Intel Core i7-12700H is on average 25%/35% faster than Ryzen 7 5800H in single and multi-threaded tests

Intel Core i5-12500H & i7-12700H benchmarks

Synthetic benchmark scores of the upcoming mid-range Alder Lake mobile processor have been published on Weibo by a user 金猪升级包 . This person supposedly has access to both Intel reference benchmark results and the new 12th Gen Core-based laptop.

The Core i7-12700H literally sitting in the middle of the H-series lineup. This processor is actually the

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Apple Silicon

Samsung Xclipse 920 (AMD RDNA2) GPU is up to 25% faster than Adreno 730 in Vulkan test

Samsung Exynos SoC up to 50% faster in OpenCL and 25% in Vulkan Geekbench test than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

The South Korean mobile giant is yet to formally introduce the first mobile devices based on its in-house Exynos processor. However, the company has already announced its Exynos 2200 System on a Chip outfitted with AMD RDNA2 GPU.

This month started with rumors about next-gen Samsung’s chip encountering thermal throttling issues and as a result a necessity to substantially downclock the processor.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 listed in Peru for around 453 USD

NVIDIA RTX 3050 might cost around 453 USD in Peru

XanxoGaming is reporting on a bundle featuring yet unreleased RTX 3050 graphics card.

Undisclosed Peruvian retailer is allegedly preparing an RTX 3050 graphics card for 506 USD. This bundle includes Palit RTX 3050 DUAL OC graphics card and Geil Orion DDR4-3200 8GB memory. With no effort we can conclude that the graphics card alone costs 453 USD because the memory is listed

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 gets first 3DMark scores, GTX 1660Ti performance with DLSS/raytracing?

NVIDIA RTX 3050 is up to 20% faster than Radeon RX 6500XT in 3DMark TimeSpy

We have some first benchmark results of the upcoming RTX 3050 desktop entry-level GPU.

In 3DMark Time Spy, NVIDIA’s latest card can offer up to 24% more performance than AMD’s Radeon RX 6500 XT. Interestingly, the AMD card is just a few percent slower than RTX 3050 in FireStrike, which favors powerful

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NVIDIA quietly increases prices of GeForce RTX 30 Founders Edition cards in Europe

NVIDIA RTX 30 Founders Edition get a 6% price increase

For the first time since the introduction of the RTX 30 series, NVIDIA has officially increased the pricing of its cards.

With crypto coins dropping in value and better overall availability of cards in January, NVIDIA decided that this is the right moment to increase the prices of their reference cards. This new pricing only affects Founders Edition models sold in European Union so far, but there is information that the company will also be increasing prices in the UK.

The

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is not good for Ethereum mining

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is for gamers, not miners

Our source in China provided some Ethereum mining performance of the upcoming RTX 3050 graphics card. It appears that the card ships with the Lite Hash Rate algorithm in place because the hash rate drops from 20-ish to 12.5 MH /s in a matter of seconds. You can see that to achieve this hash rate, the card only consumes 73W.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, Source: VideoCardz

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Intel

(PR) Intel to invest $20 billion into two new chip factories in Ohio

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Intel Announces Next US Site with Landmark Investment in Ohio

Intel will invest more than $20 billion to build two new factories and to establish a new epicenter for advanced chipmaking in the Midwest.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 reviews arrive on January 26th, a day before launch

NVIDIA RTX 3050 reviews drop a day early

NVIDIA is doing something good for a change.

We have just learned that RTX 3050 reviews will be posted a day before launch, which means GPU fans will have plenty of time to read about the cards they might want to purchase.

The decision to lift the review embargo sooner means that NVIDIA is finally doing something good for a change. This is after the company introduced its GeForce RTX 3080 12GB model with no MSRP and

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Leaked benchmark of Intel Arc Alchemist discrete desktop GPU shows RTX 3070 Ti performance

Intel Xe-HPG card with 512 Execution Units and 2.1 GHz clock spotted

A benchmark new entry featuring Intel’s highly anticipated Arc Alchemist card has been spotted over at the SiSoftware website .

According to this result, which was first spotted by TUM_APISAK , the card features the full 4096 core count of the Intel DG2-512EU silicon. This card was tested on a desktop Coffee Lake-S platform, which suggests this is indeed a discrete desktop graphics card

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Der8auer overclocks Core i5-12400 non-K CPU to 5GHz on ASUS B660 DDR5 motherboard

Intel Alder Lake non-K CPUs can be overclocked on ASUS B660 motherboards

Der8auer has now confirmed that overclocking of Intel Alder Lake non-K CPUs is possible on B660 motherboards. This is just days after the overclocker revealed a ‘not-so-hidden’ feature of bus speed overclocking on such CPUs with expensive Z690 motherboards.

Core i5-12400 CPU on ASUS B660 BCLK OC, Source: der8auer

It was

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