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Diamonds are MSI’s best friend

The Hot Take: Yeah looks like that CZ market is going to get a new avenue of revenue soon enough. Hoping the prices can be kept down is my only concern.

MSI has shown off new cooling and power tricks for future Nvidia RTX graphics cards. The outfit has said that since the company is not expecting a major gamer GPU launch this year, it used the gap to show what might land on future Nvidia RTX cards and what it will have to come up with to match. MSI said that it is working on three main areas for its next designs: cooling, power delivery and the PCB. The cooling work includes new fans, heat pipes, thermal pads and baseplates, all dressed up as an advanced thermal architecture. The fan…

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AMD Finally Cracks HDMI 2.1 On Linux After Years Of Forum Lockout, Thanks To Valve’s Quiet Push

The Hot Take: Closed source finally making it onto OSS OS, nice!

AMD has taken a major step toward enabling native open-source HDMI 2.1 support on Linux by submitting new patches for its AMDGPU driver. AMD Moves Closer to Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support on Linux With New AMDGPU FRL Patches It appears that the HDMI 2.1 support is finally arriving to Linux as AMD has submitted the new Fixed Rate Link (FRL) patches for its AMDGPU driver. This has been one of the longest-standing limitations that affected Radeon GPUs on the platform. There have been years of restrictions tied to the HDMI Forum (Org behind the HDMI…

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Intel’s Arc G3 Extreme Handheld Chip Crushes Ryzen Z2 Extreme by 25% In Benchmark Leak, Rocks The Powerful B390 iGPU

The Hot Take: Getting confusing with weather they are dropping their GPU's.

Benchmarks of Intel's upcoming and fastest gaming handheld SoC, the Arc G3 Extreme, have been leaked, surpassing the Ryzen Z2 by 25%. Intel Packs Its Strongest Battlemage GPU, & 14 CPU Cores Inside the Arc G3 Extreme Gaming Handheld SoC We recently covered Intel's first Arc G3 gaming handheld, which has been listed by online retailers. While the retailer listing was void of details for the SoC itself, we now have more specs and even benchmarks of the upcoming chip & they look phenomenal. Starting with the CPU, the Intel Arc G3 Extreme…

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Intel has reportedly killed discrete gaming GPUs for the upcoming Xe3P Arc "Celestial" family — Gaming GPU remains uncertain even for the next-gen Xe4 "Druid" lineup that lands in 2027

The Hot Take: Not good, but then again would need to happen if Nvidia is planning on buying intel. We all loose a third wheel market option and we're going to continue having high prices.

New leaks claim that Intel's upcoming Xe3P graphics architecture won't feature any discrete gaming GPUs, and even the next-gen Xe4 lineup isn't confirmed to. Intel is instead prioritizing the datacenter and workstation segments for new graphics IP, and is featuring them on mobile parts.

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Supermicro GPU smuggling prompts Nvidia to intensify supply chain audit

The Hot Take: How far up the supply chain does this go? All the way to Nvidia? Only time will tell.

Following the recent smuggling indictment involving Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and others, Nvidia has significantly upgraded its global supply chain monitoring practices in recent months, according to an industry source. Already maintaining high visibility over customer lists, Nvidia now enforces stricter controls on shipments and transshipment processes, prompting multiple suppliers to expand their legal teams to comply with the intensified audits.

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NVIDIA Improves Path Tracing Performance By 3x With Enhanced ReSTIR Algorithms, Prepped For Next-Gen Gaming

The Hot Take: Looks interesting we'll have to see how it actually looks and performs.

NVIDIA has shared a new and improved ReSTIR algorithm, which improves Path Tracing performance by 2-3x, setting the stage for next-gen gaming. Ray Tracing Is Cool, But Path Tracing Is Cooler & NVIDIA Is Making PT Faster by 3x With Its New ReSTIR Algorithms PC games are rapidly adopting Path Tracing as a means to deliver next-generation visual fidelity. Just like Ray Tracing, NVIDIA is the one who has paved the way for Path Tracing on PCs first. However, just like Ray Tracing in its early days, Path Tracing faces a challenge, and that's the…

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AMD Taps GlobalFoundries for MI500’s Co-Packaged Optics as the Silicon Photonics Race With NVIDIA Heats Up

The Hot Take: Getting cozier with your previous manufacturing division in a previous life.

AMD will be leveraging GlobalFoundries for the development of its MRM Co-packaged Optic solution for the next-gen Instinct MI500 AI accelerators. GlobalFoundries & AMD Working Together on Co-Packaged Optics Hardware For Instinct MI500 Accelerators CPO or Co-Packaged Optics (Silicon Photonics) is the next-generation solution that reduces reliance on copper and harnesses light to transfer signals. These CPOs are packaged alongside hardware accelerators such as GPUs and will be a key solution for next-gen AI factories, offering improved…

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This Thermal Paste Mod Dropped ASUS GeForce RTX 4080 Temps by 20°C

The Hot Take: As GPU's and CPU's get hotter and hotter only going to become more of the norm, unless they don't get ride of DYI building and maybe allow us to buy GPU's like CPU's w/out cooling solutions.

A user on Reddit is claiming a massive 20°C temperature drop on an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card simply by removing the stock thermal compound it shipped with and replacing it with a phase change thermal pad based on Honeywell's PTM7950, a proprietary material that gained some notoriety a couple of years ago. Part of what

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