NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU to feature 2048 CUDA Cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 spotted alongside Intel Core i5-11400H Tiger Lake-H

Geekbench leak confirms GeForce RTX 3050 will feature 2048 CUDA cores.

The GPU has just been spotted on Geekbench with 16 Compute Units (Streaming Multiprocessors). With each SM featuring 128 CUDA cores, the full GPU configuration features 2048 CUDAs in total. The RTX 3050 mobile and desktop series is likely to feature NVIDIA’s

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Intel DG2 (Xe-HPG) discrete GPU with 512 Execution Units spotted alongside 16-core Alder Lake-S CPU

DG2 & Alder Lake – Intel future dream platform

The flagship DG2 GPU has been spotted on Geekbench.

The Xe-HPG based GPU codenamed DG2-512EU has just been spotted on Geekbench alongside Intel Alder Lake-S CPU with 16-cores. Both representing the flagship specs of the future Intel gaming platform.

Intel has not confirmed when DG2 GPUs will be announced, not to mention a possible release, but we already know what to expect in terms of specs. The DG2

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NVIDIA confirms it accidentally released a driver without RTX 3060 Ethereum hash rate limiter

NVIDIA confirms the ETH limiter on RTX 3060 was removed accidentally

A day after the news broke that RTX 3060 mining limiter has been removed, the company responsible for this situation has released a short statement. This company is NVIDIA.

After initial reports that the Ethereum hash rate limiter on GeForce RTX 3060 mid-range *gaming* graphics card has been bypassed, NVIDIA has finally confirmed that the driver responsible for this situation was released inadvertently. NVIDIA has since removed the driver, but


Intel

Intel 11th Gen Core “Rocket Lake” series official specifications and pricing

Intel Core i9-11900K to cost 539 USD

We have the final specification and pricing for the upcoming 11th Gen Core series.

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DDR5-4800 memory tested on Intel Alder Lake-S platform, up to 28% faster in AIDA64 than DDR4

DDR5 memory tested on Intel Alder Lake-S platform

Memory manufacturers are already using the 12th Gen Core series for performance evaluation of DDR5 technology.

Chinese memory manufacturer called Longsys has released test results featuring its new DDR5 memory kit featuring yet unannounced Intel Alder Lake-S platform. The new Intel CPUs will be the first mainstream desktop series to support DDR5 technology.

The Chinese memory manufacturer tested two kits. One was a single rank and the other was dual-rank (both x8).

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Intel Core i7-11800H “Tiger Lake-H” high-end 8-core mobile CPU tested in Geekbench

Intel Core i7-11800H tested

The first Tiger Lake-H CPU has just been spotted on Geekbench.

It appears that notebook manufacturers have begun testing 11th Gen Core H-series CPUs. The first Tiger Lake-H processor to make its way to the Geekbench website is the Core i7-11800H, the new 8-core and 16-thread CPU based on Willow Cove architecture.

The Core i7-11800H

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XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT Speedster SWFT309 pictured

XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB Speedster SWFT309

XFX has now a third custom Radeon RX 6700 XT in the works.

It is not just MERC and QICK. AMD board partner XFX is also planning a third design based on Radeon RX 6700 XT, the upcoming upper mid-range model to be released on March 18th. XFX is currently working on Radeon RX 6700 XT SWFT 309, a third model in the Speedster

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(PR) AMD launches EPYC 7003 “Milan” Zen3 server processors

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AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series CPUs Set New Standard as Highest Performance Server Processor

ꟷ New AMD EPYC processor extends per socket performance leadership and best per core performance1** with new “Zen 3” cores and modern security featuresꟷ

ꟷPartners including AWS, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, HPE, Lenovo, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Supermicro, Tencent Cloud and others grow EPYC processor ecosystem to an expected 400 cloud instances and 100 new OEM platforms

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NVIDIA GeForce 470.05 driver confirmed to remove GeForce RTX 3060 ETH mining limiter

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060’s unhackable mining limiter has been hacked

Two German publications have now confirmed that simply by using a special driver, the Ethereum limiter appears to be nonfunctional.

NVIDIA announced that their new mid-range RTX 3060 graphics card will have a built-in anti cryptocurrency mining firmware that will automatically reduce the mining hash rate by 50%. NVIDIA confirmed that this technology does not only work on the software level, but also on the hardware level. Bryan Del Rizzo claimed

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PowerColor Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics cards already available on second hand market

PowerColor RX 6700 XT graphics cards go on sale

First Navi22 GPUs are already available for purchase on the second-hand market in Chechia.

A Czech seller is now offering PowerColor RX 6700 XT Hellhound at a hefty price. It is unclear how did the seller end up with the graphics card before the release, but it appears that he has many more cards. We can spot multiple Red Devil and Hellhound models in the background. Both cards are pictured below.

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