AMD Zen3 on October 8th, Radeon RX 6000 coming October 28th.

AMD today announced it will host two separate events in October. The first event will cover Zen3 architecture and most likely Ryzen 4000 series processors codenamed Vermeer. This event is scheduled for October 8th. The name of the event is ‘Next Generation Ryzen Desktop Processors’.

On October 28th, AMD will showcase its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards (the name has been confirmed

Microsoft has confirmed that the XBOX Series X gaming console will cost 499 USD.

XBOX Series X for 499 USD

The speculation is over. Microsoft finally confirmed both the release date and pricing for its next-generation gaming consoles. Earlier this week Microsoft already confirmed the pricing of the Xbox Series S console.

Both gaming consoles will launch on November 10th . The higher-spec’ed variant aimed at 4K gaming will cost 499 USD (estimated retail price), while the console

Chinese Bilibili channel TecLab has leaked alleged benchmark results of the GeForce RTX 3080.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 review leaks

A video showing the synthetic and gaming performance of the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card has emerged online. The leakers claim to own a sample and a working driver, which is currently only available to the press after signing a strict NDA.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 3DMark benchmarkr results, Source: TecLab

We can confirm that the driver used in this test

EVGA RTX 3090 KINGPIN pictured

EVGA announced five GeForce RTX 3090 models. The XC3 and FTW are triple-fan designs likely to be the most popular (and affordable) choice among gamers. EVGA is also developing three liquid-cooled models called HYDRO COPPER (card comes with a preinstalled water block), HYBRID (with AIO cooling), and KINGPIN, which also comes with an AIO cooling.

The KINGPIN series are developed with collaboration with Vince Lucido, a well known extreme overclocker who

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 family photo

Al three cards of the NVIDIA Ampere series have been photographed in a single shot. It shows how massive the flagship RTX 3090 model really is.

This is actually the first photograph showing the real RTX 3070 model in flesh. This is the only non-GA102 based graphics card that was announced by Jensen Huang last week. This is also the only model coming next month.

The GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card (pictured on

AMD Frank Azor “The sun will come out tomorrow” – is it Big Navi?

AMD’s Chief Gaming Architect and Marketing Frank Azor published a cryptic message on Twitter. The tweet indicates that something might happen tomorrow (September 10). Despite the tweet being rather long, it does not provide any meaningful information as to the nature of the teaser.

We do, however, expect to see another teaser for Big Navi or something related to Zen3 (pure speculation). It could happen in the form

NVIDIA has sent out new testing equipment for reviewers.

NVIDIA Reviewer Kit: LDAT + PCAT

The Reviewer Kit is NVIDIA’s attempt to provide more detailed GPU testing. The kit features:

• Latency and Display Analysis Tool (LDAT) – used to measure end to end system latency
• Power Capture Analysis Tool (PCAT) – used to measure total GPU board power in isolation
• FrameView 1.1 – Improved version of FrameView that ties everything together

NVIDIA announced last week that it will send out the kits to select reviewers. Those reviewers

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or SUPER

NVIDIA RTX 3060 graphics cards series are now expected around November (possibly even sooner). We have heard that NVIDIA is planning two variants, based on GA106 and GA104 GPUs. The latter would likely adopt Ti or SUPER branding.

Today Kopite7kimi , the leaker who correctly predicted RTX 30 specs weeks ahead of launch, has shared new data regarding GeForce RTX

First water block for Ampere Founders Edition

While other water block manufacturers are focusing on an RTX 30 series reference design, Bykski is focusing on Founders Edition first.  This generation of Geforce offers three options when it comes to the board design:

• NVIDIA Founders Edition (PG133)
• NVIDIA reference design (PG132)
• AIB custom designs

The first two are not the same. The PG133 board design features an irregular V-shaped design, the iconic feature of the series. Meanwhile, the