Instructions Per CPU Clock Cycle: Apple’s A19 Pro Chip Beats Dimensity 9500 By 13%, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 By 10%, And Exynos 2600 By 6%

We all know Apple's A-series chips are some of the most efficient consumer-grade processors in the market, with the new A19 Pro chip also meticulously adhering to this well-established pattern.

While multi-chip comparisons are a convoluted exercise at the best of times, a single metric - instructions per CPU clock cycle - is sufficient to delineate the unequivocal superiority of Apple's A19 Pro chip architecture versus that of its competitors, which include MediaTek's Dimensity 9500


Gunzilla Games, the NFT Studio Backed by Neil Blomkamp Has Been Accused of Not Paying Its Workers “For Many Months”

Gunzilla Games is the studio behind Off the Grid , an NFT battle royale title that arrived in early access back in October 2024. It's also the studio backed by District 9 and Gran Turismo film director Neil Blomkamp (who is listed as its chief creative officer), and last year it also became known as the after it was unceremoniously shuttered by GameStop . Now, however, the studio has been accused of not paying its workers " for many months ."

The accusations come from former and current

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Samson: A Tyndalston Story and Morbid Metal Headline This Week’s New GeForce NOW Games

Another batch of games has through NVIDIA's cloud streaming service, GeForce NOW , headlined by two new releases, while an old release finally becomes RTX 5080-ready, just in time for its latest major DLC expansion release.

Starting with the new games entering GeForce NOW this week, there are four titles in total joining the library. The first two brand-new releases are Samson: A Tyndalston Story, the debut game from independent developer Liquid Swords , and the second new release is Morbid Metal ,

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Overclocker Achieves DDR5 12,917 MT/s On GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS Tachyon DUO X ICE Using Ambient Cooling

A new memory record has been made by the popular overclocker Saltycroissant and even though the score couldn't achieve the top position, doing it using ambient cooling is insanely impressive.

This isn't your original Z890 AORUS Tachyon, which overclockers used to break overclocking records with; it's the newer Z890 AORUS Tachyon Duo X ICE, which GIGABYTE released earlier this year. Having seen DDR5 memory world records getting broken every week or two, a new world record doesn't appear


Intel Arc Pro B70 Quad-GPU Setup Reportedly Consumes Up To 720W In Inference Workloads

With limited reviews available, you will hardly hear about the Arc Pro B70's performance. Here's a sneak peek into the analysis by Hardware Luxx.

Intel's flagship workstation Big Battlemage GPUs were released roughly two weeks ago, but since then, we have hardly seen any reviews for the Arc Pro B65 and the Arc Pro B70. It appears that the GPUs don't have good availability, and similar to what we heard about the Arc Pro B60 last year


Dell CEO Says AI Memory Demand Will Explode To ‘Unimaginable Levels’ By 2028, Leaving No Option For Buyers Other Than Paying Whatever’s Demanded

Dell's CEO, Michael Dell, has discussed his estimates of the AI memory supercycle at a recent event, claiming that the explosive demand will persist for several years.

We have been tracking the memory supply chain for quite some time now, noting that the supply-demand gap has widened in the past few quarters; however, questions remain about how long we will see such conditions in the memory industry. Following the recent TurboQuant fiasco and the wider selloff within memory companies, there was a perception out there that somehow


The Nintendo Switch 2 Can Likely Handle Crimson Desert At 30 FPS With DLSS, But It May Be a The Witcher 3 On Switch Case, Tech Experts Say

Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss recently confirmed it has begun research and development for a possible Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game. According to the tech experts at Digital Foundry , the current generation Nintendo console can likely handle the game at 30 FPS with acceptable image quality thanks to NVIDIA DLSS , but it may be similar to The Witcher 3 Switch port , where some changes were required to get the game running on hardware much weaker than the other consoles of the time - PlayStation 4 and Xbox One .

As the Xbox Series


Thermalright Launches AI HydroNous R1, Featuring Water-Cooled Ryzen AI Max+ 395-Based Mini PC

The AI HydroNous R1 features a powerful configuration and a liquid-cooling solution to deliver high-performance computing.

The new mini PC from Thermalright is pushing the flagship AMD Zen 5 mobile chip to its limits. The company just introduced its most powerful Strix Halo-based mini PC, the AI HydroNous R1, which brings the 16-core/32-thread Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor for enthusiasts, delivering incredibly high computing power unlocked by water cooling.

The


GTA 6 Will Produce Millionaires with User Generated Content (UGC), Claims HipHopGamer

Rockstar's silence on GTA 6 may be deafening at this point, but there are plenty of other whispers on the most anticipated game ever made.

Yesterday, PC Gamer with content creator and media personality HipHopGamer, who shared some stuff about the next Grand Theft Auto game:

There's things in Grand Theft Auto that I know for a fact, because I got a chance to party with Rockstar, literally. There's a special side mission with a major rapper that left CM Punk bloody by accident.

I

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Xbox Achievements Get Visual Refresh and a Couple QoL Features

Microsoft has that the long-awaited visual refresh to Xbox Achievements is now available to Xbox Insiders . The team has given achievement notifications an overhaul with a new look and feel, including updated icons and animations for classic and rare achievements .

Notifications will also match the player's chosen color , making each achievement feel more personal. The ability to set up a custom color was introduced last month to Xbox Insiders, who can now create their own unique color. They can use the sliders to adjust the hue and shade until

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