Posts by Metal Messiah:

Nvidia is allegedly ceasing production of four Turing RTX 20-series GPUs in anticipation of next-gen ‘Ampere’ cards

Posted on: 13 Jul 2020

As per one recent report posted by the Chinese publication IThome, Nvidia is ostensibly discontinuing and retiring the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super, and RTX 2080 Ti Turing cards.

AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 CPUs are currently being sold in ‘Ryzen 3 3200G’ processor’s packaging In China

Posted on: 12 Jul 2020

A rather strange incident has taken place recently in the Chinese local processor hardware market. Some AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6C/12T CPUs are being shipped in packaging meant for the weaker chips, like for example the Ryzen 3 3200G (which is a 4C/4T APU based on ‘Picasso’ silicon). This report comes via a recent Facebook post from … Continue reading AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600 CPUs are currently being sold in ‘Ryzen 3 3200G’ processor’s packaging In China →

Chinese x86 CPU Vendor ‘Zhaoxin’ plans to introduce new Discrete GPUs for the Asian market

Posted on: 11 Jul 2020

Zhaoxin is a developer of homegrown x86 processors from China, but apparently has ambitions beyond CPUs. The term Zhao xin means ‘million core’. According to a recent report by cnTechPost, the Chinese company teased a new low-cost 70W discrete GPU in a video posted on its newly overhauled website. The video has been taken down … Continue reading Chinese x86 CPU Vendor ‘Zhaoxin’ plans to introduce new Discrete GPUs for the Asian market →

Intel’s Alder Lake-S CPUs won’t support the AVX-512 instruction, which further confirms the use of ARM’s big.LITTLE design

Posted on: 11 Jul 2020

Intel’s 12th next generation of Alder Lake-S Core processors are said to be the company’s first 10nm mainstream desktop processors, and we have already seen documents, datasheets, and release notes for these CPUs which also appeared on Intel’s own developer website. These processors have been confirmed to support a new LGA1700 socket. This socket will … Continue reading Intel’s Alder Lake-S CPUs won’t support the AVX-512 instruction, which further confirms the use of ARM’s big.LITTLE design →

AMD’s Radeon RX 5300 NAVI 14 entry-level GPU spotted in new Dell XPS Desktop PC

Posted on: 10 Jul 2020

It appears that AMD has another budget entry-level NAVI GPU in the works, as spotted in a latest Dell XPS Desktop (8940) PC listing. The new GPU is the NAVI 14 variant, the RX 5300.

Intel’s Core i7 ‘Rocket Lake-S’ CPU lineup rumored to feature an uneven ‘8 core 12 thread’ configuration

Posted on: 10 Jul 2020

Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices. These were expected to hit the market by the end of this year, but the roadmap from Intel paints a different picture.

NVIDIA is giving a free copy of Death Stranding PC game with the purchase of any GeForce RTX graphics card

Posted on: 10 Jul 2020

Hideo Kojima and Kojima productions’ Death stranding arrives on PC July 14th, replete with new PC features, graphical enhancements, and performance-accelerating NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 technology. Furthermore, Nvidia, 505 Games and Kojima have partnered to deliver the very best experience for PC players, with optimized performance, Game Ready Drivers, engineering assistance and testing, and much more.

PC gaming hardware business is going to surge by $3.6 billion in 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic

Posted on: 09 Jul 2020

Analyst firm JPR (Jon Peddie Research) has recently released its latest market study report regarding the PC Gaming Hardware business, which consists of personal computers, upgrades, and peripherals used for gaming.

Gigabyte releases new BIOS firmware to fix security issues, improve performance & stability for AMD motherboards

Posted on: 09 Jul 2020

Gigabyte, a well-known manufacturer of PC hardware components, has just now announced the release of a new BIOS firmware for its AMD motherboard lineup. Other motherboard vendors are expected to follow suit.

Intel is finally retiring its ‘Gemini Lake’ family of CPUs, giving them an End-of-Life/EOL status

Posted on: 08 Jul 2020

Intel has finally decided to discontinue the Gemini Lake series of third-generation low-power SoC processors. This move is not unexpected though, since Intel already introduced the updated Gemini Lake Refresh chips back in October last year.