Intel Core i9-12900K is 12% faster than Ryzen 9 5950X in leaked single-core Geekbench 5 benchmark
This is more in line with what I was expecting. We will see how much Intel charges for this and we will see how games behave with big.LITTLE but 12% is a good increase against the 16 core 5950x. And this is without AVX 512.
3090 Super rumour
Maybe,
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) August 26, 2021
RTX 3090 Super
"GA102-350-A1
10752FP32, no NVLINK
Original 21Gbps MEM
TGP>=450W"
Launch in 2021.
???
While in the past, the Super series would replace the normal series (Like 2070 Super costed the same as 2070). I get the feeling these will just be a increase in price. Still a 3090 Super certainly doesn't sound very exciting as other than the slightly high cuda cores (10752 vs 10496), the rest can be had by any AIB. On the other hand, if the prices continues to be terrible... I suppose it would be a better deal to buy one at Nvidia's MSRP than AIB's retail MSRP.
XFX card with AMD Navi 21 GPU for cryptomining spotted in Vietnam
https://videocardz.com/newz/xfx-card-with-amd-navi-21-gpu-for-cryptomining-spotted-in-vietnam
"The layout of the capacitors on the backside suggests that this card is using Navi 21 GPU"
Guess XFX wants in on the mining profits.
Western Digital Caught Bait-and-Switching Customers With Slow SSDs
"According to a report from Chinese tech site Expreview, the WD SN550 Blue — which is currently one of the best-reviewed budget SSDs on the market — has undergone a NAND lobotomy. While the new SSD variant performs on-par with the old drive that WD actually sampled for review, once you exhaust the SLC NAND cache, performance craters from 610MB/s (as measured by THG) to 390MB/s (as measured by Expreview). The new drive offers just 64 percent of the performance of the old drive."
There goes another one. Looks like Samsung may be the only company that doesn't do this unless they do this but haven't gotten caught yet. Still as far as historic data is concerned, Samsung seems to be the only reliable company. As I said before though, buying an SSD shortly after it launches will net you the most authentic version of the original ssd. This sorta thing should be illegal.
Western Digital in advanced talks to merge with Japan's Kioxia Holdings (previously Toshiba Memory) - WSJ
Linus tech tips gives a run down of some of the updates that the Beta version of windows 11 has had. Some good, some not so good.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
