Intel Releases Specs, Performance Data on Upcoming Alder Lake Core i9-12900K
… Features and Performance Claims Intel is promising a 1.19x overall uplift for Alder Lake when IPC and frequency are taken into account. …
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New Kickstarter PGS Labs claims it can provide ultimate handheld gaming PC
… It's intended to boot both Windows 10 and Android Marshmallow, and it claims it can handle streaming from other devices. The team behind the project claims to have done their initial testing on a Cherry Trail-equipped Surface 3 before settling on baseline specifications. …
AMD Could Resurrect the 5800X3D for a Special AM4 10th Anniversary Edition
… Although not super competitive with Intel's best in their own right, they gave AMD an enormous springboard for future performance enhancements, which finally saw it take several performance crowns in subsequent generations. …
Nvidia: Turing Sales Revenue Up 45 Percent Over Pascal
… RTX GPUs don't offer a performance improvement per dollar over their GTX counterparts. If you owned a GTX 1080 and bought an RTX 2070 to replace it, the only thing you got for $500 was the promise of RTX support in future games and a very small performance increase. …
AMD Unveils New Ryzen V-Cache Details at HotChips 33
… AMD claims that it can hit similar yields on V-Cache CPUs versus standard chips, implying that we shouldn't see huge price increases due to yield. Whether AMD raises its prices in general is a separate question, of course. …
Microsoft Unveils Surface Studio 2, Surface Pro 6, and Surface Laptop 2
… As before, all specifications apart from the CPU appear to be identical, though MS claims the system is quieter now. The entry-level price is rising to $999, which isn't great, but the move to 8GB of RAM and faster CPU are welcome. …
Small wonder: Samsung announces 2TB T3 portable SSD
… USB 3.1 Gen 1 is identical to USB 3.0, with the same performance and the same controllers. Size comparison of the T3 against a typical mobile device. Samsung claims that the T3 is capable of up to 450MB/s, but you'll need to enable UASP to do it. …
Why you shouldn't pre-order an Oculus Rift
… Its memory configuration is best described as 3.5GB+512MB and its performance can be erratic at maximum detail levels and high resolution. …
AMD Brings Its Zen 3 Architecture, Up to Eight CPU Cores to Chromebooks
… AMD claims every CPU in this family provides "all-day" battery life, which it says is at least eight hours. …
4 New AMD Ryzen CPUs Target Lower Power, Higher Performance
… With these chips, AMD has shifted to using a single CCX cluster instead but claims that overall performance should be 8-10 percent higher for the new parts compared with the old ones. …