Sapphire Radeon RX 6900 XT TOXIC to feature 8+8+6pin power connectors

Sapphire RX 6000 TOXIC Series

Sapphire confirms its upcoming TOXIC graphics card will feature three power connectors.

The manufacturer’s Radeon RX 6000 series lineup will soon be updated with a third custom variant called TOXIC. Sapphire has not released the TOXIC model since Hawaii XT-based Radeon RX 390X, so it is certainly an interesting launch.

Sapphire has been teasing the card on Chinese social media platforms, but the global media accounts appear to be silent about this model. This might imply

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Sony PlayStation 5 SoC die pictured up close

PlayStation 5 die shot pictured

Fritzens Fritz delivers the first photos of the Sony PS5 System on a Chip.

Unlike Microsoft who was quick to showcase its Xbox Series S and X die shots, Sony has never shown what is under the hood of the PS5 System on a Chip. It has been months since PS5 was introduced, but only now we get to see a chip codenamed AMD Flute up close.

Play Station 5 SoC, Source: Fritzchens Fritz

The Sony PS5 SoC codenamed known as Oberon or Ariel

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Intel

(PR) EK Quantum Velocity full nickel series now support RGB

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EK QUANTUM VELOCITY FULL NICKEL SERIES GOES D-RGB

EK®, the leading premium water cooling gear manufacturer, is upgrading its full nickel series of high-performance Velocity water blocks for modern AMD® and Intel® CPU sockets with a 5V digital RGB LED. There is still a single LED hidden under the EK badge, but this time it is compatible with 5V D-RGB (aRGB) headers. The transition to D-RGB lighting across the whole product line will allow users to

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(PR) NVIDIA introduces DLSS and Reflex plugins for Unreal Engine

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NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) developers can now access DLSS as a plugin for Unreal Engine 4.26. Additionally, NVIDIA Reflex is now available as a feature in Unreal Engine. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 and 4.26 branches have also received updates.

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Retailers already increasing pricing on GeForce RTX 3060 before it is even released

Retailers list GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards at a significantly higher price

European retailers are now listing GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards at 490 EUR.

Retailers offering GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards have now significantly increased pricing on the upcoming model, which will be launched on February 25th. According to NVIDIA internal embargo guidelines, the manufacturer expects the initial batch of new SKUs to be sold at MSRP. This usually means that retailers who take preorders are expected to fulfill them in a matter

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G CPU overclocked to 4.8 GHz

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G at 4800 MHz

An engineering sample of the AMD Ryzen 5000G CPU has been put through some overclocking.

AMD’s Cezanne AM4 APUs have been widely available in China, despite the manufacturer not announcing or even teasing the new CPUs. It would appear that AMD has sent out the first batch of its upcoming 8-core/16-thread APUs based on Zen3 architecture to system integrators and OEMs for validation. While those products

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Sapphire teases Radeon RX 6000 TOXIC and ATOMIC series?

Sapphire teases a comeback of the TOXIC series

AMD AIB partner announces a return of its iconic series.

On Weibo, Sapphire has shared a teaser confirming that the company will introduce new product series in 5 days. The teaser shows T and A letters which would imply that the company is soon announcing its TOXIC and ATOMIC series after nearly 5 years.

The TOXIC series are considered the enthusiast-class products offering the best performance, while the ATOMIC series are likely to feature a preinstalled water block. It is unknown which cards will

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Intel

Intel to launch three 8-core 11th Gen Core ‘Tiger Lake-H’ series CPUs?

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel Tiger Lake-H from 6 to 8 cores.

Tiger Lake CPUs with more than 4 cores are just around the corner.

The first Tiger Lake-based processors for high-end gaming laptops have been introduced at CES 2021. Only this month’s first laptops with such CPUs have started to appear in stores. Officially the H35 series are targeted at slim gaming machines similarly to AMD Ryzen 5000HS series. Both

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Intel Core i9-11900T and Core i7-11700 non-K Rocket Lake-S CPUs appear on Geekbench

Intel Core i9-11900T and i7-11700 with similar single-core performance

Two Rocket Lake-S CPU cross 1.7K points in Geekbench V5 benchmark

Intel Rocket Lake-S ‘T-Series’ are power limited to 35W. Those CPUs can often be seen in embedded systems or Mini-PCs, they are not targeted at gaming rigs. While the T-Series is not a very popular choice among gamers, it is interesting

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NVIDIA confirms GeForce RTX 3060 launches on February 25th

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 non-Ti officially launches on February 25th

NVIDIA has officially confirmed its first GA106 desktop graphics card will launch later this month.

NVIDIA has now confirmed to the press that its next graphics card from the Ampere series will launch in more than two weeks, on February 25th. The date has already been known thanks to the previous leak from Wccftech.

NVIDIA this morning has sent over a quick note revealing the release date for their next GeForce desktop video card

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