Qualcomm released a beta Adreno Control Panel for Snapdragon X Elite laptops, letting users adjust game settings for better performance. The new tool works like control panels from NVIDIA and AMD, offering choices for texture filtering, frame rate limits, and other graphics options. Users can create custom profiles for different games and apply them as needed. The most helpful feature might be Video Super Resolution, which acts similar to NVIDIA DLSS or AMD FSR technology.
Current tests show these laptops can run Baldur's Gate 3 at 30 frames per second and Control at 40 frames per second with lowered settings. These results fall short compared to dedicated graphics cards from other companies. Qualcomm seems committed to gaming on its...
Ubisoft plans to release a Director's Cut of Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, insider Tom Henderson reports. The game came out in December 2023 after six years of work at Ubisoft Massive. Critics gave it mixed reviews, with some rating it 7.5 out of 10. Sales fell short of company hopes despite the famous movie brand behind it.
The team kept adding features after launch with two paid add-ons called The Sky Breaker and Secrets of the Spires. These extra packs let players fly on banshees, fight against supply planes, meet new Na'vi groups, and explore tall mountain areas. The Director's Cut will likely contain all this extra content, with other improvements.
Ubisoft probably wants this new version to coincide with the release of the next...
DOOM: The Dark Ages reached 3 million players, making it the fastest launch in series history. Players joined the game seven times faster than they did with DOOM Eternal. The new game landed on Game Pass right away, unlike Eternal, which came out before Microsoft bought Bethesda. This makes direct comparisons between the two games harder to judge fairly.
Steam users gave the game 86% positive reviews. Critic Chris Wray rated it 8.5 out of 10, calling it a very good game that pulls back from Eternal toward the feel of DOOM 2016. He praised the long campaign with over twenty stages but noted a few small problems. NVIDIA plans to add path tracing to the game next month. The update will also bring DLSS Ray Reconstruction for better...
AMD plans to launch FSR Redstone later this year with three new features. The update brings Neural Radiance Cache to track light bounces in game scenes. It adds Ray Regeneration tech that helps fix pixels that computers cannot trace well. AMD also aims to make frame generation work better through machine learning.
These changes will help games look better and run faster on AMD cards. FSR 4 has already worked with almost 60 games since its release. When Redstone arrives, it will only work on new RDNA 4 graphics cards at first. The company might add support for older cards later. AMD showed these new tools to developers at Computex this week. The Neural Radiance Cache works like what NVIDIA uses in Portal RTX but is made for AMD...
AMD showed off its new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 CPU family at Computex. These chips use the Zen 5 core design for faster speeds. The lineup comes in PRO models for high-end work needs and regular models for builders and home users.
AMD sells six PRO models with 12 to 96 cores. The top PRO 9995WX reaches 5.45 GHz with 384 MB cache and works with eight memory channels. Regular Threadripper 9000 CPUs come with 24, 32, or 64 cores at the same 350-watt power level. These models support four memory channels instead of eight.
The PRO chips contain 12 core chiplets around a center IO die, while regular models use eight chiplets in a unique layout. All these processors work with DDR5-6400 memory and have full AVX-512 support. Stores will start...
AMD just released its new mainstream graphics card, the Radeon RX 9060 XT. The card comes with either 8 GB or 16 GB of memory for gamers who want good value. It uses the smaller Navi 44 chip with 2048 cores made on a 4nm process. The card runs at super-fast speeds up to 3.13 GHz, the highest ever for a standard graphics card. Power needs range from 150 to 182 watts, depending on which memory size you pick.
The RX 9060 XT connects through PCIe 5.0 and offers modern display outputs like DisplayPort 2.1a. AMD says the 16 GB model beats the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB from NVIDIA by about 6 percent. The company claims this makes their card 15 percent better value than what the competition offers. Buyers can find the 8 GB version for $299 and the 16...
AMD just announced its first RDNA 4 graphics card made for AI work. The new Radeon AI PRO R9700 comes with 32 GB of memory, double what the RX 9070 XT offers. It uses the Navi 48 chip with 4096 stream processors and 128 AI accelerators. The card needs up to 300 watts of power during heavy tasks.
The R9700 can handle top AI models because of its large memory size. AMD says it runs twice as fast as the older W7800 card when running DeepSeek R1. It beats the RTX 5080 in some tests because that card has only 16 GB of memory. Users can link four R9700 cards together for a total of 128 GB of memory.
Computer makers like ASUS, Gigabyte, and Sapphire will sell the card starting in July. The design uses two slots with a blower-style cooler...
Elon Musk plans to keep working with the Trump White House despite earlier hints that his job there was almost complete. He told reporters at the Qatar Economic Forum he will spend a few days at the White House every few weeks. Tesla sales dropped about 10 percent early this year as the company updated Model Y production lines. Many buyers also turned away because of his political role and his support for far-right groups in German elections.
Musk claims Tesla sales have already started growing again, except in Europe. When asked about combining Tesla with xAI, he said he has no current plans for such a merger. His company, xAI, recently bought the social media platform X in a deal that valued X at $45 billion before its $12 billion...
Google showed off its Android XR glasses at I/O 2025 today. These mixed-reality glasses come with mics, cameras, and speakers for daily tasks. With an optional in-lens display, users can pick how deep they want to go into the virtual world. The glasses let people use their phone features without pulling them from their pockets.
Fashion brands Warby Parker and Gentle Monster help make the glasses look stylish for everyday wear. The smart eyewear can take voice commands, help with walking directions, and remember things you saw earlier. They know what goes on around you and respond to that context.
Samsung joins Google to expand beyond headsets into these new glasses. Developers can start making apps for this system later this year...
