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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).

TSMC is seeing its 3 biggest customers revising their orders all at the same time: AMD, Apple, and NVIDIA for their next-gen RDNA 3, iPhone 14, and Ada Lovelace products, respectively.

NVIDIA is the big one that we'll tackle in this article because they're in a real precarious spot: NVIDIA has been bedding Samsung for a while now, leaving the South Korean arms for the arms of Taiwan and back to its old faithful: TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) for its next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architecture and upcoming GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards... well, they've hit a snag.

According to the latest report out of DigiTimes and translated by @RetiredEngineer on Twitter: "Faced with abrupt drop-off in PC demand and customers' inventory adjustment, AMD and NVIDIA has no choice by to reduce orders".

Arm has just announced its next-gen flagship GPU with a really interesting name that I like the sound of more and more as I see it: Immortalis.

The new Arm Immortalis-G715 GPU is the successor to Arm's super-successful Mali GPU -- which has shipped 8 billion GPUs to be precise -- packing hardware-based ray tracing (RT), variable rate shading (VRS), and more. Arm says that its new Immortalis-G715 GPU will support ray tracing and variable rate shading across all of its Immortalis GPUs.

Arm's new Immortalis-G715 GPU is the first Arm GPU to feature hardware-based ray tracing support, designed specifically for mobile. We have ray tracing on the PC and consoles and have had it for a while now, but Arm is wanting to get ray tracing support into smartphones and now it's on its way.

AYANEO has just teased its next-gen gaming handheld, which is also the world's first gaming handheld system that will include either Intel or AMD discrete graphics cards.

The new AYANEO NEXT 2 will include an Intel CPU and Intel GPU, or an AMD CPU and AMD GPU together, for the first time in history. AYANEO CEO Arther Zhang confirmed the news himself, with the AYANEO NEXT 2 being the first to use a non-integrated GPU -- a discrete GPU -- inside of one of its designs, giving gamers the choice between Intel and AMD.

AYANEO will be using an Intel Alder Lake CPU with an Intel DG2 Mobile GPU for its Intel-powered AYANEO NEXT 2 handheld gaming system, while the AMD-powered version will include an AMD "6000 series" CPU and an AMD 6000 series mobile GPU.

A fresh new rumor on AMD's next-gen RDNA 3 GPU architecture has floated up into the rumor mill, with AMD software engineers pushing out new patches for the new GFX11 architecture -- otherwise known as RDNA 3.

The new patch teases AMD is working on its own instructions that can operate on matrixes, with support for advanced artificial intelligence algorithms, to super-power their super-resolution technologies on RDNA 3-based graphics cards, spotted by @0x22h on Twitter. Effectively, this would be like Tensor cores on an NVIDIA GPU, hardware-based assistance for DLSS.

AMDGPU is a backend for AMD GPUs for LLVM compiler library, which gets updated by AMD employees, and if you're keen-eyed enough you can get a sneak into what next-gen GPU architectures will bring. In this case, the Wave Matrix Multiply-Accumulate was added to the new GFX11 architecture, GFX11 being the codename of AMD's next-gen RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.

EVGA's new PowerLink 41s has been announced, acting as a next-gen cable management accessory for your EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 graphics card.

The new EVGA PowerLink 41s provides maximum stability, improved case airflow, and of course it glows with fully-customizable ARGB LED lighting. EVGA has designed its PowerLink 41s exclusively for its GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 series of GPUs, which rock the new 16-pin PCIe power connector... this is where PowerLink 41s helps.

PowerLink 41s connects to the end of your EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 graphics card, and turns the single 16-pin PCIe power connector into 4 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, which then get connected individually to your power supply. You'll also get some beautiful RGB lighting on the back of it, so the EVGA PowerLink 41s connected to an EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 will look beautiful... cleaner, and has RGB lighting to boot.

The closer we get to AMD's next-gen RDNA 3 GPU launch, the more details that are leaking out: today, we have news that the rearchitected RDNA 3 GPU Compute Units will have "enhanced ray tracing" capabilities, and even faster GPU clocks.

AMD itself has confirmed the news of the boosted ray tracing capabilities and higher GPU clocks during its Financial Analyst Day 2022. AMD's SVP of Engineering at Radeon Technologies Group, David Wang, explained that the company has architectured the compute units inside of RDNA 3 that will increase ray tracing capabilities.

We don't know what these "enhanced ray tracing capabilities" are going to do, but it should be obvious that ray tracing performance and upgraded (and new) features inside of the next-gen AMD RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs will be plenty. AMD will better compete against NVIDIA in the ray tracing department, as NVIDIA is the clear dominating GPU in ray tracing, but RDNA 3 won't be messing around.

We only just heard about Intel's first Arc workstation GPU -- the Arc Pro A40 -- just yesterday, and now we're already hearing about the Intel Arc Pro A50 workstation GPU.

Intel recently launched its new desktop Arc GPUs in a China exclusive, with benchmarks and more being revealed over the last few days, then news of the Arc Pro GPUs started. First, we heard about the Intel Arc Pro A40 workstation GPU, and now news of the Arc Pro A50 workstation GPU is here.

In new listings on SiSoft Sandra, the Intel Arc Pro A40 and Arc Pro 40 workstation GPUs are found -- with the new Arc Pro A50 workstation featuring the full ACM-G11 GPU with 8 Xe-Cores (128 Execution Units and 1024 FP32 cores). Both the Intel Arc Pro A50 and Arc Pro A40 workstation GPUs seem to be packing 6GB of GDDR6 memory, which should be pumping through a 96-bit memory bus.

AMD isn't too far away now from launching its next-gen RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs, and now we're hearing about higher power consumption on the RDNA 3 chips... because NVIDIA is using more power.

The news is coming from Tom's Hardware, which spoke with AMD Senior VP Sam Naffziger, who was one of the minds behind AMD's revolutionary chiplet architecture. AMD has recently said that it would have a 50% projected performance-per-watt uplift with its new RDNA 3 GPUs over RDNA 2, but now those numbers are getting clearer.

Naffziger said that since NVIDIA is cranking up the power consumption on its next-gen Ada Lovelace-powered GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, that it would be boosting the power consumption on its RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.

NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 Ti and GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards -- in Founders Edition form -- have been teased in some new renders. Just remember, this could be completely fake, so I've got a link here to make sure this is safe.

The new renders are courtesy of Moore's Law is Dead, with the alleged NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti Founders Edition, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition both shown off in their BFGPU goodness. NVIDIA will reportedly using a 3-slot, or 3.5-slot cooling design with more fins and more heat sink surface area with its new Ada Lovelace GPUs in the high-end RTX 4090 Ti and RTX 4090 designs.

In a new tweet about his video, Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead explains: "Tonight I share renders of the leaked #NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ti cooler, and break down what there is to learn about AD102 from said leak! 💚🧵 I also provide information about when you can expect decent Lovelace Volume this fall".

AMD is celebrating the first anniversary of the first-gen FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 (FSR 1.0) technology, by making its next-gen FSR 2.0 technology open source, and available to download right now.

AMD has now published the source code of FSR 2.0 on GitHub, which should see many more FSR 2.0-capable titles in the future. AMD explains that with the introduction of FSR 2 "our temporal upscaling solution earlier this year, there are now over 110 games that support FSR. The rate of uptake has been very impressive - FSR is AMD's fastest adopted software gaming technology to date".

With over 110 games supporting FSR 1.0, there is now a dedicated FSR 2.0 page that also includes the FSR 2.0 API, the full C++, and HLSL source code behind it, with AMD adding that you'll "also discover our Cauldron-based sample and comprehensive API documentation to help you with your integration".

NVIDIA looks to be making some changes to its upcoming GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, with leaker "kopite7kimi" revealing "some updates" on the new Ada Lovelace graphics cards on Twitter.

In a new tweet, the leaker has provided some updated specs on NVIDIA's three first Ada GPUs: the second-flagship GeForce RTX 4090, the new GeForce RTX 4080, and the GeForce RTX 4070. Let's tackle the elephant in the room: the GeForce RTX 4090.

The updated specs for NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 see its CUDA core configuration tweaked, with kopite7kimi noting that the AD102-300 GPU will have 16384 CUDA cores (up from 16128 CUDA cores). The SMs (Streaming Multiprocessors) have changed slightly, with the leaker saying NVIDIA is using 128 SMs on the GeForce RTX 4090 (up from 126).

Intel's new Arc desktop GPUs are only just launching now... at least as an exclusive in China... but we're already seeing the first whispers of a new Intel desktop workstation GPU.

A new "Intel Arc Pro" graphics card has been spotted on the South Korean National Radio Research Agency (RRA), where the certification for Intel's new Arc Pro GPU is listed with certification number "RR-CPU-DG2IPC" on June 22, 2022 -- today.

Intel has changed its Arc GPU roadmap a bit over the last 6 months, but it did have Arc mobile GPUs in notebooks in Q1 2022 -- promised Arc desktop GPUs in Q1 2022, then Q2 2022 and barely made it with an exclusive, super-limited launch in China -- with Arc workstation GPUs teased for Q3 2022.

Intel's first foray back into the GPU space since its AGP-powered i740, the new Arc A380 desktop GPU is here... at least kinda... released in China as an exclusive for now.

The new custom GUNNIR A380 Photon OC graphics card is the first, and only (so far) custom Arc desktop graphics card, but that's something we already knew. What's new here is that we have the first benchmarks tested by Shenmedounengce benching the Core i5-12400 processor, mid-range B660 motherboard, and DDR4 memory.

Intel's new Arc A380 desktop GPU was benched against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 and GeForce GTX 1650, while AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400 were also tested. These are all low- to mid-range graphics cards, against the Intel Arc A380 with its ACM-G11 GPU (up to 2.45GHz GPU boost clocks) with Xe-Cores and 6GB of GDDR6 memory on a 96-bit memory bus.

AMD is continuing to march towards its next-gen RDNA 3 GPU architecture, with the future Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs to use the flagship Navi 31 GPU... but now we're hearing about something faster, a dual-GCD masterpiece.

The rumors of a new Navi 3X GPU are coming from leaker "@Greymon55" on Twitter, who said: "there seems to be 16384SP 8SE Navi 3X, but I don't know if it really exists or if it's a gaming card". A follow-up tweet added that it will be a 2023 release, with "specifications to be determined".

The dual-GCD (Graphics Compute Die) is where the action will be happening, with the consumer and gaming side of the Navi 31 GPU offering 12288 GPU cores (at least according to the current rumors), the new Navi 3X GPU with 16384 GPU cores should power a next-gen Radeon PRO workstation GPU.