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Snapdragon Summit 2022 Day 2: Augmented Reality, Snapdragon For Windows, And Spatial Audio

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 01:00:39 +0200

Qualcomm's focus for the first half of its latest Snapdragon Summit revolved around the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 platform, while the second half of the event (and our coverage) targets AR, Snapdragon Compute, advances in spatial audio, and lossless audio over Bluetooth.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Announced – Huge Power And Performance With Lots Of AI

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:15:06 +0200

At its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm has taken the veil off of its supercharged Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform. Naturally, performance in almost all regards has improved, but so too have the overall capabilities - especially those that revolve around AI.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 GPU Rendering Performance Review

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:00:01 +0200

The second GPU to grace NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace GeForce lineup has landed: RTX 4080. Like the previously-released RTX 4090, the RTX 4080 continues to show us that the Ada Lovelace generation offers huge upticks in rendering performance over the previous-gen Ampere.

NVIDIA SC22: H100 Quantum-2 Networks, HPC, Omniverse, and Digital Twins With Lockheed Martin

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:30:54 +0200

The scaling of AI and high performance computing is fascinating. At SC22 NVIDIA explored more uses for its Omniverse and Digital Twin approach to the metaverse, It showcased HPC deployment of its H100 GPUs, edge computing, and developing true to life models of the planet with Lockheed Martin.

AMD Announces RDNA3 Radeon RX 7900 XTX – 61 TFLOPS Of Compute At $999

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 02:17:59 +0200

AMD announced today its latest generation of GPUs, the Radeon RX 7000 series, sporting some impressive generational leaps. There were two cards announced, the RX 7900 XTX and the RX 7900 XT, to be released December 13th 2022, at $999 and $899 respectively through AMD directly. Third-party AIBs will be making announcements.....

Blender 3.3 Performance Deep-dive: Cycles, Eevee & Viewport

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 23:45:19 +0200

With a new Blender version comes a new Blender performance deep-dive - and thankfully, there's lots to talk about here. Blender 3.3 introduces support for Intel's Arc GPUs, so those are tested and included here, along with NVIDIA's newest top-end GeForce. We also explore AMD's performance improvements over the past six months, as well as shader compile times.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: Encoding, Photogrammetry & Viewport Performance

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 14:00:22 +0200

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Steam Soon To Get Big Picture Upgrade, Possible SteamOS 3 Desktop Release

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:52:42 +0200

When Valve introduced its Steam Deck handheld gaming device, the company began transitioning its SteamOS Linux distribution towards supporting only that device. It was uncertain whether the company had plans to return the OS to its original home on desktop PCs, but this week, we have hints that it is indeed going.....

Memory Test Tool Memtest86+ Gets First Major Update In Nearly A Decade

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:42:43 +0200

If there’s been one constant in desktop and notebook PCs over the years, it’s that memory will need to be tested. Anyone who’s been working with PCs for a substantial amount of time are likely familiar with Memtest86+ – a bootable tool that couldn’t be much simpler in design, but serves an.....

Intel Releases First Arc GPU Driver For Linux, Tinkering Prowess Required

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:25:04 +0200

Intel has just released the first Linux-bound graphics driver for its new Arc graphics cards, and as long as you’re running Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04, you should be able to get going fairly quickly. We emphasize “fairly” because you will be copying and pasting a fair number of commands to get your.....

Intel Launches 13th-gen Core ‘Raptor Lake’ Processors, Z790 Chipset

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:00:13 +0200

Intel today announces the release of its 13th-gen Core desktop processors – built around the Raptor Lake microarchitecture – as well as its Z790 motherboard platform. To kick things off, the company is offering three base models with one each for Core i5, i7, and i9, as well as a variant of.....

Intel Arc Multi-GPU Rendering, Encoding & Math Performance

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:00:29 +0200

We recently established that Intel's Arc graphics cards perform well in many creative tasks, but have you wondered how combining the forces of two Arc GPUs might improve things? We're finding that out here, with the help of Blender, LuxMark, BRAW, and others.

NVIDIA Unlaunches Its GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Variant

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 19:55:46 +0200

When NVIDIA announced its Ada Lovelace generation of GeForces last month, it kicked things off with the top-end RTX 4090 (our review here), and two models below it: RTX 4080 16GB, and RTX 4080 12GB. In name alone, those sub-RTX 4090 models seem identical aside from the memory density, but closer inspection.....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: The New Rendering Champion

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:00:27 +0200

NVIDIA has just kicked-off its Ada Lovelace generation with a new flagship GPU: GeForce RTX 4090. Our first performance look will revolve around rendering, and once you see the results, you'll understand why. Whereas Ampere itself brought huge rendering gains over Turing, Ada Lovelace does the same over Ampere.

A Creative Arc By Intel: A750 & A770 GPU Workstation Performance Review

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:00:09 +0200

We recently took an in-depth look at Intel's low-end Arc A380 graphics card in creator workloads, and now, we're able to add the top-end A750 and A770 models to the results. We found some notable highlights of Arc with our A380 look, and as it happens, Arc 7 has created even more.

Intel Reveals More Details About Its Full Arc GPU Desktop Launch

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:42:24 +0200

Earlier this week, Intel announced that it would be launching its top-end Arc A770 graphics card on October 12, and today, the company reveals more about its plans, specs for the entire lineup, and how it’s sweetening the deal to make the Arc 7 look even more alluring. Some of the information.....

AMD’s Radeon PRO 22.Q3 Driver Provides Huge Boosts To Viewport Performance

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:14:19 +0200

After what we’d consider a rather calm year for AMD’s Radeon PRO drivers, the company’s latest release highlights that its engineers have been hard at work putting polish on an important performance scenario: interacting with the viewport! A completely rearchitected OpenGL driver helped make it happen. It’s become standard fare that if.....

An Alluring Alchemist: Intel Arc A380 GPU Creator Performance Review

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:30:20 +0200

Ahead of the launch of the upcoming Intel Arc flagship, A770, we wanted to kick off our Arc creator coverage with an in-depth performance look at a wide-range of real-world scenarios - from encoding to rendering to photogrammetry. What does a $140 option from Intel grant you? We have many performance graphs that will show you.

Intel To Launch Top-end Arc A770 Graphics Card On October 12 For $329

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:10:49 +0200

For those who’ve been anticipating the full launch of Intel’s first-gen Arc desktop graphics cards, company CEO Pat Gelsinger had some good news to share at the ongoing Intel Innovation 2022 conference, held in San Jose. With what might be a testament to just how badly Intel wants this full launch to.....

AMD Launches AM5 Platform: Zen 4 Processors Deliver Nice Performance Upticks Over Prior Generation

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:00:49 +0200

Today is the day you get to learn a lot more about the performance factor of AMD’s latest-gen Ryzen CPUs, part of the Zen 4 family. If the schedule goes off without a hitch, you should be able to order one of the new chips tomorrow, along with the accompanying motherboards –.....