Phison’s New PCIe 4.0 Controller Tested: 7.4 GBps of Potential
Phison’s PS5018-E18, the company’s fastest NVMe SSD controller yet, is still in development.
Intel Claims 32-Core Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU Crushes 64-Core AMD EPYC In These Specific Workloads
Most people would probably agree that Intel is in need of a win in the CPU sector, now that AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series is kicking tail and taking names (for those who can find one in stock, anyway). Ice Lake might provide that win, in the server space. How so? According to Intel, a 32-core Xeon processor based on Ice Lake can outperform a 64-core
Lenovo Legion Monitor Drops to New Low Price
This monitor from Lenovo is currently discounted 20% through Amazon until November 18th.
Adobe Photoshop Arm64 Beta Heads To Apple M1 Macs And Windows 10 On Arm PCs
Arm64 processors are making a big play for the laptop market thanks to Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs running Windows 10 on Arm and new Macs with the Apple M1 SoC. One of the best-known software applications on the planet is Photoshop, and it must run using emulation with Windows 10 on Arm or with Rosetta 2 on macOS Big Sur.
However, running
AMD Debuts Hangar 21 Demo To Showcase Radeon RX 6000 Series Ray Tracing Prowess
AMD is cooking up a fancy “Hangar 21” tech demonstration designed to show off the advanced graphics capabilities of its RDNA 2 architecture, and namely things like real-time ray tracing with realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections. The full demo, whatever it might entail, will drop in a couple of days. For now, you can check out a 43-second
Microsoft Intros Pluton Processor, Intel Will Adopt AMD’s Security Approach
Microsoft says that AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm will all support its new Pluton security processor.
Apple Macbook Pro With M1 CPU Makes Benchmark Debut Flexing Optimized App Muscle
When Apple announced its M1 processor for its future Macs earlier this month, the company made some pretty bold claims. Apple threw out numbers left and right, in one breath saying that the Apple M1 was up to 3.5x faster than the processor found in the best-selling laptop in one instance, while in another saying that the integrate GPU was
AMD Teases New ‘Hangar 21’ Tech Demo With Ray Tracing
AMD teased a new tech demo to showcase raytracing on its new GPUs
be quiet! Silent Base 802 Review: The Anti-2020 Chassis For Silence Enthusiasts
Can’t make up your mind? The be quiet! Silent Base 802 offers silent performance with lots of damping, but also a mesh front panel.
Xbox Series X Supply Shortage To Last Well Into 2021
Microsoft suggests that it expects both the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles to be in short supply well into 2021.