New Game Support Manor Lords Expanded HYPR-Tune Support Nightingale SKULL AND BONES™ Expanded Vulkan Extensions Support VK_KHR_shader_maximal_reconvergence VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read Keep on reading: (Driver) AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 24.4.1 ..read more

ThinkBook TGX features OCulink with full 64 Gbps bandwidth An alternative to slow Thunderbolt eGPUs.  This product was announced at CES, but it wasn't seen in action until now. The ThinkBook TGX is a GPU enclosure that uses a custom connection based on PCIe Gen4 specs. The connector is very much like OCulink, and unofficially, it is, in fact, OCulink. Officially, it is advertised as TGX and should work with Lenovo ThinkBook 14/16 laptops featuring Core Ultra CPUs. Modern GPU enclosures are commonly equipped with Thunderbolt 3 or 4 connections. Both technically offer the same bandwidth, wh ..read more

Affordable DisplayPort 2.0 monitor enables 4K 165Hz gaming, now available in China The world's first of this type.  4K 165Hz monitor with DP2.0 and HDMI 2.1, Source: SDC Recently in China, a company called SDC (Super Display Co) released a 1080p, 500 Hz gaming monitor. Priced at 2499 RMB (around $345), it has already received positive reviews. Additionally, SDC introduced another monitor, the SDC 27X1U, a 27-inch 4K 165Hz model. This monitor comes with several unique features for its price segment ($400-500), including support for DisplayPort 2.0. As previously mentioned, there has been a ..read more

Gaming Highlights: Intel® Game On Driver support on Intel® Arc™ A-series Graphics GPUs and Intel® Core™ Ultra with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs for: Manor Lords Keep on reading: (Driver) INTEL Arc Graphics 31.0.101.5445 ..read more

NVIDIA has plans for a keynote before Computex Jensen Huang to keynote on June 2nd. The schedule for Computex keynotes is really tight. Several important keynotes have already been announced, including those from AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm, all of which are expected to deliver major updates to their product lineups. As it turns out, NVIDIA also has plans for a keynote, just before Computex begins. On June 2nd, three days before Computex officially kicks off, Huang will keynote at NTU Sports Center in Taiwan. Judging from the short announcements, it's all about AI and its impact on the industry ..read more

Newegg now selling RX 7900 XTX at record low price The first time RX 7900 XTX has been available for less than $850.  We talked a lot about RX 7900 XT 20GB deals to the point where it became a weekly occurrence to see even lower prices. Not much has been happening with the XTX model, though. However, the new offer from Newegg may interest some gamers. The official Newegg store on eBay is now selling the RX 7900 XTX for $843.99, marking the lowest price yet for the 24GB Navi 31 XTX model. Previously, this card hasn't dipped below... Keep on reading: AMD flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU now ..read more

AMD preparing EPYC 4004 series Will use the AM5 package.  Consumer Raphael chips will soon be available in a new variant. The data-center-oriented EPYC series is said to receive a new variant called 4004. The series will join an extended lineup of EPYC Zen4 CPUs, which now span across 5 segments and feature anything from 8 to 128 cores. At this time, it is unclear if EPYC 4004 uses Zen4 or Zen4c cores. What is known, however, is that they use an AM5 socket, so the package should be more or less the same as existing consumer and business-oriented models.... Keep on reading: AMD reportedly ..read more

AMD Strix Point engineering sample Over at Geekbench there is an entry featuring AMD yet unreleased processor. The APU, featuring an OPN (product) code of 100-000000994-14_N, is part of AMD's upcoming deployment of the Strix Point processor series. This information is confirmed by Family 26 and Model 32, as per the Geekbench listing. Essentially, we're looking at one of the first AMD Ryzen 9050 CPUs on Geekbench. As expected, the CPU offers 12 cores, all of which are Zen5, with four being of the Zen5 dense variant, according to leaks. However, this particular model doesn't seem to be a retail ..read more

Intel XeSS has been added to two popular games Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have been updated to support XeSS. Support for this upscaling tech was already confirmed for Avatar in December, but the game has only been updated to support it now. Here, developers are not confirming which version specifically is supported. Avatar already supports NVIDIA DLSS 2 and AMD FSR3, making it one of the few games on the market that supports all major technologies. It would be even better if Ubisoft added DLSS3 support, though, especially now that Frame Generation ..read more

It's Ryzen 9000, Gigabyte confirms The cat is out of the bag. We've got a hot scoop from Gigabyte this morning: the next-gen desktop Ryzen processor line is officially named Ryzen 9000. The ongoing speculation about whether AMD would adhere to its mobile naming convention and opt for "8000" for SKUs debuting in 2024 appears to be settled. The Ryzen 9000 series, codenamed "Granite Ridge," will be powered by the Zen5 architecture, presenting a direct upgrade path from the existing Zen4 "Raphael" processors. All current AMD AM5 motherboards will be compatible with these new processors, albeit req ..read more