MacBook Air: Fact-checking Apple’s WWDC performance claims
We shouldn’t have to fact check a multi-billion, strike that, multi-trillion dollar company, but we’d be remiss if we took the marketing claims that a company uses to sell a product at […]
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Intel Downfall: Fix for severe CPU flaw drastically lowers performance
As expected, microcode applied to fix the Intel “Downfall” bug a Google researcher discovered this week can have a severe impact on performance, according to early tests, with the performance hit reaching […]
AMD Inception: Bug fix hurts Ryzen photo editing performance
Tests of the microcode used to patch AMD’s recent “Inception” bug don’t appear to seriously affect day-to-day performance on Ryzen processors, including gaming. Creative users who use image editing tools on Ryzen […]
Let’s boost the ROG Ally’s thermal performance
Adam Patrick Murray is a man on a mission: Make the Asus ROG Ally perform better when the heat is on. He’s already tried out re-applying thermal paste to the handheld PC’s […]
Intel Arc GPUs get a huge performance boost in DX11 games
Intel’s debut consumer graphics cards, the Arc A770 and Arc A750, launched as a mixed bag last summer. On one hand, Arc GPUs delivered exceptional performance in modern DirectX 12 games and […]
Lenovo’s Legion 9i laptop uses AI, liquid cooling to push performance
Watercooling isn’t that unusual on a desktop PC. But on a laptop? Absolutely. Lenovo’s new 16-inch Legion 9i is the world’s first liquid-cooled laptop without the need for an external pump, pairing […]
This trick boosted Surface Laptop Studio 2 performance by 42%
We’ve said it before: There’s one simple trick to increase the performance of your Windows laptop, and it made an enormous difference in Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio 2, which we reviewed today. […]
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips promise major PC performance
Qualcomm and its Snapdragon chips are officially back inside the PC. Today, Qualcomm formally launched the Snapdragon X Elite, the flagship platform of its Snapdragon X family that leverages its Oryon CPU […]
New Arc drivers provide huge DX11 performance boost for Intel GPUs
New drivers for Intel’s Arc GPUs, unifying previously separate drivers for desktop Arc graphics cards and the Arc GPU integrated into new Core Ultra laptop processors, have led to significant performance increases […]
PCIe 6.0’s thermal throttling plans could slam brakes on performance
Most enthusiasts know that a PC’s CPU will throttle down to prevent overheating. GPUs and even most PCIe 50. SSDs ship with huge heat sinks and blowers. But the latest casualty of […]
