Daft tech smuggler caught at customs
We don't think you did your sums correctly on this one
In what's surely one of the daftest capers on record, a chap was nabbed trying to ferry 44 AMD Radeon RX 580 graphics cards into China.
Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 drops down to $279
Giving the Radeon RX 7600 a run for its money
The Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 has dropped down to $279 for the first time, after being stuck at $299 for quite some time. The new price, which is currently limited to a single Zotac version, puts it against the Radeon RX 7600 (non-XT) which sells for around $250.
UL announces Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark
Based on Stable Diffusion AI model
UL has announced its newest AI Inference benchmark, the UL Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark, which is based on the Stable Diffusion AI model and promises to provide a consistent, accurate and understandable workload for measuring the AI performance of high-end hardware.
Qualcomm's gaming gamble
Arm laptops to run Windows games
Qualcomm has told the gathered crowds at the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC) that Windows games are expected to be compatible with its forthcoming Arm laptops. If this holds true, x86 emulation and gaming could operate flawlessly on these machines without porting.
Featuring 20 and 24 Xe-Cores, and 12GB of VRAM
Intel is keeping the details of its upcoming Intel Battlemage GPUs under tight wraps, but now some of the information has been spotted in the SiSoftware Sandra database, including two Xe2 chips.