NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in market...

Intel’s 7nm CPUs are delayed, won’t arrive until at least 2022

Posted on 24/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Intel delivered bad news to its investors today, announcing that its plans for 7nm chips have slipped another six months, and yields are now running a year behind original projections. This comes after Apple announced plans to rely on its own CPUs fo...

AMD’s 4700G APU is a mid-range PC on a single chip

Posted on 21/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It's been a year since AMD's Zen 2 Ryzen 3000 CPUs changed the desktop PC market, with best-in-class productivity and "good enough" gaming performance. More recently, we've seen those same Zen 2 cores start making their way into laptops, with some st...

Lenovo’s new budget AMD gaming laptops start at $660

Posted on 16/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Lenovo recently went a little wild by cramming a 64-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO into an unassuming workstation, but we assume one of those won't be landing on your desk any time soon. (If one does, let us know how it runs!) For AMD fans hankering for...

Dell’s XPS Desktop fits NVIDIA and AMD graphics inside a smaller case

Posted on 09/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Over the past couple of years, Dell’s XPS laptop lineup has been the gold standard of Windows ultraportables. Dell is now trying to capture some of that same magic with the updated XPS Desktop. The new model affords the same amount of expandability a...

How to buy a laptop for school

Posted on 06/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

For the most part, our recommendations for buying a laptop for school this year aren’t very different than last year’s. But of course, the COVID-19 epidemic throws a major wrench into daily life. It's still unclear when public schools and colleges wi...

NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs now support DirectX 12 Ultimate

Posted on 24/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

NVIDIA has released a new driver update that adds support for Microsoft's DirectX 12 Ultimate framework. Announced earlier this year, the collection of developer APIs unifies support for several next-generation rendering techniques, including ray tra...

Do Apple’s new Mac chips mean ARM has won?

Posted on 23/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

At WWDC, Apple announced a radical change to its computers. The company is dropping Intel as its CPU provider, and will be transitioning its laptops and desktops to custom Apple-designed chips over the next two years. These new processors will be bas...

Corsair releases streaming-ready PCs with built-in capture cards

Posted on 16/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If you want to stream your gameplay on services like Twitch, you need a handful of gear to get started. Depending on your taste, the most important of these could be a powerful desktop and a solid capture card. Corsair is putting both in one preconfi...

AMD’s XT chips are faster versions of its Ryzen 3000 CPUs