Nvidia shows off GeForce Trading Cards Series 1 — collectible cards show off games, GPUs, and tech demos, and will be available for free at upcoming events

Nvidia is creating a set of collectible trading cards that will be given away for free during live events and giveaways this summer.

AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Point 10-core APU pops up on Geekbench — chip is faster than Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & even Ryzen AI Max+ 395
AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 Medusa Point 10-core APU pops up on Geekbench — chip is faster than Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & even Ryzen AI Max+ 395

A new 10-core engineering sample from AMD has surfaced on Geekbench, being identified as part of the Medusa Point family. It’s likely the Ryzen AI 9 565 and its scores easily beat the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and even the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 in certain benchmarks.

AMD EXPO ULL shows middling performance gains in initial tests despite eye-watering price increase — first benchmarks show up to a 4% improvement with DDR5-6000 CL36
AMD EXPO ULL shows middling performance gains in initial tests despite eye-watering price increase — first benchmarks show up to a 4% improvement with DDR5-6000 CL36

The first independent benchmarks for AMD’s EXPO ULL memory are available, showing just up to a 4% improvement despite an increase in price.

Cooler Master V4 and V8 3DHP Review: A masterful engineering achievement
Cooler Master V4 and V8 3DHP Review: A masterful engineering achievement

Cooler Master’s 3DHP heatpipes, in its Master V4 and V8 coolers, are the biggest advancement in air cooling technology in years. But early adoption comes at a price.

Nvidia touts Vera CPU’s single-threaded performance as its agentic AI advantage, reveals next-gen ‘Rigel’ Arm CPU cores — frames chip as a ‘max single-threaded CPU at scale,’ not a parallel monster
Nvidia touts Vera CPU’s single-threaded performance as its agentic AI advantage, reveals next-gen ‘Rigel’ Arm CPU cores — frames chip as a ‘max single-threaded CPU at scale,’ not a parallel monster

Nvidia lifts the veil a little bit more on its Vera CPU and reveals a single-thread performance monster — company claims a 1.8x uplift versus x86 competition in agentic workloads and 1.5x in coding.

Unannounced Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs appear in Seasonic PSU calculator — unreleased graphics cards shown with 10-17% higher TGP over original models
Unannounced Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs appear in Seasonic PSU calculator — unreleased graphics cards shown with 10-17% higher TGP over original models

Total graphics power figures for Nvidia’s unanounced, unreleased RTX 50 Super-series graphics cards have appeared in Seasonic’s PSU capacity calculator, revealing potentially higher TGPs of those products.

AVX-512 support is reportedly returning with Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake CPUs — Latest Linux kernel patches reveal P-cores and E-cores will gain native 512-bit execution
AVX-512 support is reportedly returning with Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake CPUs — Latest Linux kernel patches reveal P-cores and E-cores will gain native 512-bit execution

It looks like Intel is adding back AVX-512 support to its client CPUs starting from the upcoming Nova Lake desktop lineup. Previously, we expected to see AVX-256 debut on a consumer family, allowing E-cores to execute 256-bit code, but now it seems that even the E-cores will gain native 512-bit registers.