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Week's Hardware News: Micron Pushes GDDR5X, AMD Zen Grows IPC 40%, & More
The past week of hardware news is mostly industry-driven, with few noteworthy product announcements outside of a few small items. A few critical news items emerged regarding industry, though, like...
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AMD to Ship HBM2 GPUs by End of Year with Vega
AMD's GPU architecture roadmap from its Capsaicin event revealed the new “Vega” and “Navi” architectures, which have effectively moved the company to a stellar naming system. A reasonable move away...
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HBM2 Launches in 3Q16 - Up to 16GB per GPU, 256GB/s per Stack
New video cards are coming out furiously and bringing with them new manufacturing processes and better price-to-performance ratios. One of newest memory technologies on the market is HBM (High...
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HW News: Samsung GDDR6, HBM3 R&D, PCI-e Gen4 Power, & Zen CCX Arch
In additional hardware news to what we published yesterday -- a look at Intel's Kaby Lake (7600K, 7700K, etc.), the X2 Empire unique enclosure, and Logitech's G Pro mouse -- we are today visiting...
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Ask GN 28: HBM on CPUs, GPU Boost 3.0 Curiosities, & More Test Methods
This episode of Ask GN (#28) addresses the concept of HBM in non-GPU applications, primarily concerning its imminent deployment on CPUs. We also explore GPU Boost 3.0 and its variance within testing...
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Battlefield 1 RAM Benchmark - Frequency & 8GB vs. 32GB
We've been through Battlefield 1 a few times now. First were the GPU benchmarks, then the HBAO vs. SSAO benchmark, then the CPU benchmark. This time it's RAM, and the methodology remains mostly the...
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New HyperX Peripherals, RGB Memory Syncs Motherboards | CES 2017
As the pre-CES hardware news keeps pouring in, HyperX has announced new products today that will further their peripherals and components aimed at the gaming market. HyperX has introduced two new Alloy...
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G.Skill Trident Line Expands to 4266MHz for Kaby Lake | CES 2017
We recently reported on G.SKILL’s announcement of the new Trident Z RGB series of memory. G.SKILL has now announced their high-end Trident Z DDR4 DIMMs designed for Kaby Lake CPUs and Z270 chipset...
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RAM Prices on the Rise as Fabs Transition to 20nm
As predicted, DRAM-dependent components continue to grow more expensive as demand outpaces supply. Nanya Technology president Pei-Ing Lee confirmed that their DRAM’s average price will increase in the...
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Ask GN 42: 7700K Delid Plans, DRAM Price Doubling
At the tail-end of a one-day trip across the country, this episode of Ask GN tides us over until our weekend burst of further content production. We’re currently working on turning around a few case...
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Differences Between DDR4 & GDDR5 Memory
The finer distinctions between DDR and GDDR can easily be masked by the impressive on-paper specs of the newer GDDR5 standards, often inviting an obvious question with a not-so-obvious answer: Why...
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Intel Optane Memory: A New Drive Caching Solution
We recently covered Intel’s DC P4800X data center drive, with takes on the technology from two editors in video and article form. Those content pieces served as a technology overview for 3D Xpoint and...
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5500MHz Memory Overclock Sets World Record (Ft. GSkill Trident Z DDR4)
Professional overclocker Toppc recently set another world record for DDR4 SDRAM frequency. Using a set of G.SKILL DDR4 sticks (an unidentified kit from the Trident Z RGB line) bestriding an MSI X299...
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Memory Shortage Worsens in Face of iPhone 8 Launch
We’ve been writing about the latest memory and Flash price increases for a bit now – and this does seem to happen every few years – but relief remains distant. The memory supply is limited for a few...
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Video Cards Facing More Price Hurdles: GDDR Cost Increases
Where video cards have had to deal with mining cost, memory and SSD products have had to deal with NAND supply and cost. Looks like video cards may soon join the party, as – according to DigiTimes and...
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The Cost of HBM2 vs. GDDR5 & Why AMD Had to Use It
Variations of “HBM2 is expensive” have floated the web since well before Vega’s launch – since Fiji, really, with the first wave of HBM – without many concrete numbers on that expression. AMD isn’t...
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New HyperX Peripherals, RGB Memory Syncs Motherboards | CES 2017
As the pre-CES hardware news keeps pouring in, HyperX has announced new products today that will further their peripherals and components aimed at the gaming market. HyperX has introduced two new Alloy...
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G.Skill Trident Line Expands to 4266MHz for Kaby Lake | CES 2017
We recently reported on G.SKILL’s announcement of the new Trident Z RGB series of memory. G.SKILL has now announced their high-end Trident Z DDR4 DIMMs designed for Kaby Lake CPUs and Z270 chipset...
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RAM Prices on the Rise as Fabs Transition to 20nm
As predicted, DRAM-dependent components continue to grow more expensive as demand outpaces supply. Nanya Technology president Pei-Ing Lee confirmed that their DRAM’s average price will increase in the...
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Ask GN 42: 7700K Delid Plans, DRAM Price Doubling
At the tail-end of a one-day trip across the country, this episode of Ask GN tides us over until our weekend burst of further content production. We’re currently working on turning around a few case...
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