Plenty of game optimizations and improvements

Intel has released its latest version of the Arc GPU Graphics Driver, version 101.4311 beta. This is a pretty big update, featuring an extensive list of Game On driver support for various games, further game perforamnce improvements, as well as some issue fixes.

AMD RDNA 3 goes Radeon Pro

AMD has officially announced its newest Radeon Pro graphics cards that will be a part of the new Radeon Pro W7000 series, the AMD Radeon Pro W7900 and the Radeon Pro W7800. Both will be based on AMD's new RDNA 3 architecture, and promise to deliver significantly higher performance than the previous generation and exceptional performance-per-dollar compared to the competitive offering.

Plenty of stock, even at MSRP

Nvidia has officially launched its new Geforce RTX 4070 graphics card, and while first reviews of RTX 4070 graphics cards launching at MSRP were up yesterday, the company has also lifted the NDA for factory-overclocked and more expensive custom graphics cards today. It also appears that availability for the Geforce RTX 4070 is great and there are plenty of graphics cards available, even at the $599.99 MSRP.

Support for RTX 4070 and a couple of fixes

Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 531.61 WHQL driver, mainly to bring support for the launched Geforce RTX 4070 graphics card, but it also comes with a few fixes.

First MSRP reviews are out

The NDA for Nvidia's new Geforce RTX 4070 has been lifted today, allowing fellow IT journalists to publish the first batch of reviews for those RTX 4070 graphics cards that will launch at $600 MSRP. The reviews for overclocked Geforce RTX 4070 graphics cards should show up tomorrow, which is also the date for global retail availability.

An all-white Hellhound series RX 7900 XTX

Powercolor has announced an all-white version of its Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card, bringing the latest flagship graphics card to those looking to build an all-white-themed PC.

RTX 4070 Founders Edition pictured

Just a few days before the official launch, scheduled for April 13th, the first Nvidia official performance numbers for the GeForce RTX 4070 have leaked online, showing it to be on par with the RTX 3080, at least with DLSS 3. It also appears that Nvidia will also launch an RTX 4070 Founders Edition (FE), which would make it the third FE graphics card in the RTX 40 series.

With two 5nm VPUs 

AMD has announced its most advanced media accelerator to date, the AMD Alve MA35D, featuring two 5nm, ASIC-based video processing units (VPUs) with support for AV1 compression.

Coming in Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, and Darth Vader EKWB RGB heatsinks

Seagate has announced its new special-edition Star Wars FireCuda NVMe SSDs, coming in 1TB and 2TB capacities. These are special-edition versions of Seagate's FireCuda 530 NVMe PCIe 4 SSDs. The lightsaber-themed heatsink comes from EK Water Blocks and looks pretty cool.

Bringing Radeon graphics technology to Samsung Exynos SoCs

AMD has Samsung have both announced a signing of a multi-year agreement extension that will bring ultra-low-power AMD Radeon graphics to Samsung Exynos SoCs.