Zak Killian
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Element Six (E6), a subsidiary of the ever-dominant De Beers Group, just put out a press release unveiling its new "Copper Diamond Composite Material" (Cu-Diamond composite), a material it claims can revolutionize cooling solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) chips and GaN RF devices. This shiny innovation...
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Whatever your stance on environmental conservation as a whole, you have to agree that generating millions of tons of e-waste due to obsolescent hardware is sub-optimal. There are a lot of reasons to want to reduce this number, both ecological and economical. Intel has an idea to help, and interestingly, it aligns with...
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If you just want to know the date, well, here it is: DOOM: The Dark Ages hits on May 15th. The game's coming to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PCs via both Steam and Game Pass. That's probably all that DOOM hardcore fans really need to know, but if you're playing on PC and concerned about your specs, read on for...
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Gamers are eating good recently, with great game releases like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Dynasty Warriors Origins, Synduality: Echo of Ada, and Marvel Rivals. The industry as a whole is in a dire state, though, as major AAA publishers launch flop after flop into the market. EA is no exception, and it's...
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It was just this Monday that we learned we'd be waiting until March before AMD's next-generation Radeon GPUs made it retail shelves. A tweet from AMD's David Mcafee, the company's Corporate Vice President and General Manager, was the first formal acknowledgment of a narrower release window for the RDNA 4 GPUs than...
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By now, if you're reading this site, you've almost certainly seen plenty of the GeForce RTX 5090—and if you haven't, check out some of our past coverage. Contrary to expectations, the card and its cooler are actually incredibly small in comparison with the GeForce RTX 4090, to say nothing of the massive prototypes...
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The PlayStation 3 launched in 2006, and seven years later, we got the PlayStation 4 in 2013. Then, after another seven years, we got the PlayStation 5. Given this steady cadence, we'd expect the PlayStation 6 to launch in 2027. That gives Sony the better part of three years (counting the remainder of this year) to...
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If you're using an NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS, or Tesla GPU, sit up and take notice. NVIDIA has just released a driver update that addresses several security vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers and vGPU software. We're used to seeing driver updates aimed at improving stability or performance, but this one is primarily...
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As we've discussed before, AMD didn't really talk about its RDNA 4-based graphics cards at CES 2025, despite briefing the press on the topic. The company gave a vague "Q1 2025" release window for the cards, but given that product has already started showing up at retailers, many have expected that the GPUs would be...
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When NVIDIA originally unveiled DLSS Frame Generation with the GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs (codenamed "Ada Lovelace"), it noted that this technology couldn't come to the GeForce RTX 30 Series "Ampere" GPUs because it required a specific hardware block built into the RTX 40 series, known as the "Optical Flow...
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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to be the fastest GPU that the company launches using its RDNA 4 architecture. Despite that, by AMD's own estimates, it seems like it will probably perform around the same level as the GeForce RTX 5070. That's far off from the higher-end NVIDIA GPUs, which would seem to prove true...
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If you read the headline and thought "wait, what about PCIe 6?" then you must have missed when the spec was finalized back in January... of 2022. That's only three years ago, though, and it is true that PCI-SIG has been accelerating the pace of interconnect development. But why?
The simple answer is "AI". Neural...
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AMD briefed us on the Radeon RX 9070 series and the RDNA 4 architecture when going into CES 2025, but the company's brief 45-minute keynote completely skipped over the topic of graphics and GPUs, with nary a mention of the word "Radeon" outside of the context of AI processing. The company's excuse was that it simply...
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For tech media like Hot Hardware, the new year means a plethora of new tech, as CES in Las Vegas kicks off just after the holiday. It's always exciting to see the new products and fresh announcements, but the multitude of reveals and unveilings can be tough to track, especially if you're at the show. If -- like us -- you're all about the latest
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ASRock Challenger Intel Arc B570: $219 MSRP Intel's even more cost-friendly Arc B570 Battlemage GPU brings strong feature support like XeSS 2 with frame gen and solid 1080p performance. Although, for just $30 more, B580 offers better performance-per-dollar value. Strong Feature Support Solid New Software Superior...
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Japan is a staunch ally of the United States and the two countries share many values. They don't agree on everything, though, and one of the most contentious areas between Japanese and American businesses is the matter of copyright. It may be hard to believe, but copyright law is much stricter in Japan than it is in...
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When we first heard about Bartlett Lake early last year, the leaks spoke of a promise of a series of P-core-only processors for LGA 1700 desktop systems. In July, well-regarded leaker Jaykihn (@jaykihn0 on Xwitter) clarified that "BTL-S" is actually a whole series of processors comprising everything from dual-core...
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Casual fans could be forgiven for being surprised at our headline. After all, some storied fighting game franchises have been featuring guest characters for decades, like Spawn in Mortal Kombat 11, or Darth Vader in Soul Calibur IV. Street Fighter has done many crossovers over the years, with Capcom's iconic...
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PowerColor has been one of AMD's most dedicated AIB partners for decades. Your author fondly remembers rocking a PowerColor Radeon 9600 card, a lifetime ago. The company is known for its impressive factory overclocks and sometimes outlandish board designs, like the "Devil 13" family back in the day. Lately...
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What if you could have sixteen desktop-class AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and a 96GB professional GPU in a thin & light laptop without compromising performance? Well, that's the promise of AMD's Ryzen AI MAX processors, code-named Strix Halo, and that's the heart that beats under the skin of HP's new ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop...
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Come along with us as we dive straight into what could be the future of gaming graphics, direct from the CES 2025 show floor. NVIDIA's keynote marked the official unveiling of the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs and their crown jewel, DLSS 4. The show was a non-stop roundabout of announcements, but we had the opportunity...
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Let's talk about frame generation on integrated graphics for a moment. It's not an entirely novel concept; not only does AMD's FSR3 frame generation work on integrated graphics, but AMD has its driver-based AFMF 2 technology that has a dedicated mode for the integrated GPUs in its products.
With the launch of its...
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