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First PassMark Numbers For Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus Put It Ahead Of Ultra 9 275HX In Both Single And Multi-Threaded Performance

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The newest Arrow Lake-HX chip was just benchmarked in PassMark, revealing the true prowess of chip. Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus PassMark Numbers Render Core Ultra 9 275HX Useless Despite Having Fewer Cores and Threads While the Intel Arrow Lake Refresh desktop CPUs have already arrived in the mainstream market, the laptop variants are yet to be seen in wider availability in notebooks. Similar to the desktop platform, Intel also launched two chips in the Core Ultra 200HX Plus series, namely Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus. These chips offer a similar upgrade to […]

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AMD and Intel arm x86 against the AI gap with ACE, baking matrix-multiply engines & low-precision formats straight into future CPUs

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ACE, the upcoming set of x86 Extensions defined by both AMD & Intel, has seen the latest spec release, focusing on AI acceleration. AMD & Intel Focus on AI Acceleration Through Next-Gen x86 Architectures That Are ACE Compliant Last year,Β Intel and AMD partnered to strengthen the x86 ecosystem through their "x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group" initiative. The plan was to offer a standardized set of features across architectures to make x86 accessible, scalable, and compatible with future requirements. Four key features were announced: FRED, AVX10, ChkTag, and ACE. Now, the latest ACE "AI Compute Extensions" specifications have been published by AMD […]

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Persona 4 Revival Plays It Safe With a Faithful Remake, but New Combat Finally Fixes the Series’ Most Ignored Mechanic

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The first proper look at Atlus's Persona 4 Revival arrived earlier this month during the Xbox Games Showcase, but the Japanese developer provided a more in-depth look at the remake of the fourth entry in the series launching on February 18, 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S (including Xbox Game Pass) in a dedicated livestream which showcased its key features, including some new combat features that are set to make some underutilized mechanics more worthwhile to use. The Persona 4 Revival broadcast provided a good overview of what to expect to see in the game, going over […]

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Scammers Now Selling Fake NVIDIA RTX Graphics Cards With Glued-Down Plastic GPUs & Scrap Memory

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More Fake GPUs are circulating online marketplaces, which use plastic chips to imitate NVIDIA RTX GPUs and scrap memory dies. You Need To Be Extra Cautious of Graphics Cards Being Sold Online As NVIDIA RTX Graphics Cards Have Been Spotted With Glued Plastic GPUs Over the years, we have seen several instances of fake graphics cards appearing online. Most of these graphics cards are sold through online marketplaces, & the region most affected by such products is the Asia Pacific. Previously, we have seen graphics cards with missing components and different GPUs, but this time, scammers have gone an extra […]

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ASUS Announces $16,578 Price Tag for ROG 20th Anniversary Family Bucket

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The Family Bucket Collector's edition is priced at a whopping $16,578 for all the ROG 20th Anniversary products. ASUS to Host Flash Sale Offline Through Lottery System in Shanghai; The Family Bucket Collector Edition to Cost Over $16,000 The recently announced and showcased products from the ROG 20th anniversary stack are going to be sold through a flash sale in Shanghai from June 20 to July 19. This will take place at the Xingye Taikoo Hui Nan Garden in Jing'an District, where the items will be sold through a lottery system. ASUS has revealed the price for each product, as […]

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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable β€” security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

AMD has reportedly stripped TSME from consumer Ryzen processors after years of working support, with testing suggesting newer AGESA firmware disables the memory-encryption feature while Pro and EPYC CPUs remain unaffected.

AMD's RDNA 5 gaming GPUs are coming late next year, according to AIBs at Computex β€” manufacturers expect new Team Red cards in the second half of 2027 alongside Nvidia

AIB partners for AMD at the Computex 2026 show floor have said they expect next-gen RDNA 5 gaming GPUs to land sometime in the second half of 2027, or maybe even in early 2028. That launch schedule lines up closely with Nvidia's RTX 60 series, which is also expected in late 2027 based on current rumors.

AMD reaches almost 45% CPU share in the latest Steam Hardware Survey for Windows gaming PCs β€” Ryzen is steadily gaining ground against Intel's legacy domination

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out and it's showing positive signs of growth for AMD, while Intel is unfortunately on a decline. The Red Team posted its best-ever CPU market share numbers in May 2026 with 45% of all CPUs on Windows being from AMD, while Intel is down to 55%, which is still more for now.

Intel will reportedly upgrade its Wildcat Lake refresh to an 8-core config next year, leak claims β€” top-end silicon tipped to feature 4 P-cores and 4 LP-E cores as part of 'Core 400' series

Intel's Wildcat Lake refresh that's supposedly debuting next year will shift focus to a more upmarket audience, only refreshing its Core 5 and Core 7 tiers. The new silicon at the top-end would feature 8 cores, up from 6 cores on Wildcat Lake right now, with the 4 P-cores and 4 LP-E cores. The Core 3 parts are claimed to remain unchanged.

Nvidia is reportedly still planning fabled RTX 50 Super series for 2026, leak claims β€” lineup could now include a potential 'RTX 5060 Super' with 12GB of VRAM

For almost a year, the RTX 50 Super series has been part of the rumor mill, but with the AI boom snatching production lines, causing memory prices to skyrocket, hype for the lineup had died down. Now, a potential RTX 5060 Super with 12GB of VRAM is apparently in the works, with the 50 Super series as a whole allegedly getting "back on track."

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