Intel Rocket Lake-S might provide the biggest upgrade to the mainstream desktop platform in years. Intel Rocket Lake-S gets PCIe 4.0 The platform codenamed Rocket Lake-S is currently expected in late 2020. The rumors about the RLK-S platform have been floating around the web for a while now, but only now (thanks to our sources at Intel) we are able to provide some concrete information on a new platform. The leaked diagram we are sharing today is a basic overview of

AMD released the first RDNA 2 demo running DirectX 12 Ultimate. AMD RDNA 2 gets ray tracing Today AMD announced that their upcoming RDNA 2 architecture, the backbone of next-generation gaming consoles (Sony PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X) and upcoming Radeon RX Navi 2X graphics card will support DirectX 12 Ultimate, Microsoft's latest iteration of its low-level API. The DirectX 12 Ultimate supports DirectX Raytracing 1.1, a new version of DXR featuring new capabilities such as inline ray tracing.

Yesterday SONY unveiled the full specifications of the PlayStation 5 gaming console featuring AMD System on the Chip. SONY PlayStation 5 = AMD Zen2 + RDNA2, HW Ray-tracing and more The official announcement of Sony PlayStation 5 by Mark Cenry (lead PS5 architect) provided information on the most important features and specifications of the upcoming gaming consoles. Both XBOX Series X and Sony PlayStation 5 will be equipped with AMD custom silicons based on AMD's Zen2 and RDNA 2 architectures. The SoC: 8c/

NVIDIA announces GeForce RTX support for DirectX 12 Ultimate. DirectX 12 Ultimate NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card will support DirectX 12 Ultimate with ray tracing, variable-rate shading, mesh shader and sampler feedback. Ray tracing is currently only supported by NVIDIA Turing GPUs (Tier 1.1), while variable-rate shading is also supported by Intel HD Graphics Gen 11 (Tier 1). The GeForce RTX series based on Turing is currently the only existing GPU architecture to support DirectX 12 Ultimate out of

Support For DOOM™ Eternal Achieve up to 5% better performance playing Doom Eternal (Ultra Nightmare settings) at 1920x1080p on the Radeon™ RX 5700XT with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.3.1, versus Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.2.2. RS-333 Half-Life™: Alyx Ghost Recon™ Breakpoint Vulkan® API Added Vulkan® Support VK_EXT

Game Ready Drivers provide the best possible gaming experience for all major new releases. Prior to a new title launching, our driver team is working up until the last minute to ensure every performance tweak and bug fix is included for the best gameplay on day-1. Game Ready for DOOM Eternal The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for DOOM Eternal. DOOM Eternal System Requirements Minimum 1080p Recommended 1440p Recommended Ultra-Nightmare Experience 108

NVIDIA canceled the GTC 2020 event and shifted into an online event. Days later the online event was canceled too, as the company promised to deliver the GTC news announcement on March 24 through the press. This, however, has changed again, NVIDIA will not be making any announcements on this day. Offline GTC 2020 -> Online GTC 2020 -> GTC News -> Let's Wait This is a fourth update to the GTC 2020 situation.

Microsoft released the full specs for the upcoming XBOX Series X gaming console. XBOX Series X with 52 CUs - 3328 cores The upcoming gaming console will feature AMD's lastest hardware based on a 7nm fabrication node. The CPU with eight cores and sixteen threads clocked at 3.66 GHz will be accompanied by 52 Compute Units based on RDNA 2 graphics, the same architecture we expect in desktop Big Navi 2X coming later this year. AMD's custom System on the Chip has

Today AMD launches its high-performance Ryzen 4000H series and low-power Ryzen 4000U series for laptops.  AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile Laptops based on Ryzen 4000 Mobile will go on preorders today, however, it may take few weeks for them to be widely available. AMD releases more information on the architecture itself. AMD also confirmed Ryzen 9 4900H flagship CPU. The Ryzen 4000 Mobile is based on Zen2 architecture,

Game Ready for Call of Duty: Warzone The new Game Ready Driver provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Call of Duty: Warzone. NVIDIA: With a new Battle Royale mode, a new Plunder mode, and new mechanics, which you can read about here, Call of Duty: Warzone brings new and unique gameplay to the Battle Royale genre. To experience Warzone at its very best, our new Game Ready Driver brings new updates for your GPU, ensuring that you can reach 144