Nvidia retiring four cheap graphics cards — Report
Nvidia is phasing out some of its last-remaining Turing graphics cards, which are among the company's best-value GPUs when it comes to price-to-performance.
That is according to rumours on China's Bobantang tech forums, which were picked up by...
AWS launches new Graviton chip in challenge to AMD, Intel, and Nvidia
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing unit is rolling out new chips designed to power the highest-end of computing, supporting tasks such as weather forecasting and gene sequencing.
Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of...
AMD server revenue helps make up for lost sales
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. climbed in late trading after an expansion into server processors helped offset a slumping personal computer market last quarter and the chipmaker vowed to make further gains.
Profit topped analysts’ predictions in the...
The gaming rig South Africans can build for R15,000
With the global chip crunch easing off and graphics card demand at a low, there have been few better times in recent years to build a new gaming PC.
2021 and the start of 2022 were not ideal periods for those looking to upgrade their rig.
Most popular graphics cards in South Africa
Nvidia has dominated AMD in South African graphics card sales in 2022, while gamers have increasingly looked towards more affordable models amid a tough economic climate.
MyBroadband recently asked the country's biggest retailers operating in the...
Chip crunch is easing off
Chip delivery times shrank by four days in September, the biggest drop in years, in a sign that the industry’s supply crunch is easing.
Lead times — the gap between when a chip is ordered and when it is delivered — averaged 26.3 weeks in the period, according to...
Intel smashes AMD — Core i9-13900K overclocked to 8.2GHz
Well-known PC overclocker Allen "Splave" Golibersuch has successfully boosted clock speeds on Intel's 24-core Core i9-13900K to 8.2GHz.
The impressive feat on the top-of-the-line 13th-gen Raptor Lake processor came at Intel's Creator...
Most popular gaming graphics cards revealed
Steam has released its hardware and software survey for September 2022, revealing that Nvidia's RTX 3060 is now the most prevalent graphics card used by PC gamers.
Steam is the world's most popular PC game distribution platform, with around 120...
Intel launches 13th-gen Raptor Lake processors — spoils AMD's Ryzen 7000 party
Intel has unveiled its 13th-gen Raptor Lake desktop processors, promising to deliver the best gaming, streaming and recording performance on PCs while undercutting AMD's recently launched Ryzen 7000 series on price...
Why you might want to wait before buying that new graphics card
Those looking to buy a new high-end graphics card should hold off for the next two to three months, according to a Tom's Hardware report.
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel are all expected to release new high-end graphics cards soon, meaning...
AMD launches Ryzen 7000 chips — Specifications and performance claims
AMD unveiled its highly-anticipated Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors on Monday, 29 August 2022.
The company said the launch ushered in the "next era of high performance for gamers, enthusiasts, and content creators" with...
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X benchmark leak shows promising performance
A leaked AMD Ryzen 7 7700X benchmark shows increased single and multi-threaded performance in Cinebench R20 compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X.
The benchmark comes from BilliBilli content creator Extreme Player.
AMD Zen chips vulnerable to multi-threading attack
AMD has disclosed an execution unit scheduler contention side-channel vulnerability affecting Zen 1, Zen 2, and Zen 3 processors that use simultaneous multithreading (SMT).
The security vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-46778 and has a...
AMD Ryzen 7000 price details leaked
Well-known PC hardware news site VideoCardz has obtained details on the pricing and packaging of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 series chips.
The publication received the information from a source who shared part of a slideshow of a recent presentation that...
AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs to launch before October
AMD chief executive officer Lisa Su confirmed that the company's Ryzen 7000 processors, codenamed Raphael, will launch in Q3 2022.
The executive announced the launch window during AMD's Q2 2022 earnings call.
Intel versus AMD processor showdown
While Intel is the world's biggest CPU manufacturer, it has had its work cut out for it, with AMD's market share gradually increasing since the third quarter of 2016 as it out-innovated the chip giant in its newer generation of processors.
As the dominant...
Intel, AMD, and Nvidia shares down after forecast for weak demand
Intel Corp., the largest maker of computer processors, dragged down chip industry stocks after executives said a weaker economy will affect demand and hurt financial performance.
“I think on the macro side, clearly, it’s...
Nvidia posts disappointing revenue forecast and takes chipmaker shares down with it
Nvidia Corp.’s disappointing quarterly revenue forecast sent the stock down as much as 10%, and dragged lower the shares of other large chipmakers with it.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Marvell Technology...
AMD announces Ryzen 7000 processors
AMD has announced that its Ryzen 7000 series “Raphael” processors will release “this Fall” — traditionally between early September and late November in North America.
This year, the Fall season is from 5 September to 24 November.