Author: [email protected] (Dave James)
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OneXPlayer X1 handheld gaming PC review
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There are a whole bunch of ‘if only’ features of the OneXPlayer X1 that could have made this interesting take on the market a genuinely great handheld gaming PC. If only the Meteor Lake silicon was efficient enough to deliver a game-changing level of handheld battery life. If only the Xe GPU architecture was more…
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Intel’s Lunar Lake is here to remind you x86 still has a place in laptops: ‘You’ve never seen x86 power characteristics quite like this’
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Intel has dropped some fresh details about its new Lunar Lake mobile CPU architecture, including some performance and power claims, but has stopped short of actually backing that up with any data. Claiming it’s not ready to show CPU performance at the moment, all we’ve got are some promises and the unexpected appearance of Microsoft…
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Razer Blade 16 (2024) review
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Not a lot has changed with the latest Razer Blade 16 gaming laptop. It’s still vastly expensive, it’s still a lot chonkier than its Blade 15 forebear, and I still think Razer’s notebooks have kinda lost their edge. But what sets it apart is that goddamn glorious 240 Hz OLED display, because hoo boi, it…
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AMD’s CTO has written about 55 years of AMD innovation. And the most common topic is obviously ‘AI’ despite not really saying much about ‘AI’ for the previous 54 years
AMD is 55 years old. Only a little bit older than myself and, also like myself, few people expected it to last much beyond 45 years. Just a decade ago—with a meagre datacentre business, and a ropey CPU architecture that was the subject of a $12.1 million class action lawsuit because it kinda wasn’t what…
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Grab an overclocked version of our favourite AMD graphics card for under its stock price with our exclusive PC Gamer code
We’re big fans of the Radeon RX 7800 XT over here at PC Gamer. It’s a smarter, cheaper, slightly more powerful RX 6800 XT, dropping the cost for that level of gaming performance down to a more palatable price point. Win, win, and win. And you can grab an overclocked version of this fine GPU…
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The tech I’m most psyched to see this year is anything but traditional PC silicon, and certainly isn’t x86
Dave James, once saw a laptop (Image credit: Future) This week I have been mostly: Playing around with one of the most ridiculous handhelds… which I still can’t help but like, and losing myself gazing lovingly at the Razer Blade 16’s glorious OLED screen. I’m a PC gamer, a tech obsessive, and probably a bit…
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The full Snapdragon X CPU line-up has now been unveiled, and according to Qualcomm’s numbers it should put the fear of ARM into AMD and Intel’s laptop divisions
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Qualcomm has just taken the wraps off its new Snapdragon X range of laptop PC chips, giving us the full details of its first flush of ARM-based CPUs and a new lower-end model, too. The NEW Snapdragon X Plus processors will sit alongside the higher-spec X Elite chips, bringing the ARM architecture to the traditionally…
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Today’s AI may just be ‘autocorrect on steroids’ but it’s made Linus Torvalds mellow out over Nvidia
Linus Torvalds, the notoriously grumpy man known for shouting at Windows, swearing at Nvidia, and as the creator of Linux, is surprisingly upbeat about the rising hype around the current state of artificial intelligence. “It’s hilarious to watch,” he notes in a keynote at the Open Source Summit (via ZDNet) this week. “Maybe I’ll be…
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As promised, the US gov has whacked another GPU mole headed for China with new limits cooked up to kill the RTX 4090D
The US government has revised its sanctions (via Videocardz) on the level of GPU power it will allow to be exported to China. And it seems aimed specifically at stopping Nvidia selling its China-exclusive version of the RTX 4090 graphics card. With its “weighted TFLOPS” limit now being dropped down to 70 TFLOPS, that means…
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I wonder how future historians will judge this image of Zuckerberg’s ‘jersey swap’ with Jen-Hsun and his signature leather jacket
I can’t help it. I know it’s all perfectly innocent. It’s just a candid shot of a couple billionaires hanging out like the great buddies they undoubtedly are. But I can’t shake the feeling like it’s the sort of picture you’ll catch on social media every now and then; some black and white image of…