Tag: 7nm

Intel’s unified its Arc desktop and laptop GPU drivers ‘on a technical basis’ but manufacturer updates are still going to lag behind

Intel’s technically unified both its Arc discrete and integrated graphics drivers, meaning that all the performance boosts we’ve seen benefitting the Arc A750 and A770 (less said about the Arc A580 the better) will arrive on its new integrated GPUs around the same time.  Intel has just announced, and effectively released its new Core Ultra […]

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Intel’s slapped a 16GB dual-channel minimum entry requirement on Core Ultra laptops if you want top gaming performance

If you want your shiny new Intel Core UItra laptop to come with an equally shiny Arc Graphics badge, then you’re going to need to make sure you have at least 16GB of memory inside your machine and that it’s configured in dual-channel mode, too. One of the exciting things about the new Meteor Lake […]

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Intel’s new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks

Intel has taken the wraps off its new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra laptop CPUs, and it’s aiming these low-power chips squarely at my favourite AMD chip of all time—the Ryzen 7 7840U. That’s the similarly low-power Zen 4 processor at the heart of the latest Framework 13 mainboard, but also every single non-Valve handheld gaming […]

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