Graphics Cards - Page 132

ASRock is preparing its new Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX graphics card, a new Navi 24-powered ITX card that has no PCIe power connector.

The new custom PowerColor Radeon RX 6400 Challenger will use the Navi 24 GPU that's made on TSMC's new 6nm process node, with a dual-slot design, and 4GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit memory interface. There is no PCIe power connector, which means we should see power consumption at 53W, great for HTPC machines.

As for the Navi 23 GPU it has 768 Stream Processors and 12 Ray Accelerators, with the 4GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16Gbps on a 64-bit memory interface. We should see the new Radeon RX 6400 graphics cards released into the DIY market on April 20, but you can already get them through OEMs and system integrators.

Intel's GPU division has missed its Q1 2022 window for the Arc Alchemist desktop GPU launch, but there are things actually happening: Raja Koduri has just been promoted from Senior VP to Executive VP of Intel's GPU division.

In a tweet just a few hours ago, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said: "Congrats, @rajaontheedge, on your promotion to executive vice president! Your leadership in graphics and accelerated computing is key to @intel's strategy for growth. Thank you!".

Raja may have been promoted, but there's no damn GPU launch... I feel as though if I had not launched a product, I wouldn't be promoted... but here we are. Intel's mobile Arc GPU was delayed and its launch was a mess, and now the desktop Arc GPUs are reportedly delayed until the end of Q2, possibly early Q3 2022 making them months away at this point.

PowerColor's new custom Radeon RX 6650 XT Hellhound graphics card has been spotted, with some new information on the GPU and GDDR6 memory.

The new custom PowerColor Radeon RX 6650 XT Hellhound graphics card has a faster Navi 23 GPU, with boost GPU clocks hitting up to 2689MHz on the PowerColor RX 6650 XT Hellhound. The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT reference GPU clocks will have boost clocks of up to 2635MHz, for comparison.

AMD was rumored to have used faster GDDR6 memory at 18Gbps, but it looks like we'll be getting slightly slower clocks with the PowerColor Radeon RX 6650 XT Hellhound to have 8GB of GDDR6 at 17.5Gbps with up to 280GB/sec of bandwidth (this is up from the 256GB/sec on the RX 6600 XT and its 8GB GDDR6 at 16Gbps).

SAPPHIRE's new custom Radeon RX 6400 PULSE graphics card has been leaked, with the new low-profile card to be the lowest-end member of the RDNA 2 family of GPUs.

The new SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 6400 PULSE is a low-profile GPU powered by the Navi 24 GPU, 4GB of GDDR6 memory, and a single fan. There's an optional half-height bracket, which makes the card super-small, finishing things off with its two display outputs: 1 x HDMI 2.1 (that's a nice surprise) and 1 x DisplayPort 1.4 connector.

The AMD Navi 24 GPU inside has 768 Stream Processors and 12 Ray Accelerators, with the 4GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16Gbps on a 64-bit memory interface. You will have H.264/H.265 decoding here, and with no PCIe power connectors you've got just 53W power consumption at a maximum... making the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 6400 PULSE a mighty-fine GPU for a small HTPC system.

NVIDIA's next-gen Ada Lovelace "AD102" GPU, which will power the next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 graphics cards, has "started testing" according to leaker "kopite7kimi".

We don't know much else outside of that, other than AD102 "has started testing" but we do know that it will have 24GB of GDDR6X memory at 24Gbps (which is another thing kopite7kimi confirmed). Previous rumors pegged the 24GB of GDDR6X at 24Gbps at first, then recently down to 21Gbps, but now it's back to 24Gbps.

The new GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards should both be powered by the new AD102 GPU, with performance expectations at double the GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080. Power consumption will be high, with rumors of 500-600W of power consumption on the RTX 4090.

EK has just announced its new Special Edition high-performance GPU waterblock for NVIDIA's super-fast new flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition graphics card.

The new EK-Quantum Vector FE RTX 3090 Ti D-RGB arrives in two flavors: Silver and Black, both with -- in the words of EK "stark contrasts between the aluminum outer shell and backplate, as well as the Plexi window and terminal illuminated with addressable D-RGB LEDs". Better yet, the new EK-Quantum Vector FE RTX 3090 Ti Backplates are available stand-alone, for those who want the single-colored look (versus silver backplate, with the black water block, and vica versa).

EK is using a larger fin area on its EK-Quantum Vector FE RTX 3090 Ti D-RGB compared to its other water blocks in the Vector family, but we shouldn't expect anything less... this is the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti after all. NVIDIA's latest flagship GPU that chews up to 500W easily.

Intel has reportedly delayed its Arc Alchemist desktop GPUs to somewhere in the late Q2 or early Q3 2022... but now we have some news on the Arc A770 graphics card.

The new Intel Arc Alchemist A770 would feature the full ACM-G10 GPU with clocks at 2.4GHz, and 16GB of GDDR6 memory onboard. The news of the Arc A770 has been tested on the older-gen Intel 9th Gen Core "Coffee Lake" CPU -- the Core i5-9600K processor in particular -- which is used by Intel staffers for internal testing.

The Geekbench listing shows 12.7GB of RAM, but we know that'll be 16GB of GDDR6 memory, while the GPU clocks are at 2.4GHz. At 2.4GHz, that's 200MHz higher than the Arc 3 mobile GPU at 2.2GHz -- but 2.4GHz is also higher than the 2.25GHz (2250MHz) GPU clocks on their desktop GPU.

Intel has reportedly delayed the launch of its new Arc Alchemist desktop GPUs according to the latest rumors... and it truly doesn't surprise me (or anyone) at this point. It's a mess.

According to "Enthusiastic Citizen", Intel has delayed its new Arc Alchemist desktop GPUs from late Q2 (end of June) through to early Q3 (July-September). Intel has only confirmed its Arc Alchemist "Limited Edition" GPU so far, with the mobile Arc Alchemist GPU launch a total mess so far, too.

Intel effed the mobile Arc GPU launch up so much that it's now irrelevant (but we, and many other sites and enthusiasts won't forget that) and now the desktop Arc Alchemist launch seems to be running full-speed into the same fate. Intel could have been more upfront about this, but they haven't... so it's just an egg on their face at this point. The Intel i740 AGP launch was better than this...

AMD is gearing up for its launch of the refreshed Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs, with the new flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT... and now SAPPHIRE's new custom TOXIC Radeon RX 6950 XT Limited Edition graphics card has turned up.

SAPPHIRE's new custom TOXIC Radeon RX 6950 XT Limited Edition graphics card has popped up on an Italian retailer "Breakpoint.it" with quite an insane price. We're looking at 3133 EUR which works out to around $3179 USD. Pretty damn expensive, that's for sure -- twice as much as the Radeon RX 6900 XT -- could be a placeholder price, please, please be a placeholder price.

The price insanity doesn't stop: SAPPHIRE's custom TOXIC Radeon RX 6950 XT Limited Edition costs 3133 EUR, the NITRO+ OC model would cost 2961 EUR, and the NITRO+ PURE costs $3048. We know the prices are crazy when the Italian retailer lists SAPPHIRE's custom Radeon RX 6750 XT costs 1419 EUR... yeah.

NVIDIA has launched a silent global campaign for its GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs, where it has announced that supplies have been "Restocked & Reloaded".

You should see that multiple AIB partners and retailers have received new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPU shipments, with some cards available at MSRP... while other have received discounts. This feels weird though, as the GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs have been out for 18 months now... and in stock... just super-expensive and harder to find. Now, a new launch campaign months before Ada Lovelace...

NVIDIA explains: "GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards are now available! Get the ultimate play with immersive ray tracing, a huge AI performance boost with NVIDIA DLSS, game-winning responsiveness with NVIDIA Reflex, and AI-powered voice & video with NVIDIA Broadcast. Check back here, or directly with our partners, for great new options".

AMD is still a month away from releasing its RDNA 2 refresh GPUs which will be led by the new flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT, and now the custom GIGABYTE variant has been spotted.

GIGABYTE's upcoming Radeon RX 6950 XT GAMING OC graphics card was spotted on an Australian retailer website for AUD $3241 which works out to around $2400. It's not a full listing, as it's just a placeholder -- the listing is for the Radeon RX 6900 XT variant -- but you can see the product code GV-R695XTGAMING-OC-16GD.

If you compare that against the Australian retail pricing of the custom GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GAMING OC which costs AUD $3339 at Scorptec... which means we should expect similar pricing of AMD's new flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT as we see around the world for NVIDIA's new suped-up GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card.

Micron has announced the volume production of its new 16Gb GDDR6X memory modules, which are baked onto NVIDIA's new flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card.

The new 16Gb GDDR6X doesn't just have twice the capacity of Micron's previous 8Gb GDDR6X memory, but has 15% higher performance, and some OC wiggle room. On my MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti SUPRIM X graphics card, I could overclock the GDDR6X past its new stock 21Gbps bandwidth up to 24Gbps+ in ETH mining. You can see the results of that above.

Micron explains: "Today Micron extends its performance leadership by providing a new graphics memory with 16Gb capacity and running at an industry-best 21Gb/s in the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. With a performance roadmap up to 24Gb/s, GDDR6X is ready for data-hungry applications of the future. Additionally, Micron's innovative use of PAM4 signal techniques in GDDR6X make it more power efficient than any of the GDDR6 products publicly available".

Valve's new Steam Deck has been used in an awesome custom way: with its external GPU capability infused with the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card with 16GB of GDDR6 memory.

The new Steam Deck was used by ETA Prime with a custom ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT OC Formula graphics card, connected through the M.2 slot on the Steam Deck... as there is no Thunderbolt port to connect an external GPU. If you use the M.2 slot for an external GPU, then you will have to load your games from the microSD card inside of the Steam Deck, and not an M.2 SSD.

ETA Prime ran a bunch of benchmarks and games with some damn good results, including The Witcher 3 at 4K Ultra settings at 118FPS average... 4K 118FPS average. Sure, it's an external GPU running that... but it's being done through an M.2 slot, as an external GPU connected to a portable, and not-so-fast Steam Deck. Impressive to see.

It's a new day, so we have a new rumor for NVIDIA's next-gen AD102-powered GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card... which BTW, could be called the GeForce RTX 5090... more on that here.

Until now, NVIDIA's next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU would arrive with the flagship AD102-powered GeForce RTX 4090, and 24GB of GDDR6X memory at a faster 24Gbps. The 24GB of GDDR6X memory on the newly-released GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is closed at 21Gbps, for comparison.

But the new rumors state that the RTX 4090 would have the AD102-300 GPU, with 24GB of GDDR6X memory at a slower 21Gbps (so, the same bandwidth as the RTX 3090 Ti and its GDDR6X) but a much higher 600W of power consumption. This is up from the 450-500W of power that the custom RTX 3090 Ti models use, so it should be fun to see how far they can be pushed.

NVIDIA has pumped out its last flagship Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series GPU, with the release of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card... but Ada Lovelace isn't too far away now, and a gigantic rumor has just dropped about the new series GPUs.

In a new tweet, leaker @harukaze5719 simply said "RTX 4000 series or RTX 5000 series?" followed up "Well... Whatever...". Alright, so it looks like we have a super-hot rumor that NVIDIA could skip over the GeForce RTX 40 series nomenclature, and into the GeForce RTX 50 series.

I can see this happening given that we're expecting virtually twice the perfgormance out of the flagship AD102-powered GeForce RTX 4090 -- or is that the new GeForce RTX 5090 -- it would feel weird going from the RTX 3090 + RTX 3090 Ti to the RTX 4070 (or RTX 5070) and seeing similar performance, whiel the RTX 4090 (or RTX 5090) only "feels" a little "faster" because its number isn't as high.

AMD's next-gen RDNA 3 architecture will be unleashed later this year, and now we have some very exciting rumors about the mid-range Navi 33-powered Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics card.

The new Radeon RX 7700 XT will reportedly rock a monolithic Navi 33 GPU made on TSMC's 6nm process node, 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and performance that should keep up with AMD's current Navi 21-based flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT. You read that right, not only that, but also power sitting at around 200W... better power efficiency than NVIDIA's Ampere, and next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU architectures.

In his latest video, Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead is leaking out the skinny on Navi 33 + Radeon RX 7700 XT. We are looking at Navi 33 (and thus, the RX 7700 XT) will have "Rasterization Performance Equal or Greater Than RX 6900 XT" while ray tracing performance on the Radeon RX 7700 XT is "greater" than the RX 6900 XT.

EVGA's new monster GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN has been teased in the flesh, with a look at it nude -- well, the PCB at least -- it's the same thing. Let's do this:

We can see that EVGA's new custom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN is a beauty: there's an OLED monitoring screen, an insane dual 16-pin PCIe power connectors, an equally insane 28-phase VRM, and a 360mm AIO radiator to keep things cool.

EVGA will be cooking up a custom "XOC" BIOS with unlocked power, which should truly unleash the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN for professional overclockers like EVGA's in-house OC guru Vince "KINGPIN" Lucido. This is his crown jewel GPU until Ada Lovelace is released later this year by NVIDIA.

AMD is gearing up for its mid-range Radeon RX 6750 XT refresh GPU launch, which is reportedly taking place on May 10 -- where the new flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT will also reportedly be introduced.

Ahead of the launch, PowerColor's new Radeon RX 6750 XT Red Devil has been teased with a new filing with the RAA on March 29. The listing doesn't tell us much, as it is listed as the "AXRX 6750XT 12GBD6-3DHEOC". You can see the "6750XT" there and "12GB" as well, and "OC" of course -- so an overclocked Radeon RX 6750 XT with 12GB of GDDR6 (non-X) from PowerColor.

Inside, the Radeon RX 6750 XT will be using the Navi 22 GPU which has 2560 Stream Processors and 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit memory bus. AMD is refreshing all of its new GPUs with 18Gbps GDDR6 memory (up from 16Gbps on the other cards) which includes the lower-end Radeon RX 6650 XT, the Radeon RX 6750 XT, and the new flagship Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics cards.

Intel has kinda, (but don't call me) maybe launched its Arc GPUs in Q1 2022... except between you and I, they really didn't and they can't admit it... with a limp launch into South Korea.

It's now being reported that Intel Arc-powered laptops -- well, just the one from Samsung with their Galaxy Book2 Pro laptop -- according to Intel that is. VideoCardz has confirmed that "there are indeed Samsung Book2 Pro laptops currently in stock on official company website with Core i7-1260P Alder Lake CPU and discrete Arc GPU. Thus far, only one model "NT950XEE-XD72S" is listed with Arc A350M GPU and 1080p AMOLED screen".

So you're getting an Intel Core i7-1260P processor, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, and the slowest Arc A350M GPU for $2137. That's pretty expensive, for a GPU that we kinda know nothing about in the real-world just yet... and there's only a single model powered by an Arc GPU "in the wild" right now. Hmm.

Update:

Intel launched its Arc GPUs for laptops last week, but it's not like anyone would notice... because while Intel says that the Arc A350 and 370M-powered laptops are "available starting now" they're still not out yet.... and now... delayed.

The Arc journey was meant to begin with the entry-level Arc 3 series GPUs which were meant to be available instantly, but laptops with the Intel Arc A350 and A370M GPUs don't exist in our dimension. The story gets worse as the official Intel Support account has said that Intel Arc-powered laptops will be available by the end of Q2 2022.