Arc A370M is no match for RTX 3060, but competes well with RTX 3050

PCWorld is one of the first media to test Intel Arc A370M, a mobile GPU that was supposed to be launched by the end of March.

As crazy as it may sound, PC World editor had to visit Intel HQ to even get access to Arc A370M laptop. Here’s a reminder that Intel officially launched its Arc A350

GPU Pricing slowly reaching MSRP

3DCenter released their latest GPU pricing report. Sadly, this is still not the last report, which would probably be the case if GPU prices have reached MSRP.

Graphics cards are indeed cheaper than 3 weeks ago (which is how frequent the report is released). Overall, we are looking at 5 percent point lower pricing for both Radeon and GeForce cards, which means a drop from 12% to 7% for RX 6000 series and 19% to 14

NVIDIA LHR unlock now available for Linux

NBMiner (NebuMiner) team has also pathed their software that unlocks 100% of mining performance on GeForce RTX 30 GPUs.

This follows the report that the NiceHash team has successfully removed the hashrate limiter from NVIDIA cards. NBMiner is now also available with 100% LHR unlock for RTX 30 GPUs. Both software is closed-source, so we can’t see how exactly was the LHR cracked (it would be very interesting for sure).

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AMD Phoenix APU with mid-range discrete GPU performance

Greymon55 claims that the upcoming integrated graphics into the AMD Phoenix APU, could show comparable performance to the most power-restricted version of the RTX 3060 mobile.

AMD Ryzen 7000 series will officially include two mobile series: Dragon Range for high-performance laptop and Phoenix for thin and light designs. The latter is now expected to feature RDNA3 graphics architecture combined with Zen4

Intel VCA2 with three Xeon CPUs pictured

Roman Der8auer Hartung bought Intel Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) 2 though eBay. Although it may look like a graphics card, it definitely is not. It’s a purpose build accelerator for the ‘visual cloud’.

Gigabyte Radeon RX 6950XT, 6750XT and 6650XT cards have been leaked

Almost the entire Gigabyte RX 6x50XT lineup has been leaked.

Following our report from mid-April , where SKU names for the new Gigabyte Radeon cards have discovered, we now have pictures of almost the entire new lineup. There is no AORUS RX 6950XT Water Force model here, though, but those are usually available post-launch.

ASUS enters SSD business

Taiwanese company may soon become one of the first big brands to offer all PC components branded under their own name.

ASUS has just posted a teaser of its upcoming NVMe SSD. The company has not released its SSD before, which confirms that ASUS will embark onto a new PC hardware market soon. The teaser posted on ASUS ROG Taiwan social page shows a ROG STRIX SQ7 NVMe SSD drive. This particular model would offer 1TB of storage through M.2 PCIe Gen4 interface.

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Intel Alder Lake-HX enthusiast mobile platform with PCIe Gen5 and overclocking

At VISon event on May 10th, Intel will introduce its latest series of processors codenamed Alder Lake-HX. The series are to become the first mobile lineup featuring 16 cores.

Intel will put full desktop Alder Lake silicon on a BGA package. One of the slides confirms that the BGA package will have the same size as LGA for desktop (45 x 37.5 mm), the only difference is the height,

ASUS to release a new GeForce graphics card with Noctua cooling

The RTX 3080 will be the new SKU featuring the iconic brown Noctua fans.

Nearly half a year after the introduction of the first ASUS graphics card designed with collaboration with Noctua, we finally get a new SKU. This time around, it’s the GA102-based model, the RTX 3080. Interestingly, the company opted for the 10GB version, not the 12GB model that launched in January