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Samsung’s coolest TV

Samsung's 2018 QLED TVs blend into the background when idle Since the TV is often the focal point of the living room, when it's off that blank black rectangle wastes a lot of space. To put it to better use, Samsung has introduced what it calls Ambient Mode, a low-power setting that lets the idle screen display news, weather, or … Read more

Got too much money, want a gaming board?

Line up at the nearest Nvidia store to get a TitanX Collector’s Edition Coming soon—Nvidia’s Titan X Collectors Edition AIB (Nvidia) Blinking lights, anybody’d guess what’s in it?  HBM2 maybe, a la Volta. A big fat GPU with a lot of shaders?  A collector’s item for the rich? Only from Nvidia—no partners need apply. Remember the Founder’s edition last year? … Read more

AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo

11.5 TFLOPS and 11 billion triangles/second  AMD has taken two WX 7100s and combined them into one AIB. The GPUs have 16 GB of GDDR5 each, and run two separate apps, or can be combined in Crossfire to run one app. Like the single GPU WX 7100, the Radeon Pro Duo is based on the Polaris architecture. AMD has 2x … Read more