Switching to NUMA has improved the Battlefield 1 performance and now Threadripper is delivering similar frame rates to the Ryzen 7 1800X. In fact, the 1950X creeps ahead ever so slightly and now is that much slower than the Core i7-7820X and Core i9-7900X. F1 2016 also sees decent gains when switching to NUMA though this time isn’t able to match the Ryzen 7 1800X and this means it’s also well down on the Intel CPUs....
No one was quite sure what to expect when AMD announced their 3D V-Cache technology at Computex last summer. While some enthusiasts saw the substantial increase in cache as an exciting development, others in the community found themselves upset that the new offerings would not offer substantial increases in clock speed, improvements in power draw, etc. Last Friday tech news outlet Chips and Cheese published results of their initial testing with one of AMD’s new Milan-X processors with 3D V-Cache, the server-oriented EPYC 7V73X....
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference will kick off on June 6 and run through June 10. The event will be an (almost) entirely online affair due to lingering concerns associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. The image accompanying Apple’s news release features the logo used for Swift, the company’s general-purpose programming language. It’s probably safe to assume there could be some big announcement related to it. Apple will also host a “special day” for select developers and students at its Apple Park headquarters on June 6 to watch the keynote and State of the Union videos together....
The feature iOS 16 gives the most attention is the lock screen. Apple made it more customizable and made important information more accessible. Widgets displaying information like the weather, calendar, and fitness data can now appear when the phone wakes up without requiring users to swipe to the widget menu. Additionally, new personalization options include dynamic wallpapers and optional fonts for displaying the date and time. The new lock screen can have more than one custom configuration for different parts of users’ lives, like work and personal....
The Guardian reports Arm is planning to cut up to 15 percent of its workforce. Most of the job cuts - totaling around 1,000 - will impact employees in the UK and US. The company is said to employ around 6,500 people worldwide, including roughly 3,000 folks in the UK alone. Arm told the publication that like any business, it is continually reviewing its business plan to ensure it has the right balance between opportunities and cost discipline....
When looking at raw CPU performance, we see that the Core i5-6200U of the Beebox-S is only slightly slower than a quad-core AMD APU when measuring multi-threaded performance. When measuring single threaded performance, however, the Beebox-S has a clear advantage. Don’t expect to do anything other than extremely basic gaming on the Beebox-S. The Intel NUC6i7KYK isn’t exactly a gaming solution and it looks to provide around twice the 3D performance as the Beebox-S....
In all fairness, it wasn’t until we benchmarked the Atom 330 that we realized just how slow it is compared to other modern desktop CPUs. We spent days playing with the Ion system, installing software and configuring it for daily use and overall it felt quite snappy in Windows 7. The single-core Atom 230 we had tested before is a real slug when paired with Microsoft’s latest OS, to the point where it’s too frustrating to use....
VIA Technologies, who you might recall as one of the leading manufacturers of motherboard chipsets from yesteryear, began pushing the concept long ago developing the Mini-ITX standard in the process. It’s now been a decade since they released the first reference design for an ITX motherboard to promote the low-power C3 processor they bought from Centaur Technology. The first VIA EPIA motherboards were sold in 2002 featuring the Eden processor....
The CPU is the standard Intel quad-core for gaming laptops: the Core i7-7700HQ. From Intel’s 14nm Kaby Lake line, the 7700HQ packs four cores, eight threads clocked up to 2.8 GHz with a boost up to 3.8 GHz. It has a TDP of 45W. Memory-wise we’re looking at 16GB of DDR4-2400 in the standard Zephyrus, though my review unit has 24GB. It’s a similar story with the SSD: normally you get a 512GB unit, though Asus provided me with a 1TB Samsung SM961 PCIe NVMe unit....
Batman: Arkham Origins is surprisingly GPU-friendly at 1680x1050 using FXAA and no PhysX. Other than those two settings, everything else was cranked up to its maximum value and even the slowest card we tested with (Radeon HD 6750) managed 30fps. The GTX 550 Ti hit a comfortable 44fps – performance that is plenty playable, even if we’d be happier with 60fps. Fortunately, that’s easy to achieve, as demonstrated by the old HD 6970’s 66fps and the GTX 560 Ti’s 74fps....
Starting with ultra quality at 1680x1050, we already see just how demanding Battlefield 4 can be as hitting an average of 60fps is no easy task, requiring a GTX Titan or dual GTX 660 Tis. The GTX 780 and HD 7970 GHz Edition fell short. We’re admittedly a little snobbish when it comes to performance, but 30fps is honestly too laggy and 40fps is only just playable in our opinion, and this will require at least a GTX 760 or R9 270X – steep requirements, but also to be expected considering its visuals....
The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has proposed a set of minimum requirements for federally-funded EV charging stations. The outline is a new step in the Biden administration’s plan to facilitate EV use by making stations more accessible and standardized throughout the country. The proposed rules complement the government’s February announcement that it would give states $5 billion over the next five years to build charging stations. The plan suggests at least one station every 50 miles along designated “alternate fuel corridors,” along with other standards to ensure all EVs can use them....
With a build quality that was noticeably better than what we had seen from BitFenix in the past, the Phenom was a seriously slick mATX case that looked great while accommodating high-end hardware and still managing to be a lot of fun to work with. After seeing the quality BitFenix is capable of delivering, we jumped at the opportunity to test the Aegis, a new arrival with some unique features including a customizable 2....
Released just a week ago, Brink is a class-based multiplayer first-person shooter built with a modified version of idTech 4, a game engine developed and licensed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks, the folks behind The Elder Scrolls franchise along with recent iterations of Fallout. Although Brink features single-player and co-op components, Splash Damage’s developmental efforts are largely focused on multiplayer. Representing one of two factions, up to 16 people can duke it out across eight maps set on “The Ark,” a once-utopian city floating above the flooded remains of Earth....
This allowed the GTX 460 to reclaim the lead with 74fps, 8fps ahead of the HD 6790. The HD 6770 was slightly slower with 61fps, which was 5% faster than the overpriced GTX 550 Ti. Despite being one of the more expensive cards in this roundup, the GTX 550 Ti barely managed to beat the HD 6750. AMD offers a better value when looking at the HD 6750 too, considering it’s priced alongside the GTS 450 ($110) but delivers 6% more performance....
The AS SSD Benchmark shows slightly different performance trends when looking at the sequential write performance, though for the most part things remain much the same. The Kingston SNV425-S2 64GB is still the fastest SSD tested though this time it is outgunned along with all the other SSDs by the Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB. The Seagate Momentus XT 500GB also matched the performance of the OCZ Agility 2 and Vertex 2 40GB SSDs which was impressive....
Controller = Toshiba TC58NCF618GBT Cache = Winbond W9751G6IB-3 (64MB) Memory = Toshiba TH58NVG5D2ETA20 (64GB MLC) Read/Write = 200MB/s - 110MB/s (64GB model) The 30GB model can be had for a mere $91, while the 64GB version we are testing currently costs $125 and the largest capacity 128GB model sells for $226. The former is actually a member of the SNV125-S2 family and boasts a read/write throughput of 180MB/s - 50MB/s....
Assuming you go with the cheaper quad-core version of the Asrock C2750D4I, the C2550D4I, then that adds $280 instead of $410 for the eight-core model in this write-up. From there, you need about $100 for memory and then whatever you’re going to spend on hard drives. That brings us to a best case of $600 before installing storage, while the configuration we tested would cost you a little over $700....
That’s one day before Geoff Keighley is set to host Summer Game Fest live from Los Angeles. MWII is the sequel to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the 2019 game that was a reboot of the original Modern Warfare from 2007. In its April 25 earnings report, Activision Blizzard said the 2019 reboot was the most successful Call of Duty title to date. The company added that this year’s entry will be the most advanced experience in franchise history....
Following the success of Street Fighter V, which sold a total of 6.1 million units as of December 31, 2021, Capcom has now announced Street Fighter 6. The fighting game is already in production, but besides that, details about it are scarce. The publisher posted a teaser trailer with Ryu and Luke in a realistic art style, untypical of Street Fighter games. In addition, it launched the game’s official website promising to reveal more details about the upcoming title this summer....
