News & Reviews:   GPU

It was just yesterday when we saw some AMD news. The company suggested that prices for its new Radeon RX 6800 series GPUs would normalise in 4 to 8 weeks. But maybe Gigabyte will be bringing them in soon, as the company has announced that it's bringing in Radeon RX 6800 GPUs to Malaysia.

It's important to note that laptops are not like desktop PCs, in that many of the components can't be replaced. So, how do we choose a laptop that suits us? Well, let's take a look at four key tech specs you need to consider before you choose your laptop!

For those of you who are PC gamers, the long wait could be ending next month. Rumours of the new Ampere GPUs from Nvidia have been popping up and it seems that the launch may not be that far off. Reports claim that the company has discontinued production of its Turing GPUs, in anticipation for the launch of the newer cards.

The rise of mobile gaming means that GPU performance in a smartphone is something people pay more attention to these days. Despite that, there hasn't been an app that outright allows the user to control a mobile GPU so far. That's about to change, thanks to a Xiaomi and Qualcomm.

The desktop GPU war is expected to heat up again in late Q3 2020. Nvidia and AMD are expected to launch new graphics cards based on new GPU architecture, with both camps likely to outdo the current king of the hill - Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. But rumours seem to indicate that AMD might have an edge this time with its upcoming Big Navi GPU.

Many PC gamers who are willing to splurge are waiting with bated breath, as both AMD and Nvidia are slated to launch powerful new GPUs this year. Nvidia's Ampere-based GPUs, in particular, has been appearing a lot in news lately and now a new leaked benchmark gives us an idea of how well it could perform.

Nvidia is expected to launch new graphics cards based on the Ampere architecture this year and we've been seeing some rumours lately. Early last week there were leaked photos of what the GPU's cooler could look like. But today we have a rather interesting rumour that claims the new RTX 3000 series GPUs could come with an additional chip.

When it comes to their consumer GPUs, Nvidia tends to keep things close to the chest. But news always has a way of leaking, especially when cameras are everywhere these days. The latest leak contains photos of what could be engineering samples of the GeForce RTX 3080 GPU to be leaked online.

When it comes to the GPUs on notebooks, we often see the Nvidia MX series. However, a large majority of laptops are still sporting either Intel's integrated GPUs and more are beginning to feature AMD's Vega series. Now, Nvidia may be ready to grab more market share from the two company with a new Turing-based mobile GPU.

Three Nvidia GPUs have been spotted on GeekBench and they're believed to be the new Turing graphics cards that are expected to launch this year. According to TechSpot, the trio come with 124, 118, and 108 compute units respectively. This translates to an estimated CUDA core counts of 7936, 7552, and 6912.