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RUMOUR: NVIDIA Pushing 20-Series Volta GPU for Early Launch in Q3 2017
It seems like Intel is not the only company pushing their launch ahead of schedule. Rumours have surfaced from Chinese site MyDrivers that NVIDIA is also pushing to release their next-generation 20-series Volta GPU ahead of launch for Q3 2017. NVIDIA has promised that Volta will be using HBM2 memory…
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TSMC Unveils Aggressive Roadmap With 7nm in 2017
Even though we’re getting closer and closer tot he end of silicon shrinking, the semiconductor foundries aren’t giving up just yet. TSMC, one of the few companies left in the business, has announced their new aggressive roadmap going into the future. While they’ve just got their 10nm about ready to go,…
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Latest Rumour Suggests NVIDIA Will Launch a Pascal Refresh
NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture is based on the TSMC 16nm FinFET manufacturing process and offers significant performance improvements compared to Maxwell, especially when you analyse the desktop-class mobile offerings. The entire range has been extremely popular and continues to sell well, even though prices in the UK remain quite high. Of…
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GlobalFoundries Confirms 14nm to 7nm Transition
Earlier in the month, a surprising rumour came out from GlobalFoundries future plans. According to the report, the semiconductor foundry was planning to jump straight from the current 14nm process right to 7nm. This would entail skipping out on 10nm, the next node in line after 14nm. These rumours have now…
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Nvidia to Join AMD on 14nm FinFET Process
In of the biggest surprises of the year to come from the graphics industry, Nvidia is reportedly planning to utilize a new process node later this year. According to a South Korean paper, Nvidia has concluded negotiations with Samsung to utilize their 14nm process node to produce Pascal GPUs. This comes…
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Palit GameRock Premium GTX 1070 Graphics Card Review
Introduction NVIDIA’s latest flagship, the GTX 1080 is capable of astounding performance but the current asking price is well beyond what most enthusiasts are prepared to pay. This is particularly the case in the UK as custom models can easily exceed £620 and I’ve noticed major price rises during the…
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AMD Radeon RX 480 Graphics Card Review
Introduction The old adage that PC gaming is significantly more expensive than consoles stems from the media coverage and fascination regarding flagship graphics cards. This can lead to the misconception that products designed for a niche, enthusiast audience like the GTX 1080 reflect the cost of graphics hardware to achieve…
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The GTX 1080 Offers Incredible Efficiency
NVIDIA announced during their Pascal event the new flagship GTX 1080, a project costing several billion dollars. This is the world’s first mass production chip based on the FinFET 16nm process and utilises the GDDR5X memory format by Micron. On another note, Pascal is NVIDIA’s most efficient architecture to date with…
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AMD Radeon R9 490X And 490 Reportedly Set For June Release
AMD’s upcoming graphics architecture, codenamed ‘Polaris’ will be the company’s first product utilizing the 14nm FinFET manufacturing process. During CES 2016, AMD showcased the greatly improved performance per watt compared to the current 28nm NVIDIA GTX 950. As a result, the upcoming R9 490X and R9 490 will not be…
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AMD Polaris Project F GPU Revealed
With Polaris only months away, more details about what Polaris 10 and 11 will look like are coming out. According to an ex-AMD employee profile on LinkedIn, a dGPU codenamed Project F is set to be built on GlobalFounrdies and Samsung 14nm LPP process. What’s more, the Project F GPU will…
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AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Spotted in HWiNFO Changelog
More and more information is pointing to the state of readiness for AMD’s upcoming Polaris GPUs. According to information spotted in AIDA64 and HWiNFO Changelog, support for 3 new GPUs, Ellesmere, Baffin and Greenland has appeared. As these nomenclatures predate AMD’s Polaris announcement, we can assume that Greenland is Vega 10 while…
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AMD Polaris GPU Architecture Offically Unveiled
First leaked yesterday, we’re now able to bring you the full AMD presentation on their upcoming Polaris GPU architecture. Set to ship mid-2016, Polaris will be using a 14/16nm FinFET process and bring massive power consumption and efficiency improvements. According to RTG SVP Raja Koduri, AMD says the massive potential…
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AMD Zen to use TSMC 16nm as GF 14nm Falters
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD owned fab have led to a change to use the 16nm process at TSMC, the same one used for…
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 vs 810 Compared in Leaked Benchmark
The Snapdragon 810 is Qualcomm’s flagship mobile chip and used in a variety of high-end handsets including the LG Flex 2, One Plus 2 and Sony Xperia Z5 Premium. However, many of these devices suffer from overheating and throttling issues on Android 5.0. Thankfully, this has been somewhat fixed in…
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Snapdragon 820 Promises Astounding 50% Performance Increase
Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 820 CPU which supposedly offers up to twice the battery life and performance compared to the widely used, Snapdragon 810. The Snapdragon 810 is a modified version of the ARM Cortex A7 containing A53 CPU cores to support 64-bit ARMv8 technology across a range of premium…
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