A Radeon subreddit user revealed that their PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 had been flashed with the RX 9070 XT vBIOS, which boosted performance by up to 25% in some synthetic benchmarks. In Cyberpunk 2077 with “a mix of ray-tracing-settings enabled”, gains were limited to just 8-12% over the stock RX 9070. These gains are still quite impressive,

Apple’s transition to its own in-house designed silicon based on Arm is bearing fruit (excuse the pun) these days. Now several years into the pivot away from using Intel’s x86 chips, Apple’s latest generation Mac mini and MacBook systems are impressive pieces of hardware. They’re also frequently on sale, as is the case right now as we head

The market for PC gaming hardware, including systems and accessories, is projected to grow by 35% in 2025 by Jon Peddie Research. This data is considered “conservative in relation to total PC hardware expenditure”, and is attributed by the firm to the forced migration to Windows 1, due to Windows 10’s pending End of Life in October. Another

Microsoft is initiating a second price hike on its existing series of Xbox consoles sold in the US, raising prices of all Xbox Series S|X models starting on October 3rd, 2025. For the Xbox Series S 512GB, the price is increasing from $379.99 to $399.99, a $100 total increase from its launch MSRP of $299.99. Similarly, the Series S 1TB is also

If you’re looking to have a cutting-edge chip created in late 2025 or early 2026, you’re probably looking at TSMC, because the only other company operating a fab at a similar node is Intel, and Team Blue canceled acceptance of external orders for 18A earlier this year. Only, you’re probably not getting in at TSMC, either, because as it turns

Lenovo has issued another statement about its upcoming Legion Go 2 handheld, and this time it has nothing to do with the backlash over sticker shock. Not directly, anyway—instead, the general messaging is that it was caught off guard by a flurry of preorders, and rather than make customers wait indefinitely while holding onto their money,

Two of the biggest smartphone manufacturers both released ultra-thin devices recently, Apple with the iPhone Air and Samsung with the Galaxy S25 Edge. Despite having super-svelte designs, however, both devices still manage to pack some flagship specs, which gives potential buyers a lot to think about when making a purchasing decision. Here’s

Another week, another AI integration—now, market-leading browser Google Chrome is finally on the update list and facing a full suite of new Gemini AI features to be added in the near future. Over the past few days, Google has been detailing the new AI-powered features its bringing to Google Chrome and all of the ways it looks to enhance the

AMD quietly added details for a Radeon RX 7700 non-XT GPU to its website and shortly thereafter ASRock revealed that it would be the first AIB to produce a card as part of its Challenger series. The ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 7700 is the first GPU in the family and it seems to be configured to operate at AMD’s reference specifications, though

Early benchmarks have revealed how powerful the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 might actually be. While these are early leaks, the performance consistency brings promises of single-core scores that go head-to-head with Apple’s A19 Pro SoC and trounces it in multi-core. After years of playing catch up and “close, but no cigar,”

Intel’s Arc B770 is, so far, a story of potential greatness that ultimately ends up in a blank page. We’ll spoil the story for you: today’s leak is yet another data point proving that the GPU definitely exists, but we’ve still heard nothing from Intel about whether it will actually release in any form whatsoever, and yesterday’s news of an

Tired of high ticket prices with exorbitant fees adding to the cost? So is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which alleges in a lawsuit filed with seven states that Ticketmaster and its parent firm Live Nation essentially colluded with brokers by turning a blind eye to illegal harvesting of hordes of tickets, which were then resold at a

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, revealed a white dwarf, the stellar corpse of a Sun-like star, feasting on a planetary fragment torn from its own system’s

Anker is issuing another recall over potentially defective power banks following dozens of reports of incidents involving fires and explosions. Unlike the last recall, which affected around 1.1 million Anker PowerCore 1000 power banks, this new one includes multiple different models. It’s a familiar story, in that the culprit is the lithium-ion

Shares of AMD slid following the announcement that Intel and NVIDIA are teaming up to co-develop several generations of datacenter and PC products. The arrangement, which also includes a $5 billion investment by NVIDIA into Intel common stock, prompted speculation and worry (by some) over AMD’s future, and that undoubtedly led to its stock

The Apollo Team behind the Vampire V4 just launched preorders for a new, all-in-one modern Amiga, dubbed the Apollo V4 A6000, which is built atop the Apollo V4 platform.  The V4 platform, like other standalone boards and Apollo accelerators, offers what the team calls a 68080 processor with AMMX support, which is a 100% code compatible evolution

It’s iPhone season and Apple has delivered some nice upgrades to its entire lineup of phones, alongside iOS 26, while adding a new device to the family with the thinner and lighter iPhone Air. As expected, the bevy of upgrades include a new set of improved cameras across the board, but one early reviewer has spotted a glitch while taking photos,

Yesterday, the official Borderlands X account finally spoke up about the performance issues that gamers have been reporting on console and PC since Borderlands 4 launched, taking a much calmer approach than Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford. Pitchford was making his own headlines, thanks to how angrily he was replying to users posting about the

Earlier today, Intel and NVIDIA announced the two tech giants are planning to co-develop several generations of data center and PC products, with the latter also investing $5 billion into the former’s common stock. Hours later, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and NVIDiA CEO Jensen Huang hosted a webcast to discuss the announcement followed by a Q&A session,

Microsoft recently released an update for the Xbox app designed to make gaming on Windows devices, including handhelds, more convenient. Additionally, the company has been working on a full-screen Xbox experience destined for the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, which was meant to be an exclusive feature to better differentiate the device from competitors.

However,