There’s a lot of enthusiasm surrounding AMD’s next-gen desktop CPUs, which were announced for a release at the end of this month. I’m sorry to report that you’ll need to curb it,…
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Watch Gordon’s Snapdragon X Elite deep-dive with benchmarks and tests galore
Microsoft is making a big push to get Windows laptops running Arm hardware, the same transition that Apple made over four years ago. Qualcomm is partner in the effort, putting its flagship…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 promises 85% more PC performance
On Wednesday, Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor platform for PCs, claiming that the chip will offer up to 85 percent more performance than the prior generation. That’s good, given…
Razer and Qualcomm show off a Snapdragon-powered Steam Deck clone
AMD’s semi-custom chips power both the Xbox and PlayStation, as well as Valve’s hotly anticipated Steam Deck. Qualcomm’s processors can be found inside many phones, including those designed for gaming. Now Qualcomm…
Qualcomm’s next Snapdragon promises always-on smartphone cameras
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile processor for smartphones at the Qualcomm Tech Summit in Hawaii late on Tuesday, adding substantially more performance and AI-powered features to 2022 smartphones. However,…
Qualcomm prophesizes 2023 as the rebirth of PC Snapdragon chips
Qualcomm processors for PCs enhanced by the company’s Nuvia design team will sample in 2022 for devices shipping in 2023, Qualcomm executives said Tuesday. The company also boldly pledged to offer Adreno…
The Full Nerd awards: Our favorite PC hardware of 2021
Despite the chaos of the pandemic, 2020 worked out to be an excellent year for new PC hardware. But that momentum sadly did not carry into 2021, as chip shortages and supply…
The Full Nerd ep. 197: The Best PC Hardware of 2021
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, Keith May, and Adam Patrick Murray hash out the best PC hardware of 2021. It’s immediately fireworks as…
The Full Nerd. ep. 196: Intel 12th gen Alder Lake
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Dr. Ian Cuttress of Tech Tech Potato and Anandtech.com, and Adam Patrick Murray go over Intel’s 12th-gen Alder Lake CPU performance and a…
Dozens of games don’t work on 12th-gen Intel CPUs, but there’s a fix
Denuvo, a popular but resource-intensive digital rights management program, has been the bane of PC gamers for years. With the recent introduction of Intel’s impressive new 12th-gen processors, it looks like gamers…