Probably the most anticipated GPU of the year – especially for NVidia fans – the various AIB RTX 3060 have arrived at retailers. The 60 class GPU from NVidia has traditionally been the best seller in the line-up for gamers…
The Tianshu Zhixin was established in Nanjing in 2015 and having R&D centers in Nanjing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Beijing. In 2018 the company officially established a chip development team and began the development of their Big Island architecture, having…
In the release notes for AMD’s latest firmware patches I found some interesting codenames. Yellow Carp is part of a new version of the System Management Unit (SMUsmu_v13_0_1) which seems to replace an early release (13.0.0). For reference, AMD’s graphics…
Apple recently unveiled its newest M1 SoC to the world, designed specifically to meet the demand for improved performance on their Macs, challenging for the first time the hegemony of the x86 duopoly. Using the most recently developed 5nm TSMC…
A recent report from RBC Capital Markets analyst Mitch Steves that has been echoed around the web suggests that the reason there’s very limited stock of Nvidia Ampere GPUs at retail is because NVidia sold the GPUs directly to crypto…
With more and more information leaking out the hype around AMD’s “Big Navi” continues to build up. To make sense of it all I did some research into drivers and other documents and also reached out to a few sources…
Youtuber Paul Kelly from the PC enthusiast channel “Not an Apple Fan” today dropped a bombshell regarding the upcoming AMD RDNA2 gpus, revealing that the top GPU will indeed be the 6900XT which will probably compete directly with NVidia’s Flagship…
When Intel announced it would launch its own GPUs, hiring former AMD graphics lead Raja Koduri in the process to head this ambitious endeavor, many wondered whether it was really possible for Intel to bring real innovation to the GPU…
At the Ampere announcement stream NVidia CEO Jensen Huang made several bold claims regarding their new line of GPUs, the RTX 3000 series. Such claims include that the new microarchitecture, compared to Turing, “doubles ray triangle intersection throughput”, “Ampere’s RT…
The death of Dennard scaling and the rising of the phenomenon known as “dark silicon” have brought the IC industry to a crossroads: How to keep improving microprocessors with current power constraints without excessively increasing heat densities on the chip…