Manufacturing chips using advanced process technologies requires more computing power than ever before. To address the demands of 2nm nodes and beyond, Nvidia is releasing its cuLitho software library, which leverages the company’s DGX H100 systems based on H100 GPUs and promises a 40x increase in shop-available performance with reasonable power consumption. Modern process technologies … Read more
AMD’s top GPU, the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, has dropped to $999 over the past week. (opens in new tab). With a triple fan cooling solution and a whopping 24GB of GDDR6 VRAM means this monster of a GPU can really boost the frame rates of your favorite games. See our GPU … Read more
The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D appeared in the SiSoftware online results browser leak benchmark today. It passed the app’s “Processor Arithmetic” benchmark, achieving “ranking results above 99.95%.” The problem with this quoted comparison is that SiSoft thinks this is a laptop, but we still have raw material to think about. In this latest leak, spotted … Read more
A hobbyist software developer and retro computing enthusiast has managed to bridge the ChatGPT and IBM PC-XT computing divide. Looking for a challenge, Yo Keng Meng wondered if he could write a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS. Specifically, he targeted an old IBM 5155 portable computer from 1984 that runs on a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor … Read more
After making a huge amount of money selling GPUs to miners of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, Nvidia is now saying that cryptocurrencies are useless to society. Instead of wasting GPU computing power for mining, it can be used to run various artificial intelligence applications, such as intelligent chatbots. “All this crypto stuff, it needed … Read more
MSI’s latest ECC filing suggests that Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 could have 12GB of video memory. The company has shared the names of several RTX 4070 video cards with ECC, and all cards have a capacity of 12 GB. If true, this would make the 4070 a prime candidate for our best graphics cards … Read more
Ultra-compact form factor PCs have emerged as bright spots in the PC market in the last decade since Intel introduced the NUC. NUCs began to replace bulky tower desktops in applications where the physical footprint and system capabilities significantly exceeded actual requirements. Last year, the company celebrated its 10th anniversary with the introduction of the … Read more
Today’s Best Asus TUF Gaming B650M-Plus Wi-Fi Deals Aside from the mouthpiece, the Asus TUF Gaming B650M-Plus Wi-Fi ($229.99) is a lower-end MicroATX board based on the B650 chipset. It comes with everything that makes it TUF, including military-standard durability and reliability testing, a powerful power supply, and more. Technically, it’s well-equipped for its price … Read more
(Image credit: Intel) Contrary to innumerable reports of its demise, overclocking is not dead — not by a long shot. Yes, overclocking headroom has receded as the Intel vs AMD rivalry has intensified and the chipmakers focus on squeezing out every ounce of performance, particularly in the highest-end flagship processors. However, Intel’s Alder and Raptor … Read more
Did you know that pigs eat people? (opens in new tab) “Much more often than people expect.” If not, surely you must have heard the important, urgent news that the priest “died” in 2016, went to hell. (opens in new tab) briefly and came back to inform the rest that the demons like to play … Read more