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Exploring Raptor Lake with Intel’s Core i5-13600K and Core i9-13900K
With just one month in between their respective showcases, both Dr. Lisa Su of AMD and Intel’s Pat Gelsinger declared their forthcoming line of CPUs to be the best and fastest gaming CPUs on the market. These are bold claims from both manufacturers, however, AMD’s Zen 4-powered juggernaut left an impression that demands a strong…
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It’s Hard to Be Excited About New Laptops and GPUs When Supply is Scarce
If you believed the rumours, AMD and Nvidia were supposed to deliver a bunch of show-stopping CES announcements. Rumours that Nvidia was going to announce a RTX 3080 Ti or a RTX 3070 Super. Rumours that AMD was going to launch its RX 6700 by the end of this month. Even Intel was quiet about…
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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Review: Meet the New Best Desktop Processor
Since introducing its Ryzen series of desktop processors into the PC market, AMD has consistently increased core counts and core clocks, shrunk its transistor size to 7nm, and modified its architecture to be more efficient all on the same motherboard socket. The scaling AMD achieved between its Zen and Zen 2 architecture generation was impressive…
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Intel’s 11th-Gen Desktop Processors Are Coming Early Next Year and They will Support PCIe 4.0
Intel announced this morning that its 11th-gen desktop processors, code-named Rocket Lake, will release sometime in the first quarter of 2021. But unlike the 10th generation, this generation will actually provide support for PCIe 4.0. Not much more information was provided beyond that, although Intel did say it would reveal more in the coming months.