Today, you can have a small NVMe SSD even inside your camera, as memory cards have adopted this technology, evolving CompactFlash cards into a new CFexpress standard. Memory cards of this type has now been released by Netac, which offers not only memory cards but also standard SSDs which positions the company well to combine the two technologies into a memory card for demanding professional photography or video capture. Read more “Netac’s new CF2000 CFexpress cards offer up to 1750 MB/s speeds”
We are currently working on a series of power supply tests, from which you already saw a preview with thermal imagery and temperature measurements of the 12pin (a.k.a. 12+4pin) 12VHPWR cables. In this article we will look at what the PSUs produced using this standard have to offer. Even older good quality PSUs can last a long time in several generations of your PC, so what in the ATX 3.0 specification makes it worth switching over? Read more “Why ATX 3.0? Features and advantages of the new PSU standard”
Last month, Microsoft unveiled their first custom processors being developed for datacenter and Azure services. Also Amazon, which was the first of these US hyperscalers to go the custom hardware route, is now launching new CPUs for its servers. And with it Trainium2, already the second generation of an in-house developed AI accelerator. Amazon also revealed that it has already produced over two million of its CPUs. Read more “Amazon unveils 96-core ARM Graviton4 CPU and Trainium2 AI chip”
It looks like AMD could launch quite a few new desktop processors after the turn of the year. Last week, alleged specifications of Ryzen 8000Gs were leaked, which will be a desktop version of the 4nm Phoenix SoC with Zen 4 architecture. At the same time, reports appeared telling of new upcoming releases for the old AM4 platform, which is supposedly getting new models again, perhaps also some APUs with integrated graphics. Read more “Ryzen 8000G parameters leaked. Ryzen 5000GT for AM4 is coming”
Some time ago, youtuber Moore’s Law Is Dead leaked the first information with AMD’s Zen 6 architecture coming after the yet-to-be-released Zen 5. Now he has another juicy rumor regarding these CPUs, which could come to market in 2026 (late 2025 at best), as he has received documents showing a server and embedded version of them. These designs may however reveal quite a bit about desktop Ryzens with this architecture as well. Read more “Zen 6 document leak: More cores, PCIe 6.0 and 2.5D packaging”
Some GPUs in current gaming graphics cards use just eight PCIe lanes instead of the whole ×16 interface. This includes cards like the Radeon RX 7600 and also the GeForce RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti. Asus recently came up with an idea to make use of the extra lanes that would go to waste such a GPU, and made a graphics card that gets some utility out of of the excess lanes, using them to connect an SSD and provide an extra M.2 slot. Read more “GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with M.2 slot launched, can use PCIe 5.0 SSD”
When SSDs using PCI Express 5.0 technology came to market, most models available delivered sequential speeds of “just” around 10 GB/s. The Phison E26 controller used is supposed to reach up to about 12.5 GB/s, but it turned out that with most of the NAND available on the market it only reaches that lower level bar between 9500 – 10 000 MB/s. Fortunately, things are getting better and the 12.5GB/s drives promised a year ago are coming. Read more “Corsair’s MP700 Pro Gen5 SSD delivers up to 12.4 GB/s speeds”
Nvidia is yet to release the refresh of the current generation of GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs, which will be released in 2024, but after that (according to some sources in 2025) it’s time for the next generation GeForce RTX 5000 with Blackwell architecture. Information is slowly appearing about those GPUs – currently about the most powerful model, which will be based on the GB202 chip. But it looks like it has been “downsized” a bit. Read more “GeForce RTX 5090: no 512-bit bus, but with DP 2.1 and on 3nm node”
Last year, Nvidia launched the 4nm H100 accelerator with Hopper architecture. It has since been the company’s fastest GPU for AI. Now the company is launching its successor dubbed H200. It isn’t quite a new generation yet, but something of a refresh that will lead Nvidia’s lineup until the next generation with the Blackwell architecture is released. The H200 relies on the use of faster memory, but that should also lift overall performance. Read more “Nvidia’s new fastest AI GPU: H200 with 141GB of HBM3E memory”
It looks like we finally have an answer to the question of when AMD will finally release “APUs”, or power-efficient monolithic processors with a beefy integrated GPU for the AM5 platform. It was revealed by Gigabyte, and while that isn’t directly from AMD, Gigabyte should be well informed (although the information likely wasn’t supposed to be shared publicly). The company announced the release date of the APUs in a press release. Read more “Ryzen 8000G APUs launch in two months, Gigabyte reveals date”
Three years ago, when Comet Lake processors came out – the very last of several Skylake architecture refreshes produced in the troubled 14nm era – Intel tried to boost it with cryogenic cooling technology, or rather cooling with an auxiliary thermoelectric element that lowered the temperature of the “coldplate”, cooling the processor below the ambient temperature. This technology is now yet another activity that Intel has cut back on. Read more “Intel discontinues Cryo Cooling Technology, ends the app updates”
Recently, it has been reported that AMD may be preparing to discontinue driver support for older Radeon graphics cards with Polaris and Vega architectures (pre-RDNA cards based on GCN lineage). AMD has now released the first new version of drivers for these graphics cards in two months, so it seems that the full end of updates for them is not yet here, but at the same time it is confirmed that support for them is moving to the back burner. Read more “End of Polaris and Vega GPU support: AMD provides a redux driver”
In the summer, we reported that AMD started using Zen 4c cores in its Ryzen 7000 laptop processors. AMD appeared to use a new die with small (or compact) Zen 4c cores known as Phoenix 2 or unofficially Little Phoenix to make four and six-core models, alongside the standard versions based on a stripped-down Phoenix chip containing eight big Zen 4 cores. But the release of these APUs has been officially announced by AMD only now. Read more “Big.LITTLE Ryzen out officially: Phoenix 2 APU with Zen 4c cores”
Recently, leaks have started to emerge about the new refreshed GeForce RTX 4000 graphics card models that Nvidia is apparently preparing for release next year. Previous reports have talked about Nvidia intending to use larger, more expensive chips for these, which could provide more memory capacity. But now, reports are coming in that cast doubts on this, saying that the GeForce RTX 4080 Super will stay at 16GB. Read more “GeForce RTX 4000 “Super” GPUs specs leak: shader core counts”
A week ago, AMD unveiled its most powerful CPUs, the HEDT and workstation Threadripper and Threadripper Pro 7000. Two platforms with WRX90 and TRX50 chipsets were also released with them, but it looks like there could be a third type of boards for these CPUs, with a chipset labelled Pro 695. What it’s supposed to be, however, is very unclear. Or perhaps, on the contrary, seemingly clear but contradictory on closer inspection. Read more “AMD Pro 695 chipset: 2S Threadripper boards, or just a mistake?”
Latest comments