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JEMC said:

Looks like with Jizz on holidays, there's no one posting hardware news. So, here are some that may interest you:

Intel addresses 13th/14th Gen Core instability: elevated voltage to blame, microcode update incoming
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-addresses-13th-14th-gen-core-instability-elevated-voltage-to-blame-microcode-update-incoming

It was a problem with their own microcode that pushed too much voltage in some scenarios. The fix should arrive sometime in August.

I wonder if this really solves the problem or just pushes it further down the road.

Also, what is already damaged will not get fixed with that fix, so there could be some CPUs where degradation was close to the threshold of failure that will then die a couple months later. Or not work at all anymore because it already needs those higher voltages to even work anymore.

Also coming with a windows update until you get a Bios update... yeah, that might take a while until everyone is really fixed.

Steve from Gamers Nexus has a video about this btw:

JEMC said:

Alleged AMD Strix Halo appears in the very first benchmark, features 5.36 GHz clock
https://videocardz.com/newz/alleged-amd-strix-halo-appears-in-the-very-first-benchmark-features-5-36-ghz-clock

If this beast came with GDDR6 or 6X, we would be talking about a console SoC.

I actually think that the Strix Halo (or more precisely, a Strix Halo variant with RDNA4 GPU) could be the chip in the rumored PS5 Pro, just with different CPUs. It doesn't even need GDDR6 for the bandwidth thanks to quad-channel DDR5-8000 support.

JEMC said:

Leaker reveals new AMD RDNA4 Ray Tracing features, expected in upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro
https://videocardz.com/newz/leaker-reveals-new-amd-rdna4-ray-tracing-features-expected-in-upcoming-playstation-5-pro

To someone like me, those read as fancy words and empty descriptions that do nothing to tell me what to expect. But your mileage may vary.

One thing it says is that AMD doubled either the RT cores or their throughput and adding more RT-specific commands to make RT calculations more efficient. In other words, AMD should lose their deficit in RT compared to NVidia unless they also increase their RT capabilities per tensor core.