Items tagged with Intel
NVIDIA has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, as it skirts a one-TRILLION-dollar market valuation. While we're fond of the company's products, its corporate behavior has occasionally come under fire, with some of the most high-profile remarks coming from former partner EVGA.
The latest such allegation comes...
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Let's talk about path tracing, hardware-heads. While the difference between ray-tracing and path-tracing has been debated, the industry has largely settled on using ray-tracing as an umbrella term covering all ray-traced effects, while path-tracing typically refers to renderers that use ray-traced methods for the...
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Chinese mini-PC maker GMK is teasing some new NUC-alike designs. So far, so ordinary, but GMK appears to be jumping the gun by fanfaring upcoming mini-PCs featuring both Intel Core 14th Generation and Core Ultra processor options. Interestingly, this overenthusiastic spill also includes some specification and...
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Intel's Linux engineers have pushed Meteor Lake-S (MTL-S) driver code for implementation in the Linux kernel. The publication of this code is interesting to see for two main reasons: it shows Intel is busy working on implementing support for its latest advanced processor architectures in Linux, and there have been...
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We're accustomed to seeing GPU driver updates delivering modest performance gains in games, and sometimes even big ones to the tune of a double-digit percentage jump of up to around 20 percent. So it goes with Intel's newest Arc GPU driver—version 31.0.101.4514 in beta form—but according to Intel, it's also optimized...
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Thanks to a mix of official, semi-official, and leaked data, aspects of Intel’s Meteor Lake (MTL) processors and architecture are coming into sharper focus. A case in point is a Sisoft Sandra sysinfo tool leak this weekend, exposing details of an upcoming Meteor Lake-P (MTL-P) laptop chip with 128MB of L4 cache and a...
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Intel China has just confirmed what everyone expected: Intel's 14th-generation Core processors are going to include some portion of refreshed Raptor Lake silicon. This confirmation comes as part of an explainer on Bilibili (kind of like the Chinese YouTube) that hopes to illuminate the specifics of Intel's new...
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Intel's Data Center Max products are very impressive, but you may have had a hard time getting your hands on one even though they officially launched way back in November of last year. How come? Because they've all been going to Argonne National Laboratory. The Aurora supercomputer hosted there was planned to host...
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The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is dead, long live the Arc A770! In a mildly surprising move, Intel quietly discontinued its own LE variant this week, with a Product Change Notification (PCN) outlining the graphics card's change in status. If you happen to own one, it's now a bit of a collector's item and has...
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Contemporary AI advancements have been incredible in just the last couple of years. Generative AI has really taken off, proving once again that all you really need to convince consumers of the value of a technology is to give them a toy they can play with. (Just look at 3D video games.) The "toys" in the case of...
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Intel continues to invest big money in seeing through its IDM 2.0 strategy that Pat Gelsinger laid out not long after returning to the chip firm as its chief executive officer in 2021. Having already committed to billions of dollars in chip fab investments since his return, Intel this week announced it has signed a...
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Folks with LGA 1700 motherboards should keep eyes peeled for firmware updates if they're keen for a CPU upgrade. We already told you about BIOS updates from Gigabyte that add support for Intel's next-generation CPUs, but now there are reports coming in that both ASUS and ASRock are adding that same support to their...
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If you read this site, you know what Intel's processor branding looks like. Chips named like "Intel Core i5-13600K Processor" have been the company's bread and butter since it introduced the "Core i" branding with its Nehalem processors, the first-gen Core i family. Well, that legacy has come to an end, as Intel is...
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When we're talking about microprocessors, "efficiency" is a two-way street. You can achieve efficiency by using very little power for the performance you're offering, or you can achieve efficiency by offering extremely high performance. Intel has taken the latter path, and it wants everyone to know that its approach...
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Whatever you think about Intel's Arc graphics cards, you have to acknowledge that the proliferation of advanced upscaling technologies is largely a good thing. XeSS is an upscaler with similar performance to AMD's FSR2 and NVIDIA's DLSS, and it works on any vendor's recent graphics processor, albeit best on Intel's...
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If it's been a minute since you've upgraded your desktop graphics card, you're not alone. Far from it—the latest shipment data from Jon Peddie Research indicates that the GPU add-in board (AIB) market fell off a virtual cliff over the past year, even with Intel entering the fray with its relatively affordable Arc A770...
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If you follow this stuff as closely as your author here does, you may recall that it was rumored once upon a time that there were actually three Arc GPUs: the ACM-G10 that powers the Arc A770 and A750, the ACM-G11 that drives the A380 and lower-end parts, and then a mysterious ACM-G12. This third chip was rumored to...
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Gigabyte has released new BIOS updates for all of its Z790 motherboards adding support for “Intel Next Generation” processors. Based on the naming, Gigabyte is apparently confirming the launch of a Raptor Lake Refresh, that could potentially co-exist with Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs.
If Gigabyte’s verbiage is...
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Microprocessors are the most complex things humans have ever constructed. In any complex system, radically changing one part of a system always has knock-on effects for other parts of the system. To combat this, you can try to de-couple interconnected parts of the system, and that's been a popular idea in...
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You might recall that back in March of last year, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang remarked that "[Intel] is interested in [NVIDIA] using its foundries, and we're very interested in exploring it." Then, almost exactly a year later this past March, Huang made remarks that some outlets took to mean that NVIDIA would definitely...
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If you read that headline and thought, "what the heck is a Core Ultra," you haven't been keeping up with your rumors, dear reader. Indeed, Intel seems to be readying a branding shift away from "Core i" and toward "Core Ultra," at least for its Meteor Lake mobile parts.
So this latest leak is for a Core Ultra 7...
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So we've got a new Radeon graphics card at $279, and it's not bad. There's also a new GeForce card at $399, and it's not bad either. The new GPUs don't really compete with each other given the price difference. Given that, then we suppose that if you want a new GPU under $300, grab the Radeon card, and if you've got more dosh, snag the GeForce.
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