AMD graphics card pricing skyrockets due to cryptocurrency mining, could kill AMD's gaming efforts
… When it comes to Mantle, a GPU sold to a gamer and a GPU sold to a miner aren't fungible. …
… When it comes to Mantle, a GPU sold to a gamer and a GPU sold to a miner aren't fungible. …
… One of the defining differences between AMD and Intel CPUs following the launch of AMD's first-generation Ryzen CPUs was the lack of an integrated graphics chip. Where Intel CPUs could run displays and basic games without a discrete GPU, AMD users needed a graphics card. …
Earlier this month, we covered Asus' insane water-cooled laptop and the appearance of a new Nvidia GPU that looked for all the world like a GTX 980 desktop chip in a mobile form factor. …
… AMD's performance advantage over Intel is limited to GPU configurations that combine the on-die GPU with a discrete solution. Paired with a high-end GPU, Intel CPUs are significantly faster than their AMD counterparts. …
… The options include Intel CPUs up to and including 8-core Extreme Edition and 18-core Xeon processors; Nvidia Titan X or 980Ti GPUs, or if you're an AMD fan, a Radeon R9 390X option; 32GB of Kingston DDR4 RAM, and a Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVME SSD with a claimed 2.5Gbps read speed. …
Intel is going after the entry-level mobile GPU market and AMD's high-power APU chips with new Intel Arc G3 and G3 extreme processors, packing 14 CPU cores and up to 12 Xe3 GPU cores in a single die. …
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… It takes 2-3 years to bring a new fab online. Building a new CPU microarchitecture from scratch takes 3-5 years. It also typically takes 2-3 years for a foundry to transition from one major process node to the next. Intel launched its mainstream mobile Alder Lake CPUs only recently. …
… From the article: the most exciting aspect surrounding the CPU revamp doesn't actually relate to the processor blocks at all, but rather to the GPU command processor - the piece of hardware that receives instructions from the CPU, piping them through to the graphics core. …
… RDNA2 is the GPU technology inside the Xbox Series S, Series X, and Sony's new PlayStation 5, all of which launched this month. …