GPU Stock & Pricing Improving after RTX 30 LHR Launch
To say that the graphics card market has been extremely scuffed is a bit of an understandment, as prices shot through the roof and extreme stock shortages became commonplace. But, there is hope on the horizon. As we discussed in our recent video, we have been hearing from our sources that stock issues are […]
RX 6800 XT & Intel i9 10900K Smart Access Memory Benchmarks & Analysis
Smart Access Memory or SAM if you prefer, was a feature AMD touted heavily as it marketed both its Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, and the Ryzen 5000 series processors. This feature AMD claimed, offered a nice bump in performance, and came with no real downsides, and their announcement of SAM prompted waves […]
Xbox Series X Hot Chips Analysis Part 1 – GPU, CPU & Overview
The drilldown of new Xbox hardware has been a tradition for Microsoft, and after the rather extensive rundown for the Xbox One console before its 2013 launch, I was very excited to see what Microsoft would reveal of the Xbox Series X architecture. There are still some mysteries for the machine, but overall Microsoft has […]
AMD RDNA 3 Is Chiplet Based and RDNA 4 Already in Development
In July 2019, after much anticipation, AMD launched the first generation of RDNA based graphics cards, with the RX 5700 XT sporting 40 Compute Units, and the RX 5700 snipping 4 of those (leaving just 36 active). Both of these GPUs were based on the same Navi 10 graphics core, and of course, have done […]
RDNA 2 Power and Performance Improvements To Take on Nvidia | Analysis – EXCLUSIVE
Last year, AMD debuted their highly anticipated RDNA architecture to the world, with the highest-end SKU being the Radeon RX 5700 XT, powered by the Navi 10 silicon. This graphics card was impressive in its own right, measuring a mere 251mm2 and built using TSMC’s 7nm process. RDNA represented a significant design shift for AMD, […]
Navi 12 Isn’t ‘Big Navi’ But Instead Navi 10 With HBM2 | Rumor
Over the past few months, there’s been a lot of mystery to what is going on with AMD’s ‘Big Navi’ GPU, which we assumed to be Navi 12. AMD launched Navi 10 in the form of the Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT on July 7th (which we exclusively leaked way before the official […]
Intel Xe GPU | Intel Reveals Ponte Vecchio – Chiplets, HBM & Insane Performance
Intel’s Xe line of GPUs is progressing extremely well according to Raja Koduri, as he outlines the companies graphics and compute vision at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. Of course, Raja Koduri used to be the head of Radeon Technologies Group but departed to team Intel to spearhead their move into discrete graphics solutions. Taking […]
Nvidia Ampere To ”Massively’ Improve Ray Tracing Performance & Other Info
There’s a rumor swirling around the internet that Nvidia’s next-generation Geforce cards (the RTX 30 series?) based on the Ampere architecture will sport a drastic increase in the ray tracing the performance of the cards, while also sporting large gains in traditional rasterization performance too. As we’re in the closing months of 2019, I believe that the GPU market is […]