Dell launches big screen laptops for gaming and road warriors
Alienware x17 and a new 15-inch XPS
Nvidia rounds out the high-end segment of its 3000 series
The 3070 TI is a solid performer for the high-end segment
Graphic Add-In Board shipments Lift-off in Q1’2021
Quarter-to-quarter graphics add-in board shipments increased by 7.1% and increased significantly by 24.4% year-to-year.
The flagship AIB for the Nvidia’s Ampere comes to town
Comparisons are challenging
GPU shipments soar in Q1 year-over-year
The PC GPU market shipments increased by 35% year-to-year and decreased slightly by -.3% from last quarter
Intel’s 11-gen i5 and i9 Rocket Lake CPUs
Significant improvement over Gen-10
Intel’s 11-gen i5 and i9 Rocket Lake CPUs
Intel introduced its 11th generation Core i processors with its new 750 Iris X UHD graphics. Intel announced a full lineup of processors from the X-series Enthusiasts CPUs to the base i3. Intel is touting the integration of AI along with CPU/ GPU compute capabilities featured in the new generation. We were privileged to be able to get an i5-11600k … Read more
Intel’s 11-gen i5 and i9 Rocket Lake CPUs
Significant improvement over gen-10
AMD’s Radeon 6700 XT is surprising
17 billion transistors and AMD’s new Ray Accelerator Technology
AMD’s Zen 3, the sound of 64 cores clapping
AMD has generously and broadly used the designation Zen to describe various CPUs in their product line. The company’s latest offering in their server derby race is its 7nm Milan, the successor to the Rome processor. AMD says its Zen 3 architecture is 19% faster than Zen 2. Via a very slick virtual presentation, AMD executives showed the new AMD … Read more
AMD’s Radeon 6700 XT is surprising
AMD is putting out some very impressive gaming AIBs that may be overlooked by gamers in general. These boards are giving mainstream gamers impressive performance at the midrange price point. AMD’s reference design Radeon 6700 XT AIB The Radeon RX 6700 XT supports the latest graphical software suites such as DirectX 12 Ultimate and AMD’s FidelityFX5 feature set. Fidelity FX5, … Read more
Supply shortages and mining batter the AIB market
Quarter-to-quarter graphics add-in board shipments decreased by -3.9% and decreased -6.5% year-to-year