(PR) Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing
Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the ratification and public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions, creating the industry's first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. Primarily focused on meeting desktop market demand for both real-time and offline rendering, the release of Vulkan Ray Tracing as provisional extensions enables the developer community to provide feedback before the specifications are finalized. Comments and feedback will be collected through the
(PR) Samsung Begins Mass-production of 512GB eUFS 3.1 Storage for Flagship Smartphones
Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry's first 512-gigabyte (GB) eUFS (embedded Universal Flash Storage) 3.1 for use in flagship smartphones. Delivering three times the write speed of the previous 512 GB eUFS 3.0 mobile memory, Samsung's new eUFS 3.1 breaks the 1 GB/s performance threshold in smartphone storage.
"With our introduction of the fastest mobile storage, smartphone users
"With our introduction of the fastest mobile storage, smartphone users
(PR) Abkoncore Announces the H600X Mid-tower Case
ABKONCORE is officially announcing the release and direct availability of the H600X PC gaming enclosure. The H600X is an ATX chassis that supports RGB SYNC and a great choice for your next build. This Mid-tower ATX case is suitable for standard ATX mainboards, Micro ATX and MINI ITX mainboards. Spacious design allows for the assembly or large components such as long graphic cards up to 358 mm and high CPU coolers up to 173 mm. Power supply support for ATX up
CD Projekt Red Says No Change in "Cyberpunk 2077" Release, Employees to Work from Home
CD Projekt Red in a statement said that the extraordinary circumstances in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will not affect the release date of "Cyberpunk 2077," arguably the most anticipated game of the year. The game is slated for 17 September, 2020 for Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Google Stadia. All CDPR employees have been ordered to work from home until further notice. Much of the content creation of "Cyberpunk 2077" is ready
KeysWorlds Unveils Lowest Ever Prices on Genuine Software
KeysWorlds is an international merchant of genuine software licenses, bringing you the lowest ever prices on software your computers can't do without. Get genuine, globally-valid licenses to Windows 10 Pro for as little as $9.46 with a TechPowerUp-exclusive coupon code, and upgrade all your Windows 7 machines or allocate more of your new gaming PC budget on hardware. As you prepare to bring more of your work home, give your home desktop or personal notebook the most advanced productivity suite, Office 2
AMD "Renoir" Die Shot Pictured
Here is the first die visualization of AMD's new "Renoir" processor. Having made its debut with Ryzen 4000 series mobile processors, "Renoir" succeeds a decade-long legacy of AMD APUs that combine CPUs with powerful iGPUs. AMD designed "Renoir" on TSMC's 7 nm silicon fabrication process. The die measures 156 mm², and has a transistor-count of 9.8 billion. The die shot reveals distinct areas that look like the processor's 8 CPU
NVIDIA: "GTC News Can Wait"
NVIDIA was supposed to launch its next-generation "Ampere" lineup of server-class GPUs at this year's GTC event. However, NVIDIA's president and CEO, Jensen Huang, shared the news that NVIDIA will now be showcasing the important GTC news it has prepared, but instead will only provide online materials from developers and researchers from all over the world. In the blog update, Mr. Huang said the following: "We have exciting products and news to share with you. But this isn'
Complete Hardware Specs Sheet of Xbox Series X Revealed
Microsoft just put out of the complete hardware specs-sheet of its next-generation Xbox Series X entertainment system. The list of hardware can go toe to toe with any modern gaming desktop, and even at its production scale, we're not sure if Microsoft can break-even at around $500, possibly counting on game and DLC sales to recover some of the costs and turn a profit. To begin with the semi-custom SoC at the heart of the beast, Microsoft partnered with AMD to
Xbox Series X Semi-custom SoC Features 320-bit Memory Interface, 10 GB of 20 GB Memory
Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series X entertainment system is shaping up to be a technological monstrosity. Xbox group head at Microsoft, Phil Spencer, last revealed a picture of its semi-custom SoC back in January, by setting it as his Twitter display picture. Over the following weeks, many more technical details , such as the chip's 12 TFLOP/s combined compute power, would be let out. Spencer updated his display picture revealing a segment of the Xbox Series X mainboard with the SoC and memory chips
Steam Experiences Peak Usage over the Weekend, over 20 Million Gamers. Coronavirus Effect?
Steam experienced its highest ever service load over the weekend, with over 20.3 million users concurrently logged in. Of these over 6.4 million were actively playing a game. Its previous service load record was a little over 19 million users, hit just last month (February 2020). This is particularly interesting because the week of 9th March didn't particularly have any big game releases, and according a report by The Verge, most of the 6.4 million gaming were