Rocket Lake claims higher PCIe Gen4 storage performance
Published in PC Hardware


At least according to Intel

Intel has released some numbers comparing PCIe Gen 4 NVMe storage performance of the 11th gen Core Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU with AMD's Ryzen 5000 series CPU.

Nvidia to limit RTX 3060 mining performance
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The driver will cut the mining performance in half

Nvidia has plans to limit RTX 3060 mining performance, and according to what is known so far, it won't just be a simple driver lock.

Nvidia unveils Cryptocurrency Mining Processors (CMPs)
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Line of GPUs for crypto mining

Nvidia has prepared quite a few surprises, including its newest line of Cryptocurrency Mining Processors (CMPs), dedicated GPUs for mining. According to what is known so far, there will be a total of four CMP SKUs, ranging from 26MH/s to 86MH/s.

Sapphire's Radeon RX 6900XT Toxic gets pictured
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Comes with a 360mm AiO cooling

The first renders of Sapphire's upcoming Radeon RX 6900XT has been spotted online, showing a massive graphics card with a hybrid cooling solution featuring a single fan on the card and an integrated AiO cooler with a 360mm radiator.

Intel Core i9-11900T allegedly does well in single-threaded mode
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Geekbench 5 results shows it catching up with Zen 3

According to the latest rumor, it appears that Intel has a horse in the single-threaded race, at least according to the Geekbench 5 single-threaded result of the Core i9-11900T Rocket Lake CPU.

Western Digital rolls out affordable WD Green SN350 M.2 SSD
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Coming in 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB capacities

Western Digital has released its new and affordable WD Green SN350 SSDs, which will be available in capacities ranging from 240GB to 960GB and come in a standard M.2 2280 form factor, with PCIe 3.0 interface.

Sapphire to bring back the Toxic and Atomic series graphics cards
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Is Vapor-X series next?

Sapphire has released a few teasers suggesting that we might see the comeback of its Toxic and Atomic series graphics cards.

Qualcomm brings 10Gbps with X65 5G modem
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More affordable Qualcomm X62 for 4.6Gbps

Qualcomm has officially announced its new 4th generation 5G modems, reaching speeds of up to 10Gbps with Qualcomm X65, and up to 4.6Gbps with Qualcomm X62 modem.

AMD Zen 4 architecture to bring 29 percent IPC boost
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Up to 40 percent if all goes well

According to the latest rumor, AMD's Zen 4 architecture offers a 29 percent IPC improvement compared to the Zen 3 architecture, and this extends to even better improvements if all goes well for Genoa.

Sony shipped 4.5 million Playstation 5 units
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Selling at a loss, on track for 7.6M units by end of March

In its Q3 2020 financial report, Sony confirmed it managed to ship over 4.5 million Playstation 5 units.