Intel’s new Arc B580 graphics card spotted
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24 GB Version shipping document found

Intel’s latest Battlemage B580 graphics card may not be topping gaming performance charts, but it appears to be carving out a niche for professional and AI applications.

First Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 Ti details show up
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8960 CUDA cores, 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM, and 350W TBP

With the Nvidia Geforce RTX 50 series launch drawing closer, it does not come as a surprise that we are getting first rumors regarding the actual specifications, and the recent one suggests that the RTX 5070 Ti could end up with 8960 CUDA cores, and finally get 16GB of VRAM.

Intel Arc B580 Battlemage does well in Vulkan and OpenCL benchmarks
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Faster than Geforce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 XT

As reviewers are busy testing Intel's Arc B580 Battlemage graphics cards, the recent leak shows it to be faster in Vulkan and Open CL benchmarks at Geekbench, beating both the RTX 4070 and the RX 7600 XT.

Valve Genius fixed video game lighting calculations
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The maths was all wrong

The groundbreaking lighting in Half-Life 2 resulted from serious lobbying by a Valve designer on hardware makers who had not correctly added up their sums.

Zen 6 Medusa Ridge processor leaked
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Turns you to stone

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth leak that the Zen 6 Medusa Ridge processor will feature a 12-core Core Complex Die (CCD).