Intel’s long-awaited discrete graphics targeting gaming and content creation finally gets christened Monday with a family name, Intel Arc — a play on the concept of a story arc and architecture. Formerly known as “DG2,” and based on the HPG variant of the company’s latest generation of its GPU designs, the first chips based on …

Samsung’s third Unpacked of 2021 is over, and like all events since the coronavirus spread around the world, Samsung’s latest launch was all-virtual. Foldables are the big phones of the day: Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 3, which expands outward from a phone into a tablet, and the Galaxy Z Flip 3, a clamshell design. New Galaxy Buds 2, Galaxy Watch 4 and …

The latest step in the graphics card pas de deux between AMD and Nvidia is the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU. It’s also the current entry-level model in AMD’s line of graphics processors for gamers specifically looking for speed or higher quality in 1080p resolution. The RX 6600 XT’s nominal $379 price and performance slots seamlessly between Nvidia’s $329 …

ECC memory: When ya gotta have it, ya gotta have it. And if you’re designing planes, cars, multimillion-dollar movies and more, ya gotta have it. Nvidia’s new low-profile, entry-level workstation graphics processor, the $450 RTX A2000, will have 6GB of it when the card ships in October.  This is the first time the company’s made error-correcting memory, which detects and …

As of Tuesday, Apple has begun to replace the top-end Vega 2 Pro MPX Module GPU options with the newer-generation RDNA2-based Radeon Pro RX W6000X series for Mac Pros, which now lets you configure a system with up to four GPUs. Existing customers will still be able to buy Radeon Pro Vega 2 and Radeon Pro Vega 2 Duo modules, …

Nov 2021 Thanks to the balance of screen size and weight, I generally like 14-inch laptops better than the alternatives. I’ve never found the smaller screen size to affect my immersion in games; as much as I love me a massive desktop display, once I’m in, I’m in. So there’s a lot to love with the Razer Blade 14, which …

If you want your PC to be really small but still powerful enough to game — in other words, accommodate a full-size graphics card — things can get tough, with 10 liters a common lower bound. Intel’s NUC 11 Extreme Kit “Beast Canyon” squeezes all the gaming essentials, including an Intel Core i7 or i9 overclockable processor, room for a …

Whither Samsung’s mainstream TVs go, its monitors are bound to follow. In this case, Samsung’s updated 49-inch curved Odyssey G9 gaming monitor (model G95NA), teased earlier this year, features its Quantum HDR 2000 with a typical peak brightness of 2,000 nits and is the first to incorporate the company’s new Neo QLED screens. You can preorder it starting July 29 for …

Are you old enough to remember when laptops had removable batteries? Frustrated by mainstream laptops with memory soldered to the motherboard and therefore not upgradable? The 13.5-inch Framework Laptop taps into that nostalgia, addressing one of the biggest drawbacks in modern laptops as part of the right-to-repair movement. It was designed from the ground up to be as customizable, upgradable …

Streaming-gear favorite Elgato has finally tossed a webcam at its gaming fans, the 1080/60fps Facecam. It’s the biggest challenger we’ve seen thus far for Razer’s Kiyo Pro, for the same $200 (£189), with class-leading software, including a real Mac app, that helps compensate for some of its weaknesses. It doesn’t have a built-in mic, which makes sense given that its …