming) under one umbrella.

If that happens, then AMD’s likely to head off the RX x000 naming path entirely, which would make sense rather than go with RX 10000 – which doesn’t work after RX 9000, of course. In other words, the move to UDNA effectively frees up the RX 9000 name for this generation – so why not use it now? We’re just engaging in pure speculation here, mind, but this makes us think it’s perhaps a bit more likely that UDNA, not RDNA 5, comes next on AMD’s GPU roadmap.

As for the performance levels mentioned above for the RX 9070 XT and 9070, they’ll probably come as a bit of a disappointment. The previous hope was that the RDNA 4 top dog GPU could be a bit faster than the 7900 XT, and it’s seemingly slightly slower according to All The Watts – but be particularly skeptical there.

Furthermore, we assume that this is talking about rasterization (non-ray tracing performance), and for ray-traced graphics, AMD supposedly has a much bigger leap in frame rates ready for us, or so other rumors have suggested.

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Posted on December 14, 2024 by Eternity Lab

Nvidia RTX 5000 prediction suggests RTX 5090 will be a monster flagship GPU… but it’s the RTX 5070 I’m worried about

Expectation for Nvidia RTX 5090 is a 60% to 70% gen-on-gen uplift
RTX 5070 might be way behind that on 20% to 30% faster than 4070
With RTX 5080 landing in-between at 30% to 40% quicker than 4080

Nvidia’s RTX 5000 GPUs are just around the corner – Team Green has now officially teased new GeForce graphics cards for CES 2025 – and we’ve just heard some more buzz on the potential performance levels these Blackwell products might achieve.

This is a rumor that you need to load up on the seasoning with, because as the source – regular leaker on X, OneRaichu – points out, these are just their expectations.

In the post which was flagged up by Digital Trends, OneRaichu believes that the flagship (RTX 5090) will be 60% to 70% faster for the GPU’s generational uplift.

The prediction is that ‘high-level’ Blackwell GPUs – which we’d take to mean the RTX 5080 – will be 30% to 40% faster, and for mid-range, that tapers down to 20% to 30% quicker than Nvidia’s predecessor graphics cards. In that latter case, we presume this refers to the RTX 5070 – and maybe to a lesser extent the RTX 5060, although this GPU is likely to be a lot further out, going by the lack of rumored specs (and any performance forecasts) around it.

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Analysis: Great news for PC enthusiasts, in theory – not so much for the mainstream

As noted, these are just expectations, but of course those expectations are built on a bedrock of leaks which OneRaichu has been hearing for some time.

What’s interesting is that regarding the RTX 5090, in past rumors, we’ve been hearing about the next-gen flagship being anything from 50% to 70% faster than the RTX 4090. So, this leaker’s assertion is that it’ll be towards the top-end of those previous estimates, a hint – taken with plenty of skepticism – that this is going to be a mighty graphics card from Nvidia. Likely with an equally mighty price tag (as in you ‘might’ not be able to afford it unless you take out a second mortgage).

On the other hand, the RTX 5070 may be a much more modest gen-on-gen uplift, which is disappointing to me – and all mainstream gamers with more typical gaming PC budgets – and this also fits with some of the rumors that we’ve heard about that graphics card. (Notably the purported 12GB of VRAM which, even if it is much nippier GDDR7, could be a real sticking point for many).

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At least we don’t have long to wait to find out how accurate this forecast – and the other speculation from the grapevine – will be, as Nvidia is almost certainly going to reveal RTX 5000 graphics cards at CES 2025, given that fresh teaser. (And the fact that the new Witcher 4 trailer also used an unannounced RTX GPU, likely the 5090).

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Posted on November 26, 2024 by Eternity Lab

Nationwide Building Society backs HPE GreenLake for hybrid cloud push

Nationwide Building Society is drawing on HPE’s private cloud capabilities to help deliver on the next phase of its multi-year hybrid cloud strategy.

The company, which has more than 17 million customers in the UK and employs 18,000 people, is in midst of a hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation project, geared towards improving the online experience for its customers.

As previously reported by Computer Weekly, this work, which began in 2018, has seen the firm use public cloud technologies, such as those offered by Amazon Web Services, and embrace the use of DevOps-style software development methodologies within its teams.

The project has also seen Nationwide adopt different cloud technologies based on what is best for that particular type of data or workload, which is why the company is now adding the HPE Greenlake private cloud setup to its supplier mix too.

“Nationwide’s hybrid cloud strategy is vital to our ability to compete and means we can continue to meet the needs and expectations of our customers – HPE GreenLake cloud is a core component of our hybrid cloud strategy,” said Paul Walsh, director of infrastructure and service delivery at Nationwide.

“With them, we’re building a cloud platform that will further improve our resilience and agility, enabling us to provide even better levels of service and deliver new capabilities to our developers faster than ever before.”

Specifically, Nationwide will use HPE GreenLake management services to automate and orchestrate its infrastructure management workloads and deliver infrastructure-as-code, the company said.

“This [will] enable [Nationwide] to focus on innovation, value-add activities and gain better control over application builds and security,” said the company, in a statement. “Faster release cycles will accelerate the time to market, providing consistent customer experiences across all digital platforms.”

The HPE GreenLake cloud setup will also provide Nationwide with an overview of its energy consumption and emissions, so that it can take proactive steps to reduce its environmental footprint, the company added.

Matt Harris, senior vice-president and managing director for the UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa at HPE, said the complexities of the deployment highlight why taking a public cloud-only approach would not work for a company like Nationwide.

“Nationwide’s modernisation journey showcases the effectiveness of HPE GreenLake cloud, with the storied institution transitioning from complex, legacy technology to a modern, future-proofed hybrid cloud operating model where a one-size-fits-all public cloud could never be the only answer,” said Harris.

Nationwide is not the only financial services company tapping into HPE GreenLake to deliver on its hybrid cloud strategy, as Barclays Bank also set out plans in September 2024 to ramp up its use of the technology for that purpose.

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Posted on November 26, 2024 by Eternity Lab

AMD pushes GPU advantage with HPC top spot

The AMD-powered El Capitan supercomputer, housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is now ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Built by HPE, the supercomputer uses AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing units (APUs). It achieved a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops based on the latest Top500 list.

The LLNL is using the supercomputer for nuclear security. El Capitan is the first exascale-class machine for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and will be used to advance scientific discovery and national security, providing what AMD says is “the computational power necessary to ensure the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear deterrent without testing”.

It is being used for modelling and simulation capabilities to support NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship Programme, which certifies the ageing nuclear stockpile and other critical nuclear security missions, such as non-proliferation and counter terrorism. 

“El Capitan is crucial to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s core mission and significantly bolsters our ability to perform large ensembles of high-fidelity 3D simulations that address the intricate scientific challenges facing the mission,” said Rob Neely, director of LLNL’s advanced simulation and computing programme.

LLNL and the other NNSA at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories are also using El Capitan and its companion system, Tuolumne, to drive artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-assisted data analysis. El Capitan will apply AI to high energy density problems such as inertial confinement fusion research, while Tuolumne will be used for unclassified open science applications including climate modelling, biosecurity/drug discovery and earthquake modelling.

Bronis R de Supinski, LLNL’s chief technology officer for Livermore Computing, said: “With AI becoming increasingly prevalent in our field, El Capitan allows us to integrate AI with our traditional simulation and modelling workloads, opening new avenues for discovery across various scientific disciplines.”

AMD said its Instinct MI300X and MI325X accelerators provide AI performance and memory capabilities, while the AMD Instinct MI300A APU puts central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) cores and stacked memory together into a single package, enabling “new levels of efficiency and performance” for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads.

Its EPYC processors and Instinct accelerators are also being used to power many new supercomputing and AI projects and deployments, including Italian energy company Eni, whose HPC 6 supercomputer is powered by AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct GPUs. The University of Paderborn is also set to take delivery of a new supercomputer powered by the latest fifth-generation AMD Epyc technology.

Separately, IBM and AMD have announced a collaboration to deploy AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud. The new service, available in the first half of 2025, will target performance and power efficiency for generative AI models. Through the collaboration, support for AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators is being made available within IBM’s Watsonx AI and data platform, as well as through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI inferencing platform.

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