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Samsung has just announced the industry's first GDDR6 memory at 24Gbps, ushering in a new era of crazy high memory bandwidth but not the higher-end, and more power-hungry GDDR6X memory standard.

The new Samsung GDDR6 DRAM at 24Gbps is being built on Samsung's new 10nm EUV technology, with the company saying that the new memory is "designed to significantly advance the graphics performance for next-generation graphics cards (Video Graphics Arrays), laptops and game consoles, as well as artificial intelligence-based applications and high-performance computing (HPC) systems".

Samsung's new 24Gbps GDDR6 is 30% faster than the previous 18Gbps GDDR6 standard, where at full speed the new 24Gbps of GDDR6 will see memory bandwidth hitting 1.1TB/sec (1100GB/sec). At this speed, Samsung points out that it's fast enough to transfer around 275 x 1080p movies in a single second.

EVGA unleashed its monster new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN graphics card not too long ago, as well as its PowerLink 41s power adapter... and now... the upgraded EVGA PowerLink 52U has been unveiled.

The new EVGA PowerLink 52U features 5 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, that plug into the 2 x 16-pin PCIe power connectors on EVGA's flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN graphics card. If you purchased the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN -- which costs $2500 and includes a free 1600W PSU, with 9 x PCIe power connectors -- there's no native 16-pin PCIe power connectors.

That's where the PowerLink 52U steps in, making your system look much nicer to look at, with the whole system looking much cleaner: especially, because there's so many damn PCIe power connectors required with all of the adapters (5 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors is insane for a single GPU).

I guess we're seeing the marketing launch of Intel's upcoming Arc desktop GPUs, with Intel preparing a new Arc desktop GPU bus that is hitting LANFest in September, and now Gamers Nexus have the new Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics card.

Gamers Nexus have been sent over the new Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics card, but haven't done much with it at all. VideoCardz incorrectly reported that GN was reviewing the card, but Gamers Nexus explained in a tweet that a "review isn't "already in the works." We said we ran some benchmarks on it (when an engineer visited), but we aren't reviewing it yet".

It seems Intel marketing is running GPUs into the hands of who they think matters... with PC Perspective's previous EIC and owner -- now working at Intel -- Ryan Shrout with the first GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon 6G OC graphics card in the US. Now, we have Gamers Nexus with an unreleased Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics card. This must be the start of the Odyssey.

AMD is still cooking its next-gen RDNA 3 graphics architecture in the oven, but the flagship Navi 31-based GPU is getting some rumor mill goodness today: kinda, accidentally confirmed MCD counts.

The MCD (multi-chip die) is something we've been hearing about for a while, with more details arriving through leaks in April 2022, but now we're hearing that Navi 31 will have up to 6 x MCDs on a 384-bit memory bus. The news is coming from information posted about the RDNA 3 architecture in new Linux code, but was immediately retracted... not surprised.

AMD should use a single GCD (Graphics Complex Die) with six MCDs that should see a 384-bit memory bus, while we should see 192MB of Infinity Cache (or up to 384MB if AMD moves with its revolutionary 3D V-Cache technology on each of the MCDs).

Intel is ramping up the marketing for its Arc desktop GPU by... sending an Intel Arc gaming bus to LANFest Colorado in September.

The news was announced by Intel staffers on the Intel Insiders Discord channel, where the Intel Arc gaming bus is completely wrapped in "Arc High Performance Graphics". But what about inside? Inside isn't ready to game on yet, as Intel will be installing as many as 30 gaming stations that will be powered by their own Intel NUC 12 Extreme "Dragon Canyon" systems.

Inside of the Arc GPU gaming bus there's just renderings of what to expect with a suss-looking guy who doesn't like his picture being taken, or is looking at another monitor inside of the render. Intel has partnered up with SteelSeries which will provide peripherals, and AOC to provide gaming monitors. Jokes aside, I think Wccftech's Hassan Mujtaba puts it beautifully: "that truck better have a good driver".

The very latest version of GPU-Z adds improved support for Intel's finally-kinda-launching Arc GPU series, as well as NVIDIA's new GeForce GTX 1630 and AMD's new Radeon RX 6700 (non-XT) graphics cards.

GPU-Z 2.47.0 has "many improvements" for Intel Arc discrete GPU reporting, as well as added or improved fake detection for graphics cards based on the NVIDIA G98, GT200, GK104. There's a fix for the GeForce RTX 3080 12GB being reported as non-LHR, and so much more.

NVIDIA's new -- and slowest GPU of 2022 so far -- GeForce GTX 1630 is supported under GPU-Z 2.47.0 as well as the new non-XT model AMD Radeon RX 6700 graphics card. The GPU-Z changelog actually mentions the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 6700 non-XT by name, but there are other Radeon RX 6700 non-XT graphics cards out there floating around in the wild.

NVIDIA is getting rid of its high-end GeForce RTX 30 series GPU family with some free games: Ghostwire: Tokyo and DOOM Eternal.

NVIDIA actually says they're giving away 4 free games with select GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs, but there are only 2 games because the other 2 are actually DLC. The free games are given away with NVIDIA's higher-end Ampere GPUs including the GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3090, and flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards. The deal includes desktop gaming PCs with the eligible GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs inside, as well as the GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU inside of gaming laptops.

You'll get Ghostwire: Tokyo and DOOM Eternal, as well as The Ancient Gods - Part One and Part Two DLC for DOOM Eternal. The promotion runs from July 12, 2022, through to August 1, 2022, or while stocks last. You can read all about it on NVIDIA's post about the "PC Game Bundle" on their official website.

A new version of the HYDRA overclocking tool is out with HYDRA 1.2 supporting AMD's upcoming Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series, auto GPU tuning, and so much more.

The new HYDRA 1.2B PRO software has been teased by developer Yuri "1usmus" Bubliy, where it features a complete design of all features, new Curve Optimizer diagnostics (and for Zen 4) and more flexibility for AMD PBO (Precision Boost Overclocking) and HYBRID OC.

HYDRA 1.2 will also feature an automatic problem solving assistant, auto GPU tuning, unlimited GPU profiling, powerful new monitoring, and more safety. Personally (and professionally), I can't wait to try out the GPU side of things with HYDRA 1.2, but we'll be waiting a couple more months before testing the Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 series CPUs.

NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition graphics card has just dropped down to $1599 on Best Buy, which is a decent $400 cheaper than the MSRP of $1999 when it launched back in March 2022.

In a world where there were listings just months ago for the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, listed for close to $5000, as well as the ASUS ROG Strix LC GeForce RTX 3090 Ti which was online for over $4000. Even the GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 Ti EX Gamer appeared online for $3840.

Best Buy is an official NVIDIA partner, as they're the only place that you can buy NVIDIA's in-house GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition in the US. NVIDIA hasn't dropped the price of its GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FE, but rather Best Buy has slapped $400 of discount on it -- but do you think Best Buy is doing that without NVIDIA's permission -- for their best GeForce GPU, and a Best Buy exclusive in the US at that. Nah, they know. But the bigger question is why?

It's not something big at all, but it's something: a new leak on Intel's upcoming Arc A770M mobile GPU, which has been benchmarked in some 3DMark runs alongside the slower A550M GPU.

We're hearing about the Intel Arc A770M and A550M GPUs from leaker "@_rogame" with some 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (1440p) benchmarks. The lower-end Intel Arc A550M has 16 Xe-Cores, and scores 6017 points in 3DMark Time Spy using the older 1726 driver, but this benchmark was using Intel APO (Advanced Performance Optimizations) enabled... which as VC points out "basically renders it invalid as per 3DMark rules".

This means that the Intel Arc A550M is much slower than the A730M, but so it should be: it has half of the ACM-G10 GPU cores.

NVIDIA's next-gen Hopper GPU architecture is one of the most monsterous pieces of technology the human race has ever created... but it wasn't just humans... artificial intelligence (AI) helped in a huge uway, too.

In a recent post on NVIDIA's own Developer website, the company underlines how it used AI to design the greatest GPU it has created so far: the new NVIDIA Hopper H100 GPU. NVIDIA normally designs most of its next-gen GPUs using Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, but AI helped out with Hopper H100 through the PrefixRL methodology, which is an optimization of Parallel Prefix Circuits using Deep Reinforcement Learning. This allows NVIDIA to design smaller, faster, and more power-efficient GPUs... all while having more performance.

Rajarshi Roy, Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, tweeted: "Arithmetic circuits were once the craft of human experts, and are now designed by AI in NVIDIA GPUs. H100 chips have nearly 13,000 AI designed circuits! How is this possible?" and then posted a link to the blog that he co-wrote on NVIDIA's website.

AMD will debut its next-gen RDNA 3 architecture later this year, where rumor has it that the big boy flagship Navi 31-based offering will feature a GPU chiplet-based design... and NVIDIA won't have anything with GPU chiplets, and AMD knows that.

In a recent interview with VentureBeat, AMD senior vice president, corporate fellow and product technology architect, Sam Naffziger talked about GPUs using up to 600W of power by 2025, and so much more. But then VentureBeat's last question was a doozy "Compared to NVIDIA and Intel, do you feel like we're in a state of divergence when it comes to designs, or some kind of convergence?"

Naffziger replied, explaining: "It's hard to speculate. NVIDIA certainly hasn't jumped on the chiplet bandwagon yet. We have a big lead there and we see big opportunities with that. They'll be forced to do so. We'll see when they deploy it. Intel certainly has jumped on that. Ponte Vecchio is the poster child for chiplet extremes. I would say that there's more convergence than divergence.

We all know that the next-gen GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA will be consuming much more power, especially for NVIDIA's highest-end Ada Lovelace GPUs, with AMD expecting to see GPUs using up to 600W of power by 2025.

AMD set an aggressive goal of 25x20 (hitting 25x better energy efficiency for its CPUs and GPUs by 2020) and has smashed it, so much so that the company has set a brand new 30x25 goal (hitting 30x better energy efficiency) by 2025 in the machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC) markets in data centers.

The news is coming from VentureBeat, which spoke with AMD senior vice president, corporate fellow and product technology architect, Sam Naffziger. Naffziger said: "We've driven the frequency up, and that is something unique to AMD. Our GPU frequencies are 2.5 GHz plus now, which is hitting levels not before achieved. It's not that the process technology is that much faster, but we've systematically gone through the design, re-architected the critical paths at a low level, the things that get in the way of high frequency, and done that in a power-efficient way".

You can't buy Intel's new Arc Alchemist desktop GPU in the USA right now, but that is for us... the mere mortals... but the China-exclusive GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon 6G OC graphics card has made it into the Intel labs, and into the hands of Ryan Shrout.

The new GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon 6G OC graphics card packs the full Intel ACM-G11 GPU with 8 Xe-Cores, and 6GB of GDDR6 memory. Ryan Shrout, who does "graphics marketing" for the Intel GPU department, used to own and operate PC Perspective, has some hands-on with the GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon 6G OC in a video posted to his personal Twitter above.

He is of course talking it up, in its brief showing -- even though Intel's new Arc A380 GPU is disappointing compared to its competitors in their low-end SKUs -- with a very short demo of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) at a strange 2560 x 1080 (why... why...) on medium settings. The results seem alright, but we don't know any FPS details at all. Sad, given how Ryan had to do that when he ran PCPer and knows the tech press would pull this apart. #TeamIntel, I guess.

AMD has just launched another Radeon Adrenalin Edition driver set, after the launch of the latest AMD Adrenalin Edition driver just last week. The new AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1 includes some F1 2022 performance optimizations.

The new AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1 also includes some performance and stuttering fixes to both Fortnite, and my personal favorite: Overwatch. Using the new AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1 and AMD's flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card, you're going to get up to 5% more performance in F1 2022 at 4K on Ultra High settings versus the previous software driver version 22.5.2.

There's up to a 4% increase in performance in F1 2022 at 4K on Ultra High settings using the new AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1 on the Radeon RX 6800 XT, versus the previous software driver version 22.5.2. Finally, there's up to 6% more performance in F1 2022 at 4K and Ultra High settings using the new AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.6.1 on the Radeon RX 6750 XT, versus the previous software driver version 22.5.2.

ELSA has just released its new GeForce RTX 3090 LC graphics card, a new custom GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card that offers something a little different.

The new custom ELSA GeForce RTX 3090 LC graphics card has a full-cover waterblock that keeps the GPU, 24GB of GDDR6X memory, and VRM sections chilled. The Japanese company teamed with AlphaCool on developing the water block, pump, and external 360mm radiator for the ELSA GeForce RTX 3090 LC graphics card.

ELSA's new GeForce RTX 3090 LC graphics card looks like it's using a custom PCB with dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors, so it's very close to the size of the reference RTX 3090 board, except it measures in longer at 26.4mm. Inside, you've got all of that grunt that NVIDIA delivers with the GeForce RTX 3090, as well as 24GB of super-fast GDDR6X memory. It's not quite as fast as the flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, but a water-cooled GeForce RTX 3090 is still an impressive thing to see: and a dual-slot card at that.

The rumored specifications on NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards are running hot today, with the latest leaks pulling up the GDDR6X memory bandwidth on the GeForce RTX 4080.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4080 rumored specs haven't changed much, with leaker "kopite7kimi" teasing the AD103-300-A1 GPU and 420W of TDP -- unchanged rumored specs here -- but the 16GB of GDDR6X is reportedly being cranked up to 21Gbps, up from previous rumors pegging it at 18Gbps.

The current-gen Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3080 in its original 10GB GDDR6X (not in the second "LHR" Lite Hash Rate version) form saw the 10GB of GDDR6X memory clocked at 19Gbps. NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card with 16GB of GDDR6X memory at 21Gbps is a better rumor to hear, up from the 18Gbps GDDR6X (lower clocks than the RTX 3080).

The week is starting off well with the next-gen NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU rumor mill, with leaker "kopite7kimi" teasing the continuously updating rumored specs of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards.

NVIDIA's new flagship GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has a little more details from kopite7kimi, with the AD102-300-1 GPU clocking at over 2.75GHz. The leaker says that we can expect a 2235MHz base GPU clock, 2520MHz boost GPU clock, and 2750MHz "actual max" GPU clock. Impressive, very impressive... considering 2250MHz is about the limit for the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti outside of insane LN2 cooling and mods for days.

If we're expecting "actual max" GPU clocks of 2.75GHz then we could see custom GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards from the likes of ASUS and MSI to reach 2.8GHz and above... while the heights of 3.0GHz+ on an NVIDIA GPU would be awesome to see.

The price of AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards have been dropping for a while now, being a combination of a few things... but now we have some firmer numbers: GPU prices have dropped by around 57% since January 2022 alone.

In a new piece, Jarrod Walton @ Tom's Hardware reports that graphics card prices are dropping all over the place in both retail and second-hand markets. There's a bunch of data there that shows that retailers are offering their usual deals and promotions (free games) which saw graphics card prices dropping by an average of 3% over the last month.

But when we look to eBay, a much larger 14% drop in graphics card prices has been noted... and then for previous-gen graphics cards that drop is bigger at 17% in the last month. Graphics cards are now selling at below MSRP, but with GPUs being used in crypto mining farms... it's a tricky position to be in. Still, lower graphics card prices are a fantastic thing to see.

EVGA's new custom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN graphics card has finally been unleashed, which is now available on the EVGA website in the US for $2500... but you'll also get a free 1600W power supply.

If you decide to slap down $2500 for the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN graphics card, well, EVGA is giving customers a free EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 P2 power supply with an 80+ PLATINUM 1600W rating. Not too bad, considering you need so many PCIe power adapters to plug into the dual 16-pin PCIe power connectors on the EVGA RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN graphics card.

EVGA's highly custom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN and its dual 16-pin PCIe power connectors translate into 6 x 8-pin PCIe power adapters (3 x 8-pin PCIe power adapters per 16-pin power connector on the card). It's a crazy amount of adapters, but the free EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 P2 PSU rocks 9 x PCIe power connectors inside, so EVGA needs to supply the PSU or your new GPU is kinda useless out of the box (but you should know that before you buy a monster graphics card like this).