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Samsung will be showcasing its next-gen 42.5Gbps GDDR7 memory modules at ISSCC between February 16-20, 2025, ready for what could materialize into NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 SUPER series GPUs.

How do we know this? Because the ISSCC website lists an event from Samsung "Nonvolatile Memory and DRAM" event that is held on February 19, 2025. Samsung will be showing off its flagship GDDR7 memory, which is capable of running at a blistering 42.5Gbps... this is huge, as the first fleet of RRTX 50 series GPUs should feature 28-32Gbps GDDR7 memory.

NVIDIA's initial fleet of GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs will use 28Gbps or 32Gbps GDDR7 memory modules depending on the SKU, so Samsung's ultra-fast 42.5Gbps GDDR7 modules could be used on beefed-up cards like the RTX 5090 SUPER and RTX 5080 SUPER graphics cards.

AMD's SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics, Jack Huynh, has announced that the company's big CES 2025 press event and keynote will take place on Monday, January 6, at 11 a.m. PT. The event will run for 45 minutes, and AMD will unveil its "next generation of innovation across gaming, AI PC, and commercial."

Gaming before AI? Yes, it sounds like the company's upcoming RDNA 4 graphics cards, the mid-range Radeon RX 8800 XT and the Radeon RX 8700 XT, will be a big focus at the event. Jack Huynh teases "incredible special guests" while adding, "You won't want to miss it!" Based on previous Radeon-focused keynotes, we fully expect to see live or recorded game demos alongside performance benchmarks and new features. Hopefully, AMD's rumored AI-powered FSR 4 will be ready to show.

For those keeping track, AMD's CES event will happen before NVIDIA's evening GeForce RTX 50 reveal. AMD hasn't teased any specific products for CES 2025, but the sheer number of leaks and rumors we've seen all but make RDNA 4 a certainty. The company is also expected to unveil its next-gen Strix Halo and Kracken Point APUs, which will be gaming powerhouses in their own right.

NVIDIA's beefed-up GB300 AI servers are expected to hit the market in mid-2025, rolling out with even more performance, faster (and more) 12-Hi HBM3E memory, and more.

In a new report from the UDN, we're learning that supply chain manufacturers have already started the process for next-gen NVIDIA GB200 AI servers, which will have massive power consumption increases over the already power-hungry GB200 AI servers.

We heard not too long ago in October 2024 that NVIDIA was reportedly rebranding its upcoming "Blackwell Ultra" AI GPUs to the B300 series, with B300 and GB300 chips using TSMC's new CoWoS-L advanced packaging. The B200 Ultra was reportedly renamed to the B300, while the GB200 Ultra has been renamed to GB300, while B200A Ultra and GB200A Ultra are now B300A and GB300A, respectively.

With Intel announcing its first Battlemage GPU, the new Intel Arc B580 and B570, the company has also announced that it's updating its software tools and support with the latest Intel Graphics Software. With expanded display settings tools and more control over things like FPS limiters and latency reduction, a robust suite of overclocking controls is even introduced.

Yes, this means the Intel Arc B580, with its 12GB of VRAM, 2670 MHz Graphics Clock, and base 190W power draw, can all be tweaked to boost performance. The new Intel Graphics Software will replace the existing Arc Control software on the PC. It will be the all-in-one tool for GPU and PC game customization, performance monitoring and tuning, and driver releases going forward.

When it comes to overclocking, during a preview of the new software, we were shown how in-depth and easy to use it is - with control over GPU tuning, voltage limits, VRAM memory speed overclocking, fan curve, and thermal tuning.

Hidetaka Miyazaki, known colloquially as the lord of pain, says fans can look forward to a "new" FromSoftware when it comes to the upcoming slate of projects from the Japanese games-maker.

Elden Ring was far and away FromSoftware's best-selling game. The RPG was a veritable sensation when it released in 2022, taking over gaming and racking up multiple millions of sales. As of June 2024, Elden Ring has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, sparked in part by the new mega-popular Shadow of the Erdtree expansion (which also went on to sell 5 million copies).

Given the game's huge success, it makes sense to consider a sequel. Elden Ring was a big deal for everyone involved, including publisher Bandai Namco, FromSoftware, and the developer's parent company, Kadokawa. Side note: Sony is said to be discussing a potential buyout of Kadokawa, which would arm the tech giant with a multitude of manga and anime segments alongside the Dark Souls and Elden Ring developer, FromSoftware.

Intel launched its first generation of Arc graphics cards, the Intel Arc A750, in March 2022. At the time, it received mixed reviews due to driver and compatibility issues, where performance varied wildly from game to game. It also didn't play nice with specific system configurations, leading many to label Arc as 'wait and see.'

Fast-forward to 2024, and Intel's Arc Graphics represents GPUs for desktop systems, laptops, and gaming handhelds. However, it feels like a mere blip on the radar when compared to GeForce or Radeon.

Still, Intel has released over 50 new driver updates, added support for over 120 new game launches, and expanded Arc's game coverage by 2.5X. Older PC games, including several of today's biggest competitive titles, have received massive performance improvements across all Arc Graphics products.

Intel XeSS, or Xe Super Sampling, is the company's answer to NVIDIA's DLSS and AMD's FSR. However, as it utilizes the AI hardware and XMX Engines found in all Arc Graphics products, it's often seen as a better solution than FSR for maintaining image quality. Alongside Intel announcing its first next-gen Battlemage GPU with the new Intel Arc B580 today, the company has also lifted the lid on Intel XeSS 2. And yes, it includes frame generation.

When NVIDIA launched DLSS 3 Frame Generation alongside the GeForce RTX 40 Series, it took a minute or two to understand what was happening. XeSS 2 is similar in that it combines three bits of technology - XeSS Super Resolution, XeSS-FG Frame Generation, and XeLL Low Latency. Super Resolution does the AI upscaling. Frame Generation leverages AI-powered 'Optical Flow Reprojection' and other game data to create a new frame. XeLL dramatically lowers system latency to improve responsiveness.

What does that mean? Well, it transforms F1 24's native 1440p Ultra performance on the Intel Arc B580 from 48 FPS with an overall latency of 57ms to 152 FPS with an overall latency of 28ms.

Intel has formally revealed its first Battlemage GPUs, the Intel Arc B580 and the Intel Arc B570. The Arc B580 will be the first to launch; it arrives on December 13, 2024, with a $249 USD price point. The Intel Arc B570 will launch on January 16, 2025, with a $219 USD price point. Both feature the BMG-G21 chip based on Intel's Xe2 architecture.

With affordable pricing, Intel's Arc B-Series is squarely aimed at the mainstream gaming market, where its direct competition will be NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD's Radeon RX 7600. The Intel Arc B580 sports 12GB of VRAM, and the company is going so far as to position it as a 1440p 'Ultra Settings' gaming graphics card - with a 60 FPS baseline being the target.

Performance is always at the top of PC gamers' lists when a new GPU is announced, and Intel's second-generation Arc graphics card is no different. The company showcased performance benchmarks as part of the announcement, comparing it to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 and the first-gen Intel Arc A750.

Intel's first next-gen Battlemage desktop graphics cards will be here in a little over a week - with the Intel Arc B580 debuting on December 13, 2024, starting at $249 USD. With the company's new Xe2 architecture and BMG-G21 chip, it'll be joined by the cutdown Intel Arc B570 on January 16, 2025, starting at $219 USD.

In addition to an Intel Arc B580 Limited Edition reference card that Intel says is whisper quiet thanks to its revamped design and increased airflow, B-Series 'Battlemage' partners include Acer, ASRock, Gunnir, Maxsun, Onix, and Sparkle. Multiple B-Series B580 and B570 cards are coming, with Intel telling media that they're already being shipped to retailers.

Although Intel's first Battlemage GPU is not the beefier B750 (Intel wasn't ready to talk about its B-Series roadmap), the B580 is still being positioned as a 1440p Ultra gaming card that can handle modern blockbuster titles with or without ray-tracing. And it's ready to give budget-conscious gamers a different option.

Elon Musk has reportedly directly approached NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, offering a premium price to get priority access to its new GB200 AI servers, with a hefty $1.08 billion order.

In a new report from DigiTimes, industry sources have said that Elon Musk's xAI startup wants its hands on NVIDIA GB200 AI servers, and it doesn't want to wait: with CEO Elon Musk stepping in and making a call to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, waving $1.08 billion around for priority access to the most powerful AI GPU silicon on the planet.

xAI's huge $1.08 billion order for NVIDIA GB200 AI GPUs will be manufactured by NVIDIA's key partner, Foxconn, and should be delivered in January 2025.

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ASUS has confirmed that its new X870-based BTF motherboards will be on-show at CES 2025 early next year, launching alongside AMD's new flagship Ryzen 9 9000X3D series processors.

In a new post from our friends at UnikosHardware, a post from Bilibili was spotted with the ASUS China General Manager confirming ASUS X870 BTF motherboards will be released soon. The GM didn't specify when the X870 BTF motherboards would be unleashed by the company, but he did confirm the new boards will launch alongside Ryzen 9000X3D processors at CES 2025.

AMD has released its new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but it has its higher-end Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors waiting in the wings for CES 2025. The Bilibili post has the ASUS China GM asked "when will AMD's back-plug motherboard be released?" to which he replied: "everyone knows that the recent 9800X3D is really the strongest on Earth. There may be a more powerful CPU at CES later, by then you will see the new X870 back-plug motherboard".

NVIDIA never released the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, but a quad-slot prototype GPU was found in the dumpster last week... and now that card is being sent to GamersNexus for review.

The experimental RTX 4090 variant has a unique design, and engineering tweaks that would've been nice to see materialize, with the RTX 4090 Ti prototype sharing the core specifications of the retail RTX 4090 Founders Edition. Inside, it features the PG147 SKU 330 board architecture, with power specifications at 450W typical draw, and 600W peak draw.

But, there are some slight changes: the BIOS version is 95.02.01.22.01 with operating frequencies of 2115MHz base, and 2335MHz boost, which means the GPU clock speeds are around 5% lower than the RTX 4090 Founders Edition graphics card.

Cyber Monday has hit Amazon, which has continued the madness of Black Friday deals, but only for a limited time. Buyers are able to take advantage of discounts on various PC hardware, including gaming monitors, SSDs, headphones, and much more.

Cyber Monday is one of your final chances to snag fantastic deals to cross names off your Christmas shopping list. While Black Friday has now wrapped up, some retailers continue the sale madness this week, but only for select products. Online retailers are launching fresh discounts for Cyber Monday, with Amazon, known for its deals, fully immersed in the action. If you want to save hundreds on new headphones or other PC hardware, check out the details below.

Additionally, smartphones have been discounted in celebration of Cyber Monday, with discounts across Samsung devices, including the Fold and the Google Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 8a, and 8 Pro. There are also discounts on smartphone accessories.

AMD's flagship Radeon RX 8800 XT graphics card will be the highest-end RDNA 4 SKU, with rumors of its performance and power consumption leaking with some rather surprising results.

The new Radeon RX 8800 XT "RDNA 4" graphics card is the last RDNA 4 card we'll see before UDNA is introduced for the next-gen GPUs from AMD in the future. In a new post on the Chiphell forums, we're learning that AIBs will officially start mass production of the Radeon RX 8800 XT in mid-December, noting there are "still some minor bugs".

As for the power consumption, AMD's new RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 8800 XT graphics card will consume 25% less power than the RDNA 3-powered flagship RX 7900 XTX. In some quick-and-dirty testing (I'm sure) in Resident Evil 4 Biohazard, ray tracing performance on the RX 8800 XT is reportedly 45% faster than the 7900 XTX.

Corsair is currently cooking its new Vengeance DDR5 CUDIMM memory, joining the ranks of its fleet of Vengeance DDR5 memory kits on the market today.

We've already seen multiple RAM manufacturers announcing and releasing DDR5 CUDIMM memory kits (a bunch of links on those stories below) but Corsair seems close to release with its own Vengeance-branded DDR5 CUDIMM memory modules, with some pictures shown by VideoCardz.

Corsair's new Vengeance DDR5 CUDIMM memory modules are expected in both black and white (the only one pictured are in black, the white version could launch later), with an RGB strip on top of the modules. We already know that Corsair is working on Vengeance DDR5 CUDIMM memory kits, as the company itself teased 10,000MT/s speeds which you can read more about in the links below.

Apple has reportedly ordered next-gen M5 chips for its new iPad Pro and Macs from TSMC, with mass production expected in 2H 2025.

In a new report from TheElec, we're learning that Apple's new M5 chips will be made on TSMC's new 3nm process node, and not the advanced 2nm node that was previously expected. Apple's current-gen M4 chips are made on TSMC 3nm process node, but the new M5 chips are NOT being made on 2nm most likely because of the higher costs involved.

Instead, Apple is expected to use TSMC's new System-on-Integrated-Chip (SoIC) technology, with the 3D chip-stacking approach boosts thermal management and reduces electrical leakage compared to traditional 2D designs for its new M5 processors.

Intel has announced that its CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has retired from the company effective as of yesterday.

Gelsinger has vacated the chief exec post and stepped down from the board of the chip giant, following what Intel described as a "distinguished 40-plus-year career."

His temporary replacements will be David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus, who will serve as interim co-chief executive officers, while Intel looks for another CEO to take the reins.

Steam's hardware survey for November 2024 has arrived and there's been quite a surge in popularity for Windows 11.

Valve breaks down all manner of stats as part of the monthly survey, and in this case, in the operating system category, Windows 11 has risen by the largest amount we can recall. As far as we're aware, the biggest previous rise was 3.4% which happened in the August 2024 survey. (Not counting months where weirdness has impacted the survey in some way, skewing some stats badly).

In November, Windows 11 rose by 4.18%, and now sits on 52.98%, with Windows 10 falling by almost the same amount - slightly less at 4.15% - to leave the older OS on 43.31%.

You're doubtless familiar with Valve's hardware survey for Steam, and amongst the stats provided there is a ranking of the most popular graphics cards - with Intel's Arc brand finally making it onto that list.

The revelation came via a post on X from Haze that VideoCardz spotted, and we should clarify that the new entry in Steam's GPU rankings (for November) is for 'Intel Arc Graphics' which is the collective listing for all Alchemist laptop GPUs. These now have a share of 0.18% of all the graphics cards used on Steam.

These integrated graphics solutions don't register as separate model names, they're all lumped under that one umbrella label, which obviously helps bolster their chances of appearing in the rankings.