Intel’s 11-gen i5 and i9 Rocket Lake CPUs
Significant improvement over Gen-10
Intel’s 11-gen i5 and i9 Rocket Lake CPUs
Intel introduced its 11th generation Core i processors with its new 750 Iris X UHD graphics. Intel announced a full lineup of processors from the X-series Enthusiasts CPUs to the base i3. Intel is touting the integration of AI along with CPU/ GPU compute capabilities featured in the new generation. We were privileged to be able to get an i5-11600k … Read more
Famous Graphics Chips: ATI’s Radeon 8500
The Radeon 8500 AIB launched by ATI in August 2001 used a 150-nm manufacturing process, for its R200 (codename, Chaplin) GPU. The AIB worked with DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 APIs. The R200 introduced several new and enhanced features, but the most noteworthy was the ATI TruForm feature. TruForm was a Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) block developed by ATI (now AMD) … Read more
Unity announces 4Q and 2020 results; revenues up 43% for the year
Unity had a pretty good Covid year. The company went private in September 2020. The share price surged 30% over its IPO price giving it a value of $20 billion. The company raised more than $1.3 billion in the IPO. Unity has just gone public, so the data chart is just going to have to look like this for a … Read more
AMD’s Radeon 6700 XT is surprising
17 billion transistors and AMD’s new Ray Accelerator Technology
AMD’s Radeon 6700 XT is surprising
AMD is putting out some very impressive gaming AIBs that may be overlooked by gamers in general. These boards are giving mainstream gamers impressive performance at the midrange price point. AMD’s reference design Radeon 6700 XT AIB The Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the latest graphical software suites such as DirectX 12 Ultimate and AMD’s FidelityFX5 feature set. Fidelity FX5, … Read more
Nvidia’s Q4 FY21 results
Nvidia reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended 31 Jan 2021, of $5 billion, up 61% from $3.1 billion a year earlier, and up 6% from $4.7 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $3 billion, up 10% from last quarter and up 47% from last year. “Q4 was another record quarter, capping a breakout … Read more
EVGA RTX 3060 XC
A Low mid-range AIB for economy gaming and it’s available… so far
Gaming at 5k
Dell’s 40-inch, 5K wasn’t designed for game, but it’s damn good at it
The game market takes no prisoners
Content driven, platform second, culture is everything
The gaming market is huge and takes no prisoners
As the headlines and some investors' money slowly fades, and the echoes of share price surge from the GameStop revolt bubble continue to reverberate, the PC gaming market is worth about $35 billion and growing at about 5%, while the mobile gaming market has lower ASPs, but orders of magnitude more players and is projected to grow 20% and reach $120 billion by the … Read more
Gaming at 5k
When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a … Read more