AMD Zen3 offers up to 81% better gaming performance than first generation Zen architecture

German website Golem took four Ryzen processors of different generations for a spin.

Four generations of AMD Zen architectures compared

AMD Ryzen series made a debut back in 2016 with Ryzen 7 1800X as the flagship SKU featuring 8-cores and 16-threads. The CPU had only a turbo clock of 4.1 GHz, which is far from the 5.0 GHz that some Ryzen CPUs can now achieve. Since the first generation of Zen, AMD introduced a number of processors featuring the

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ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 3090 GUNDAM Edition pictured up close

ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3090 GUNDAM is a true collector’s item

Two months ago ASUS announced custom graphics cards and other PC peripherals series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Japanese Anime series, GUNDAM. The company released new graphics cards series inspired by the series featuring white and red models. The fastest model based on the series is the RTX 3090 GUNDAM, featuring a new shroud design:

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Corsair H150i/H100i Elite Capellix White AIO coolers pictured

Corsair brings white edition of its premium AIO coolers

Corsair is updating its CPU cooler lineup with Elite Capellix models. The company had already released a black series of Elite Capellix coolers featuring a new design. The cooler has removable pump caps, one being glossy and stylish while the other one is translucent.

The White Edition of the AIO cooler appears to be promoted with the latter pump cap. There are no changes to the pump compared to the previous generation. With Elite Capellix Corsair has focused on the firmware and aesthetics.

We

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NVIDIA rumored to introduce GPU architecture named after Ada Lovelace

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According to the rumors, NVIDIA might be reshaping its roadmap.

NVIDIA Hopper delayed, Ada Lovelace coming sooner?

It is rumored that NVIDIA might be delaying its multi-chip design known as Hopper to introduce a new monolithic series called Lovelace. There is some confusion around the name, because internally NVIDIA uses ‘ADxxx’ for the GPU codenames, while externally it is rumored to be called Lovelace, named after Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician.

According to @kopite


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Intel Core i9-11900 Engineering Sample tested in CPU-Z benchmark on Z490 motherboard

Intel Core i9-11900 Engineering Sample in CPU-Z

An engineering sample of the Rocket Lake-S Core processor has been tested with CPU-Z software, according to a leak from @9550pro who is quoting a message posted on Alibaba’s Xianyu platform.

This sample is clearly not the final product, hence their clock speed may not correspond to the retail unit that will go on sale next year. This unit of Core i9-11900

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Gigabyte G7, G5 and A7 entry-level laptops with GeForce RTX 30 mobile pictured

Gigabyte is entering a budget notebook segment with its G and A series of laptops.

Gigabyte G and A series gaming notebooks

New laptops from Gigabyte are set to launch next month. The company is waiting for both AMD and NVIDIA to introduce their newest hardware. The G5 series are 15-inch laptops with Intel 10th Gen Core series CPUs (Comet Lake-H). So far we have been able to confirm that the laptop will be available with either Core i7-10870

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900, Ryzen 7 5800 CPUs, 5700G and 5600G APUs allegedly in the works

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AMD is planning another four SKUs for its Ryzen 5000 series.

AMD Ryzen 5900, 5800, 5700G, and 5600G

The manufacturer is allegedly preparing two processors based on Vermeer silicon and two based on Cezanne. The new SKUs would still be part of the Ryzen 5000 series although they are all designed for two different markets.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and


AMD mobile APUs for 2021-2022 detailed, first Navi2 iGPU coming with VanGogh?

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Leaker Rogame reveals a roadmap for AMD 2021-2022 APUs.

AMD APUs for 2021, 2022: Zen2/Zen3+, Vega and Navi2 iGPUs

A Twitter user going by the name “_rogame”, who delivered numerous leaks in the past year, has today revealed the details on AMD’s upcoming APUs. Details that fill the gaps in the rumored roadmaps.

According to his


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Intel 11th Gen Core series to feature Rocket Lake-S and Comet Lake-S Refresh CPUs

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Intel’s 11th Gen Core is not just Rocket Lake.

Intel 11th Gen Core lineup detailed will feature both Rocket Lake-S and Comet Lake-S Refresh CPUs

A website called ijiandao.com published the details on the upcoming Intel’s 11th Gen Core series codenamed Rocket Lake-S. As it turns out the codename might have been wrongly exclusively attached to the 11th Gen Core, as the latest rumor claims that

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NVIDIA releases GeForce Hotfix Driver 460.97 addressing 5 bugs

NVIDIA GeForce Hotfix Driver 460.97

The driver is based on the recently released GeForce 460.89 Game Ready Driver that brought Vulkan 1.2 Ray tracing to certain games. The hotfix addresses the following issues:

  • Some apps that use NVML may not detect GPU [3200758]
  • Stutter may be observed with some configurations in Marvel’s Avengers [3197999]
  • Lenovo Y740 may display corruption on waking from sleep [3