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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Graphics Card Features A Beautiful Reference Design While RDNA 3 “Navi 31” GPU Looks Powerful The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is an elegantly crafted graphics card that has three hallmarks: Not As Big As The NVIDIA 4090 Founders Edition Doesn’t Utilize The 16-Pin Connector Like The NVIDIA 4090 Founders Edition Industry-Standard Triple-Fan Cooler Unlike The NVIDIA 4090 Founders Edition From top to bottom, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card is a design that looks great....

Khronos Group Adds Vulkan 1.3 Support For AMD’s Next-Gen RDNA 3 “Radeon RX 7000” GPUs As discovered by Videocardz, the Khronos Group conformant page now lists AMD’s RDNA 3 GPUs which are ready to support the latest Vulkan 1.3 API. The latest version of the Vulkan API, v1.3.3.1, will be supported by the upcoming Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards and the respective Navi 3X GPUs powering them. Recently, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090, the flagship of the Ada Lovelace lineup, also got Vulkan 1....

AMD Reportedly Planning Price Cut For Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPUs As Ryzen 7000 “Zen 4” Launch Approaches The rumor comes from Greymon55 who states that the has heard that AMD might be preparing a price cut for its only 3D V-Cache chip, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. AMD launched the Ryzen 7 5800X3D back in April and we got to see the benefits the 3D V-Cache had to offer, delivering faster gaming performance that even outclasses the Intel Core i9-12900KS....

AMD Further Drops Price Cuts on the Entire Ryzen 5000 CPU Lineup, Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3D V-Cache CPU Available At $329 US The AMD Ryzen 5000 prices have made it difficult for users to select between the newer AM5 and the existing AM4 platform. For existing users, it makes sense to get a faster chip on their current motherboards while new buyers will have to evaluate their budget because going AM5 means you have to invest in an X670 or B650 series motherboard which costs a lot more than the existing X570, B550 & A520 motherboards....

AM5 Motherboards For AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs Based on X670 & B650 Chipsets Might Start at $130 US & Go All The Way Up To $500 US In a recent video published by Moore’s Law is Dead, Tom talks about the pricing of motherboards based on the AM5 socket. We know that the 600-series motherboard lineup from AMD will include four different chipsets at launch with a fifth one expected to launch next year....

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Is Going To Be a Beast At Clock Speeds, Zen 4 “Persephone” Cores Can Hit Up To 5.85 GHz Clocks The latest details for AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 7950X CPU come from “Venom Warlock Marvin” over at Weibo (via HXL). The user seems to have gotten his hands on a retail sample which according to him is not even the top bin but he states that the chip can achieve an absolutely phenomenal 5....

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 “Storm Peak” CPU Spotted, Features 64 Cores & 128 Threads Based on 5nm Zen 4 Architecture Within the database, there’s a new entry submitted for a chip with the OPN Code “100-000000454-20_Y” and this chip falls in the “Family 25 Model 24 Stepping 1” which indicates that it is based on the Zen 4 core architecture. According to OPN code and the platform it was tested on, this appears to be the first entry of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPU featuring the Zen 4 core architecture....

Cough and Snore Detection on Android Phones is a Neat Feature Now, our friends over at 9to5Google have discovered that Google is currently working on cough and snore detection, and it will be a part of the Digital Wellbeing suite. In the latest beta update to the app, it was discovered that Google would offer snore and cough tracking; it is intended to be a part of the Bedtime Mode section and will be using the phone’s microphone to listen to snore or cough....

APACER & ZADAK Tease Their PCIe Gen 5 NVMe Consumer SSDs, Come In Aluminum/Graphene Pad & Heatsink Cooling With Up To 13,000 MB/s Transfer Rates One of the main features of the next-generation Intel and AMD platform will be support for PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs. Currently, Phison is working with various brands and companies, including AMD, as revealed yesterday, on the creation of their Gen 5 ecosystems. Now at Computex 2022, we are getting a first look at consumer PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs which will be coming to the market later this year....

Apple has stated that watchOS 9 is also bringing new improvements to Siri, as well as notifications, and more. The watchOS 9 is the Most Advanced Wearable Operating System Loaded with Features In addition to that, watchOS 9 is going to bring more improvements to the workout app. You are getting better metrics in all aspects … Moving forward, Apple has also added the Fitness app, and now it will be available to iPhone users....

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Card Annihilates Apple M1 Ultra’s ‘Revolutionary’ 64-Core GPU According to Apple, the Apple M1 Ultra GPU comes with a 64-core unit that offers 8192 execution units for up to 21 TFLOPs of single-precision horsepower, 660 GTexels/s, and 330 GPixels/s. The media engine on the Apple M1 Ultra is composed of the latest Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes & ProRes with 2 video decode engines, 4 videos encode engines and 4 ProRes encode and decode engines....

Before Apple Silicon, the Majority of the Mac Range Comprised of Intel’s Integrated GPUs, Which Was Not Sufficient to Game The introduction of Apple Silicon materialized with the M1, and though the SoC’s 8-core GPU was not on par with dedicated solutions from NVIDIA and AMD, the increase in performance when compared to integrated GPUs was massive. An argument can be made that the Apple Silicon is capable of gaming at increased graphics settings, but according to several benchmarks, it is less than a stellar experience....

Apple May Use More a Powerful, Power-Efficient Version of TSMC’s 3nm Process for the Expensive iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max For 2022, Apple is reported to introduce the A16 Bionic, which is said to be mass produced on TSMC’s 4nm architecture, but this chip will be reserved for the premium iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. The less expensive iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max are set to be treated to last year’s A15 Bionic....

Apple Has Not Disclosed the Amount of Carbon-Free Aluminum or the Cost Incurred to Mass Produce the 2022 iPhone SE Apple has started purchasing carbon-free aluminum to reduce emissions. Thanks to advancement in smelting technology, this aluminum is the first to be manufactured at an industrial scale outside of a laboratory, with the intent to manufacture the chassis of the 2022 iPhone SE. Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives had this to say about the company’s efforts towards environment conservation....

According to CNET’s Lexy Savvides, the Apple Watch Ultra is a better choice for the following reasons. TechRadar has a different take on the matter, claiming that the Apple Watch Ultra has short battery life, but praises the larger display, GPS functionality and the new physical action button. Victoria Song’s review published on The Verge states that the Apple Watch Ultra will not sate the requirements of athletes as they will want something extra, but it will be handy for many customers....

The game, developed by OSome Studio (the same that made the remasters), is set to add co-op for up to four players on the same screen. It is unclear whether online co-op is also supported. The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely! One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders… Meanwhile, in Hibernia (today known as Ireland) Keratine, chief Whiskitonix’s daughter, is calling Asterix and Obelix to the rescue as they need help to overcome the Roman invasion and bring back her father’s beloved golden ram....

AYANEO reveals GEEK & AYANEO 2 handheld gaming consoles offering the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U APU at a premium pricing tier With the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U mobile processor seeing more use in handheld PC gaming systems, it makes sense to see AYANEO utilize the next-gen processor in its designs. However, the utilization of the AMD mobile processor comes with a hefty price for the newer systems. The Chinese manufacturer has revealed the release date and pricing for their AMD Ryzen 7 6800U handheld variants for the GEEK and AYANEO 2 lines, with the first system selling for $949 and the latter for $1,099....

AYANEO Confirms Its Air Plus Handheld Console Will Feature Brand New AMD Mendocino APUs With A Zen 2 CPU & RDNA 2 GPU Touch, Affordable Than Steam Deck During this week, AYANEO made several announcements such as their Air NEO and Loki handheld gaming consoles. The former will come equipped with the Barcelo APUs while the latter will come in both Intel Alder Lake and AMD Rembrandt configurations. Now the company is planning to also launch a brand new Air Plus handheld console for $289 US which will feature the brand new AMD Mendocino APUs....

Manifest “Our main focus with the rework of Manifest is to ensure it becomes more streamlined and offers up a tighter game space, this has also given us an opportunity to do a complete pass throughout the location and provide stronger themes to previously underutilized spaces. Across the main gamemodes we have adjusted and added flag spaces to reduce travel times and create stronger paths and frontlines as you make your way towards those capture points....

Well-known insider Tom Henderson recently shared in a new report posted on Xfire that one inside source said that the latest entry in the series taught the developer some valuable lessons and that many of the changes introduced in the game will be reverted for the next entry in the series, which is in active development but obviously still in the pre-production stage. As Battlefield 2042 was meant to become the foundation for all future entries in the series, this is definitely interesting information, but not particularly surprising, considering how the new features have been received by the community....