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Intel's next-generation Arc Battlemage discrete graphics card has been spotted in the latest GFX DRM log, confirming some specifications of the card.

Intel's new Battlemage "Xe2" GPU architecture will debut inside of the company's upcoming Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" processors, but in discrete form, it looks like Intel is in the testing phase of its very first engineering samples of Arc Battlemage.

The new Arc Battlemage Xe2 GPU spotted has the "e20b" device ID, running the 14.01 display version. This sample was identified as an Xe2-HPG part, featuring the G: A0/M: A1 stepping. Based on the GuC parameters, the chip features 14 Xe2 GPU cores, which should mean the BMG-G21 die should max out at a slightly larger 16 Xe2 GPU cores.

Intel is reportedly gearing up to launch its next-generation Arc Battlemage "Xe2" GPUs for Q4 2024, with a promised 50% performance improvement over the current-gen Arc Alchemist.

The company recently held a conference in China in partnership with ASUS, talking about its next-generation products including upcoming CPUs and GPUs. The new products are designed for the DIY "client" segment, with Battlemage "Xe2" expected later this year.

In a post on Weibo, we're hearing that Intel will introduce its next-generation Arc Battlemage "Xe2" GPUs in Q4 2024. We already know that Intel's new Xe2 GPU architecture delivers 50% more performance, with big architectural changes like new Ray Tracing Units, VCC support, and more.

Gamescom is the largest gaming event and conference in the world. Each year, Germany hosts over 100,000 fans, enthusiasts, media, and industry people for a week of gaming-related announcements and celebrations. Last year, AMD was on hand to announce two brand-new GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT and the Radeon RX 7700 XT.

Although AMD hasn't teased something similar for Gamecom 2024, a new post by ASUS announcing that it has created a new custom limited-edition Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2-themed graphics card that there's an 'AMD Gamescom Event on August 23.'

The announcement doesn't specify what Radeon GPU this new limited edition card will be, so we can only guess it will be a flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX. The teaser image does indicate that it will be based on the TUF Gaming design. As for AMD, hosting a 'Gamescom Event' does imply that the company has something to announce and that something could be new hardware from the Radeon team.

AMD is not done with the RDNA 3 generation of Radeon graphics cards. The latest rumor from GPU leaker Komachi_Ensaka on X states that Team Red has a pair of entry-level cards coming, the Radeon RX 7400 and Radeon RX 7300.

These new GPUs will use the Navi 33 chip, as seen in the Radeon RX 7600 and Radeon RX 7600 XT. Both cards feature 2048 Stream Processors with a 128-bit Memory Interface built on TSMC's 6nm process node. The XT variant bumps up the memory capacity to 16GB, making it a more attractive option for AI and VRAM-intensive gaming.

Performance-wise, outside of ray-tracing, the Radeon RX 7600 combo sits between the GeForce RTX 3060 and the GeForce RTX 4060. With the new Radeon RX 7400 and Radeon RX 7300 set to use a cutdown version of the same chip found in the Radeon RX 7600, these cards would be GeForce RTX 3050 competitors.

Last week, we reported on a GDDR6X memory shortage that could potentially impact the availability of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards, specifically the popular mid-range GeForce RTX 4070, which is one of the most used GPUs among PC gamers, according to Steam's latest hardware survey.

According to new information from a reliable NVIDIA source, MEGAsizeGPU over on X, NVIDIA already has a GeForce RTX 4070 using GDDR6 (the non-X variant found in Radeon GPUs and cards like the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti). Although it's not confirmed, the leaker claims the new RTX 4070's GDDR6 memory could be rated at 20Gbps, making it slightly slower than the current GeForce RTX 4070 with GDDR6X memory.

The current model's 21Gbps puts the overall memory bandwidth at 504 GB/s, which would decrease to 480 GB/s. This small decrease shouldn't have a notable impact on the GPU's overall performance.

AOOSTAR has just announced that its new AG01 OCulink external GPU dock is now available, with the external GPU dock rocking a built-in 400W power supply, with the GPU dock costing $149.

The new AOOSTAR AG01 is a GPU docking station that will connect to your laptop, Mini-PC, or desktop PC through an OCulink connection. There's no USB or M.2 SSD slots on this external GPU dock, so it's just purely an external GPU dock. But, what AOOSTAR is doing differently here is using a compact 400W built-in PSU.

The built-in 400W power supply has enough juice to support a graphics card that will use up to 250W of power, so you'll need to ensure that the GPU you're using in the AOOSTAR AG01 external GPU dock, uses less than 250W of power under load. AOOSTAR recommends the GeForce RTX 4070 or Radeon RX 7700 XT graphics cards for its new AG01 external GPU dock.

Unsurprisingly, NVIDIA's mainstream gaming GPU is a hit among PC gamers. That's what has happened with the GeForce RTX 4060, which launched on June 29, 2023. In the space of a little over a year, it's now sitting pretty as one of the most popular gaming GPUs, according to the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey Results for July 2024.

The card's popularity skyrocketed in the past month, surpassing the iconic (Pascal is still holding strong!) GeForce GTX 1060 and the Turing-based GeForce RTX 2060. It's cracked the top five, sitting just below the GeForce RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, GTX 1650, and the reigning champ the GeForce RTX 3060.

Last month was a good one for the GeForce RTX 40 Series, with the Steam data also showing the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4070 moving steadily up the charts - both are sitting just outside the top ten.

Chinese tech forum Board Channels has been a great source of information in recent years. Its admin and users feature multiple people close to or representative of NVIDIA's key partners divulging information relating to GPUs - from hardware shortages to launch timings to potential issues.

The latest news out of the forum is surprising: NVIDIA plans to halt production of its most popular gaming GPU, the GeForce RTX 3060. The GeForce RTX 3060 was first released in early 2021, and the company's new mainstream option quickly became popular among gamers.

Currently, the GeForce RTX 3060 is sitting on top of the Steam Hardware Survey for July 2024, a position it has held for several months as the most used GPU among PC gamers. Hearing the news that NVIDIA is potentially halting production and putting the RTX 3060 into 'end-of-life' mode is surprising.

Intel's latest Game On Graphics Driver for Intel Arc covers discrete Intel Arc GPUs and Intel Core Ultra chips with integrated Arc Graphics. It brings a sizeable performance boost to the critically acclaimed RPG Yakuza: Like a Dragon.

According to Intel, if you've got an Intel Arc A750, A770, A580, or A380 desktop graphics card, you can expect up to a massive 91% boost to performance when playing in 1080p using the game's Ultra image quality setting. Bump up the resolution to 1440p, and you'll still find a respectable 35% increase in performance.

Intel Game On Graphics Driver Version: 32.0.101.5768 WHQL also brings performance improvements to Metro: Last Light Complete Edition, which, like Yakuza, is a DirectX 11 title. The difference isn't quite as huge, but the 20% performance bump at 1080p and 23% at 1440p is respectable.

AMD Fluid Motion Frames of AFMF is the company's driver-based frame generation solution, which means that with a compatible Radeon GPU and the latest AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, you can enable the technology in thousands of games via this one-click solution.

As a driver-based solution, AFMF differs from AMD's FSR 3 and NVIDIA DLSS 3 Frame Generation, which require per-game implementation. AFMF debuted not that long ago, and the consensus is that its impressive tech has the potential to become a game changer for boosting performance in a wide range of machines, including mobile devices like the Steam Deck.

In a surprise announcement, AMD has launched AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 into 'Technical Preview,' promising lower latency and higher performance. Thanks to new AI-optimized enhancements, AMD calls it a "significant upgrade" from the initial release.

According to reports, one of the most popular GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, the GeForce RTX 4070, could be in short supply as of August 2024 due to issues regarding the supply of GDDR6X memory.

According to the Board Channels forum (via @harukaze5719 on X), an unforeseen issue with a new batch of GDDR6X memory modules will directly impact the GeForce RTX 40 Series GPU supply. GDDR6X memory can be found in the GeForce RTX 4070 and above, so the shortage will also apply to the newer RTX 4070 SUPER, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, the RTX 4080 SUPER, and the flagship GeForce RTX 4090.

According to the latest Steam Hardware & Software survey, the GeForce RTX 4070 is one of the most popular new GPUs among PC gamers. It hits a 1440p sweet spot, making it an attractive option. If supplies become constrained, it will be interesting to see if gamers opt for the AMD alternative or wait to purchase a new GPU.

AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs have a new integrated RDNA 3.5 GPU, which has arrived in the form of the Radeon 890M and 880M integrated GPUs.

The new RDNA 3.5-powered Radeon 890M and 880M have been tested, which show us we can expect up to 41% more performance over previous-gen RDNA 3 integrated GPUs. AMD's new Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" APUs have new Zen 5 CPU cores, new RDNA 3.5 GPU cores, and a new XDNA 2 NPU for AI workloads.

AMD's new RDNA 3.5 GPU acts as a refresh and optimization of RDNA 3, with the RDNA 3.5 GPU powering the Radeon 890M integrated GPU inside of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, and the Radeon 880M inside of the Ryzen AI 9 365.

SK hynix has just announced it has introduced the best-performing GDDR7, a next-generation graphics memory product at 32Gbps speeds.

The South Korean company said that the development of GDDR7 in March comes amid "growing interest by global customers in the AI space in the DRAM product that meets both specialized performance for graphics processing and fast speed". SK hynix promised volume production of its new GDDR7 memory in Q3 2024.

SK hynix's new GDDR7 memory comes at an operating speed of 32Gbps, which is a whopping 60% improvement from the previous-gen GDDR6 standard, and GDDR7 can scale up to 40Gbps depending on the product. When used on a high-end graphics card, SK hynix's new GDDR7 memory is capable of over 1.5TB/sec of memory bandwidth, enough speed to transfer 300 x 1080p movies (at 5GB each) per second.

NVIDIA is gearing up into the official release of its next-gen Blackwell AI GPU architecture, with reports suggesting the supply of high-end RTX 40 series GPUs has been "significantly reduced" by up to 50% and that supply shortages and price hikes could be expected.

In a new report from UDN, we hear that if the price of NVIDIA graphics cards increases, AIB manufacturers like ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, and ASRock are expected to seize the business opportunities as prices increase for consumers.

These companies are key partners of NVIDIA and its AI servers, and as the AI server boom continues (it's really just getting started), board quotations are rising simultaneously, which makes their momentum even more bullish for these Taiwanese companies, adds UDN.

ASRock has just unveiled its latest passively-cooled graphics cards, with the new ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Passive 24GB and RX 7900 XT Passive 20GB graphics cards.

The new ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT Passive series graphics cards have been designed for multi-card parallel computing for better performance. ASRock uses a vapor chamber heatsink, efficient aluminum cooling devices, and V-shaped cutting.

Interstingly, ASRock has used a single horizontal 12V-2x6 power connector, so that you can install multiple ASRock Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards without as many cables running to (multiple) graphics cards.

Yes, there is another. According to sources, NVIDIA isn't entirely done with the GeForce RTX 30 Series, and the company plans to release a new version of the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU. What makes this interesting is that this will be an Ampere 8nm generation GPU built with current-gen Ada Lovelace architecture and advanced node technology.

There is a GeForce RTX 4050 in the laptop space (we've yet to see one for the desktop graphics card market), so there's a valid reason for NVIDIA to revamp the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU with Ada tech - as it would lead to a more efficient and compact GPU.

The news of this new GeForce RTX 3050 arrives via The PC ID Repository, which lists a new entry in the form of the AD106M[GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU]. Per NVIDIA's GPU naming, AD refers to Ada Lovelace architecture. The existing GeForce RTX 3050 uses the Ampere-based GA107 chip.

NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" gaming GPUs are not too far away now, with the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 being reportedly up to 48% faster than the current-gen gaming GPU champ, the RTX 4090.

We knew that NVIDIA would be shooting high with performance with the new GeForce RTX 5090, with its new process node, upgraded Blackwell architecture, next-gen GDDR7 memory, when compared to the RTX 4090. NVIDIA would've been fine launching the RTX 4080 on its own at the time, which kept up and beat AMD's flagship RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

But they didn't, NVIDIA instead unleashed the beefier GeForce RTX 4090 with more VRAM (24GB versus 16GB) and even more gaming performance. The same goes with the RTX 5090, which is reportedly a monstrous 48% faster than the RTX 4090 according to 'RTX 50 performance targets' from NVIDIA in leaks by RedTechGaming.

NVIDIA has reportedly been working on a new Blackwell-based TITAN AI graphics card, which would beat the ultra-enthusiast GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card.

In a new post by RedGamingTech, we're told that NVIDIA has been working on a new TITAN graphics card, which would be dubbed "TITAN AI." It would be around 63% faster than the RTX 4090 and around 10% faster than the next-gen RTX 5090, too.

According to RedGamingTech, NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 will reportedly be around 48% faster than the RTX 4090, the RTX 5080 will be 29% faster than the RTX 4080 SUPER, and the RTX 5070 will reportedly be around 26% faster than the RTX 4070 SUPER. Once the post hit X, leakers "kopite7kimi" replied: "the biggest problem is whether it will actually be us ed for sale. TITAN based on Ada Lovelace also exists, but it has never been sold".

After months of back-and-forth between Q4 2024 and a potential 2025 release for the next-gen Blackwell-powered GeForce RTX 50 Series from NVIDIA, it looks like the latter is going to be the case. Industry insider and leaker @kopite7kimi has taken to X to say they think we won't see the GeForce RTX 50 Series and the new RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 flagship combo until CES 2025.

After reports that AMD was going hold off until CES 2025 before announcing its plans for its next-generation Radeon RX 8000 Series line-up powered by RDNA 4, this news that NVIDIA could also be eyeing a January 2025 reveal in Las Vegas would make for quite the GPU showdown in the desert.

Albeit one where AMD's new flagship will be a mid-range refresh versus NVIDIA's next-gen RTX 4090 killer. For those of us looking forward to picking up a GeForce RTX 5090 this holiday season, this delay is disappointing.

Igor Wallossek from Igor's Lab has run an extensive test on a range of GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards from NVIDIA partners like ASUS, Manli, PNY, and Palit and concluded that most are a 'ticking time bomb' waiting to overheat and eventually fail because of cheap thermal paste. It's an explosive report that could have a massive impact on the current GPU market.

The investigation and report are now live (with video) at Igor's Lab. The conclusion is quite convincing, demonstrating how the cheap thermal paste degrades over time and that it only takes a few months to become ineffective. The report claims that this is why PC gamers with cards like the RTX 4080 Gallardo and RTX 4080 TUF Gaming are experiencing hot spot temperatures of over 100 degrees.

Igor Wallossek notes that he began investigating the issue after hearing about it from readers. After extensive testing, he found that cheap thermal paste that degrades over time is the culprit. The good news is that resolving the issue is straightforward.