Enlarge / Three new, yet largely familiar, GPUs are now available from AMD. (credit: AMD) Starting today, AMD and a number of GPU makers will begin rolling out three new graphics cards in the Radeon 6000-series lineup. These new products add a “50” suffix to existing model numbers, and if you’ve followed AMD over the past […]
Enlarge / The RTX 3080 Ti. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Graphics card prices remain hugely inflated compared to where they were a few years ago, but the good news is that things finally, consistently seem to be getting better and not worse. To quantify this, Jarred Walton at Tom’s Hardware and analyst Jon Peddie have both pulled together data […]
Enlarge (credit: Asus) Early last year, graphics card makers like Asus announced that they would be raising their prices amid an intensifying GPU shortage. This price hike was partly a result of tariffs imposed on some Chinese products by the Trump administration; the tariffs had been waived for several years but were allowed to go […]
Enlarge / Nvidia’s “next BFGPU. ” Nvidia used its CES “special address” today to tease the company’s top-of-the-line RTX 3090 Ti GPU alongside other GPUs and a completely new class of “dual format” gaming monitor aimed at esports pros. The 3090 Ti, which Geforce Senior VP Jeff Fisher referred to as the company’s “next BFGPU, […]
Enlarge (credit: AMD / YouTube ) At a CES press conference this morning , AMD announced the RX 6500 XT, a budget version of the 6000-series line of desktop gaming GPUs launched in 2020 . The new card will be available on January 19 starting at $199—if you can find it amid continuing chip shortages […]
Valve’s full, hours-long, developer-focused presentation. Valve’s portable Steam Deck hardware may be delayed by a couple of months, but that didn’t stop Valve from discussing plenty of interesting details about the system during a wide-ranging developer-focused livestream Friday. That included a lot of nitty-gritty talk about hardware specs and software interpolation, but also design decisions […]
MSI’s version of the AMD RX 6600XT, which is the one Ars Technica tested for this review. [credit: MSI / AMD ] In a traditional PC hardware cycle, AMD’s new RX 6600XT could have been a welcome stopgap for a budget audience. Over the years, we’ve regularly seen this kind of GPU from both major […]
Enlarge / Coming soon: Nearly identical versions of these GPUs, only with “LTR” logos—and new measures to reduce their mining hash rates. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000-branded graphics cards are receiving an update off the factory lines starting this month: hardware-level flags meant to slow down the mining of the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum. […]
Enlarge / RDNA 3 is expected to run on TSMC’s 5nm process, and become available in late 2022 or early 2023. (credit: AMD) According to wccftech and well-known hardware leaker @KittyYYuko, AMD’s next-generation Radeon graphics cards should be a massive upgrade—as much as three times faster than AMD’s current flagship graphics cards. 2.5x is too […]
Enlarge / Some current Arm licensees view the proposed acquisition as highly toxic. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Nvidia) In September 2020, Nvidia announced its intention to buy Arm, the license holder for the CPU technology that powers the vast majority of mobile and high-powered embedded systems around the world. Nvidia’s proposed deal would acquire Arm from Japanese conglomerate […]