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Building a dGPU that will physically fit inside a thin and light notebook, including its frame-buffer memory, while keeping the power drain down is no simple feat
Building a dGPU that will physically fit inside a thin and light notebook, including its frame-buffer memory, while keeping the power drain down is no simple feat
AMD was rightfully proud of its RDNA-based RX5000 series AIBs. They won awards, benchmarks, and quite a few customers. But that was April 2018, and the product line only spanned from low-end to midrange. Enter RDNA2, big Navi, RX6n00. Take a seat in the front row son, you ain’t seen nothing yet. AMD says the RDNA2 has a 30% higher … Read more
AMD announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The combination, says AMD, will create the industry’s leading high-performance computing company. AMD believes it will significantly expand AMD’s product portfolio and customer set across diverse growth markets where Xilinx is an established leader. AMD says the transaction will immediately … Read more
AMD’s third-quarter was up from Q2 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $2.8 billion, up 57% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was 148% quarter-over-quarter and up 225% year-to-year. “Our business accelerated in the third quarter as strong demand for our PC, gaming, and data center products drove record quarterly revenue,” said Dr. Lisa … Read more
For Q3 2020, Intel reported a decline in sales (revenue), profits, and margins even as even though more people bought PCs, as consumers and companies adjusted to work at home. Likewise, organizations and governments pulled back on data center spending. The company also acknowledged its next generation of chipmaking technology was six months behind schedule. Overall PC sales were up … Read more
The SR Display could be an enabler for creators across several industries. Sony’s new eye-sensing light field display (ELFD) does not require virtual reality glasses or a headset.
(Source: DxOmark) DxOmark can trace its roots back to the early 2000s when DxO Labs founded it as the image quality evaluation division. It worked primarily with phone manufacturers to profile displays and publish its evaluations to help rank phone displays. In September 2017, DxO Labs spun out DxOmark as an independent privately-owned company. Founded by photographers and scientists in the early 2000s, … Read more
Test introduces hyper realistic, true gaming type of content
Flagship PC is the quietest we’ve not heard
If you read my article on multi-GPUs you know that SLI and Crossfire have been retired, and Nvidia has introduced NVLink. The intrepid Mark Poppin of BabelTech Reviews wanted to find out if adding a second AIB could actually improve performance. He hooked up an Nvidia RTX 3090 FE and an RTX 2080 Ti (adding up to ~ $2,800 of … Read more
(Source: Sony) Sony Electronics announced the debut of its Spatial Reality Display (SR Display), a new Stereo 3D display made with Sony’s Eye-Sensing Light Field Display (ELFD) technology. The display does not require virtual reality glasses or a headset. The display uses a 4K panel with micro-optical lenticular lens. (Source: Sony) In the past, such displays which used … Read more
Alienware has always been a style leader. The company epitomized that with the revolutionary Area 51 chassis. There’s not much you can do with a monitor design-wise. A big flat panel on a stand is pretty hard to make sexy. Nonetheless, the company has carried through with its sense of design to create monitors with distinctive style and with features … Read more