Intel says Raptor Lake will remain part of its desktop strategy even as newer Core Ultra products continue to roll out. In comments to Club386, Intel enthusiast channel VP and GM Robert Hallock said Raptor Lake is “ not going anywhere ” and described it as “a big part” of the company’s plan, adding that the platform will remain “abundantly available.”
This means that users who didn’t upgrade to DDR5 platform on time, can rest assured
Has Italian Television started using DLSS5 before NVIDIA? Not quite.
NVIDIA’s official DLSS 5 announcement video is no longer viewable for at least some YouTube users, who are being shown a notice saying the video contains material from Italian broadcaster La7 and has been blocked in their country on copyright grounds. The video had already passed 2.3 million views.
La7 allegedly aired footage from NVIDIA
PC Games Hardware says Intel has now disclosed the missing physical specs for BMG-G31, the larger Battlemage graphics chip that finally reached market through the Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 workstation cards. According to PCGH, BMG-G31 contains 27.7 billion transistors and measures 368 mm², with production handled by TSMC on its 5nm node.
That
Intel has now confirmed the Core Ultra 7 251HX, the Arrow Lake-HX mobile processor that first appeared in Lenovo Legion 5i 2026 and MSI Raider 16 HX listings . What originally looked like an unannounced SKU in early gaming laptop pages is now a public Intel product with a full specifications page.
According to Intel, the Core Ultra 7 251HX is an 18-core chip with 6 performance
The first retail listings for AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 have started to appear ahead of launch. Screenshots shared with us show Canadian pricing around $1,375, while a UK listing shows the processor at £906. Those numbers are far above what most AM5 buyers would expect, and for now they look more like placeholder entries than final street
Intel has archived its official XeSS plugin for Unity, ending support for the project. The repository was switched to read-only on March 30, 2026, and Intel now says it will no longer provide development, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases, updates, or patch acceptance for the plugin.
Intel has attached a clear discontinuation notice to the repository, even though the project still includes Unity 6 patch files and instructions for HDRP integration. The latest public release listed
A Reddit user has shared what looks like one of the better thrift store GPU finds in recent memory. The user posted an ASRock Radeon RX 6950 XT OC Formula bought for $15.49, then later returned with an update saying the card boots. According to the follow-up post, the fans spin, display output works, and the RGB lighting turns on, although the owner has not stress-tested the card yet
Intel has shared new details on Texture Set Neural Compression, or TSNC, a neural texture compression technology first shown as an Intel Labs research demo at GDC 2025. The company now says it has rebuilt the project into a standalone SDK, with a new decompression API that can compile to C, C++, or HLSL. Intel says the decoder supports both a fallback fused multiply-add path for CPU
Multiple buyers of ASUS’s new ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM3 are reporting that the monitor arrived with a cracked panel, with several posts pointing to the same likely cause, the retail packaging. The affected display is ASUS’s new 32-inch 4K 240Hz QD-OLED model, currently listed at US$1,299 on the company’s US store.
The complaints surfaced
Sapphire appears to be adding two more Radeon RX 9000 cards in China, the RX 9070 GRE PULSE PRO 12GB and RX 9060 XT 8GB PULSE S. Both surfaced through Chinese launch coverage and JD retail listings before Sapphire added them to its own Chinese product pages.
The RX 9070 GRE PULSE PRO looks closer to a black PURE-class card than a standard reference-clock PULSE model. Chinese launch details