NVIDIA happily confirms RTX 3050 is faster with raytracing on than GPUs without raytracing support

NVIDIA claims GeForce RTX 3050 is infinite times faster than GTX 1650/1050 in the new RTX ON graph, but those do not support raytracing

Yesterday NVIDIA made an update to its upcoming GeForce RTX 3050 website where a new ‘performance’ graph has been revealed.

It probably wouldn’t have caught our attention if not for the fact that it is probably the most pointless graph ever made on the NVIDIA website. The company compares its RTX 3050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU matches mobile RTX 3080 in leaked OpenCL benchmark

NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti Mobile Max-P in MSI Vector laptop

Geekbench’s OpenCL test indicates that NVIDIA has already distributed the driver for its next-gen laptop GPUs.

Somebody has access to MSI’s upcoming gaming laptop based on Intel 12th Gen Core series, as well as RTX 3070 Ti GPU with the drivers. This GPU is the newest member of the RTX 30M family featuring just 256 CUDA cores fewer than its older RTX 3080 sibling

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This proposed design of Ryzen 5800GX combines Zen3 chiplet with Navi24 GPU

AMD Ryzen 5800GX is a suggested design to put Navi 24 GPU and Zen3 chiplet on a single package

Twitter user Olrak (@Olrak29_) better known for his diagrams of the upcoming Navi 3X GPUs proposes a design of AMD Ryzen 5800GX processor.

This design of the 5800GX processor, of course, is by no means based on a leak. Olrak came up with the idea of putting a just-released Navi 24 GPU alongside


(PR) SAPPHIRE announces Radeon RX 6500XT PULSE

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Command 1080p Gaming with High-Performance Cooling and a Striking Aesthetic with the Launch of the SAPPHIRE PULSE AMD Radeon™ RX 6500 XT Graphics Card

Unlock an efficient 1080p gaming experience

Key Features:

  • Up to 2825 MHz Boost Clock1 and 2685 MHz Game Clock2
  • 1080p gaming with a fresh gaming experience
  • Effective, silent and performant Dual-X Cooling Technology
  • Engineered Compact Design to suit a wide variety of
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AMD employee confirms Navi 24’s primary use is in laptops with Rembrandt APUs

AMD Radeon RX 6500XT gets negative reviews

AMD’s latest low-end GPU launch has been painted by limited performance, lack of encoding capabilities, and issues with limited PCIe lanes.

The GPU maker’s decision to launch a low-end mobile GPU as the desktop had a disastrous effect. Reviewers have commonly expressed their negative conclusions on AMD’s 199 USD desktop card. Not only was the card hardly available at MSRP outside of the US, but it also somehow went out of

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(PR) AMD officially announces Radeon PRO W6400 workstation card at 229 USD

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New AMD Radeon PRO W6000 Series Graphics Unleash High-Efficiency, Powerful CAD Performance for Mainstream Workstation Users

– The Radeon PRO W6400 graphics card offers up to 3X higher performance than the previous generation1 –

– New Radeon PRO W6500M and Radeon PRO W6300M GPUs are optimized to power next-gen mobile workstations –

Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced new additions to the AMD Radeon™ PRO W60

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AMD Radeon RX 6500XT Review Roundup

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review Roundup

Today AMD lifts the embargo on its entry-level Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card reviews.

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AMD removes its blog post claiming ‘4GB VRAM is not enough for games’, right before introducing RX6500XT graphics

Update: AMD has republished the blog post after the backslash from the community.

AMD quietly hides its “4GB is not enough for today’s games” blog post

KitGuru noticed that AMD is suddenly not considering 4GB as a problem for games. As the company surprisingly removed its 2020 blog entry covering this problem.

Next-gen games will require more VRAM for textures, especially when running in high-quality settings. In 2020 AMD claimed that insufficient graphics memory can lead to error

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Intel

Intel Media Driver 22 released with Alchemist/ATS-M (Arctic Sound Maintream) support

Arctic Sound resurfaces as Alchemist… ARC PRO series?

An interesting update arrived at Intel’s open-source GPU driver called “Media Driver 2021Q4”.

Patch notes reveal that the driver now supports Intel Alchemist/ATS-M . According to Phoronix means Arctic Sound Mainstream . We are not familiar with this codename and ‘the original’ Arctic Sound has disappeared from the news headlines after Intel seemingly abandoned its plans for Xe-HP architecture. For many months the company has been teasing three of

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AMD launches Radeon PRO W6400, a 50W workstation card with 6nm Navi 24 GPU

AMD Radeon PRO W6400 is the first 6nm workstation card from AMD

AMD launches ‘King’ of low-end workstation GPUs, the W6400.

Today’s announcement is not for the ultra-premium Navi21 based model as we speculated a few days ago , but actually completely the opposite. The Radeon PRO W6400 is a Navi 24 graphics card with a TDP of up to 50W. It is actually AMD’s first-ever

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