Earlier this week, the Radeon RX 6700 XT’s IPC and power consumption improvements against its predecessor, the RDA-based 5700 XT. Our tests revealed that the Radeon 6700 XT is significantly more power-efficient than the Radeon 5700 XT when both cards are measured at 1.85GHz. Now we’re taking a fuller look at the RX 6700 XT as compared with the RTX 3070, as well as Nvidia’s previous-generation RTX 2080 and the 5700 XT. The 6700 XT is based on the Navi 22 GPU core. Its performance against the 5700 XT has been of particular interest, as it’s a near-identical replacement for that GPU as far as core resource allocation.
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We’ve all been laser-focused on Mars as a site for future human outposts, but let’s not forget about the . It’s only marginally less habitable than Mars right now, and it’s a lot closer. Thanks to and temperature variation, however, the safest place for a long-term human presence on the Moon might be underground. We don’t know much about the Moon’s subsurface environment, but the same was true of the Moon’s surface in the past. To explore these unseen depths, the European Space Agency is evaluating a spherical robot bristling with spinning cameras. The robot is (Descent And Exploration in Deep Autonomy of Lunar Underground Structures), and it was designed by a team from Germany’s Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU).
Samsung has announced a new 512GB DDR5 module, capable of transfer rates of up to 7200Mbps and built using high-k metal gate technology. Some of you may remember discussions of HKMG from some years ago, when Intel introduced the technology for CPUs, or again during the 28nm/32nm era, when it was discussed as part of the gate-first / gate-last debate. Switching to a high-k dielectric means Samsung has adopted a new material replacement for the silicon dioxide gate dielectric it previously used. This new material — Intel used hafnium in 2007 — has a higher dielectric constant (k) value than the silicon dioxide Samsung likely used previously, which means it leaks less current at the same thickness.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger wants to shift the balance of power in the global semiconductor industry out of Asia. This newfound push for a more balanced global supply chain is part of Intel’s expansion into the client foundry business and the company clearly hopes to capitalize on the perception that current supply chain issues are the result of building too much capacity in the Asia-Pacific region. “Having 80 percent of all supply in Asia simply isn’t a palatable manner for the world to have its view of the most critical technology,” Gelsinger the BBC. ” Every smartphone, every telemedicine, every remote worker, every remote education, every autonomous vehicle, every aspect of humanity is becoming more digital.
NASA is gearing up for a return to the moon, and the communication technology of yesteryear just won’t do. Last year, NASA to begin developing cell towers for the moon. We’re now getting our first hints of how Nokia will go about that thanks to a new interview from Fierce Wireless. , who runs the Enterprise and Industrial Automation Research Lab at Bell Labs, a previously aborted space LTE project has given it a headstart on deploying LTE on the moon. In 2018, Nokia worked with Vodafone and Audi on a private lunar LTE project, but it never came to fruition.
Black holes push our understanding of physics to the very edge. There are plenty of theories about how the universe works near the event horizon of these massive collapsed stars, and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project could tell us which ones are right. The EHT gave us the , the first one ever produced. Now, the team has of the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, revealing magnetic field lines around the void. The Event Horizon Telescope is not a single instrument, but rather a network of radio telescopes spanning the globe. It includes famed facilities like the MIT Haystack Observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.
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Buying a video card has been an exercise in futility for the last year, and don’t hold your breath for it to get better anytime soon. During a recent investor call, MSI chairman Joseph Hsu said the company expects the supply of video cards and other in-demand gaming components will continue to drop. MSI points to dropping shipments from both Nvidia and AMD as the primary culprit, and as a result, even before they get to the resellers who are charging an arm and a leg. Currently, you’d be extremely lucky to find a GPU in stock at any reputable retailer.
