New benchmarks of Valve's Steam Machine show performance comparable to a 6-core AMD Ryzen CPU from 2020, but could be decent if priced right.
Two new benchmarks of the Steam Machine by Valve have appeared online . These benchmarks give us a taste of what to expect in terms of CPU performance from the upcoming system, which aims to be a mainstream gaming option powered by the SteamOS.
The idea of Steam Machines goes back to 2013, when Valve first started discussing the project after
Apple has just won a continuation patent for some of the most iconic design elements of the 2027-launching iPhone 20 . Even so, the fidelity with which Apple intends to implement these design choices in its 20th anniversary iPhone remains uncertain for now.
Apple's new continuation patent describes an iPhone frame that is made from a combination of transparent and opaque materials
A standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 followed by the premium Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro are slated to launch later this year, becoming Qualcomm’s first 2nm chipsets to arrive to the market. However, the advanced lithography is rumored to make the top-end SoC ludicrously expensive , but according to the latest leak, there could be six samples for Qualcomm’s partners to choose from, offering a diversified lineup for manufacturers to mix and match their launches and reduce their chipset expenditure.
Evidence of the Snapdragon 8
After a few weeks in preview, Epic Games has officially launched Unreal Engine 5.8 in time for this year's Unreal Fest Chicago . The update introduces advanced worldbuilding and terrain creation tools, high-quality real-time vegetation authoring, and a Lumen Lite mode to deliver 60 FPS on Nintendo Switch 2 for the final major release powering several PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S games, as Epic is ramping up work on Unreal Engine 6 .
The biggest new addition of Unreal Engine 5.
Things are even worse in the storage market, and despite Silicon Motion's target to bring the next-gen PCIe controller next year, worse market conditions are expected.
The DRAM and storage market has been incredibly impacted due to the AI boom, which has diverted all resources towards AI data centers and servers. It has been over six months since the RAMpocalypse started, but the prices for RAM and SSDs haven't stabilized yet, and it's expected that the situation will continue to worsen in the next year
NVIDIA ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) was first shown back at Computex 2023 , with the promise to bring NPCs to life through its suite of AI technologies in games like PUBG, Naraka: Bladepoint , and inZoi . Now, players will get to test for themselves how real that promise is, as the NVIDIA ACE-powered PUBG Ally AI-teammates are available for players to add to their squad in Duos games for the next two weeks as part of a beta test.
The demo video below shows a
A new strategy involving four Galaxy S27 models is seemingly being adopted by Samsung for next year, but a new rumor suggests that the Korean giant could have easily saved millions in production costs for the base model because the latest information sheds light on how disappointing an upgrade it will be, making the iPhone 18 a superior alternative.
The ongoing DRAM crisis has already pushed Samsung into a corner, giving it few options but to enforce cost-cutting measures on the base Galaxy S27. According to yeux1
The latest MLPerf Training 6.0 benchmarks are in & NVIDIA has once again secured performance records with its Blackwell GPUs .
The latest MLPerf Training v6.0 benchmark results were shared by MLCommons. The latest round adds two new MoE tests for large-scale and entry-level AI deployments: DeepSeek V3 (671b), and GPT-OSS 20B (21b). Being an open-source and peer-reviewed benchmark suite, MLPerf allows all vendors to list the results
ArenaNet unveiled its long-rumored next big project, the action/adventure MMORPG Guild Wars 3 , during Summer Game Fest. The game was among those titles that registered the biggest wishlist increase on Steam following the announcement, with over half a million users already signaling their interest.
A few days later, Studio Head Colin Johanson reiterated ArenaNet's desire to innovate in a genre that has known stagnation for many years. Official information has continued to trickle in, and yesterday Johanson revealed in a new blog post where to place
SteelSeries has been working toward the same goal for years now: a wireless headset that replaces everything on your desk. The brand's Arctis Pro Wireless introduced that idea, the Nova Pro Wireless refined it, and now the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless OMNI feels like the point where SteelSeries simply polishes what was already there.
At around $399, the OMNI sits between the Nova Pro Wireless and the newer Nova Elite. It doesn’t try to completely reinvent the formula. Instead, it focuses on
