Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus listed on Geekbench with 18 cores

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus tested on ASUS Z890 board in Geekbench

Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 5 250K Plus desktop CPU has appeared in the Geekbench database. The listing shows a 6P+12E layout . It also reports a 4.2 GHz base frequency and a 5.3 GHz maximum frequency, with Arrow Lake listed as the codename.

The benchmark run was posted under an ASUS PRIME Z890-P WIFI platform with 32 GB

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ASRock confirms BIOS update for AM5 600/800-series motherboards with CPU boot failure fix

ASRock confirms fix for some CPU boot failures

The statement lacks details, though.

ASRock has published a new statement announcing a “comprehensive” BIOS update for its AMD AM5 motherboards, positioned as a stability and compatibility update that also targets no-boot scenarios.

The company says it integrated AGESA 1.3.0.0a provided by AMD and released Beta BIOS version 4.07.AS01 . ASRock lists three headline items: ComboAM5 PI 1.3.0.0a, optimized

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This unreleased GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GB card arrived in a retail-style box

NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 Ti card with higher memory that never reached the market

ChintzyPC tested an RTX 3080 Ti 20GB pre-release card that appears to use GA102-250 with a 20-chip memory layout and a 320-bit bus, needs an unofficial driver patch to behave normally, and benchmarks closer to RTX 3080-class results than retail RTX 3080 Ti in gaming-focused tests.

Each time

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AMD Radeon VII turns 7, VEGA never dies

Radeon VII turns 7, 4K results show it remains behind GeForce RTX 2080

Radeon VII launched on February 7, 2019, after AMD revealed the card at CES 2019. AMD positioned it as the first 7nm gaming GPU, with 60 compute units, 16GB of HBM2, and 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth. The launch price was $699 in the US.

Vega architecture has been one of the most widely used by AMD,

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Intel

Intel 900-series chipset spcs leaked: B960, Z970, Z990, Q970, and W980 for Nova Lake-S

Core Ultra 400S and next-gen Xeon for LGA-1954 socket have five chipsets to choose from

A new table of Intel “900 Series” chipset stack has been leaked by hardware leaker “Jaykihn”. This platform is tied to the LGA-1954 socket and Nova Lake-S desktop CPU s, expected to carry Core Ultra 400S branding. The lineup shown include s B960, Z970, Z990

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Snapdragon X2 Elite trails Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in two of three games, Intel Ultra X9 388H leads

Qualcomm’s Adreno X2 tested

Snapdragon X2 Elite benchmarks from Hardware Canucks were published in a video sponsored by Qualcomm, but the channel says testing was run “independently” with no input or approval on results before publication. This is by no means a full review, and the choice of gaming tests is quite limited but still interesting.

Adreno X2 tests

One of the most interesting upgrades in the X2 series is the new GPU. Qualcomm still has work to do on graphics support. Its drivers tend to

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Next-gen Xbox reportedly built on Windows core with multi-store support and OEM devices

Windows Central: Next-gen Xbox described as a Windows 11-based “gaming PC”

Perhaps the next most popular accessory for the next-gen Xbox will not be a controller, but a mouse. Older reports that Windows could become the backbone of the next Xbox are now starting to look more credible, based on what Windows Central is claiming.

The outlet reports that Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox platform is being built around Windows, with a console-style interface on top. Windows Central describes the

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Intel

Intel preparing Z990 and Z970 chipsets for Nova Lake-S desktop CPUs

Intel’s new roadmap lists Z990 and Z970 chipsets for the next-gen LGA-1954 platform

According to our information, Intel has added Z990 and Z970 to its chipset roadmap, updated recently. The roadmap targets the LGA1954 socket. We have no details on specifications yet, including I/O, lane counts, or feature differences between the two chipsets.

Since Intel has not released H870 for Arrow Lake

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PlayStation handheld reportedly with 24GB memory, PS6 console with 30GB

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Leaker KeplerL2 claims PS6 comes with 30GB memory, 24GB for handheld

A new round rumors for next-generation PlayStation hardware is focusing on memory capacity. The information (like always) comes from leaker KeplerL2, who is keeping a close track of everything related to Sony hardware. The most recent claim puts a future of PlayStation systems with 30GB. That would be GDDR7 memory to be precise.

The 24 GB handheld

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Intel

Intel reportedly sunsets pay-to-use “On Demand” Software Defined Silicon program

Intel appears to be winding down On Demand program

Intel appears to be stepping back from its “Software Defined Silicon” effort on Linux, the project behind Intel On Demand feature activation on select server CPUs. The change was spotted by Phoronix, as the public Intel SDSi repository on GitHub was marked archived on November 10, 2025, which makes it read-only.

Intel On Demand , previously referred to as Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) , was positioned as a way to enable extra, licensed hardware

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