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Dell no longer shipping Alienware Aurora R10/R12 systems to certain US states due to new power regulations

Dell can no longer deliver Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition to California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, or Washington

New power efficiency regulations in certain US states prevent Dell from shipping two of their desktop systems.

California’s Energy Consumption Tier 2 implementation has been put into effect on July 1, 2021. As a result, the power regulations will be even more conservative and require even more types of devices to meet the criteria in order to be sold in states that adopted such regulations. For Dell,

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Intel reveals the design of Alder Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Meteor Lake and Granite Rapids CPUs

Intel shows next-gen CPUs

During the Intel Accelerated event, the manufacturer disclosed the information on the upcoming changes to its node naming as well as has shown some of its upcoming for the first time.

Intel has confirmed that Intel 7 node will be used for Alder Lake consumer CPUs and Sapphire Rapids data center processors. The company confirmed Alder Lake will start shipping this year, while Sapphire Rapids will enter production in the first quarter of 2022. This is the first time Intel has shown the design of each

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Intel introduces its new node naming, Enhanced Superfin is now Intel 7

Intel 7, 4, 3, and 20A nodes

Intel decided to make adjustments to its node naming. The manufacturer has changed the naming for two of its already announced nodes and also revealed a roadmap for its 2023-2024 products.

Intel 10nm Enhanced SuperFin has been renamed to Intel 7 . Intel revealed that this node is now in volume production and it will see 10 to 15% performance per watt improvement over 10nm SuperFin. This node will be

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ZOTAC releases RTX 3080 Ti X-Gaming Naraka Bladepoint Edition

ZOTAC RTX 3080 Ti X-Gaming Naraka Bladepoint Edition released

ZOTAC releases another custom X-Gaming model.

Naraka Bladepoint is an upcoming game developed by 24 Entertainment studios. This is a mass online multiplayer game with up to 60 players in battle royale style. This Chinese game will have its global launch on platforms such as Steam and Epic Games Store on August 12th. To celebrate this launch, ZOTAC partnered up with 24 Entertainment to launch a full custom design featuring the white and red

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AMD Navi 31 with 15360 cores may no longer feature “Compute Units”

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Could those be the specs of AMD Radeon RX 7900XT?

New information on the next-gen flagship Navi 31 GPU.

Guys over at 3DCenter have been busy putting together all the Navi 31 rumors that emerged over the weekend. They gathered information from multiple sources, some of which appear to match each other.

Following Kopite7kimi’s claim that the next-gen flagship GPU called Navi 31 could feature as many as

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AMD to announce Radeon RX 6600 XT on July 30 at Chinajoy 2021

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT to be annoucned on July 30

The first gaming desktop Navi 23 GPU is to be announced in 4 days.

AMD is reportedly set to announce its new mid-range model on July 30th during Chinajoy 2021 expo in Shanghai, China. The announcement will precede the unboxing embargo and product launch, all separated by a week. We have been reporting on July 30th for a while, but it seems that the information has been also confirmed


Neowin: Radeon RX 6600 XT MSRP is 349 USD, RX 6600 to cost 299 USD

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AMD RX 6600 XT to cost 349 USD, RX 6600 299 USD

Neowin citing their own sources claims to know the MSRP of both Radeon RX 6600 graphics cards.

The site received information from its industry sources on AMD Navi 23 desktop gaming cards MSRP. According to the report, RX 6600 XT would cost 349 USD while RX 6600 would be 50

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AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution FP32 fallback tested, native FP16 is 7% faster

AMD FSR FP32 fallback tested with Radeon RX 6800 XT

When AMD made its FidelityFX Super Resolution technology open source, the GPU manufacturer disclosed that the upscaling technology supports a fallback for older GPUs.

If the GPU does not support half-precision (FP16) compute acceleration, AMD offers a fallback to single-precision (FP32) computations. This can be, for instance, set by manipulating the flags in the AMS FSR samples’ source code.

Older GPUs such as NVIDIA Pascal

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 “Ada Lovelace” series design allegedly finalized, using TSMC 5nm

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NVIDIA Ada Lovelace launching next year using TSMC 5nm?

Over the past few days, leakers have been sharing information on AMD RDNA3 and NVIDIA Hopper/Lovelace architecture. Important details were revealed by Greymon55 today.

Greymon: Lovelace’s design is finalized, it is using TSMC 5nm node

According to the leaker, Ada Lovelace is definitely the next gaming series from NVIDIA. In fact, the entire project has been finalized and it should not change

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Cowcotland: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT street price expected to be higher than 499 EUR

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Radeon RX 6600 XT retail price expected between 499 to 549 EUR

The actual street price of the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card may be a lot higher expected, Cowcotland reports.

Graphics cards’ MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) or SEP (Suggested E-tail Price) have clearly lost their meaning and importance due to ongoing problems with GPU supply. For as long as customers are willing to pay