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GIGABYTE has announced that its super-fast AORUS Gen4 7000s SSDs are now fully compliant with PS5 M.2 storage expansion.

You're looking at capacities of up to 2TB and read speeds topping 7GB/sec (7000MB/sec) on the AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD. GIGABYTE uses a bigger aluminum thermal interface in multiple sizes, double-sided thermal pads with Nanocarbon coating for improved heat dissipation -- and they won't explode like some of their PSUs.

Jackson Hsu, Director of the GIGABYTE Channel Solutions Product Development Division: "In the current market, we see more and more PS5 games occupy larger than 100 GB capacity, which bothers users with insufficient space to install all their favorite games due to the storage capacity limitation of PS5. In this case, the PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD expansion provides a smart solution for this trouble".

We've been hearing rumors and whispers of AMD tapping TSMC and its 6nm node for a rebranding of its Navi 22 and Navi 23 mid-range RDNA 2 GPUs.

First it was that the Navi 2X GPUs would be on 6nm for the Radeon RX 7600/7500 series graphics cards from leaker Greymon55, but now Tom from Moore's Law is Dead is chiming in with some comments and his own sources confirming the news as well.

Tom explains the Navi 2X GPUs and future mid-range Radoen RX 7000 series GPUs: "because it's just -- it's not really a node shrink -- TSMC 6nm is design compatible with their 7nm. But, kinda of a half node shrink with little work required, because that is what it is -- AMD can kinda make sure this is out somewhat closer to the Xe launch if you want to, they just can do this".

Intel's upcoming Xe-based ARC Alchemist might be getting teased and hyped right now, but what about known gaming performance? Well, we don't know much yet... just leaks.

Tom over at Moore's Law is Dead has said that the Intel ARC Alchemist and its Xe GPU drivers are in a "horrible state" and that it will see the gaming-focused Alchemist GPU competing with the GeForce RTX 3060. In his new video, Tom explains it's: "hard to say what the final performance will be yet, as the drivers are in a horrible state. I mean worse than Vega a half a year before it came out state, and it's half a year before Xe launches".

He added: "So, what we can say though is this: anyone doubting that Intel Xe was going to at least compete with a 3060, it will at least compete with that now -- will it get up to a 3070, or 3070 Ti, we'll just have to wait for more information to come in".

With the increased threat from Intel in the form of their upcoming Xe-based ARC Alchemist gaming graphics cards, and AMD's upcoming RDNA 3-powered Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs... rumor has it NVIDIA is moving their next-gen Ada Lovelace GPU from Samsung to TSMC.

Originally, NVIDIA had planned to use Samsung's new 5nm node for their upcoming Ada Lovelace GPUs which will arrive as the GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards -- but now leaker kopite7kimi has said that the new Ada Lovelace GPUs will "come out a little bit earlier" and that they will be made on TSMC's new 5nm node.

NVIDIA is making a monolithic GPU with its Ada Lovelace GPU architecture, with the flagship AD102 GPU powering the new flagship GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.

We are in the middle of a global chip shortage that has affected graphics cards in a bad way, but that hasn't stopped GPU shipments hitting record levels in Q2 2021.

JPR has released some interesting data from its Q2 2021 market report, with discrete GPU shipments hitting 123 million units in Q2 2021. This is up 3.4% sequentially and 37% year-over-year, with Jon Peddie Research noting they believe the GPU market will continue to grow with a compound annual growth rate of 3.5% through to 2025.

Shipments are down in Q2 2021 compared to Q1 2021, with JPR noting: "In a year like no other, suppliers reported shortages of component parts, capacitors, substrates, and other items. Even companies with a diverse portfolio were forced to allocate to the various segments they served. No one was happy about it, and unfortunately, the upcoming inventory build-out for the holiday season that usually takes place in the third quarter will be constrained until the supply chain catches up with demand".

There were a bunch of rumors of the high-end GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards would pack 20GB of GDDR6X, but eventually shipping with 12GB of GDDR6X -- leaving a big gap for the RTX 3090 and its 24GB of GDDR6X memory.

I doubt we'll see them in the wild and if we do, it'll probably turn up more like the GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER that we've recently seen rumors on.

However, Alex over in Russia sent VideoCardz four photos of an AORUS EXTREME GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card with 20GB of GDDR6X memory on it.

AMD's new Radeon Adrenalin 2020 21.8.2 drivers are here, weighing at around 464MB and offering performance improvements when running Myst on the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

If you're running Myst on the Radeon RX 6800 XT at 4K Medium with ray tracing enabled, then you will be enjoying up to 6% more performance with the new Radeon Adrenalin 2020 21.8.2 drivers. Not only that, but the new Radeon drivers also provide support for Aliens: Fireteam Elite.

There's a bunch of fixed issues here too, including F1 2021 in Split Screen mode, playing Control using DX12 with corrupt light rays on graphics cards like the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT. There are still some known issues that AMD is aware of, with a "black screen issue that may be experienced" playing Myst or Kingshunt on the Radeon RX 6800 XT -- a workaround, for now, is disabling the Performance Metrics Overlay or Radeon Image Sharpening in Radeon Software.

We only just got slapped in the face with GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER rumors, but now there's different specs that have been teased by leaker kopite7kimi on Twitter:

The new leaks tease that NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER from kopite7kimi are same as the previous rumors from Greymon55 with 10752 CUDA cores, but kopite7kimi details that it will have the GA102-350-A1 GPU, the original 21Gbps GDDR6X memory from the GeForce RTX 3090, a TGP of over 450W, and it launches... in 2021.

Yeah, the latest rumor has it that NVIDIA is launching the GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER sometime in the next few months which is big news on its own. There's nothing from AMD that can compete, but maybe NVIDIA is feeling a bit threatened by the Intel ARC Alchemist -- and the new Navi 21 XTXH-powered Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics cards that it feels forced to unleash the GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER this month.

We all know how bad the GPU shortage is worldwide, but US gamers can now fight each other for a GeForce RTX 30 series Founders Edition graphics cards at Best Buy.

GPU Restock Monitor on Twitter keeps a track of the cards flowing into Best Buy, tweeting out that around 17,000 units have passed through Best Buy doors. This includes the GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 Ti, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition.

There's a gigantic list of cards, with a nice spread between stores across many states in the US. There is around 25 x GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition graphics cards per Best Buy it seems, with a different spread of RTX 30 series FE cards at Best Buy stores across the US.

I think this is one of the most interesting graphics cards I've seen, and I've seen quite a few over my years being obsessed with graphics cards... but Palit's new GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Chameleon, with new color shifting paint.

The new Palit GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Chameleon has color shifting paint, hence nthe name "Chameleon" -- a new custom modded GeForce RTX 3070 Ti g raphics card. Palit teased the card on their official Twitter, but unfortunately we don't know who modded the card, making it feel like this is going to be an official card that will be released by Palit.

Just as VideoCardz laughs at in their article, and they couldn't have put it better: "One would guess that Palit Chameleon graphics cards will be even harder to find".

We've been hearing so much about Intel's new ARC Alchemist and AMD's new RDNA 3 graphics architectures, that a new rumor has come up and slapped us right in the face: NVIDIA's purported GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER graphics card.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER graphics card is swirling strongly into the rumor mill, with leaker Greymon55 teasing that the new GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER would feature the full GA102 GPU with 10752 CUDA cores and even faster GDDR6X memory to boot.

Not only would it feature an insane amount of CUDA cores and even faster GDDR6X memory -- but the new GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER would reportedly have over 400W of power behind it. We should expect the new GeForce RTX 3090 SUPER to be super-expensive as well, in a world of ridiculously priced graphics cards this should be the least surprising part of this news.

I'm sure we've all heard about the shitty thermal pads on some graphics cards these days, but this story takes it to another level -- a finger cot has been discovered underneath the cooler and wedged between memory modules and the cooler. Uhhh, check it out:

Reddit user "antonyjeweet" replaced the thermal pads on his NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition graphics card, and once he had taken it apart -- he noticed that there was a finger cot inside. What is a finger cot you ask? A finger cot is something that a worker that assembles the graphics card would wear, so there's no fingerprint left on, or inside of the graphics card when it's being assembled.

The 24GB of GDDR6X memory was running quite toasty on his GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition, with the memory modules hitting 110C. Once the card was disassembled, the finger cot removed, and the thermal pads replaced, the GDDR6X memory module temperatures dropped to a much more respectable 86C.

Intel's new ARC series gaming GPUs will support overclocking out of the box, with OC tools built into the Intel UI -- thanks to newly-released details on Intel's upcoming gaming GPUs.

Not only that, but Intel is fully supporting the latest DirectX 12 Ultimate API which means we will see hardware-accelerated ray tracing through DXR (DirectX Ray Tracing), as well as support for Variable Rate Shading (VRS) and Mesh Shading. The Vulkan API will also receive ray tracing support from Intel's new ARC series GPUs.

Roger Chandler, Intel's VP and GM of Client Products explained: "While Xᵉ cores provide compute capacity, render slices combine them with the fixed function rendering units required to produce 3D graphics. Each render slice pairs four Xᵉ cores with four ray tracing units that fully support DirectX Raytracing and Vulkan Ray Tracing standards. Render slices also add samplers, pixel backends, and geometry and rasterization pipelines that are all designed for DirectX 12 Ultimate".

Intel's new ARC series graphics cards will be coming with something even NVIDIA didn't have in its Control Panel -- and only through GeForce Experience many, many years later -- overclocking support.

In a new blog post on Medium, the company has explained that it will give gamers and enthusiasts built-in overclocking tools in the official driver UI. This means you can tweak your Xe GPU-based ARC graphics card right from the Intel ARC UI, just like you overclock a Radeon GPU through AMD's own Radeon Software UI.

Intel won't just have overclocking support with its ARC graphics cards and UI, but it will have built-in hardware for video encoding that will let you direct capture and stream from the software itself.

GALAX has just re-released some new graphics cards, with some tweaked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards with blower-style coolers.

We don't see many high-end graphics cards with blower-style coolers, especially the toasty GeForce RTX 3090 but it looks like GALAX is going to do it. We have the introduction of the new GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 Classic which looks identical to the Turbo model from GALAX.

There's also the GALAX GeForce RTX 3080 Classic, which also rocks the blower-style cooler. I would not be expecting out-of-the-box factory overclocking on the blower-style-cooled cards, but I'm sure you'll be able to crank up the GDDR6X memory clocks and GPU clocks without an issue... it'll just run toasty.

We haven't been hearing much about Intel's next-gen HEDT platform for Alder Lake so far, but now we're hearing whispers of the X699 chipset for new HEDT processors based on the Alder Lake CPU architecture.

Inside of the new Intel Chipset driver "10.1.18836.8283" you'll find a list of Intel's upcoming 600-series motherboards, which includes the X699 chipset for HEDT -- and the Z690 chipset for the mainstream flagship CPU that should be the Intel Core i9-12900K and below.

Intel's new Alder Lake CPUs should come with more cores and threads for the HEDT platform, as well as more PCIe lanes, slots, overclocking, and more. Z690 will still be a beefy chipset, but Intel will hopefully be able to better compete against AMD's kick-ass Ryzen Threadripper and Ryzen Threadripper PRO series CPUs with X699 + Alder Lake.

AMD might have its next-gen RDNA 3 graphics architecture in the oven right now and preparing to offer up some delicious new graphics cards in 2022 -- but the RDNA 4 architecture is right behind it, with some juicy new rumors today.

According to leaker Greymon55 on Twitter, the next-gen RDNA 4 architecture -- which should arrive in the form of AMD's new Radeon RX 8000 series graphics cards -- will be made on 3nm and 5nm nodes. The new Navi 4X MCM chips will be made on 3nm graphics tiles and 5nm I/O tiles, meanwhile the RDNA 3 MCM GPUs will use both the 5nm and 6nm nodes.

The new MCM design -- or multi-chip module -- will be a very large part of GPUs moving forward. AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA will use the MCM or MCD (multi-chip module or multi-chip die) on their next-generation GPU architectures in 2022 and beyond.

Intel has confirmed and better detailed its XeSS AI-based super-sampling technology, which will debut with its Xe GPU architecture and new ARC Alchemist graphics cards dropping in 2022 and beyond.

The new Intel XeSS upscaling technology will use either the XMX instruction set on the new ARC Alchemist graphics cards and DG2 GPUs, or the DP4a instructions which are on the integrated GPUs on Intel's new chips based on the Xe-LP architecture. But not only that, it'll also work on the NVIDIA Pascal GP102-106 GPU.

Intel has said that it will be opening up its XeSS upscaling tech to game developers and its competitors in the GPU market, with XeSS going open-source. This means we should expect Intel's new XeSS technology to work with many more NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon GPUs.

Intel has revealed its ARC series GPU roadmap with details on its upcoming discrete graphics card codenames, which will all fall under their ARC branding.

The first of which will be the Intel ARC Alchemist, with Alchemist being the codename for Intel's first-gen Xe-HPG graphics architecture. We should expect to see Intel announce the card as the Intel ARC 1000 for example, like we have with the GeForce RTX 3000 series GPUs.

Think of Intel and its "Alchemist" GPU codename, as we know AMD and its "Navi" and NVIDIA and its "Ampere" GPU architecture codenames. We did know Intel's upcoming GPUs as Xe2 HPG -- which will be Battlemage, Xe3 HPG is now Celestial, and finally, Xe Next is the exciting future Druid architecture.

Intel has provided some more juicy details on its upcoming ARC Alchemist GPU during its recent Intel Architecture Day 2021 event, as well as a roadmap of things to come in their newly-announced ARC series of discrete graphics cards.

Intel will launch its first GPU in Q1 2022 with the Xe HPG "Alchemist" and it will be made on TSMC's 6nm FinFET (N6) process, we heard about that a while ago, but now Intel has confirmed that Alchemist is being made on TSMC 6nm.

Out with the old, and in with the new -- Intel has done away with Execution Units in its ARC Alchemist GPU, with the introduction of Xe-core. Xe-core has 16 Vector Engines (which used to be called an Execution Unit, or EU) as well as 16 Matrix Engines (XMX, or Xe Matrix eXtension) which is giving me some hella Intel MMX vibes.