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Latest news: July 4
Nvidia is giving away free Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions with access to all software
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If you've got an RTX 50 series GPU from Nvidia, you can now access two months of free Adobe Creative Cloud, including all of its most popular tools. Got a 30 or 40 Series? You can still get one month.
RTX 5000 graphics cards get deep discounts at Newegg
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Newegg is hosting a blowout sale on Nvidia GPUs, with the RTX 5070, 5060 Ti, and 5060 all falling below MSRP.
GIGABYTE WindForce GeForce RTX 5070: $549.99 ($609.99 with $60 promotional gift card) at Newegg The cheapest RTX 5070 today, if you take into account the Newegg $60 gift card. MSRP for a high-end GPU is nothing to take for granted anymore.
ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5070: $609.99 on Newegg The cheapest RTX 5070 with "FantasTech Price Protection" means you're safe from buyer's remorse in case of further 4th of July deals.
MSI SHADOW GeForce RTX 5070: $599 at Newegg The absolute cheapest RTX 5070 if you're not looking for rebates or money-back after your purchase.
Nvidia to axe Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs with end of driver support
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An official Nvidia Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule says that driver branch 580 will be the last to include support for the Maxwell and Pascal architectures.
Intel jumps to HBM4 with Jaguar Shores, 2nd Gen MRDIMMs with Diamond Rapids
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SK hynix has revealed that Intel's upcoming Xeon 'Diamond Rapids' CPUs will adopt 2nd Gen MRDIMMs and its next-generation Gaudi AI accelerator 'Jaguar Shores' will feature SK hynix HBM4 memory.
Intel might axe the 18A process node for foundry customers, essentially leaving TSMC with no rival
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is weighing whether to stop offering the company's 18A technology to external clients and instead focus on the next-generation 14A process, a move that could withdraw Intel from the broad foundry market for several years.
Nvidia's Arm chips rapidly gain share in server market as AI booms
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The global server market soared 134% to $95.2 billion in Q1 2025 as hyperscalers ramped up AI infrastructure, with Arm-based Nvidia GB200 systems driving growth and annual spending projected to exceed $366 billion.
Nvidia RTX 50 Series appears in Steam Hardware Survey for the first time
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Despite being out for a few months at this point, Nvidia's notorious RTX 50-series has failed to show up in Steam's internal stats — up until now, when they've finally appeared with a 3.69% share.
New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record
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Benchmark results for AMD’s 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9980X show record-breaking multi-threaded performance, surpassing even the 96-core Threadripper Pro, but relatively modest single-threaded scores.
Krackan Point 2 could be interesting... if it's very cheap. That rumored "Sonoma Valley" replacement for Mendocino hasn't appeared yet. AMD neglects low-end APUs and has ceded the sub-$200 x86 mini PC/SBC/laptop market to Intel's Alder Lake-N. To be fair, that's probably a good business decision.
Yeah, Mendocino was/is a waste of silicon.
Not sure what AMD was thinking giving it Dual-channel RAM, but leaving it with 2CU, and 4x PCIe 3.0 lanes, and then selling it along side new old stock 5700U/5825U that end up costing roughly the same for the laptop/mini-PC.
Intel has the right idea with Gracemont/Twin Lake.
Single channel RAM, but 9x PCIe 3.0 lanes to play around with in a variety of configurations.
Graphics performance of 2 CUs should be around the same as Alder Lake-N. I can see the PCIe lanes being a problem for SBCs/mini PCs, but in most ways Mendocino was a good match for what Alder Lake-N offers.
The problem is that AMD is allergic to selling budget products at budget prices, especially mobile-focused APUs. They also probably didn't have, or weren't willing, to make Mendocino in the wafer volume it would take to match Alder Lake-N's rock bottom prices.
I would rather see dual-channel in Atom chips, as it had been for Jasper Lake and prior gens. Maybe that will come back with Wildcat Lake.
A Wildcat Lake leak says it will have PCIe 4.0 x6. That's faster than PCIe 3.0 x9, but with less lanes, so it could limit the number of devices that can be used. However, it's possible that there are PCIe 3.0 lanes in addition to PCIe 4.0 that the leaker failed to specify.
Not sure what AMD was thinking giving it Dual-channel RAM, but leaving it with 2CU, and 4x PCIe 3.0 lanes, and then selling it along side new old stock 5700U/5825U that end up costing roughly the same for the laptop/mini-PC.
Intel has the right idea with Gracemont/Twin Lake.
Single channel RAM, but 9x PCIe 3.0 lanes to play around with in a variety of configurations.
The problem is that AMD is allergic to selling budget products at budget prices, especially mobile-focused APUs. They also probably didn't have, or weren't willing, to make Mendocino in the wafer volume it would take to match Alder Lake-N's rock bottom prices.
I would rather see dual-channel in Atom chips, as it had been for Jasper Lake and prior gens. Maybe that will come back with Wildcat Lake.
A Wildcat Lake leak says it will have PCIe 4.0 x6. That's faster than PCIe 3.0 x9, but with less lanes, so it could limit the number of devices that can be used. However, it's possible that there are PCIe 3.0 lanes in addition to PCIe 4.0 that the leaker failed to specify.