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AMD's next-gen RDNA 4-based Navi 48 GPU leaks suggest we can expect gaming performance of RTX 4080 levels, with far better ray tracing performance out of RDNA 4, too.

In his latest video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead notes that the rasterization performance is "expected to at least trade blows with the RTX 4080" while ray tracing performance is expected to "trade blows with the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and in some AMD optimized games, there's suggestion that it could get close to the RTX 4080!"

The leaker continues, explaining that Navi 48 will have "high volume" in Q4 2024, and that the company "hopes it will be a hit with system integrators". The new Radeon RX 8800 XT (or whatever it is called) will "have a reference cooler, but not be sold on AMD.com".

NVIDIA quietly announced the release of a new GeForce RTX 4070 variant that features the slower and cheaper GDDR6 memory. NVIDIA states the RTX 4070 GDDR6 variant will offer "similar" performance to its GDDR6X cousin.

Unfortunately, NVIDIA hasn't mandated any clear packaging guidelines for AIBs to inform buyers of the new card has the slower memory, as name "GeForce RTX 4070" features the exact same name as the GDDR6X variant. The lack of packaging change makes it extremely difficult for buyers that aren't familiar with technological terminologies to make informed purchasing decisions, especially considering NVIDIA's decision to price the GDDR6 variant at the same price point as the GDDR6X variant.

NVIDIA stating the new card will have "similar" performance means it won't be identical performance to the GDDR6X variant, which means it will likely fall within less than 5% on average of the GDDR6X card. Moreover, the GDDR6 variant doesn't have any special naming such as "GDDR6" on the box, or feature any monkier title such as "SUPER" or "Ti" to distinguish it from the original RTX 4070.

NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU is rumored to have gaming performance at levels of the RTX 4070, while using less power.

In some new details from leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, who attended an event held recently by Chinese laptop and PC manufacturer, Shenzhen Hasee Compute Co. where during the event, the chairman of the company, Wu Haijun, talked about next-gen PCs.

During that chat, he talked about some details about NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" GPUs. The Hasee chairman said that NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series Laptop GPUs will use GDDR7 memory, and power consumption of the 60-level cards will be "greatly reduced" from 140W to 115W.

AMD's next-generation RDNA 4 GPU architecture has been teased again, with an RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 8000 series graphics card turning up on Geekbench.

The new graphics card in question is an RDNA 4-based GPU with 56 CUs (Compute Units) and 16GB of VRAM (which should be GDDR6 still, but faster 18Gbps GDDR6 memory chips). The GPU has a "GFX1201" device ID, which means we're looking at the Navi 48 SKU.

AMD's new Navi 48 "GFX1201" GPU is listed as 28 compute units, which results in 56 compute untis as the new RDNA 4 GPU architecture does things the same as RDNA 3: each GPU has a shader engine that features dual compute units, so we should see a doubling of the listed compute units (28 x 2 = 56).

The upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Beta timings have yet to be confirmed, but it's expected sometime soon. The full game is out on October 25 for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox - so we can expect that multiplayer first look soon. It could be here in a matter of days as the latest Intel Graphics Driver 32.0.101.5972 (WHQL Certified) has added support for the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Beta for Intel Arc graphics owners across mobile and PC.

Intel's latest driver also adds day-one support and optimizations for SMITE 2, Star Wars Outlaws, and Visions of Mana. The company added support for Black Myth: Wukong to its most recent non-WHQL driver release. Weighing in at 884.4 MB, Intel Graphics Driver 32.0.101.5972 is available now for Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems with discrete Intel Arc graphics cards and Intel Core Ultra devices with built-in Arc graphics.

Support for these new PC games looks to be the extent of the latest driver release, with several 'Known Issues' remaining unresolved. Here are the full release notes.

Intel has just published the first public driver for Xe2 graphics, with the release of this driver important because its next-gen Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" processors are launching next month.

We've heard through leaks that the Xe2 codename "Battlemage" GPUs would be called Arc 140V and Arc 130V, and it looks like the leaks were right, as Intel's own information lists support with the new Arc Graphics 32.0.101.5972 drivers that "Arc 140V" and "Arc 130V" GPUs are supported.

According to the last leaks, Intel's new Core Ultra 9 and Core Ultra 7 "Lunar Lake" processors will get Arc 140V with 8 Xe2-Cores, while the Core Ultra 5 SKUs will get Arc 130V with 7 Xe2-Cores. The highest-end Core Ultra 9 288V will have its Arc 140V GPU boosting up to 2.05GHz, while the lowest-end Lunar Lake chip will have its Arc 130V integrated GPU boosting at up to 1.85GHz.

ASUS has partnered with AMD and Focus Home Interactive to create a custom GPU to celebrate the PC launch of Warhammer 40:000: Space Marine 2. It's a very tasty-looking AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. The 7900 XTX is AMD's current flagship gaming GPU and a powerful card capable of delivering triple-digit 4K performance in several titles.

This limited-edition GPU, which only has 20 units, is a custom version of the company's TUF Gaming design. With Space Marine blue and other little Warhammer 40,000 touches, it's a fantastic-looking card. With ASUS confirming at Gamescom over the weekend that it won't be available to purchase, all 20 units will be given away via this Warhammer promotion website.

Warhammer 40:000: Space Marine 2 is out on September 9, 2024. It will support AMD's updated FSR 3.1 for upscaling and frame generation on PC. FSR 3.1 brings improvements to both FSR's upscaling and frame generation image quality, with support for all modern graphics cards

The underlying technology of all of these AI-powered tools that are continuous popping up in various sectors of the technology industry are Large Language Models (LLMs), which are powered by number-crunching graphics cards, or GPUs.

The explosion of AI has been fuelled by the possibility of graphics cards now being powerful enough to crunch large swaths of data into a model that can then be queried by users. However, powerful models such as ChatGPT, require thousands of GPUs to continuously fulfil all the requests of the millions of users enjoying the service.

But what if you just wanted to support a few thousand users at a time? Perhaps you are a business that could need an AI chatbot to assist with customer service via your website? And ultimately, do you need thousands of GPUs to achieve this? Apparently not, or at least according to benchmarks from Backprop, an Estonian GPU cloud start-up who managed to get a modest LLM such as Llama 3.1 8B to work on a single NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU, which was released in late 2020.

World of Warcraft is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Blizzard's celebrated massively multiplayer RPG is still going strong, with the game set to get its tenth expansion, World of Warcraft: The War Within, next week. It kicks off the new Worldsoul Saga trilogy, with the story being led by veteran Warcraft and Blizzard writer and designer Chris Metzen.

To help celebrate, MSI has partnered with Blizzard to create a custom GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12G GAMING SLIM World of Warcraft Edition graphics card with removable 'puzzle-style' magnetic backplates that feature artwork from 20 years of WoW expansions. If you're a World of Warcraft fan, this might be the ultimate GPU.

The GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is the current mid-range GPU champ, delivering excellent 1440p gaming performance with access to NVIDIA's cutting-edge RTX technologies like DLSS. MSI's GAMING SLIM design is also one of our favorites, and it looks great in gold and blue.

According to a new report from Moore's Law is Dead, citing sources directly within AMD, the company could be releasing its flagship RDNA 4 gaming GPU before the end of the year. Tentatively called the Radeon RX 8800 XT, there's a chance it could be revealed or teased this weekend at Gamescom.

Not only that, but performance-wise, it could be an absolute game changer that shakes up the GeForce RTX-dominated PC gaming market - dramatically improved raytracing performance thanks to an increase in RT hardware per Compute Unit, plus 'rasterization' performance (non-RT or upscaled) that will 'trade blows' with the GeForce RTX 4080.

Of course, we are chalking this up as rumor for now, so take this all with a grain of salt. The flagship Navi 48 GPU (AMD won't be competing on the high-end with its upcoming RDNA 4 generation of graphics cards) is set to feature 64 CUs or Compute Units with Boost Clock frequencies that could hit up to 3.2 GHz.