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Intel’s Core i9-13900K “Raptor Lake” Is 11% Faster Than AMD Ryzen 9 7950X “Zen 4” In CPU Gaming Benchmarks Intel shared the slides at a recent event in their Raptor Lake launch event in India where they did showcase a brand new slide that compares the Intel Core i9-13900K CPU to AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X across a total of 12 titles. No settings or resolution are mentioned but the games range from the following titles:...

Raja Koduri Teases Upcoming Beast Canyon NUC Extreme With Intel Arc Alchemist Discrete Graphics Cards The Intel NUC Extreme ‘Beast Canyon’ is one of the most powerful SFF PC that one can get, offering support for desktop-grade 11th Gen Tiger Lake Desktop ‘KB’ CPUs and support for full-length graphics cards. We have our own review of the NUC Extreme coming in which we have utilizing NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card, the fastest solution that you can fit inside the SFF PC but Intel seems to have its own discrete graphics solution, Arc Alchemist, running within prototype builds as showcased by Raja Koduri....

Apple’s iPad 9 with 64GB of Storage and Wi-Fi Currently Selling for a Low Price of Just $269 Ahead of Black Friday This is an extremely limited time deal and does not require any discount code or coupon. Since the price is quite low, there is a chance stock will run dry before you are able to place an order for yourself to be delivered on time. Buy 2021 Apple 10....

Aristotle believed that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” If we apply the same logic to GameStop’s future valuation, the company is worth well north of $20 billion and might even be worth as much as $30 billion. However, the reality is much more nuanced. Before the meme stock mania of 2021, GameStop was traversing a terminal decline trajectory, with foot traffic plummeting and the last vestiges of resistance among hardcore gamers to online downloads eliminated by the pandemic and the attendant social distancing realities....

Power-efficient crypto mining device promises 65 MH/s & utilizes only 30W of power within a fanless chassis The Jasminer X4 Etchash Brick showcases a fanless design and a 30W chip, allowing the device to run relatively silent and be highly power-efficient. The crypto mining brick utilizes the Jasminer X4 chip designed by Sunlune Technology, employing 3D chip stacking with through-silicon vias, or TSVs. This breakthrough technology permitted Sunlune to load computing and data storage units onto one chip....

Khronos ANARI analytical rendering interface is added to the list of supported applications utilizing AMD Radeon ProRender ANARI limits the fragmentation of varying APIs from several merchandisers looking for a feature-rich data visualization application. In 2021, the Khronos Group initialized the ANARI 1.0 provisional specification to create an industry-standard endeavor focused on customized 3D data visualizations. The organization intends for the analytical rendering interface to be the golden rule specification used by AMD Radeon ProRender and utilized by several CPU and GPU libraries....

None of these games are planned to launch on the Nintendo Switch console, though. When questioned by Gamespot on this topic, Like a Dragon producer and studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama revealed why. Do we want to put a title like this where we’re going around and picking a fight with the world and doing all this Yakuza stuff on a Switch? We still kind of think of ourselves as people of the night world, right?...

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) is currently going through the veritable hellhole that is the production ramp-up, with the company forced to reduce its projections of EV deliveries for the entire 2022 at each of the past few quarterly earnings disclosure. However, the most difficult period for Lucid Group might finally be in the rear window after the company introduced sweeping changes in its logistics operations as well as the top management....

Midnight Suns is a tactical RPG with card-based mechanics featuring superheroes such as Iron Man, Captain America, and Ghost Rider, among others. The game was originally revealed last year and had an extended gameplay trailer shown this past September. You can watch that video below to catch up. You can check the rating for yourself here. Given that this happened, one could assume that the title will be released sometime this year....

It’s not without people talking about it; in the past, the idea of the first game being remade has been thrown around or even rumored, too. As a matter of fact, a thread on ResetEra highlights another one of these rumors, which we’ll break down now. The ResetEra thread points out a post by Spanish gaming outlet AREAJUGONES saying that the Metal Gear Solid remake is indeed a reality. The rumor starts by saying that this remake will be PlayStation 5 exclusive....

Earlier this month, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a suit to block Microsoft’s intended merger with Activision-Blizzard. “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block technology giant Microsoft Corp. from acquiring leading video game developer Activision Blizzard, Inc. and its blockbuster gaming franchises such as Call of Duty, alleging that the $69 billion deal, Microsoft’s largest ever and the largest ever in the video gaming industry, would enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription content and cloud-gaming business”, the FTC’s reasoning behind the suit reads....

Microsoft Possibly Entering Gaming Segment With Surface Gaming Laptop Featuring High-End Intel & NVIDIA Hardware In specifications unearthed by Prime Gaming (via MyLaptopGuide), we can see some really high-end specs for the upcoming Microsoft Surface Gaming laptop. The company has so far only been focusing on thin and light productivity and content creators but that’s about to change with their Surface Gaming product. Coming to the specifications, the Microsoft Surface Gaming laptop is said to rock a 16" PixelSense Flow Display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440, a refresh rate of 165Hz, and Dobly Vision support....

It’s all part of Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to persuade regulators (mainly in the US, EU, and UK) to let the $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal be completed. Both EU and UK regulators recently expressed concerns that Call of Duty’s potential exclusivity could create unfair advantages for Microsoft, mainly in the subscription and cloud gaming markets. Both regulators have also now begun deeper reviews of the deal. According to the NYT report, the US Federal Trade Commission is reviewing the deal with over ten staff members, who interviewed Microsoft executives like CEO Satya Nadella and president Brad Smith....

MSI Rolls Out AGESA 1.2.0.6C BIOS For X570 & B550 Motherboards: Comes With AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU Support & Performance Improvements Recently, motherboard makers started rolling out their respective BIOS firmware for 500-series boards which includes support for AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. MSI is the latest motherboard maker offering such support on its X570 & B550 motherboards. According to the changelog, the new AGESA 1.2.0.6C BIOS firmware adds a new security patch for AMD Raven Ridge & Picasso APUs while offering support for Vermeer-X CPUs too....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 1 mission beamed back the first images of planet Earth just moments back. Orion was launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket early in the morning today, after a months long effort saw NASA stand down several times to make some last minute changes on what is now officially the world’s largest rocket. After it was launched, Orion conducted a variety of maneuvers, which involved raising its orbit and orienting itself to the Moon’s trajectory as part of a 25 day mission that will test the spacecraft’s myriad of different systems before it returns to Earth traveling at breakneck speeds and temperatures that cannot be tested in Earth....

Today, a brand new Unreal Engine 5 project was announced, by a development studio known as NCSoft, a developer hailing from South Korea. It’s called Project M (not to be confused with the well-known Super Smash Bros. Brawl mod) and has an entire trailer to go with it. You can watch the new trailer below. The gameplay follows a young woman, who, after being given a device by a passerby, is caught in an explosion that destroys her shop and does lots of collateral damage....

Well, that’s now changed – in a new statement provided to Eurogamer, Nintendo says they’ve suspended shipping of products to Russia and have confirmed the eShop will remain in maintenance mode for the foreseeable future. Interestingly, Nintendo’s still doesn’t take any sort of principled stance here, simply stating that the logistics of selling in Russia are too complex right now. Honestly, that’s probably one of the major reasons other publishers have pulled out, although its unusual to see it stated so directly....

Breakthrough in GPU performance technology from NVIDIA, IBM, and universities to increase the performance by directly connecting to SSDs instead of relying on the CPU Big accelerator Memory, or BaM, is an intriguing endeavor to lower the dependence of NVIDIA GPUs & comparable hardware accelerators on a standard CPU such as accessing storage, which will improve performance and capacity. NVIDIA is the most prominent member of the BaM team, using their extensive resources for inventive projects such as moving routine CPU-focused tasks to GPU performance cores....

NVIDIA Says GeForce RTX 3090 Saves An Hour Worth of Render Time Against The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core CPU In its April Studio Driver suite, NVIDIA has brought a range of optimizations for the most popular 3D applications such as Unreal Engine 5, Cinema 4D, and Chaos Vantage. The new driver is stated to support the new NVIDIA Omniverse connectors from Blender and Redshift. To showcase the rendering performance improvement, NVIDIA compared its GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card and compared it to the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, a 64-core CPU based on the Zen 2 core architecture....

User-Error, Not Design Flaw, As The Most Common Issue For NVIDIA’s Melting 16-Pin 12VHPWR Cable Issues In an official statement provided to GamersNexus, NVIDIA states that they are currently aware of 50 cases globally and the most common issue among all has been that the 16-Pin 12VHPWR cable wasn’t fully connected. The company is also investigating additional ways to ensure that the cable is secured properly before the card is powered on and one of the ways they have highlighted is to plug the cable into the card prior to installing it in your PC which is also something we recommend in our guide that you can read here....