Based on Stable Diffusion AI model

UL has announced its newest AI Inference benchmark, the UL Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark, which is based on the Stable Diffusion AI model and promises to provide a consistent, accurate and understandable workload for measuring the AI performance of high-end hardware.

Featuring 20 and 24 Xe-Cores, and 12GB of VRAM

Intel is keeping the details of its upcoming Intel Battlemage GPUs under tight wraps, but now some of the information has been spotted in the SiSoftware Sandra database, including two Xe2 chips.

Keeping the AM4 socket alive

In addition to announcing new AM5 processors, AMD is obviously keen to keep the AM4 socket alive, extending support for the socket well through the year. At a dedicated event in China, AMD unveiled both the Ryzen 8000F series SKUs, that will come with disabled integrated graphics, as well as the new Ryzen 5000 XT series SKUs.

With 27-inch VA panel, 1440p resolution, and 180Hz refresh rate

Asus has unveiled yet another ROG Strix series gaming monitor, the 27-inch ROG Strix XG27WCS, featuring a curved VA panel with 1440p resolution and 180Hz refresh rate.

Coming in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities and reaching 14GB/s

SK Hynix revealed a bit of a surprise at the Nvidia GTC 2024 show, announcing the new PCB01 PCIe 5.0 SSD based on its in-house controller, its own 238-layer 3D TLC NAND flash, and promising rather impressive transfer speeds of up to 14GB/s.

First one to get Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC

Xiaomi announced the new Civi 4 Pro smartphone in China. The new Civi series phone comes with some rather unique features and it is actually the first smartphone based on Qualcomm's recently announced Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC.

With Cortex-X4 Prime core and on-device AI

Qualcomm has announced its latest mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, giving it a single Cortex-X4 Prime core and adding on-device AI capabilities, pushing it much closer to the flagship Snapdragon 8 series SoCs.

One for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege

AMD has released its latest AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 driver which adds support for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege, new HYPR-Tune support for a couple of games, and fixes several issues seen with earlier driver releases.

More games announced and more get RTX enhancements

Nvidia has announced that Dragon's Dogma 2 and Alone in the Dark are coming to Geforce NOW this week. Previously, Nvidia announced several new big titles that will be coming to Geforce NOW and launching with Nvidia RTX enhancements.

Optimizations for a couple of new games and performance improvements

Intel has released the latest version of its Arc GPU driver, the 101.5379 Beta, which brings Game On support for a couple of new games including Diablo IV Ray Tracing Update, Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and The Legend of the Condor Heroes, as well as performance improvements across Intel Arc A-series graphics products and Intel Core Ultra with Intel Arc GPUs.