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Submission + - Intel Core Ultra X9 388H Launched: Panther Lake Tests Strong In Lenovo Laptop (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Intel took the wraps off performance testing of its top-end 16-core / 12-Xe Core Ultra X9 388H, aka Panther Lake, mobile processor today, and puts up great numbers essentially across the board. The chip offers class-leading performance and excellent efficiency relative to other mainstream notebook platforms, especially as it relates to graphics and AI workloads. Intel didn't make significant changes to the Cougar Cove (P-Core) And Darkmont (E-Core) microarchitectures in Panther Lake, other than tuning them for manufacturing on Intel's 18A process, but the 12-Xe core iGPU represents a huge leap in performance and Intel's NPU5 is purpose -built for today's local AI workloads. With all of that in mind, it appears that Intel has delivered in spades with Panther Lake and the Core Ultra 300 series for next gen laptops and likely hand-held gaming devices as well. iGPU and NPU performance were both very strong, and CPU performance, particularly in multi-threaded workloads, is highly competitive. Battery life and efficiency were also very good. Despite the test vehicle's large, high-resolution 16-inch; display, the pre-production Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro tested lasted for nearly 24 hours untethered from a power outlet, with the screen lit up the entire time.

Submission + - NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop Graphics Benchmarks Get Revealed (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Similar to NVIDIA's recent desktop graphics launches, there are four initial GeForce RTX 50 series laptop GPUs coming to market, starting this month. At the top of the stack is the GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU, which is equipped with 10,496 CUDA cores and is paired to 24GB of memory. Boost clocks top out around 2,160MHz and GPU power can range from 95 — 150 watts, depending on the particular laptop model. GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs for both laptops and desktops feature updated shader cores with support for neural shading, in addition to 4th gen ray tracing cores and 5th gen Tensor cores with support for DLSS 4. The GeForce RTX 50 series features a native PCIe gen 5 interface, in addition to support for DisplayPort 2.1b (up to UHBR20). These GPUs are also fed by the latest high speed GDDR7 memory, which offers efficiency benefits that are pertinent to laptop designs as well. Performance-wise, NVIDIA's mobile GeForce RTX 5090 is the new king of the hill in gaming laptops, and it easily bests all other discrete mobile graphics options on the market currently.

Submission + - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D With 3D V-Cache Impresses In Launch Day Testing (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD just launched its latest flagship desktop processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Ryzen 9 9950X3D is a 16-core / 32-thread, dual-CCD part, with a base clock of 4.3GHz and a max boost clock of 5.7GHz. There's also 96MB of second gen 3D V-Cache on board. Standard Ryzen 9000 series processors feature 32MB of L3 cache per compute die but with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, one compute die is outfitted with an additional 96MB of 3D V-Cache, bringing the total L3 up to 128MB (144MB total cache). The CCD outfitted with 3D V-Cache operates at more conservative voltages and frequencies, but the bare compute die is unencumbered. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D turns out to be a high-performance, no compromise desktop processor. Its complement of 3D V-Cache provides tangible benefits in gaming, and AMD's continued work on the platform's firmware and driver software ensures that even with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D's asymmetrical CCD configuration, performance is strong across the board. At $699, it's not cheap but its a great CPU for gaming and content creation, and one of the most powerful standard desktop CPUs money can buy currently.

Submission + - AMD Reveals RDNA 4 GPU Architecture Powering Next Gen Radeon RX 9070 Cards (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture today, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today's more-taxing ray traced gaming and AI workloads. RDNA 4 features next generation Ray Tracing engines, dedicated hardware for AI and ML workloads, better bandwidth utilization, and multimedia improvements for both gaming and content creation. AMD's 3rd generation Ray Accelerators in RDNA offer 2x the peak throughput of RDNA 3 and add support for a new feature called Oriented Bounding Boxes, that results in more efficient GPU utilization. 3rd Generation Matrix Accelerators are also present, which offer improved performance, along with support for 8-bit float data types, with structured sparsity. The first cards featuring RDNA 4, the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT go on sale next week, with very competitive MSRPs below $600, and are expected to do battle with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070-class GPUs

Submission + - DECLASSIFICATION OF RECORDS CONCERNING THE ASSASSINATIONS OF JFK, RFK and MLK (whitehouse.gov) 4

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.

Submission + - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Launched And Benchmarked, Fastest On The Market By Far (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: NVIDIA lifted review embargoes today for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card, based on its new Blackwell GPU architecture. GeForce RTX 5090 is built around the GB202 GPU that's manufactured on the same TSMC 4nm process as the previous gen. GB202 features 92 billion transistors, and has 21,760 CUDA Cores, 170 RT Cores and 680 Tensor cores. Connected to the GPU via a wide 512-bit interface is 32GB of GDDR7 memory offering up to 1.8 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Retailing at a steep $1999, GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest, most powerful, and feature-rich consumer GPU in the world as of today. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition card itself is also a refined piece of hardware that offers significantly more performance than an RTX 4090, at much higher power levels, but in a roughly 33% thinner two-slot form factor. if you compare the GeForce RTX 5090 to the RTX 4090 at like settings, the RTX 5090 is about 25% — 40% faster and consumes more power. However, when playing a game that can leverage Blackwell's new features like DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, the GeForce RTX 5090 can indeed be more than twice as fast as the GeForce RTX 4090.

Submission + - Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional (eff.org)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The district court found that regardless of whether the government can lawfully warrantlessly collect communications between foreigners and Americans using Section 702, it cannot ordinarily rely on a “foreign intelligence exception” to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant clause when searching these communications, as is the FBI’s routine practice. And, even if such an exception did apply, the court found that the intrusion on privacy caused by reading our most sensitive communications rendered these searches “unreasonable” under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. In 2021 alone, the FBI conducted 3.4 million warrantless searches of US person’s 702 data.

Submission + - Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Tested: $250 Graphics Card Are Worthy Once Again (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Today's release and review launch of the new Intel Arc B580 marks a second-gen effort from the company, with a fully refreshed Intel Xe2 graphics architecture, aka Battlemage, that promises big gains in performance and efficiency. Comparing Arc B580 to its Arc Alchemist ancestors, you can see that it's somewhat of a smaller GPU. It has fewer of nearly everything, and yet its performance specifications don't look too far off. A lot of this comes down to massive architectural improvements with an eye toward efficiency and making better use of the resources that were already there. With 12GB of GDDR6 memory at 19Gbps, Arc B580 delivers performance that typically beats a GeForce RTX 4060 and even an RTX 4060 Ti in spots, especially when its extra 4GB of frame buffer memory comes into play. All in, Intel's latest Arc graphics offering is a strong contender in the $250 graphics card segment, and it should sell well in the months ahead, based on its value proposition, improved performance in ray tracing and advanced upscaling technologies.

Submission + - Intel Debuts Arc Battlemage Discrete Graphics Cards Arriving This Month (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Intel officially revealed its next generation discrete graphics cards, code named Battlemage, this morning. There are two midrange cards in the series so far, branded Arc B580 and Arc B570, though future higher-end B700 series cards are unknown currently. The graphics architecture for Battlemage is Xe2, and it debuted in the iGPU on Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V mobile processors earlier this year. Arc B580 is paired to 12GB of GDDR6 memory operating at an effective data rate of 19Gbps over a 192-bit interface, and its average GPU clock should hover around 2,670MHz. The Arc B570 is based on the same slice of silicon, but scales things down with 10GB of GDDR6 memory operating at the same speed as the B580, but connected over a narrower 160-bit interface. The B570's average GPU clock will also be lower, in the 2,500MHz range. Performance-wise, Intel is projecting that Arc B580 will be about 10% faster than an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 on average but will be priced at $249 USD, undercutting GeForce RTX 4060 substantially while offering 4GB more onboard graphics memory. Arc B580 cards are due to arrive in market this month, with Arc B570 arriving in January 2025 at $219 USD.

Submission + - AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Tested And Reviewed, New PC Gaming King Crowned (hothardware.com) 2

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps off its new Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-core gaming processor today, setting a new performance bar for PC gamers. AMD's previous-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D and the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D share what appear to be similar cache configurations and TDPs. That said, Ryzen 7 9800X3D also features AMD's latest Zen 5 core microarchitecture, and its second-generation 3D V-Cache allows for not only higher clocks, but clocks that remain consistently higher for longer durations. Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a 500MHz higher base clock and 200MHz higher boost clock than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, which alone should boost performance. AMD has also enlarged the physical size of the 3D V-Cache die to match the CCD and bonded it to the bottom-side of the chip. Now, CPU cores have direct access to cooling, which was a limiting factor with previous generations. AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the fastest CPU for gaming on the market right now, as demonstrated in the benchmarks, and will retail for $479 USD.

Submission + - Monster Hunter Wilds Slays Black Ops 6 On Steam And Here's How It Benchmarks (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: The upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds, which will usher in the sixth generation of the series with its launch in February, is in fact the twenty-sixth Monster Hunter game released, since the original title way back in 2004 on the PS2. The Monster Hunter Wilds free beta test, which is currently underway, has not even been out for a full day, yet it has hit a peak player count of over 463K concurrent players. That puts it ahead of the brand-new CoD: Black Ops 6, which has peaked at 306K players so far. A lot of the talk surrounding Monster Hunter Wilds, at least among PC players (who make up a majority of Capcom's audience now), has been the rather high PC system requirements, particularly with regard to CPUs. There's been some concern among PC gamers that their older AMD Zen 2 or Intel 10th-gen machines may not hack it for the new game. To determine if these concerns were warranted, HotHardware decided to benchmark the demo on a handful of platforms, yielding some surprising results on some of the latest processor architectures from AMD and Intel. Potential classics like this might drive upgrade cycles for some gamers.

Submission + - Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200S Tested: Competitively Price Creator Performance (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Intel has lifted the embargo on independent reviews of its new Core Ultra 200S series Arrow Lake-S processors, which mark a shift in its desktop CPU strategy with symmetrical core/thread counts (no Hyperthreading) and a dedicated 13 TOPS NPU. This series features a disaggregated tiled design for the first time in Intel's desktop chips, focusing on efficiency and power reduction. The Core Ultra 5 245, priced around $300, and the Ultra 9 285K at $589 deliver strong performance, particularly in creator workloads, competing well with AMD's Ryzen CPUs, while the Ultra 9 285K's price undercuts AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X significantly. While gaming performance shows slight regression in spots, the new chips are much more power-efficient than their predecessors. Overall, the platform offers leading-edge features, competitive pricing, and solid performance for creators, gamers and workstation pros.

Submission + - AMD Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs Launched: Ryzen 9 7950X3D Offers Big Gains And Efficiency (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: At CES 2023, AMD unveiled an array of Ryzen 7000 series Zen 4 processors, including new gaming-targeted X3D models that featured integrated 3D V-Cache, similar to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The processors go on sale tomorrow, but review embargos for AMD's latest socket AM5 flagship, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, lifted today. As its name implies, the new Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a similar core configuration to the existing Ryzen 9 7950X (16-cores/32-threads), but this specialized CPU also packs an additional 64MB of 3D V-Cache, fused to one of its 8-core compute core dies (CCD). The CCD without 3D V-Cache operates like a standard AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, while the 3D V-Cache enabled CCD will have a more conservative voltage and frequency curve. Gaming performance received a massive boost with this new CPU, while multi-threaded content creation tests are roughly in-line with the standard 7950X. Power efficiency also shows a large, measurable improvement due to the chip relying less often on system memory.

Submission + - AMD Unveils RDNA 3-Based Radeon RX 7900 XTX And 7900 XT Graphics Cards (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: At its Together We Advance_Gaming launch event today, AMD took the wraps off two new high-end PC gaming graphics cards called Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT. Priced at $999 and $899 respectively and available in December this year, the new Radeon cards are expected to go toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080 and 4090. AMD states that its goals for RDNA 3 are to accelerate performance-per-watt leadership and to raise the bar for high resolution and high framerate gaming. AMD has turned to a chiplet architecture to accomplish these goals, a first for gaming GPUs. The chiplet complexes consist of a 5nm graphics compute die (GCD), which is flanked top and bottom by up to six 6nm memory and cache dice (MCD). The RX 7900 XTX uses the full complement of 6 MCDs which aggregates as a 384-bit memory bus (64-bit per die) with GDDR6 memory offering 20Gbps of throughput. The RX 7900 XT uses 5 MCDs with a corresponding 320-bit bus. All of this increased bandwidth and resources translates to what AMD claims is up to a 1.7X uplift in performance for the Radeon RX 7900 XTX versus its previous gen Radeon RX 6950 XT card in high resolution gaming. This could put the card within striking distance of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 possibly, but it's hard to say until cards ship to independent reviewers for testing. Regardless, gamers will appreciate the RX 7900 XTX's price point versus NVIDIA's $1600 top-end beast.

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