NVIDIA is now expected to unveil its RTX 3080 Ti graphics card on May 18th

According to a forum post, NVIDIA has now declared when the RTX 3080 Ti graphics card will be announced.

ITHome reports on a forum post from Expreview forums. These forums are no longer public, so this is pretty much the only way to see what is being shared there. According to one of the posts, NVIDIA has now provided a

AMD Adrenalin 21.4.1 drivers with reduced power consumption

A week after AMD introduced its ‘wonder driver’ TechPowerUP have discovered that the graphics driver actually improves power consumption in certain states.

The 21.4.1 driver introduced certain upgrades to the Radeon Software. AMD has finally figured out that rather than keep adding features to an already large stack of software, it would make sense to offer other options to end-users, such as a minimal install option. The ability to install the GPU driver

AMD 4700S, XBOX APU without graphics

AMD might have just found a solution to what to do with broken XBOX Series chips.

AMD 4700S is a new processor that is now being advertised by Chinese manufacturers as an ITX compatible solution. The processor name does not feature “Ryzen”, so it is not part of an official AMD desktop consumer product line. According to the seller, the advertised product features an “AMD Cardinal” motherboard. This would suggest that AMD developed this motherboard

ASUS CMP 40HX

We received a photo from internal testing of the upcoming CMP 40HX graphics card from ASUS. The same source has previously provided the photos of the ASUS CMP 30HX graphics card.

According to the screenshot that we received, the CMP 40HX graphics card from ASUS will offer up to 43.77 MH/s, up from 36 MH/s officially announced by NVIDIA. Those eight mining cards working in a cluster were power-optimized and likely had their

Jiahe Jinwei and Netac have started mass production of DDR5 memory

Two Chinese memory modules manufacturers have officially confirmed that the first DDR5 memory modules have left production lines just weeks after Micron delivered the first chips to their factories.

NETAC DDR5 memory, Source: Netac

Jiahe Jinwei and Netac do not manufacture memory chips, but memory modules. This means that their production lines are dependant on the supply from companies such as Micron. Micron’s DDR5 chips have recently been delivered to multiple memory brands such as the two

Sapphire RX 6900 XT Toxic Extreme

The just-announced higher-binned Sapphire TOXIC graphics card is now being listed by multiple retailers in Europe. For those who considered buying this model, we have some bad news.

The RX 6900 XT Toxic Extreme which features pre-binned Navi 21 XTXH GPU and higher clocks than the regular Toxic model, is now listed in Europe for the price fro 2599 EUR to 4160 EUR . That’s a lot more than

Ethereum ASIC as powerful as 32 GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards

Bitmain announced its new mining Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) called Antminer E9.

The device is officially coming soon, just in time when Ethereum hits its record high value. The Antminer E9 is an ASIC offering as much as 3 Gigahashes/s. This is equivalent to thirty-two GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards combined and working in a single cluster.

Commodore 64 can mine bitcoin, but it’s slooow

A video game programmer and collector of retro computer “8-Bit Show And Tell” has modified his Commodore 64 to mine Bitcoins.

Will bitcoin mining on Commodore 64 finally put graphics cards and ASIC miners to the rest? Probably not, but the fact that it is actually possible to modify a console to perform such a task is quite remarkable.

Commodore 64 was released in 1982 by CBM. It features MOS Technology 65

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X

It looks like Apple MacPro will soon receive an upgrade with professional RDNA2 GPUs.

Just recently Apple updated its macOS operating system with support for Navi RDNA2 architecture GPUs. The changelog only mentions consumer Radeon RX models, but the support for the upcoming Radeon Pro series is likely coming soon as well:

Coincidently, on Geekbench, an Intel Cascade Lake-X-based MacPro 7.1 has been spotted with a yet unreleased Radeon Pro W6900X graphics