AMD DGF hardware decode is reserved for next-gen RDNA, here’s how it works

AMD blog post focuses on upcoming tech.

AMD’s latest GPUOpen post adds animation support to its Dense Geometry Format (DGF). You can use DGF on today’s GPUs through shaders, but true hardware-accelerated DGF is planned for “future RDNA GPUs”, which means RDNA5. DGF was first shown in 2024, and AMD also published a provisional Vulkan extension this summer.

What DGF does

Intel newest Arc driver supports both gaming and workstation GPUs

This is something I thought I missed when covering the last driver release from Intel . Not only did this driver split graphics support into Arc and pre-Arc GPUs, it also introduced support for workstation GPUs known as the Arc Pro series. Apparently, since the driver was posted, Intel has updated the support list to include Arc Pro B60 and B50 graphics.

Arc Battlemage graphics are split into gaming and workstation series. The latter uses the same architecture

Zhaoxin launches KH-50000 server CPUs with up to 96 Cores and quad-socket support

Zhaoxin has officially introduced its new KH-50000 series processors, the company’s most advanced server CPUs to date. Based on a chiplet architecture, the new chips target workloads across AI, cloud, big data, and general-purpose computing.

The KH-50000 integrates up to 96 high-performance cores per socket, split between 12 chiplets and

Qualcomm’s Adreno X2 iGPU faster than Ryzen AI HX 370 and Core Ultra 9 285H graphics in synthetic tests

Source: Android Authority/HotHardware

Qualcomm has lifted the embargo on some of its official benchmarks. While these are first-party numbers, attendees at the Qualcomm Tech Summit last week were able to see the same results live on demo units, confirming they are indeed accurate.

Synthetic benchmarks, however, only tell part of the story. In 2025, their usefulness for

MSI copying ideas on how to hide power connectors

One cannot see melted power connectors if they are hidden.

MSI has apparently presented a new graphics card based on the RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X model. This graphics card stands out for one reason only: it uses a hidden power connector design.

The concept itself is not new. Gigabyte, Inno3D, and more recently Sapphire with its NITRO+ series have all experimented with it. The approach places the power connector under a small removable backplate,

EA to be acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners in $55 billion Deal

EA goes private.

Electronic Arts has confirmed that it will be acquired by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. The transaction values the publisher at $55 billion and will take the company private in what is described as the largest all-cash sponsor take-private deal in history.

Under the agreement, EA stockholders will receive $21

GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU spotted in MXM form factor for unusual desktop design

A new ultra-compact desktop project called Wee Beastie has appeared on crowdfunding platform, and it packs hardware that has never been available in this form factor before: an RTX 4070 laptop GPU in MXM card format. Perhaps calling this a form factor is not entirely correct, unless we consider these tiny desktop-alike PCs as such.

The system measures just 200 × 110 × 217 mm

AMD Fluid Motion Frames 3 Spotted in latest drivers, could launch with FSR Redstone

A new version of AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames technology has been spotted in the latest Radeon drivers. According to a report from Guru3D Forums user ecffg2010, references to “AFMF 3” or “FrameGenV3” have appeared, suggesting AMD is preparing to update its driver-level frame generation feature.

Fluid Motion Frames was first introduced in 2023 as AFMF 1, enabling frame generation outside in-

RTX 2070 Mobile shunt mod boosts performance close to desktop level

Report from PC Games Hardware forums.

PCGH forum member “HerrBolsch” inspired by recent reports on mobile GPU shunt modding, has made a similar mod himself. Shunt modifications are often used by enthusiasts to bypass power limits on desktop GPUs, but forum user has now applied the same method to a mobile graphics card.

The project involved an RTX 2070 Mobile inside a Zotac mini PC. Typically such mods involve laptops. The original goal was