GPUs
AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
The AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Review, Feat. Sapphire Pulse: Navi For 1080p
Launching today are AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 XT cards. These cards are aimed at the sub-$200 market for 1080p gaming, effectively (and finally) replacing AMD’s long-lived Radeon RX 580...
97 by Ryan Smith on 12/12/2019Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029: Back Porting, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm, 2nm, and 1.4 nm
One of the interesting disclosures here at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has been around new and upcoming process node technologies. Almost every session so far this...
138 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/11/2019Intel: Lakefield in 2020, Possible 5G on Foveros
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2019, Intel had two package integration presentations, one on its Omni-Directional Interconnect and one on its 3D stacking Foveros technology. In...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/11/2019Imagination Announces A-Series GPU Architecture: "Most Important Launch in 15 Years"
There are very few companies in the world able to claim a history in the graphics market dating back to the “golden age” of the 90’s. Among the handful...
143 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/2/2019New NVIDIA GPU Variant Found at Supercomputing 2019: Tesla V100S
NVIDIA announced a number of things at Supercomputing, such as CUDA on Arm. Despite the show being the major hub event for high-performance computing/supercomputers, it isn’t often the location...
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/22/2019GIGABYTE Aorus RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Box: Liquid-Cooled TB3 eGFX Box
GIGABYTE has introduced a new Thunderbolt 3 eGFX box that promises to be one of the most powerful eGPUs on the market. The Aorus RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Box...
11 by Anton Shilov on 11/22/2019PowerColor Launches Radeon RX 5700 XT Liquid Devil w/ Pre-Installed Water Block
PowerColor has introduced one of the industry’s first custom Radeon RX 5700 XT-based graphics card with a pre-installed water block. The board uses cherry-picked Navi 10 GPUs as well...
16 by Anton Shilov on 11/20/2019AnandTech Exclusive: An Interview with Intel’s Raja Koduri about Xe
This week Raja gave the keynote at Intel’s HPC DevCon event, a precursor to Supercomputing, and I did my usual thing of asking for the interview, fully expecting the...
73 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/20/2019AMD Announces Radeon Pro W5700: Navi Gets Drafted to The Pros
Taking a break from their recent run of consumer-focused video card launches, this morning AMD is turning their attention to the professional side of the market. With their new...
14 by Ryan Smith on 11/19/2019Intel’s 2021 Exascale Vision in Aurora: Two Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Six Ponte Vecchio GPUs
For the last few of years, when discussing high performance computing, it has been tough to avoid hearing the word ‘exascale’. Even last month, on 10/18, HPC twitter was...
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019Intel’s Xe for HPC: Ponte Vecchio with Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros on 7nm, Coming 2021
Today is Intel’s pre-SC19 HPC Devcon event, and with Raja Koduri on stage, the company has given a small glimpse into its high-performance compute accelerator strategy for 2021. Intel...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019Raja Koduri at Intel HPC Devcon Keynote Live Blog (4pm MT, 11pm UTC)
Prior to the annual Supercomputing conference, Intel hosts its HPC Developer Conference a couple of days before. This year's HPC Devcon keynote talk is from Intel SVP, Chief Architect...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019NVIDIA Announces Q3 FY 2020 Earnings
Today NVIDIA announced their results for the third quarter of their 2020 fiscal year, and the company’s results took a hit compared to their Q3 2019 results with earnings...
52 by Brett Howse on 11/14/2019AMD Adds Radeon RX 5300M To Mobile GPU Lineup
Over the second-half of this year, AMD has been gearing up to cascade their latest Radeon graphics architecture to successively cheaper and more mainstream products. Last month we saw...
16 by Ryan Smith on 11/13/2019Alienware’s Area 51m Gets GeForce RTX 2070/2080 Upgrade Kits
Earlier this year, Alienware launched its Area 51m laptop, a high end desktop replacement (DTR) class laptop. Now, living up to the idea of being a proper replacement to...
9 by Anton Shilov on 11/8/2019ASUS & GIGABYTE Prep Mini-ITX GeForce GTX 1660 Super Cards
Last week NVIDIA introduced its latest GeForce GTX 1660 Super performance mainstream GPU. There are plenty of designs to chose from, and both ASUS and GIGABYTE are now set...
30 by Anton Shilov on 11/6/2019MLPerf Releases Official Results For First Machine Learning Inference Benchmark
Since launching their organization early last year, the MLPerf group has been slowly and steadily building up the scope and the scale of their machine learning benchmarks. Intending to...
12 by Ryan Smith on 11/6/2019Rambus Demonstrates GDDR6 Running At 18 Gbps
While GDDR6 is currently available at speeds up to 14Gbps, and 16Gbps speeds are right around the corner, if the standard is going to have as long a lifespan...
24 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2019NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1650 Super: Launching November 22nd
Alongside today’s GeForce GTX 1660 Super launch, NVIDIA is also taking the wraps off of one more GeForce Super card. Having already given a Super mid-generation refresh to most...
21 by Ryan Smith on 10/29/2019The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super Review, Feat. EVGA SC Ultra: Recalibrating The Mainstream Market
Kicking off the first of a series of video card launches for this holiday season is NVIDIA, who is announcing their GeForce GTX 1660 Super. This is a relatively...
66 by Ryan Smith on 10/29/2019