A photo of an AORUS motherboard leaked on social media is equipped with DDR4 memory. Image taken from data sent to retailers for promotional purposes.
AORUS Z690 ELITE AX DDR4, Source: @ 9550pro
The Z690 AORUS Elite AX DDR4 features a VRM in a 16+1+2 configuration with a large heatsink around the CPU. The Elite AX model is designed in silver and black colors, there are few RGB elements. On board, of course, we will find an LGA 1700 socket, four slots for DDR4 memory chips, as well as four M.2 slots, a PCIe 5.0 x16 port and a Wi-Fi 6 module.
The board also has a total of 10 USB ports, one HDMI and DisplayPort each, one LAN port, and an HD audio jack.
Intel plans to release the Z690 motherboards on November 4, which is also the launch date for the 12th Gen Core processors.
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a global leader in memory products and technology solutions, announced that its upcoming DDR5 UDIMMS memory modules have passed the Intel platform validation.
After developing a new generation of DDR memory, Kingston is providing more than 10,000 samples of DDR5 UDIMMs to major motherboard manufacturers and technology partners to support the launch of the platform. By providing timely support to partners, Kingston contributes to laying the foundation for a successful product launch.
Earlier this week, Kingston announced that it was among the top third-party DRAM vendors in the world, according to the latest revenue rankings from TrendForce, a data analytics firm. This marks the 18th year in a row that the company has been ranked number one and cements Kingston's position as a leading force in the market. With new platform launches on the horizon, Kingston is gearing up to bring to market a range of DDR5 memory modules with improved performance, data integrity, density and scalability for years to come.
Kingston memory comes with a limited lifetime warranty, free technical support and legendary Kingston reliability. For more information visit kingston.com.
Corsair first introduced its Vengeance DDR5 memory. The company hasn't revealed any technical specifications for the new series, such as frequencies or overclocking capabilities, but that information should become available as we get closer to the launch of Intel Alder Lake-S, the first desktop series to support this new memory standard.
According to JEDEC specs, DDR5 memory starts at 4800MT/s and 1.1V. Overclocking potential will depend on many factors such as binning or Integrated Power Management Circuit (PMIC).
The company currently offers as many as three Vengeance memory options: RT, RS, and PRO SL.
It's also worth noting that Corsair is currently shipping engineering samples of its DDR5 memory to reviewers participating in the Intel Alder Lake processor launch.
Final specs and performance figures for the next SKU in the AMD RDNA2 series have been released online.
The Radeon RX 6600 without XT will have 1,792 stream processors, 256 cores less than the XT variant. At launch, this card will be the slowest AMD RDNA2 GPU variant for desktop gaming.
The new model will require less energy. The official TBP (Typical Board Power) is 132W, which is 28W less than the RX 6600 XT.
The official clock speeds are 2044 MHz for gaming and 2491 MHz for overclocking, which may explain how AMD was able to reduce the power consumption of this Navi 23 model, the base frequency was reduced by 315 MHz.
AMD's official specs list 8GB of GDDR6 memory, but with an "up to" mark that suggests AIB may offer 4GB models at some point.
The performance of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 card in relation to the GeForce RTX 3060 chip has also become known. The information is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, so for final confirmation it is worth waiting for the publication of independent reviews. The Radeon RX 6600 will reach a level similar to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 card. Sometimes a few percent in favor of AMD, sometimes in favor of NVIDIA.
On October 13, when the embargo is lifted, we will be able to get acquainted with independent tests.
The upcoming chip for the 2022 Samsung Galaxy S and A series will feature ray tracing acceleration.
AMD and Samsung have announced a partnership to bring Radeon graphics to an ultra mobile form factor. The next generation Samsung Exynos will be equipped with a graphics subsystem based on the RDNA2 architecture.
The official Samsung Exynos account on Weibo (a Chinese media platform) has confirmed that the next generation Exynos will support ray tracing technology.
The RDNA2 GPU in the Exynos 2200 is rumored to feature 384 stream processors, meaning 6 compute units and assuming the design is similar to desktop discrete GPUs and this mobile implementation of the 6 beam accelerator architecture.
The Exynos 2200, codenamed "Pamir", is expected to be an 8-core chip with 1 high-performance core, 3 medium-sized cores, and 4 high-performance cores. The integrated RDNA2 GPU is reportedly codenamed Voyager.
The Asus GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition has finally been officially unveiled.
Noctua and Asus have finally officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition in two versions - the standard model with clock speeds up to 1755MHz and the OC model with clock speeds up to 1845MHz.
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition is the world's first graphics card to use Noctua fans and a custom heatsink jointly developed by Noctua. With up to 15 dB(A) noise reduction, this advanced cooling system makes the Noctua Edition the quietest card in its class.
According to Asus, the fans spin at no more than 2,000 rpm with a noise level of just 33.3 dB(A), while a comparison graphics card not listed by Asus reaches 42.4 dB(A) under load.
Asus equips the GPU with three DisplayPort 1.4a ports and two HDMI 2.0 ports.
According to a tweet from user "hongxing2020", NVIDIA will indeed release the RTX 3090 SUPER early next year.
The tweet claims that NVIDIA is indeed launching the RTX 3090 SUPER, an updated flagship model with a full GA102 GPU, and the RTX 2060 12GB, an updated mid-range Turing GPU with twice the memory.
The report claims that NVIDIA will be updating the RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB memory, something we haven't heard about yet.
The entire RTX 30 SUPER desktop lineup was recently revealed by Twitter user “ @kopite7kimi ”, who is expecting four SUPER modifications: RTX 3090 SUPER, RTX 3080 SUPER, RTX 3070 SUPER and RTX 3060 SUPER. The arrival of the SUPER series with updated vanilla/Ti models suggests that NVIDIA is saying goodbye to sub-8GB memory options once and for all. This is in response to the release of AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT and soon the RX 6600 with 8GB of memory. So far, both companies have avoided releasing video cards with less memory.
Lenovo may be developing an Android-based handheld gaming device called the Lenovo Legion Play.
Renders of an unknown Legion Play device were found on the Lenovo website. This is a portable game console, the characteristics of which, alas, are not on the site - only high-quality renderings.
At the moment, we can see that the images show a portable gaming device with a screen surrounded by game controllers on the left and right sides. There are two analog sticks, D-Pad, X, Y, A and B buttons.
The bottom of the Legion Play has a USB-C port, a headset jack, and a built-in microphone that you can presumably use for voice chat even if you don't have a headset.
Legion Play will work under the Android operating system. On the screen you can see icons for accessing the Google Play store, YouTube services, Google Drive, etc.
True, it is not yet clear whether Lenovo will really bring its idea to life, or whether the console will remain on paper.
Dutch Amazon has leaked the prices of 12th generation Intel Core processors.
The flagship 16-core processor Core i9-12900K costs 847 euros with 21% VAT. The Core i7-12700K is priced at 641 euros, while the Core i5-12600K is priced at 324 euros. These are all K series models with integrated GPUs.
The listings only mention 3.2GHz for the 12900K, 3.6GHz for the 12700K, and 3.7GHz for the 12600K. It's not clear what the clock speeds are because they don't match the rumors.
Intel is expected to introduce the K and KF Alder Lake-S series of desktop PCs on November 4th.
The Wccftech web resource has published a roadmap showing the Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M series.
According to leaked information, Intel partners intend to begin production of Alder Lake-P laptops by early November. The roadmap lists two series of 12th generation Core mobile devices: Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M, the former being a more expensive version targeting 12W to 45W models and the latter targeting 7W to 15W models. .
System Integrators (OEMs, Notebook Manufacturers) can begin production of the Alder Lake-P series in Week 45 starting November 8th. The production window closes on the 10th week of 2022, which ends on March 13th. Alder Lake-M will go into production from January 17 to April 17.
Intel Alder Lake Mobile Roadmap, Source: Wccftech
The roadmap confirms that Alder Lake-P will feature up to 14 cores, Xe graphics with 96 execution units supporting Thunderbolt 4 and Wifi 6E. More interestingly, the series is listed with DDR5 or LPDDR5 memory and PCIe Gen5 interface, with no mention of DDR4 technology at all.
The Alder Lake-M series will offer up to 10 cores with the same maximum number of GPUs. Unlike the P series, the M will not support the mainstream DDR5 standard, but will support either low power LPDDR4X or LPDDR5.
Intel Alder Lake Mobile Roadmap, Source: Wccftech
The 12th generation Intel Core series is divided into 3 groups, which are then divided into 6 performance segments. The roadmap doesn't mention the flagship Alder Lake-S Mobile (H55) series at all. The mobile SKU stack table shows how 14 and 10 core configurations are achieved by using a combination of Performance and Efficient cores.
