EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 review leaks out ahead of the embargo

“GeForce RTX 3050 needs DLSS in order to thrive in modern games on the market”

Over at MMORPG, there is a review of yet unreleased graphics card from EVGA, the RTX 3050.

It appears that somebody did not get a memo about the review embargo going live tomorrow. This full review of the RTX 3050 is therefore the first one out. The card tested is EVGA RTX 3050 XC Black, which interestingly shipped with the wrong BIOS. The author

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Intel

Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-H” & GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop Review Roundup

Intel Alder Lake-H laptops tested

Today Intel lifts the embargo on its 12th Gen Core H-series laptops. On the same day, NVIDIA finally lets reviewers publish the results of the RTX 3070Ti and 3080Ti Laptop GPUs.

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(PR) Khronos announces Vulkan 1.3 graphics API specifications

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Khronos Strengthens Vulkan Ecosystem with Release of Vulkan 1.3, Public Roadmap and Profiles

Vulkan 1.3 mandates widely supported features into the core standard; the Vulkan Roadmap provides visibility into Vulkan’s future requirements for key markets; Profiles streamline development and deployment of portable applications

Beaverton, OR – January 25, 2022 – Today, The Khronos® Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announced the latest updates to Vulkan, the cross-platform


NVIDIA to abandon its ARM Holdings acquisition plans

NVIDIA to drop its bid for ARM acquisition

Bloomberg is reporting that NVIDIA is to abandon plans to acquire ARM Holdings. This decision will cost 1.25B USD.

NVIDIA faced strong opposition from regulatory bodies in their bid to purchase ARM Holdings, a British company owning the IP of its RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architectures. After numerous attempts to convince the market and governments that could oppose such a transaction, NVIDIA has allegedly given up the plans, which means that it will have to mark a $1


Intel

(PR) G.SKILL DDR5 memory gets overclocked to 8888 MT/s on ASUS ROG Z690 APEX motherboard

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G.SKILL and ASUS Sets New DDR5-8888 CL88 Overclocking World Record

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AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX shows up on Geekbench, 33% faster than 5900HX

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, a high-end Zen3+ CPU with up to 4.9 GHz boost

A new entry on the Geekbench website shows the first 3rd party performance figures of the new AMD processor.

Those are the first non-AMD tests results posted after the 2022 Product Premier where the company has first shown its new processors and provided some performance estimates. The Ryzen 9 6900HX is not the flagship part, it is 100 MHz slower

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Gigabyte RTX 3050 has been listed for 492 EUR in Lithuania

First RTX 3050 listed for 492 EUR

Lithuanian retailer “Kilobaitas” is among the first to officially list GeForce RTX 3050 graphics cards ahead of launch.

Gigabyte’s RTX 3050 Gaming OC model equipped with GA106-150 GPU and 8GB GDDR6 memory is now available for preorders. The card is already in stock and can be ordered it seems. With the price of 492 EUR, we are looking at around a 76

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU gaming performance teased

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU performance in a sponsored video

HardwareCanucks have a new video showcasing yet-unreleased RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU performance. This is the upcoming NVIDIA flagship SKU based on Ampere architecture.

According to HardwareCanucks, laptops featuring NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti & RTX 3070 Ti GPUs will launch tomorrow. Their video is not a review and should not be treated as such. Although the tests were performed by HC, this video is actually sponsored by NVIDIA.

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GPU prices are finally begining to decline

NVIDIA Ampere and AMD RDNA2 cards slowly becoming cheaper

Guys over at 3DCenter.org have just updated their GPU price charts for January, which is a second update this month.

AMD Radeon RX 6000 and GeForce RTX 30 prices are declining, this trend has been observed for the second time this month. From 185%, GeForce RTX 30 cards are now ‘only’ 177% more expensive than they should be. Meanwhile, AMD cards observe a reduction from 17


Intel Arc Alchemist mobile to feature five SKUs and four memory configurations up to 16GB G6 at 16Gbps

The leaked slide confirms Intel Arc Alchemist memory configurations

Over at Twitter, HXL ( @9550pro ) shared a slide outlining Intel’s plans for DG2 GPUs for laptops.

A slide titled “DG2 Graphics Memory Configuration” features as many as five SKUs. The table also mentions ‘DG2 NB SKU’ which confirms this is the upcoming ARC Alchemist lineup for notebooks

According to this chart, the flagship part SKU1 with 512 Execution Units will be paired with eight GDDR6 memory modules