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 […]
A variety of RX 6600 models as made by various GPU manufacturers, since AMD isn’t making a “reference” model this time around. This is the model Ars received for review purposes from Sapphire. [credit: AMD ] AMD’s latest lower-end graphics card, the RX 6600, is its sixth RDNA 2 offering in the past 12 months—a fact […]
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. […]
(credit: Intel) How many years will the ongoing chip shortage affect technology firms across the world? This week, multiple tech executives offered their own dismal estimates as part of their usual public financial disclosures, with the worst one coming in at “a couple of years.” That nasty estimate comes from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who […]
How many Radeon RX 6700XT graphics cards did AMD produce? Well, at least one. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] Look, I’ll level with you: reviewing a GPU amidst a global chip shortage is ludicrous enough to count as dark comedy. Your ability to buy new, higher-end GPUs from either Nvidia or AMD has been hamstrung for […]