If you’re in the market for an AI-ready laptop with a screen that’s built to impress, you’ve got to check out this deal. Right now at Best Buy, you can find theAcer Swift 16 AIlaptop for just $899, saving $300 off the asking price of $1,199. This sleek laptop features a 16-inch 3K OLED touchscreen panel and is powered by an Intel Core Ultra 7 256V processor. As far as laptops in this class go, this is definitely an offer worth taking a closer look at....

OLEDs have become the “new hotness” in the gaming monitor space, and we’re seeing a lot of activity with monitors big and small.Dellis debuting a new OLED gaming monitor atCESthat is definitely on the smaller side of the scale, measuring 27 inches across (actually, 26.7 inches). The Alienware AW2725Q uses a QD-OLED panel with a4K resolution, which is uncommon, although not unheard of for such a small monitor. As a result, you’ll find that the AW2725Q offers 166 pixels per inch (ppi), which is the highest density currently available for a QD-OLED gaming monitor....

Zotac is prepping three GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics cards, according to a report byVideoCardz. The boards will use rather sophisticated cooling systems as well as a 12VHPWR power connector, which is a bit different from the company’s original GeForce RTX 4070 lineup, which included boards with an eight-pin power plug. Zotac will have Trinity Black and Twin Edge versions of GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics cards. The GeForce RTX 4070 Super Trinity Black is a more premium product with a large three-wide triple-fan cooling system and one 12VHPWR power connector....

AMD kicked offComputexwith a few pretty significant announcements: its new Instinct MI325X accelerators (pictured), which will be available in the fourth quarter of 2024; the upcoming Instinct MI350-series powered by the CDNA4 architecture that will launch next year; and the all-new CDNA ‘Next’-based Instinct MI400-series products set to come out in 2026. Perhaps the most significant announcement is that AMD’s updated product roadmap commits to an annual release schedule, ensuring continuous increases in AI and HPC performance with enhanced instruction sets and higher memory capacity and bandwidth....

Here in Berlin, Germany, at IFA 2024, AMD’s Jack Huynh, the senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group, announced that the company will unify its consumer-focused RDNA and data center-focused CDNA architectures into one microarchitecture, named UDNA, that will set the stage for the company to tackle Nvidia’s entrenched CUDA ecosystem more effectively. The announcement comes as AMD has decided todeprioritize high-end gaming graphics cardsto accelerate market share gains....

AMD has providedbenchmarksof its flagship RX 7900 XTX going head to head against theNvidia RTX 4090andRTX 4080 Superwith DeepSeek’s AI model. According toDavid McAfee on X, the RDNA3-based GPU outperformed the RTX 4090 by up to 13% and the RTX 4080 Super by up to 34%. AMD tested the three GPUs with multiple LLMs and various parameters using DeepSeek R1. TheRX 7900 XTXsaw its biggest victory against the RTX 4090 using DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B, where it outperformed the Ada Lovelace GPU by 13%....

Advanced Micro Devices(AMD) isdiscussing buildingtwo new R&D centers in the island nation with the Taiwanese government. Unlike rival Nvidia, which isestablishing a new R&D centerin Nangang, Taipei, AMD is shifting its development away from north and central Taiwan because of recent power supply constraints. The Taiwanese government hopes to build an “AI island” in Taiwan, fostering collaboration between industry leaders, government resources, and academia to attract investment worth around NT$15 billion ($469....

AMD’s recently announced mid-range RX 9060 XT 16GB has been put to the test in Geekbench acrossVulkanandOpenCL, where it allegedly leads its predecessor by up to 30%. This test was likely and inadvertently made public by a reviewer, consistent with previous product launches. We strongly advise viewing these tests with skepticism, firstly due to their preliminary nature and secondly because syntheticbenchmarksonly provide a partial glimpse of a GPU’s real-world capabilities....

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gaming Benchmarks AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gaming Benchmarks — The TLDR The particulars of our test setup are on page four. We used lifted power limits for the Intel processors, which result in higher power consumption and heat, but you get faster performance in exchange....

In two weeks, AMD will introduce itsRyzen 9000X3Dchips, which will rival thebest CPUson the market. Hardware leakerHXLon X has clarified, to some extent, the architectural differences between the first and second generations and why AMD can achieve better thermals and higher clock speeds with Ryzen 9000X3D. It is claimed that AMD is reversing its 3D die-stacking structure, with the SRAM block now placed beneath the CCDs. When AMD first launched its Ryzen 5000X3D chips, the concept was to stack a block of L3 cache atop the CCDs....

AMD releasedROCm 6.4, bringing along several improvements, including framework enhancements, broader OS support, and enhancements to several performance and profiling tools. What it continues to lack is enablement forRDNA 4GPUs, which may discourage developers from shifting to AMD’s latest architecture. When RDNA 4 hit shelves last month, day-one ROCm compatibility was highly anticipated, as wasteasedby AMD’s VP of AI Software. ROCm is AMD’s open-source GPU programming platform, rivaling Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem to power HPC and AI applications....

The release date forApple’s Vision Prois finally in our sights. Thecompany announcedthat the headset will launch on February 2 in the U.S., with pre-orders opening on January 19 at 5 a.m. PST / 8 a.m. EST. Vision Pro, which Apple announced at WWDC in June, will start at $3,499 with 256GB of storage and presumably go up from there. Zeiss Optical reader inserts will cost $99, while prescription inserts will run for an additional $149....

A German retailer mistakenly shipped the ASRock Challenger B570 to aPC Games Hardware forummember on December 14 (Credit:Videocardz); however, testing has been limited by the lack of official drivers. Intel’s newly launched Arc Battlemage GPUs are shaking up the budget market, with theArc B580beating Nvidia’sRTX 4060while costing less per our extensive review of the card. A lower-speccedB570was also announced, outfitted with 10GB of VRAM and two less Xe Cores at $219....