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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(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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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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