Jon Peddie

Basemark debuts enhanced mobile device benchmark

Qualcomm led the industry in introducing variable rate shading (VRS) with the Snapdragon 888 last September. Apple filed a patent on VSR in 2019, Samsung has it in their GPU, and Arm’s Immortalis-G715 introduced it in June of this year. With all that development, someone had to test it. Who better than the folks at Basemark?

Basemark debuts enhanced mobile device benchmark

Qualcomm led the industry in introducing variable rate shading (VRS) with the Snapdragon 888 last September. Apple filed a patent on VSR in 2019, Samsung has it in their GPU, and Arm’s Immortalis-G715 introduced it in June of this year. With all that development, someone had to test it. Who better than the folks at Basemark? So, Basemark launched its … Read more

Nvidia Q2 FY23 results

Nvidia reported revenue for the second quarter ending July 31, 2022, of $6.7 billion, up 3% from a year ago and down 19% from the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter were $0.26, down 72% from a year ago and down 59% from the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.51, down 51% from … Read more

Esports moves to mobile

This is the IEM, or Intel Extreme Masters. It is German esports organizer ESL’s desktop tournament series and is currently the longest-running global pro gaming tour in the world (established in 2006). At the ESL One event in Cologne, Germany, 15,000 fans paid to attend each day.   Electronic sports, better known as esports, involves spectator competitive PC gaming tournaments … Read more

Glenfly Arise GT-10C0 AIB

Founded in 2020, Glenfly Technology Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, and has developed AMOLED driver products. In 2021, the company announced it would offer a graphics AIB based on a forthcoming dGPU by Zhaoxin (aka Tianshu Zhixin). Zhaoxin announced it would have a dGPU, the KX-6000 and 30000, in late 2020, built in 16 nm from TSMC. Glenfly … Read more

Intel benchmarks the Arc A750 against an RTX 3060

Intel has made a lot of blunders rolling out their long-awaited dGPUs and subsequent AIBs. And you still can’t really buy one. But, they have just released some fascinating DX12 and Vulkan benchmarks (they ran) that look decent and honest. The data Intel provided encompasses both its testing on the Intel Arc A750 AIB and a competitive product (presumably an … Read more

SPEC’s latest WS graphics benchmark

  At Siggraph 2022 in Vancouver, SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) announced the release of its SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 graphics benchmark. This is a significant update to its industry-standard software for measuring graphics performance when using professional software applications. Measuring Graphics Performance The SPECviewperf 2020 v3.1 benchmark now includes support for the latest Microsoft Windows 11 operating system and much … Read more

Biren Technology introduces GPU-compute chip

Zhang Wen, founder, chairman, and CEO of Biren Technology   Founded in Shanghai in 2019, Biren Technology also known as Biling Technology, counts some of China’s leading venture funds and government agencies as backers and raised 1.1 billion yuan (~$160 million) on its first round. As of March, the firm has secured more than CNY4.7 billion (~ $725.7 million) in financing … Read more

Apexx Everest—how much higher can Boxx get?

At Siggraph, in the Blender booth, Boxx introduced its Everest model of the Apexx brand workstations. Powered by the 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX Series processor, the company demonstrated the Blender rendering engine in Blender’s booth.

Intel’s GPU lineup (we think)

Ever since Intel announced it was entering the dGPU race, there has been speculation, opinion, leaks, and rumors about what the elephant in the room might look or be like. Intel didn’t make the guessing any easier by changing names, codes, and specs, and strategically dropped hints and leaks.  ASRock appears to be the first AIB partner to announce an … Read more