However the cooler does run loud, which seems to go against Nvidia’s Max-Q principles. While quiet at idle, the cooler roars into action during gaming, pumping out 48.8 dBA of noise from 50 cm away. Similar laptops we’ve reviewed tend to fall more around the 43 dBA range, so no doubt the Aero 15X has to push more air across its tiny heatsink to effectively cool the components inside. Oh and battery life, how could I forget?...
Gartner in its preliminary report on the worldwide semiconductor industry found that 2021 sales totaled $583.5 billion. Andrew Norwood, research vice president at Gartner, said strong demand coupled with logistics and raw material price increases drove semiconductors’ average selling price higher, thus contributing to overall revenue growth. “The 5G smartphone market also helped drive semiconductor revenue, with unit production more than doubling to reach 555 million in 2021, compared to 250 million in 2020,” Norwood added....
In general, the Adreno 418 is quite a bit slower than the Adreno 430 in the Snapdragon 810, with the latter boasting performance around 50% better. Devices with the Snapdragon 810 and a 1080p display, like the HTC One M9 or the Sony Xperia Z5, will have a decent performance advantage over the Nexus 5X. On the other hand, while the Galaxy S6’s Mali-T760 MP8 GPU is 36% faster than the Adreno 418 in the 5X, the jump up to a 1440p display gives the 5X 19% better performance in games....
Follow up: Stock Update September 2021, October 2021, November 2021, December 2021, January 2022, February 2022, March 2022, April 2022, May 2022, June 2022 The market is still facing complications that are affecting GPU prices. If you’re new to this series, in previous articles we’ve described this as a multi-factor situation. Many people are quick to place all the blame on one area or another, but the reality is there are many contributing factors....
During its Radeon 7000 GPU unveiling, AMD announced that ray tracing will come to Halo Infinite with its Season 3 update in March 2023. Microsoft first confirmed its cooperation with AMD in October 2021. After the patch, Halo Infinite will include ray-traced shadows in its Arena and Big Team Battle multiplayer modes. The game seems to aim for a light touch regarding ray tracing, which makes sense for multiplayer. Many other games implement ray-traced ambient occlusion, reflections, and global illumination for more accurate lighting, but those features weigh heavily on performance....
G-Sync is Nvidia’s somewhat commonsense answer to two age-old dilemmas: screen tearing and frame stutter. It’s a type of variable refresh rate technology that attempts to synchronize display refresh rates to GPU frame rates. To understand the significance of G-Sync (or VRR in general) though, one should also be familiar with screen tearing, frame stuttering and Vsync. Screen tearing is the product of frames being rendered and displayed at differing rates....
It now requires approximately 156,000 downloads on any given day to get a free, non-gaming iPhone app to the number one position in the App Store in the US. In 2019, it took an average of just 114,000 daily downloads to accomplish the same goal. iPhone games used to command more downloads than general apps, but that has since flipped. Year to date, it requires just 93,000 daily downloads for a game to reach the No....
Shenzhen company Higole recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for an Android 12 mini-PC that includes, among other things, a touch screen and HDMI 2.1 output for playing Ultra HD media. With almost a month to go, the company plans to offer the device for around $350 if the campaign succeeds. The 8K Ultra HD label on top of the GOLE 1 R’s 5.5-inch IPS touch screen in the Kickstarter page art is misleading, but the machine still boasts impressive media capabilities....
The R9 390X delivered a playable 39fps at 1600p in The Witcher 3, faring 8% better than the R9 390 and 3% better than the R9 290X. The R9 390X was just 3% slower than the GTX 980 and the R9 390 was just 3% faster than the R9 290 along with a surprising 13% lead over the GTX 970. The R9 380 was good for 37fps at 1080p, making it much faster than the R9 285 – 32% faster, which seems odd....
We were quite impressed with the results when running Call of Duty: World at War. At 1680x1050, AMD’s latest graphics card was just 4fps slower than the higher-end Radeon HD 5870, while it was able to beat the GeForce GTX 285 by 5fps. It was also 4fps faster than the GeForce GTX 285 at 2560x1600, but slipped further behind the Radeon HD 5870 when using this resolution. In Company of Heroes we see the Radeon HD 5850 beat Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 285 by a 25% performance margin at 2560x1600....
Enable Remote Monitoring Assuming you’ve connected your devices to your home network, the first step is to enable remote monitoring: Swipe down from the top of the device’s screen, then tap on Settings: Tap on Camera. Tap the Home Monitoring toggle to enable it. Hit continue (2 times). Hit Done on the “All Set” screen. Now that you have your Echo device enabled for remote viewing, it’s time to put the feature to use....
The HP TouchPad has a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera concealed in the bezel surrounding the display. Unlike the iPad 2, the Motorola XOOM, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, or any other major tablet that is on the market, the TouchPad does not have a rear camera. The front camera is only used for one purpose out of the box: Skype video calls. There is no app to take a picture with the camera, and you cannot even turn it on unless you are in a call....
We’re keen to see what areas are cut down to reach this price point, and if there are notable compromises, because on paper it seems like a steal. Full adaptive sync support with FreeSync Premium, nice size and resolution, and IPS technology promising “1ms” class response times. And yes… HP X27q is the full name of this monitor. We nearly died from the shock, but it seems HP has figured out that you don’t need 25 letters and numbers in every monitor name....
I’ll start with one thing I absolutely hate about customized versions of Android: bloatware. The Huawei P9 is loaded with a standard collection of first-party apps, along with a collection of duplicate apps (two photo apps, two music apps, duplicate office apps, two email apps). On top of that, there’s straight up spam apps on the P9, along with a ton of “tools” all grouped in a folder. Any time I see a pop-up asking me to choose an app to open a photo or play a song, I cringe....
Despite all the progress that has been made in the realm of technology, AI, and machine learning, weather companies have not yet handed over the keys to their computer counterparts. While AI models, with the help of weather satellites like GOES-16 and 17, are capable of predicting minor weather changes and patterns with surprising accuracy, their efficiency takes a steep dive when major climate disruptions occur. These major weather shifts, including natural disasters, often have warning signs that are too subtle and small in scale for most models to detect....
Valve killed off the Steam Controller last year. It was widely seen as a commercial failure – which it was, with a mere 500,000 lifetime units sold. But, more unfairly, it’s been characterized as a “bad” controller, with reviews criticizing everything from build quality to software, and the process of just getting the damn thing to work. Some of this is justified. But the rest is the story of how a poor launch-day experience and impatient reviewers murdered what could have been the biggest paradigm shift in gaming input since Sony introduced dual analog sticks with the 1997 Dualshock....
By default, searching the Start menu doesn’t return files that you store on a secondary drive such as portable exes, not to mention that Windows 10’s Start menu has other annoyances such as integrated Internet search results and emphasizing “apps.” Generally speaking, we don’t have a problem with that, however it is not uncommon that a simple query won’t return any valid results from your local drive first, no matter how simple or precise your query is....
Inside users will find little more than a motherboard tray and a few drive bays. The motherboard is non-removable as it is part of the back panel and this is typical for a mid-tower. The motherboard tray has been constructed out of 2mm thick aluminium. There is a huge amount of cable management holes here and while none of them feature rubber grommets to protect the cables, there isn’t really a need as the aluminum is very smooth with no chance of cutting cables....
Toss in the fact that AI-powered analytics can be leveraged to generate the information, and that a pre-configured cloud-based offering can automatically take care of the messy, challenging, behind-the-scenes prep work necessary to get those insights, and things start to get more interesting. Cloudera is a software company dedicated to provide enterprise data management systems, it started as an open-source software company based primarily around the Apache Hadoop big data analytics tools and merged a few years back with Hortonworks, another Hadoop-focused company....
The most affordable option debuted as the Core i7 920 at $280 and that is exactly how much it costs today. The Core i7 940 has been replaced by the 950, offering a small performance bump and the same ~$570 charge, while the flagship Core i7 965 Extreme Edition was superseded by the even more potent 975 Extreme Edition in the $1,000 price point. Although the processor front has remained much the same, there is now a serious range of X58 motherboards on offer with more than fifty products available from half a dozen manufacturers....
