Qualcomm’s next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 875, will likely be unveiled on December 1. Leaker Abhishek Yadav has apparently managed to get hold of the chip’s AnTuTu scores and they are quite impressive. The chip is apparently codenamed Lahaina and per the leaker, it scored 847,868 on the benchmarking website. This makes it around 25 percent faster than […]
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X ends Intel’s hegemony in single-thread perf; 10% faster than Core i9-10900K and 23% faster than Ryzen 9 3900X
Intel has traditionally held the single-core performance crown for many generations. AMD did get close to Intel 9th gen Coffee Lake, but Comet Lake once again showed good leads in single-core and gaming. With Ryzen 5000 Zen 3, Intel may not be in a comfortable position any longer. User /u/losh11 (@loshan1212) first posted CPU-Z results of […]
Seagate: We Are On Track with 20TB HAMR HDDs in December
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology is expected to enable rather massive increase of hard drives capacity in the coming years. It took the industry several decades to develop this technology and its mass roll-out was delayed several times. In fact, Western Digital even decided to use energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording (ePMR) and microwave-assisted (MAMR) technologies […]
Nvidia RTX 3070 review: AMD’s stopwatch just started ticking a lot louder
Talking about the RTX 3070, Nvidia’s latest $499 GPU launching Thursday, October 29, is tricky in terms of the timing of today’s review embargo. As of right now, the RTX 3070 is the finest GPU in this price sector by a large margin. In 24 hours, that could change—perhaps drastically. Ahead of AMD’s big October 28 event, […]
Sapphire Slides Out A Small Form Factor Pulse RX 5500 XT SF
Sapphire is no stranger to thinking outside of the box when it comes to their graphics card designs. They were one of the first to go all-in on vapor chamber cooling back in their Vapor-X days, they went wild with flowthrough designs for the Fury cards, and they really went to town on the R9 […]
MSI MPG B550 Gaming Edge Motherboard $20 Off at B&H
As we get closer to Black Friday, vendors are dropping deals on our favorite hardware. We’re doing our best to sift through them all, organizing them into a huge list of the best deals on tech that we update every day. Finding a good motherboard deal is often harder compared to other components. Balancing budget and performance […]
Custom ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 6800 XT “AMD Big Navi GPU” Reportedly Boosts Beyond 2.5 GHz With 290W TGP
More information regarding the clock speeds for the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT custom “Big Navi” graphics cards have leaked out by Patrick Schur. In his latest tweet, Patrick talks about the AMD Radeon graphics card, the ROG STRIX Radeon RX 6800 XT from ASUS, which reportedly comes with boost clocks beyond 2.5 GHz. ASUS ROG STRIX […]
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X & Ryzen 9 5900X “Zen 3” CPU Benchmarks Leak Out, 16 Cores At 5 GHz & Huge Single-Threaded Performance Jump
The latest benchmarks of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X “Zen 3” CPUs have leaked out in the Geekbench database (via TUM_APISAK). The Ryzen 9 series processors will feature the highest core count available in the Ryzen 5000 series lineup and will be aimed at the enthusiast gaming market. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 […]
Asus Lists Specs for Non-OC RTX 3070 Cards
As we gear up for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070’s October 29th launch, Asus has updated its website with specs for its non-OC (or non-overclocked) RTX 3070 models, including the RGB triple-fan ROG Strix Gaming unit. There are three non-OC Asus RTX 3070 GPUs overall, and despite different shrouds, aesthetics and cooling approaches, they all have […]
Gigabyte Lists Four New GeForce RTX 3070 Graphics Cards
As we get closer to the RTX 3070 launch on October 29th, Gigabyte has begun to reveal its custom RTX 3070 SKUs, including the Aorus Master, Gaming, Eagle, and the new Vision series. The RTX 3070 will be Nvidia’s first true mid-range GPU for the Ampere generation, featuring 5888 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6 (non-X) on a 256-bit bus. […]