Adds buffered IO mode to speed up HDD performance

Microsoft has released DirectStorage 1.2 SDK, enabling buffered IO mode that should offer better performance for slower storage media, such as HDDs.

Comes with four 50MP cameras

Xiaomi has officially launched its Xiaomi 13 Ultra flagship, featuring Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, four 50MP cameras at the back, and best of all, it will launch globally.

One to have for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Dead Island 2

Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 531.68 Game Ready WHQL driver, which is a Game Ready driver for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Dead Island 2. In addition, it fixes some of the previously noted issues.

With AD106 GPU with 4,352 CUDA cores

Nvidia's Geforce RTX 4060 Ti, which is rumored to launch in May, could end up priced at $450, according to the latest rumor.

Joins Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian, NXP's Rafael Sotomayor, Acer's Jason Chen, and Supermicro's Charles Liang

TAITRA has revealed keynote speakers for Computex 2023, announcing Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, as a speaker for the Computex Keynote. The show kicks off on May 30th and will last until June 2nd, and the aforementioned keynote by Jensen Huang will be held on May 29th, a day before the opening day.

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.