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WEBIntel Core Ultra 200V enters the new ASUS Zenbook S 14 and ExpertBook P series in addition to the Vivobook S 14 for a refersh. by Calvin Liew. September 5, 2024. ASUS concluded its IFA 2024 conference by unveiling a lineup of new products, with a particular focus on laptops powered...
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X & 9950X Hands-On Test - Tech Critter
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Next, we evaluated the Ryzen 9 9950X, comparing it to the current top-tier CPUs from AMD and Intel, specifically the Ryzen 9 7950X and Core i9-14900K. In the 7-Zip compression and decompression benchmark, the Ryzen 9 9950X outperformed the 7950X in both tasks, though the margin of victory wasn’t substantial.
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Hands-On Test - Tech Critter
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Synthetic Benchmark. Starting with our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X exhibited strong single-core performance, though it didn’t significantly surpass the Ryzen 7 7700X or Intel Core i7-14700K in our tests. It’s important to note that these results were obtained using a test BIOS provided by AMD and the …
Gigabyte Z690 AORUS Xtreme Hands-On and Overview - Tech …
WEBNov 5, 2021 · Looking at the power design, the Z690 AORUS Xtreme comes with a pair of 8-pin EPS 12V and a 20+1+2 Direct Digital VRM Design. It might seem like a minor upgrade from the Z590 but it’s not exactly like that. A closer look at the components shows that the power design on the Z690 AORUS Xtreme has an array of the RAA22010540 MOSFET from Renesas ...
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT Performance Overview & Hands-On - Tech Critter
WEBJul 7, 2020 · The Ryzen 7 3800XT does have a slightly higher boost clock of 4.7GHz as compared to the non-XT variant, but that applies only to single-core performance on a specific core that only kicks when necessary. For most of the tests we’ve done, the Ryzen 7 3800XT will boost up to 4.36GHz on all its cores during load instead of going all the way up ...
AMD Radeon RX 6800 16GB Performance Review - Tech Critter
WEBNov 18, 2020 · Radeon RX 6800 vs. GeForce GTX 3070 Founders Edition (3840 x 2160) Just like what AMD has claimed, the RX 6800 packs quite a performance that can easily overpower the previous-gen RTX 2080 Ti from NVIDIA, which is the flagship GPU from the green team at that time. For the RTX 3070 which has a very similar performance as the RTX 2080 Ti, the RX ...
Intel Core i9-14900K Review - Tech Critter
WEBOct 17, 2023 · Starting off with the synthetic benchmarks, I can say that the Core i9-14900K is not exactly overpowered the rest of the CPUs we have used for the tests. In 7zip, the Core i9-14900K is performing 11% better than the Core i9-13900K in decompression performance. On the AMD side, the Ryzen 9 7950X and 7950X3D still …
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Performance Review & Hands-On - Tech …
WEBNov 5, 2020 · Bumping up the clock from 4.6GHz to 4.7GHz requires a surprisingly big increase on the Vcore, going from 1.21V to 1.36V is the only way to get our Ryzen 9 5900X to run stable on 4.7GHz. At this frequency, the maximum load temperature record is already spiking up to 89°C, and that’s definitely something …
MSI MPG Z690 FORCE WIFI Hands-On & Overview - Tech Critter
WEBNov 12, 2021 · Of course, the Z690 FORCE WIFI has other noteworthy features as well – 10 USB ports, 2.5 GbE LAN, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, five M.2 slots. Despite the seemingly limited result we have on the memory overclocking part, the performance is reasonable for most use cases. As the 12th gen Intel Core processors, …
ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore Hands-On Review - Tech …
WEBOct 18, 2023 · The Maximus Z790 Apex Encore is one of the Z790 refresh motherboards in the ROG lineup, alongside the Maximus Z790 Formula, and Maximus Z790 Dark Hero but unlike the white colored theme Z790 Apex, ASUS went back to the black colored theme that many of us are familiar with. As we have used the Z790 Apex for a lot of our DDR5 memory tests, we’re looking forward to seeing what kind of ...