Senators write a stiff letter

Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Jim McGovern sent letters to Intel and Nvidia seeking information on the sale of advanced computer chips allegedly used by China to conduct mass surveillance on Uighurs in the country’s remote Xinjiang region.

Review roundup: Faster than RTX 2080 Super at $400

Nvidia has officially launched its latest Ampere-based RTX 30 series graphics cards, a $400-priced RTX 3060 Ti, and with reviews coming online, we can get a clearer picture regarding its performance and value.

Faster than RTX 2080 Super at $399

Although still not officially announced, the RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition has been spotted and pictured in full detail.

Up to 120 percent improvement at 4K with ray-tracing effects

Nvidia has added DLSS support to four new games including Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, War Thunder, Enlisted, and Ready or Not, bringing impressive performance improvements across the board with ray-tracing effects.

Nvidia's response to RX 6900 XT

According to the latest rumors, Nvidia's Geforce RTX 3080 Ti could launch in January next year, and comes as a direct response to AMD's RX 6900 XT, featuring 10,496 CUDA cores and 20GB of GDDR6X VRAM.

GA102 GPU with 10496 CUDA cores and 20GB of GDDR6X memory

Although there were rumors that the RTX 2080 Ti SKU was canceled, it appears that Nvidia is possibly working on a beefier one, based on GA102 GPU with 10496 CUDA cores and 20GB of GDDR6X memory.

GA104 GPU and 8GB of 14Gbps GDDR6 memory

According to fresh rumors, it appears that Nvidia might have delayed the launch of the RTX 3060 Ti to December.

Outperforms Nvidia in AMD slides with Rage Mode and Smart Access Memory

As expected, AMD has held its Big Navi event announcing its first RDNA2-based Radeon RX 6000 series cards, including the RX 6800, RX 6800XT, and the flagship Radeon RX 6900XT. In addition to performance and power efficiency improvements, the RDNA2-based RX 6000 series cards will bring some new improvements like the Infinity Cache, Smart Access Memory, DirectX 12 Ultimate support, and more.

$35 billion biggest to date

News that AMD might acquire Xilinx was quite a surprise after the Nvidia–ARM consolidation, but not surprising. Using current stock and market value increase, AMD decided to make a strategic decision to play better in the data center, 5G, automotive, and fight against the Intel–Altera alliance.

Review roundup: Outshines the RTX 2080 Ti in every way

The reviews for Nvidia's third Ampere-based graphics card are now live and, as expected, it appears that this is currently the best one in the Geforce RTX 30 series, bringing impressive performance per Watt/buck, all with a $499 price tag.