The finest PC news from Computex 2021

One of many largest alternate displays within the PC universe, Computex, unfortunately came about at some stage within the wee hours of the Memorial Day holiday within the US this year. Happily, we kept tabs on the bulletins from AMD, Intel, Nvidia and extra that it’s a long way a should deserve to know about, and we’ve summed them up below.

If we needed to seize an overall “winner,” nicely, AMD stole the uncover. A alternative of CPU, GPU, and even architectural bulletins made for a jam-packed Computex presentation. However our email and interior chat channels were busy chewing over what Intel and Nvidia needed to supply, too.

In no relate inform, here’s what we assign in thoughts to be the largest reviews of Computex.

AMD’s FidelityFX Large Decision

FidelityFX Large Decision is AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s DLSS technology, each of which exercise some computational magic to eke out extra frames to your video games. AMD’s technology, though, can toughen now not easiest its possess GPUs however the competition’s as nicely—yes, even Nvidia’s GTX 10-series GPUs! Even better, there are four ranges of graphics performance (as well to the native performance of the GPU), which, in accordance with this AMD chase, supply physique charges ranging from 49 fps to a whopping 150 fps. That’s insane. 

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Intel’s Beast Canyon NUC

Take into accout when Intel launched the so-referred to as Unique Unit of Computing (NUC), and intensely best how shrimp they were? No longer. Intel’s entered the frail shrimp-originate-ingredient PC market with an 8-liter “Beast Canyon” NUC that would possibly maybe presumably maybe house a stout-length graphics card alongside a Compute Element with a gaming-class 11th-gen Tiger Lake-H series processor. Intel pitched its sight of Beast Canyon as a sneak see, withholding pricing and availability shrimp print. However we looked intently at what shrimp print were on hand, as well to what we predict this cross field will have the option to carry out.

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Intel’s 5GHz refresh of Tiger Lake

We within the muse knowing the launch of Intel’s Tiger Lake-U points final September foremost somewhat extra oomph. Successfully, Intel delivered. The company launched a brand novel 5GHz Tiger Lake chip that it claims can top the Ryzen 5800U in each gaming and utter creation. By how remarkable, you question? When you cherry-seize a HandBrake video transcoding benchmark, nicely, the novel 2.9GHz Core i7-1195G7 outperforms the comparable Ryzen by a whopping eightfold. And did we mention Intel now has a 5G module, too?

AMD’s Radeon RX 6000M takes on Nvidia’s RTX GPUs

This is what you were searching at for: a brand novel AMD GPU that would possibly maybe presumably maybe scamper head-to-head with Nvidia’s RTX GPUs. At Computex the notebook graphics wars very best started heating up. AMD launched the Radeon RX 6800M, 6700M, and 6600M, all with differing ranges of horsepower. AMD acknowledged the RDNA 2 chips supply 1.5X the performance over the customary RDNA designs, while also working at 43 p.c less vitality. And boy, are there benchmarks! 

PCWorld opinions the AMD Radeon RX 6800M

PCWorld reviewed the AMD Radeon RX 6800M, built into the Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Model. We name it a “grand competitor to Nvidia’s GeForce” valid within the headline, and we’ll uncover you why with our tests.

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Nvidia’s horrid GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

What Nvidia calls its “novel gaming flagship” GPU would possibly maybe presumably maybe moreover honest gain deserved a higher position in our checklist, on condition that, nicely, it’s a long way a brand novel top fee GPU. Combine the $1,200 fee trace and the indisputable fact that graphics playing cards are restful selling out nearly valid now, and result’s a graphics card that you simply’re going to doubtlessly by no formulation glean out about. On the opposite hand, Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ti specs are wisely big, and we gain now even been in a position to assessment the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti itself. Put together to be amazed. 

The novel AMD Advantage Model notebook program

After reading about Intel Evo’s scamper-to-market trace for its co-engineered ”Mission Athena” top fee notebook designs, you would possibly maybe need knowing Intel used to be basically top-of-the-line chip vendor spending time and cash to be definite your next gaming notebook used to be designed neatly. Did you watched that in regards to the AMD Advantage program on the underside of our Radeon RX 6000M story? Here’s what AMD is doing to make sure your next Ryzen/Radeon notebook is a compelling product.

What is Alienware’s Element 31?

Liquid metallic repeatedly conjures up photography of the T-1000 Terminator, somewhat than a cooling solution interior of a top fee notebook. We’re now not going to atomize (nicely, in this story, anyway) what Element 31 actually is. However we are in a position to expose you that it’s very necessary in allowing Alienware to glean the loopy-skinny Alienware x15 and x17 laptops. Thin-and-light gaming laptops? The long bustle is now.

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AMD launches novel APUs for low-fee PC builds

AMD announced that its hotly anticipated Ryzen 5000G APUs will launch in very best about a months, on August 5. An APU is a Ryzen chip that integrates Radeon graphics, providing DIY builders with an economical, reason-built foundation for constructing a PC. However issues gain changed a shrimp bit with the continuing chip scarcity, and we’ll uncover why that is. 

AMD’s 3D V-Cache can enhance performance by 25 p.c

What is a 3D chiplet? And what’s AMD’s 3D V-Cache? That, my friend, is the future. AMD announced a blueprint to stack memory on top of its Ryzen processor, dramatically increasing the cache dimension and the performance. And it’s coming later this year. We uncover what it all formulation in our myth.

Updated at 9: 36 AM with a hyperlink to our Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti article and assessment.

As PCWorld’s senior editor, Put specializes in Microsoft news and chip technology, among varied beats.