Powercolor announces Hellhound RX 7900 XTX Spectral White
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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.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 official performance leaks
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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.

AMD announces Alveo MA35D Media Accelerator
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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.

Seagate brings new Star Wars FireCuda NVMe SSDs
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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.

AMD and Samsung extend IP licensing agreement for AMD Radeon Graphics
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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.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D reviews are out
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Wednesday, 05 April 2023 23:22

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D reviews are out


Roundup: Leading gaming CPU with impressive power draw

Reviews of AMD's third Ryzen 7000X3D SKU, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, are now out, and this 8-core/16-thread CPU with 3D V-Cache, packs some serious gaming power, and doing it at impressively low power draw.

Asus ROG Ally is coming as Steam Deck competitor
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Impressive specifications with Zen 4 and RDNA3 APU

Asus managed to surprise everyone as it appears that the ROG Ally is actually a real product, rather than an April Fools' Day prank. While there are still a lot of unknown details, a bunch of information has appeared in the last few days including two hands-on videos, showing the prototype in full detail.

Nvidia shows Cyberpunk 2077 RT: Overdrive Mode
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Path Tracing renamed as Full Ray Tracing by Nvidia

CD Projekt Red's upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 update, launching on April 11th, will bring the technology preview of the Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode, one with path tracing, or as Nvidia now calls it, "full ray tracing". Nvidia has now released a few new screenshots and a trailer, showing some of those impressive new effects.

AMD releases Software Adrenalin 23.4.1 WHQL driver
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Meet Your Maker and The Last of Us Part 1 optimizations

AMD has released its latest Adrenalin Edition 23.4.1 WHQL GPU driver which brings support for Meet Your Maker game, as well as game optimizations for The Last of Us Part 1. It also fixes a couple of issues.

AMD officially announced new A620 chipset for Ryzen 7000 series CPUs
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ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI show their motherboards

AMD has officially announced its new A620 chipset, giving an entry-level motherboard option for its Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI have already announced their own motherboards, and AMD says these should start at $85.