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NVIDIA CEO Comments On EVGA's Breakup And What It Means For The GPU Market

Mark Tyson — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:25:00 -0400

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang answered some questions from investors and reporters in the wake of his GTC keynote. One of the seismic industry events just ahead of all the Ada Lovelace news was the split with long-standing partner EVGA. Naturally, there were reporters at the Q&A that came fishing for Huang’s first official comments on what appeared

Logitech G Cloud Gaming Handheld Goes Up For Preorder With A $50 Discount

Tim Sweezy — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:18:00 -0400

Another gaming handheld has entered the market, as Logitech announces the launch of its cloud enabled Logitech G CLOUD Gaming Handheld. The new device is being billed as "a purpose-built gaming device for cloud gaming," and you can pre-order one now at a $50 savings. Valve has been impressing gamers with its Steam Deck mobile handheld.

Samsung's New Rugged Galaxy Phone And Tablet Combo Are Designed To Take A Beating

Ryan Whitwam — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:31:00 -0400

Gravity is the enemy of most of the fragile glass sandwiches that pass for smartphones in 2022, but the rugged device niche lives on. Samsung has just announced a new generation of rugged devices for the US in the form of the Galaxy XCover6 Pro smartphone and Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro tablet. These devices run the same Android software you can

MSI Demos Spatium M570 PCIe 5 SSD Powered By Phison Topping An Incredible 12.5GB/s

Paul Lilly — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:23:00 -0400

MSI is rolling out a couple of new solid state drives, one of which is a blazing-fast PCI Express 5.0 model with a Phison controller tucked inside. That would be the Spatium M570. Officially, MSI is rating the Spatium M570 as being capable of up to 10,000MB/s (10GB/s) of sequential read performance, but that might be a conservative metric. In

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 Is So Fast Blizzard Bumped Overwatch 2's Framerate Cap To 600 FPS

Chris Goetting — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:37:00 -0400

NVIDIA’s brand-new GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is wicked fast. So fast, in fact, that Blizzard feels the need to increase Overwatch 2’s rendering speed limit. The graphics card is easily able to exceed the current 400 frames per second cap, so the cap has now been increased to 600. NVIDIA posted a video of the RTX 4090 powering Overwatch 2 to

Neptune's Rings Shine Bright And Crystal Clear In Amazing Shot Captured By NASA's Webb Telescope

Tim Sweezy — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:00:00 -0400

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a gorgeous image of Neptune, its rings, and seven of the planet's moons. One of Neptune's moons shines so brightly, that it could be mistaken for a star. Neptune was first discovered in 1846 and has enamored astronomers since. The frigid planet is located 30 times farther away from the

G.Skill Snatches DDR5 Speed Crown With Lightning Fast 6800MHz Trident Z5 RGB RAM

Paul Lilly — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:37:00 -0400

G.Skill is adding to its growing collection of high-speed DDR5 RAM for Intel's Alder Lake and AMD's soon-to-be-released Zen 4 platforms. The memory maker's latest offerings include a 64GB (2x32GB) Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6400 kit and a class-leading 32GB (2x16GB) Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6800 RAM kit, the latter of which will put G.Skill in sole possession

2K Games Discloses Startling Security Breach, Tells Players Not To Open Support Emails

Nathan Wasson — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:06:00 -0400

2K, the publisher of numerous video game series, including Borderlands, Civilization, and Bioshock, has issued a notice to warn customers that an unknown actor recently gained unauthorized access to its help desk platform. The threat actor in question abused this access to distribute malware by way of the 2K Games support email address. The

Windows 11 2022 Update Arrives With Gaming Upgrades, Bolstered Security And More

Lane Babuder — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:06:00 -0400

Windows 11 has definitely had its ups and downs since its release almost a year ago. Certain features like easier descriptions of privacy settings were definitely a step up, though things like making it more difficult to select your default web browser, mail client, or other default apps were absolutely a step down. That said, Microsoft says

GALAX Reveals NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Has More Than Memory Cut From 16GB Model

Zak Killian — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:49:00 -0400

When NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 4000-series GPUs yesterday, the company raised a lot of eyebrows at the existence of two RTX 4080 cards: one with 16GB of memory, and one with 12GB of memory. It's not unheard-of to have two GPUs with the same name and differing amounts of VRAM, but the specific quantities of memory made a lot of folks

UPDATE: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Blitzes Benchmarks With All-Core Overclocking At 5.8GHz

Zak Killian — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:30:00 -0400

When AMD announced its Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors in August, it announced a peak clock rate of 5.7 GHz for the top-end, 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X model. That CPU is expected to boost to 5.85 GHz under Precision Boost Overdrive, but that's only on two cores. Even 5.7 GHz is well above the all-core clock speed, but TUM_APISAK spotted a result

GeForce RTX 4090 And 4080 Roundup: Custom GPU Models From ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI And Others

Mark Tyson — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:14:00 -0400

In the wake of the GeForce Beyond presentation on Tuesday, with all the official tech details extensively reported, our attention turns to what NVIDIA partners are adding to the RTX 40 offer. NVIDIA reference models of the new GeForce RTX 4090 24GB, RTX 4080 16GB and RTX 4070 4080 12GB have been analyzed in some detail, but is there any benefit

SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Hits A Speed Bump In Broadband Benchmarks But Is Still Impressively Fast

Tim Sweezy — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:38:00 -0400

While Elon Musk's Starlink satellite service has been expanding over the last year, its average internet speed it provides has been slowing down. A new report from Ookla indicates that the company's internet service had slowed in every country it surveyed over the last year. Elon Musk made headlines earlier this year, when the billionaire

Floppy Disks Had A Remarkably Long Run But Is The Storage Medium Finally Ready To Retire?

Paul Lilly — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:35:00 -0400

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a thriving business selling floppy disks to customers even though the industry at large has moved to solid state drives (SSDs) and USB flash drives. For

NASA'S Audio Clip Of Meteroids Slamming Into Mars Sounds Way Different Than You Think

Tim Sweezy — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:58:00 -0400

NASA's InSight lander has captured the first audio of a meteoroid impacting another planet, and it sounds quite different than one might imagine. The lander's seismometer has been able to pick up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years. InSight first landed on the Red Planet in 2018. Since its arrival, the spacecraft

Razer Releases A Much More Affordable Version Of Its Leviathan V2 Soundbar For Gamers

Paul Lilly — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:30:00 -0400

Soundbars aren't just for home theater buffs, they're also encroaching into PC gaming territory. To wit, Razer in April unveiled its Leviathan V2, a multi-driver PC gaming soundbar with THX Spatial Audio, RGB lighting, and a dedicated subwoofer for $249.99. If that's too rich for your blood, Razer has now released the Leviathan V2 X with some

Uber Pins Security Breach And Huge GTA 6 Leak On Teen Hacking Group Being Targeted By FBI

Nathan Wasson — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:44:00 -0400

Last week, a massive security breach rocked Uber, with a teenage hacker claiming credit for the incident. Then, over the weekend, someone claiming to be this same hacker leaked Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 gameplay footage on the GTA forums. The developer of the GTA series, Rockstar Games, later confirmed the authenticity of the leaked footage

OneXPlayer Mini Pro Handheld Gaming PC Brings Out The Big Guns To Challenge Steam Deck

Zak Killian — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:34:00 -0400

If you haven't gotten a chance to put hands on one, Valve's Steam Deck is a pretty cool gaming device that has become wildly popular. It has its faults, though—its haptics rumble is weak, its display is lack-luster, and there's only one USB port on board. As such, OneXPlayer likely hopes that you may find those shortcomings enough to consider

Huge Diablo 4 Leak Reveals Nearly 45 Minutes Of Gameplay Including Combat

Lane Babuder — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:33:00 -0400

Blizzard first announced Diablo IV's existence in 2019. It revealed a number of features that players are looking forward to, such as the return of the Rogue class. Even still, no one has seen footage of gameplay for the upcoming title until now, as someone has posted videos of Diablo IV gameplay up on Reddit. Diablo III was released in

ASUS ROG Phone 6D Ultimate Gaming Phone Levels Up Cooling And Swaps Out Its Processor

Ryan Whitwam — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:30:00 -0400

Mobile games are becoming more demanding and competitive with titles like Fortnite and Call of Duty coming to smartphones. That's caused the gaming phone niche to expand in recent years with names like Red Magic and Black Shark appearing on the scene. Leave it to ASUS and its ROG brand to set the benchmark, though. The company's newest ROG

NVIDIA To Fuel Metaverse, Cars, And Robots With Powerful Omniverse Updates, Thor Superchip, Grace CPU And More

Chris Goetting — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:11:00 -0400

NVIDIA kicked off its GTC Developer conference today with a keynote address by Founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The new GeForce RTX 40 Series cards announced at the start will certainly garner the lion's share of headlines, but the company’s announcements span many industries and markets. Today’s keynote also introduced the world to new advancements

Intel CEO Shows Off Arc A770 Graphics Card As First Batch Gets Ready For Retail

Mark Tyson — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:58:00 -0400

Intel’s CEO has posted a Tweet celebrating what would be a very special occasion for anyone—the receiving of an Arc A770 graphics card. Intel Graphics chief Raja Koduri delivered the svelte flagship accelerator to Pat Gelsinger on Sunday evening and posted his own tweet of the “surprise delivery” event shortly after his boss. The purpose

Sony's PS5 Console Is Headed For A Major Redesign With A Tricked Out Storage Upgrade

Tim Sweezy — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:53:00 -0400

A new rumor suggests the PlayStation 5 could be in for a face lift. Sources are saying the new "D" chassis will also have a special feature that current consoles lack. Currently Sony's highly popular PlayStation 5 console has two configurations available, one with a disc drive, and one without. However, sources speaking on the condition

NVIDIA Unveils Beastly GeForce RTX 4090 And RTX 4080 Lovelace Graphics Cards With Big Gains

Zak Killian — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:01:00 -0400

After literally years of rumors, we've finally arrived at the day: the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs based on its Ada Lovelace core architecture. During its Project Beyond event at GTC this morning, the famous leather jacket-clad CEO, Jensen Huang, took to a virtual stage to announce the company's latest GPUs. And you may want

AMD Sets Launch Date For Radeon 7000 Series Gaming GPUs Powered By RDNA 3

Paul Lilly — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:59:00 -0400

AMD is officially planning to launch its next-generation graphics cards based on its RDNA 3 architecture during an event on November 3, 2022. Scott Herkelman, senior vice president and general manager of AMD's Radeon division, confirmed the imminent launch in a Twitter post with a 'Save the Date' image attached (cropped and displayed above). "Join