Category Archives: Hardware

Is AMD’s Radeon RX 5500 XT Hamstrung by VRAM and PCIe Bandwidth?

With the release of the budget RX 5500 XT, AMD started to fill out the bottom two-thirds of its product stack, bringing much-needed competition into that segment. The graphics card arrived with 4GB and 8GB variants ($169 and $199 respectively), and in our RX 5500 XT review, some titles–namely Forza Horizon 4, Battlefield V, Far Cry 5 and Shadow of the Tomb […]

Intel discrete GPU struggles: won’t compete against NVIDIA or AMD

Raja Koduri could be the next one on Intel’s chopping block according to new rumors on DG1 Intel has been going through all sorts of issues over the last couple of years, with its troubled modem division selling to Apple for $1 billion, the constant world of hurt AMD is hitting them with in the […]

ADATA Reveals XPG Hunter SO-DIMMs: Up to DDR4-3000, Up to 32 GB

ADATA has introduced its new family of SO-DIMMs for laptops and small form-factor desktops. The XPG Hunter DDR4 SO-DIMMs offer data transfer rates of up to 3000 MT/s and capacities from 8 GB to 32 GB, allowing typical dual-channel (dual slot) systems to go up to 64 GB of RAM in total. ADATA’s XPG Hunter DDR4 SO-DIMMs […]

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 benchmarks aren’t exactly crushing the iPhone’s A13 chipset

It was just recently that Qualcomm unveiled their next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 865. This is meant to be the company’s most powerful chipset to date where we’re hearing a lot about what it could be doing for Android phones come 2020, but recent benchmarks suggests that it might still lag a teensy bit behind Apple’s 2019 […]

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Overtakes Higher-Clocked Core i9-7920X for wPrime World Record

As spotted by Shaun Fosmark, Australian overclocker jordan.hyde99 has set a new world record in wPrime 1024M with AMD’s Ryzen 9 3900X processor. What’s fascinating is the fact that the AMD processor was running a much slower clock speed than the previous record holder, the Intel Core i9-7920X. The Ryzen 9 3900X and Core i9-7920X are both equipped with 12 […]

Overclock Your Radeon RX 5500 XT To 2.1 GHz On Air With This Tool

Igor’s Lab community member that goes by the name of ‘hellm’ has updated his MorePowerTool (MPT) AMD graphics card overclocking tool to support the recently-launched Radeon RX 5500 XT. The Radeon RX 5500 XT comes with a 1,607 MHz base clock, 1,717 MHz game clock and 1,845 MHz boost clock. However, AMD’s partners are free to offer overclocked […]

Samsung is working on a 5 nm Exynos 1000 SoC

With the introduction of the Exynos 990 SoC that is supposed to power the upcoming Galaxy S11 lineup, Samsung completely ditched its focus on custom high-performance processor cores. The Mongoose cores in the Exynos 9820 that should have provided the edge over ARM’s Cortex-A76 cores featured in the Snapdragon 855 did not really cut it, so Samsung decided to shut down the custom core development facility […]

KIRIN 1020 CHIP CODENAMED BALTIMORE,COMING WITH 5NM PROCESS

At present, news about Huawei’s next-generation flagship processor Kirin 1020 is gradually increasing. However, the processor will not be released until next fall. The news comes from Weibo. One of the bloggers’ channel simply said ‘5nm Baltimore, ready to verify!’ In the past, the internal codes of Hisilicon chips were usually named after foreign cities. Plus, there […]

Overclocker Gets 1TB of RAM Running on X299 Motherboard Limited to 256GB

ASRock announced this week that renown overclocker Nick Shih has filled ASRock’s X299 Taichi CLX workstation-grade motherboard with 1TB of memory when the motherboard only officially supports up to 256GB. To achieve this feat, Shih paired an Intel Core i9-7900X with eight SK Hynix 128GB LRDIMM (load-reduced DIMM) modules. This is quite fascinating, considering we were told that the X299 chipset doesn’t support […]