Radeon VII 16GB HBM 2 memory cost around $320
Published in Graphics
Saturday, 26 January 2019 08:55

Radeon VII 16GB HBM 2 memory cost around $320


Close to half of the MSRP

The marketing guys at AMD did a nice job naming the card Radeon VII (Roman 7) as it is a 7nm, launching on February 7 and costing $699 but our investigation shows that 16GB HBM 2 comes at a hefty price.

Intel talks up its GPU plans
Published in Graphics
Monday, 03 December 2018 10:41

Intel talks up its GPU plans


Larabee may half not bee, but Intel still wants something to be

Intel has been talking about its cunning plan to enter the discrete GPU market, after deciding its much hyped and quickly forgotten Larabee project should not include bee after it was stung by a hive of bee puns.

Qualcomm Snapdragon PC is not an overclocked 855
Published in Mobiles


Brand new chip with bigger GPU

There is a lot of right and wrong information floating around the web about the successor to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 850 and we wanted to set things straight in the face of misleading information. To our knowledge, the new always connected PC chip may not end up branded the SCX8180, but something simpler. And, secondly,  it is not a faster 855 overlocked, it is a brand new chip.

Apple A12 bionic 7nm detailed
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:38

Apple A12 bionic 7nm detailed


6-core CPU 4-core GPU and a lot of AI

Apple’s A12 Bionic is the name of the most important chip inside the iPhone Xs and Xs Max and Xr detailed here. Make no mistake, this is the first to ship 7nm but not the first to sample or be announced, it is actually the third. As believers in the Apple religion don’t care about features unless they have it in their beloved iPhones, they don’t care about the rest of the world.

Huawei and 3Dmark call cheating AI
Published in Mobiles
Monday, 10 September 2018 12:31

Huawei and 3Dmark call cheating AI


All clear, if you use an on switch

The parent company of 3Dmark UL and Huawei made a statement about the delisting of the latter's phones and agreed to work with each other to solve the issue.

Nvidia reports revenue of $3.12 billion in Q2 FY19
Published in News


Growth across all departments

Nvidia has released its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal 2019, reporting revenues of  $3.12 billion, as well as growth in revenue from every department in the company.

Nvidia starts sending invites for Gamescom 2018
Published in Graphics


Date still not carved in stone

According to the latest rumor, Nvidia has started to send out invites for an event that will take place at the Gamescom show in August, and while no date, Geforce or any other hardware was mentioned, this will be the most likely place that Nvidia will launch its new graphics card.

GPU powered SSD storage on show
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 25 June 2018 09:59

GPU powered SSD storage on show


Powered by NVIDIA Tesla P4 GPUs

The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2018) got a chance to see  Boston and Nyriad's “GPU powered SSD storage solution which provides speed and data resilience exceeding traditional RAID-based solutions.

Samsung still building a GPU
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:22

Samsung still building a GPU


As Fudzilla reported in 2014

It takes a long time to make a GPU. As Fudzilla reported in late 2014, Samsung has been working for its own in-house GPU and it is getting closer to the finishing line.

Big Navi 20 to arrive 2020 or later
Published in Graphics
Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:08

Big Navi 20 to arrive 2020 or later


Vega 64 real replacement

As Fudzilla reported a few times, Navi 10, the small Navi, manufactured on 7nm, is set to arrive at some point in 2019. There will be a big gaming GPU called Navi 20, but this one won’t come until 2020.