Hardware

Meet the... SQL Processing Unit?

In context: Databases are in something of a Golden Age right now. There is an immense amount of development taking place in and around the way we store and access data. The world is obsessed with "data," and while we would not call it the "new oil," our ability to manipulate and analyze data continues to advance in important ways. But at their heart, databases are fairly straightforward things – repositories of data.

AMD breaks the world record for 16-core CPUs in Cinebench with a 7950X on LN2

Congrats! AMD-sponsored overclocker Bill Alverson, aka Sampson, won the twin records of the highest scores in Cinebench R23 and R20 for 16-core CPUs on Friday with a Ryzen 9 7950X overclocked to 6.5 GHz. His scores now also rank 37th in R23 and 88th in R20 for CPUs of any size.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang once again claims Moore's Law is dead

Intel's Core i9-13900K tops the single thread performance charts

Forward-looking: Performance information continues to flow as we close in on Intel and AMD's next-generation release dates. Both platforms are expected to significantly improve clock speed and instructions per cycle (IPC) over their predecessors. PassMark's latest single thread CPU benchmark seems to support those expectations, with Intel's 13900K sitting at the top of the charts.

RTX 4090 hits 2.85GHz boost clock in Cyberpunk 2077 demo

In brief: Team green is releasing more information about its new Ada Lovelace graphics cards in the days since unveiling them. A new Cyberpunk 2077 demo reel showcases the potential of the RTX 4090 along with the benefits of DLSS 3, which includes more than just higher framerates.

Nvidia Optical Flow Accelerators can use AI frame generation for video encoding, too

AMD CEO plans to negotiate 2nm & 3nm chip supplies with TSMC soon

Something to look forward to: As the new Ryzen 7000 series processors reach store shelves, with RDNA 3 right behind it, AMD has fully adopted 5nm processors for their products. However, the company doesn't plan on staying at 5nm for long. Team Red intends to meet with TSMC to negotiate future 2nm and 3nm chip supplies.

These third-party RTX 4000 cards include one so big it could fit four Mini-ITX cards inside

GeForce RTX 4090 was overclocked to 3.0GHz in Nvidia's lab

In context: A brief comment during Nvidia's announcement of the RTX 4000 series graphics cards sheds some light on the flagship model's overclocking potential. It isn't unprecedented, strictly speaking, but it could push some new boundaries for the latest GPU tech, depending on future details, such as what kind of cooling it required.

Logitech's G Cloud handheld focuses on game streaming with up to 12 hours of battery life

The big picture: Logitech's new G Cloud handheld trades the Steam Deck's performance for better battery life and a lighter form factor. It doesn't require high-end internals and sophisticated cooling solutions as it relies on streaming games from the cloud or a local PC/Xbox instead of natively rendering the games.

Very Expensive: First reactions on Nvidia's RTX 4090, RTX 4080, DLSS 3 and more

The big picture: Nvidia finally took the wraps off their next-generation GeForce 40 series graphics cards, which feels like it's been a long time coming considering all the leaks and rumors over the last year or so. We've spent some time analyzing Nvidia's presentation to give our thoughts on the new RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 series GPUs and to break down some of Nvidia's confusing performance reveals that obfuscate the most important information.

AMD launches Mendocino APUs for entry-level notebooks: Zen 2 architecture and RDNA 2 graphics

AMD confirms big power-efficiency gains with Radeon 7000 GPUs coming November 3

The last man selling floppy disks says he still receives orders from airlines

EVGA's low profit margins may have been partially self-inflicted, report says

Nvidia announces GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs based on Ada Lovelace architecture

Highly anticipated: Nvidia has officially unveiled its next-gen GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture and headlined by the flagship RTX 4090. Ada Lovelace is built on TSMC's 4N process and will debut in new RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards. The former packs 76 billion transistors, 16,384 CUDA cores, and 24GB of GDDR6X memory from Micron.

Retail Core i9-13900K CPU reviewed, provides impressive performance uplift with power limits disabled

This card could let users stream PC games to the Nintendo Switch

GeForce Beyond: watch Nvidia unveil the RTX 4000-series graphics cards here at 8am PT / 11am ET

Intel announces NUC 12 Enthusiast mini PC and barebones kit

US-China semiconductor battle: Second and third order consequences

Why it matters: Earlier this month, the US government blocked the sale of specific chips to anyone in China. We see this as an important change by the government in the tactics they are deploying. The United States has gone from blocking specific companies in China, to blocking all companies and focusing on specific products. This is a big change, and opens up the question -- what exactly are they hoping to achieve? This matters obviously in that it can help us predict the outcome, but we increasingly hold the view that the government may not have entirely thought through how this will ultimately play out.

PSVR 1 games will not work immediately on PSVR 2