Specifications for Intel's next-gen mobile processors might have just surfaced in a new leak from leaker Jaykihn, a reasonably well-regarded source for Intel leaks. While unconfirmed, the details give us a possible look at what's coming with Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake, two upcoming CPU families that will form the bulk of Intel's mobile Read more...
NVIDIA’s high-end GeForce RTX 50-series cards are already on shelves—or at least, spaces for them are. While supplies seem to be sharply limited, the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 lead the charge for the new Blackwell architecture, while the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 are expected to land later this month. NVIDIA has yet to...Read more...
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...Read more...
The last couple of weeks have seen numerous and varied leaks of the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware. Not only have there been leaks of the external shell and appearance, but also of the motherboard and other components. The latest leak was a gaming accessories company known as Genki showing off a very realistic "mock up" at CES 2025 that it claims Read more...
CES is next week and you can bet that there will be a bevy of beautiful hardware announcements, including many luxurious laptops sporting the latest processor designs. Apparently, Taiwanese ODM Elitegroup (better known to the DIY crowd as "ECS") couldn't wait though, and showed its hand early. In the company's...Read more...
AMD's product naming schemes have been all over the place for a while now, but you have to give the red team some credit for this one. After all, the previous-generation discrete GPUs based on the RDNA 3 architecture were the Radeon RX 7000 series, and then the RDNA 3.5 GPU on Ryzen AI MAX is apparently the Ryzen 8000...Read more...
Coming out of left field is a leaked render of what the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max (and perhaps by extension, the entire iPhone 17 lineup) could look like. Assuming this design—with its horizontal camera bar, part glass, part aluminum back cover—ultimately holds true, the phone could mark a major shift for Apple, an...Read more...
Dbrand, the accessories maker famous for its cheeky marketing, has potentially spilled the beans on one of the most hotly anticipated gaming devices, the Nintendo Switch 2. Known for crafting cases and skins for phones as well as gaming devices like the Steam Deck and the original Switch, Dbrand has now unveiled a new...Read more...
We've already reported on the idea that Rockstar's next magnum opus will feature cutting-edge graphics, but we didn't have many details at that time. Now, we know a bit more: GTA VI will definitely feature ray-traced global illumination as well as some degree of procedural generation, according to a Linkedin post that...Read more...
Could this be a proper look at the pre-launch Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra? A new video has arose purportedly showing a working Galaxy S25 Ultra prototype complete with the flat edges, rounded corners, and separate rear camera ports. With only a few months to go before the official announcement, Samsung's latest S-series...Read more...
If you read that headline and thought, "hey wait, isn't the 285 already out," then you forgot to look at the letter. The Core Ultra 9 285H is an unannounced mobile processor from Intel based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Intel hasn't said anything about mobile Arrow Lake yet, but the first benchmark leak has...Read more...
The gaming handheld market is still booming, with customers buying PC-based portables to play their favorite games on the go in surprising numbers. At the heart of the overwhelming majority of these handhelds is AMD silicon—in particular, AMD SoCs based on its "Phoenix" processor, like the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. That...Read more...
Given that AMD's standard Zen 5 processors barely moved the needle in terms of gaming performance, and Intel has admitted that its upcoming "Arrow Lake" Core Ultra 200S CPUs similarly won't be providing a big gaming uplift, hype is at an all-time high for the new Ryzen X3D CPUs because PC gamers are desperate for...Read more...
The early rumors concerning the naming convention of AMD's upcoming mobile processors appears to be true. We already suspected this, but things took a turn when the company revealed the final name of its "Strix Point" SoCs earlier this year: the Ryzen AI 300 family, headed up by the flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX...Read more...
Memory overclocking can have a huge effect on application performance, depending on the app in question. One of the key features of Intel's new Arrow Lake processors is that they can support stratospheric memory transfer rates. However, that may only apply to the high-powered "K" series processors, at least if ASRock...Read more...
The physical size of a processor tells you a surprising amount about its cost and capabilities, especially if you know the manufacturing process it's made on. AMD has been characteristically tight-lipped about its upcoming series of graphics processors based on the RDNA 4 architecture, but a new leak reveals the...Read more...
AMD's introducing a whole new class of products with the Strix Halo SoCs. These processors integrate CPU, GPU, and NPU into one package, and that's not novel. What is novel, at least in the x86 world, is the amount of each component included in the part. A full 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, a massive 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units...Read more...
It can be tough to keep up with processor codenames, so let us lay it out for you. "Lunar Lake" is the code name for the new Intel mobile processors implementing "Lion Cove" P-cores and "Skymont" E-cores. Those same core architectures will show up in "Arrow Lake," the new high-power parts launching later this year...Read more...
For Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 200 desktop processors, perhaps more familiar by their code-name "Arrow Lake", Intel has removed Hyper-Threading from the P-cores. That makes those CPUs narrower, so they might not need as much memory bandwidth, right? Well, the Skymont E-cores are nearly three times as wide as the...Read more...
RDNA4 is definitely on the way, despite the fact that AMD has said almost exactly nothing about it besides confirming that it does technically exist. As far as we know, there are two Radeon GPUs on the way based on AMD's next-generation graphics architecture, known as Navi 48 and Navi 44. According to leakers, these...Read more...
Before the launch of AMD's Zen 5 CPUs, many people remarked that Intel's Raptor Lake woes had left AMD with a competitive "opening" against rival Intel. However, given the modest performance and efficiency gains over the previous-generation Zen 4 parts in client workloads, the narrative has now shifted, with some...Read more...
Remember the ASUS ROG Flow Z13? We've never reviewed one, but we took a peek at them during CES in both 2022 and 2023. If you don't recall, they're kind of like the Microsoft Surface Pro, but oriented for gaming rather than productivity. They are from the "Republic of Gamers" brand, after all. The extant ROG Flow Z13...Read more...