A16 Bionic Nearly Breaks Past the 5,500 Multi-Core Score Barrier, With No Competitor in Sight The updated scores were shared by ShrimpApplePro, though we think he made a mistake in his tweet as he has written ‘14 Plus VS iPhone 13 Pro Max’, and since both phones share the same chipset, which is the A15 Bionic, their single-core and multi-core scores would have been similar, but that is not the case here....

As reported by Twitter user Zalman, Danish retailer Coolshop, who correctly revealed the Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition release date before an official announcement had been made, recently changed the game’s release date to February 24th, 2023. While the exact date is weird, as it would be exactly one year after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, it now seems more likely that the game will slip into 2023, also considering how packed the Nintendo release schedule is for the coming months....

The update will include two new civilizations that will be available for free: The Ottomans and the Malians. Players will be able to lead the mighty Malians of West Africa as one of the wealthiest trading nations of all time as you focus on strong economic prowess in mining and investing in gold. Here’s a look at the upcoming civilizations in Age of Empires IV: Alternatively, they can assemble one of the longest-lasting empires in history with the Ottoman civilization and its well-trained military force, which features the largest gunpowder siege weapon available – the Great Bombard....

Apple’s Latest AirPods Pro 2 Teardown Shows Internals, Repairability, and Much More iFixit’s latest teardown of the AirPods Pro 2 offers a look at the internals of the earbuds as well as the charging case. The teardown confirms that the AirPods Pro remains unrepairable and damages the case when trying to access the internal components. Since the case breaks if you try to open it up, battery replacements are impossible for the most part....

AMD AM4 Platform continues to be supported by the company with the promise of updates & confirmed new motherboard designs AMD AM4 currently supports five architectures, four process nodes, and 125 processor items. Dr. Lisa Su and the company affirmed that motherboard fellows for AMD have constructed another 500 new board designs that will be compatible with the previous generation. What will come of the AM4 technology when AM5 is on the horizon?...

AMD creates a new CPU Design Center in New York to assist with hiring CPU developers and GPU design teams Mike Evans of AMD posted a screenshot to give the public and potential hires a general idea of the positions available on the AMD website. The entries for AMD’s CPU section seek to employ several verification engineers, a CPU core performance architect, and a senior Infinity Fabric verification engineer. Given the diversity and nature of those positions, we might be looking at establishing another R&D site ready to expand and extend into the future....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 & AMD Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Cards Prices Continue To Improve & Several GPUs Available Below MSRP In the latest report by 3DCenter, we can see that the GPU prices for both NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards continue to fall which shouldn’t be a surprise as that’s the trend we have witnessed since the end of 2021. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series prices now average at around 6% over MSRP while AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series averages with a selling price of 2% over MSRP....

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT Graphics Cards Gaming, Raytracing, RSR Benchmarks & Price Positioning Confirmed In the previous two leaks, we have covered the official specifications and the official synthetic tests for all three cards. Now our final post will give a rundown on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT & RX 6650 XT gaming performance which includes results at various resolutions for each tier....

Intel’s Raptor Lake Core i7-13700K & Core i5-13600K CPUs Disappoint In Leaked Gaming Benchmarks, Lose To AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X The latest benchmarks of Intel’s Raptor Lake Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K CPUs come from Bilibili’s content creator, Extreme Player. The leaker has already shown us benchmarks of the retail Raptor Lake CPUs including the Core i9-13900K, Core i7-13700K, and Core i5-13600K. For these latest benchmarks, Extreme Player put the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X to the test against Intel’s current 12th Gen and upcoming 13th Gen CPUs....

AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ Desktop CPUs Allegedly Have A Maximum Boost Frequency ‘Fmax’ of 5.85 GHz Earlier this week, AMD corrected and confirmed a few more details regarding its Ryzen 7000 CPU lineup, codenamed Raphael. The company confirmed that the TDP of its top Ryzen 7000 CPUs will indeed be 170W and the maximum package power of the AM5 (LGA 1718) socket will be rated at 230W. The company also confirmed that the gaming demo showcased during Computex 2022 was of a 16-core prototype that was running at 5....

AMD’s Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPU Undervolting Could Offer Significant Frequency & TDP Headroom While Dropping Down Temps In the previous report, we stated how AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs have been alleged to run really hot even at stock TDP ratings. The Ryzen 9 7950X with a PPT of 230W and the Ryzen 5 7600X with a PPT of close to 130W are said to hit 90-95C temperatures at stock configurations which is almost at the edge of their thermal threshold....

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5990X CPU Overclocked To 4.82 GHz Across All 64 of Its Zen 3 Cores To Shatter 100,000 Points In Cinebench R23 The AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPU tested by SkatterBencher is the 5990X which isn’t a chip that the red team has officially released. In fact, it’s an engineering sample that the overclocker was able to acquire and features 64 cores, 128 threads, 288 MB of L3 cache, and clock speeds of up to 2....

Some of The Most Popular Emulators Such as Yuzu Now Have AVX-512 Support & AMD’s Zen 4 CPUs Can Benefit Hugely From That According to Joey, some of the emulators to which he has added AVX-512 acceleration include Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator), Citra (Nintendo 3DS Emulator), Vita3K (PlayStation Vita Emulator), and Xenia (Microsoft Xbox 360 Emulator). The engineer states that he has been adding AVX-512 support into these emulators before it was considered “Cool”....

The Galaxy S5 Lives on with This Unofficial Android 12L ROM The Galaxy S5 has now received the unofficial port of Lineage OS 19.1, which is based on Android 12L, and for those who do not know, it is one of the most popular 3rd party ROMs available in the market. Now, it is important to know that we are still looking at an experimental build that is tailored specifically for the Snapdragon 801 powering Galaxy S5 and while it is certainly not stable, it does manage to breathe a new life into the old flagship....

Here’s a bit more detail on the return of Control and the new Arena map… The Warriors event includes 24 new cosmetics, which can be purchased individually with Apex Coins or in-game crafting materials, or gained via limited-time Warriors event loot boxes. You can also nab the following rewards by progressing the event-specific battle pass. Our limited-time 9v9 mode Control is returning for two weeks with the Warriors Collection Event!...

According to AppleInsider, the settlement was approved by Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit was first filed in 2013, and Alsup writes the following in his approval. To recap, Apple’s retail policy required staff to have their bags and personal belongings checked before they ended their shift. While this would be normal in any retail outlet with a boatload of expensive hardware neatly arranged across various corners, it was argued that retail employees should be paid for the time spent when completing the security checks, which according to one report, lasted for as long as 45 minutes....

Apple Rumored to Be Testing a Mac Pro Configuration With a 24-Core CPU and 76-Core GPU, but That Is Not the Most Top-End Spec While one reason for this delay could be that TSMC is facing difficulty ramping up 3nm wafer production that will be used for Apple’s upcoming custom silicon lineup, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman believes there is another reason for the Mac Pro not materializing this early. When the company announced the M1 back in 2020, it mentioned that its Apple Silicon transition would be completed in two years....

Apple Seeds iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, macOS 12.3, and tvOS 15.4 Beta 5 to Developers For Testing Purposes You can install the latest iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 beta 5 from the Apple Developer Center as well as over the air. Make sure that you have installed a proper configuration profile from the Developer Center. iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 will bring a boatload of new additions to the table like Face ID with a mask on, 37 new emojis, and much more....

Apple Releases iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1 With Important Security Fixes - Download Now on Compatible iPhone and iPad Models While iOS 16 was released last month, iPadOS 16 made its debut last week with many front-facing additions. However, all iPhone and iPad models that do not support Apple’s latest iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 updates can download iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1 from the Settings app. Simply head over to General > Software Update and follow the on-screen instructions....

Benchmarks Comparison Shows iPhone SE 3 Beating The Galaxy S22 Ultra in Single and Multi-Core Scores The model identifier number for the new iPhone SE 3 is “iPhone 14,6,” and Geekbench scores for the device are now out. iPhone SE 3 benchmark reveals a single-core score of 1695 and a multi-core score of 4021. These scores are pretty much on par with the iPhone 13 at 1672 and 4481 for single and multi-core scores, respectively....