Last week, the PC industry was still very lively, especially the GPU industry was exciting, semiconductor giant Intel officially became a new player in the independent graphics market; Moore Threading Company, founded by former NVIDIA executives, launched the first domestic GPU; Apple launched the official version of the MacBook Pro using M1 series chips, see below for details.
Intel Sharp Mobile Discrete Graphics is officially launched
On March 30, Intel officially announced the code name of Alchemy's Ruixuan discrete graphics card, the first batch of products is A series mobile graphics cards, divided into 3/5/7 series, the first model Ruixuan A370M compared with The Sharp Moment Xe core graphics card has a significant improvement in 1080p game performance, content creation and other aspects. Laptops equipped with Intel Iris 3 series discrete graphics have begun to be shipped.
Spicy cool comment: Intel has become a new player in the independent graphics card market, which is definitely a good thing for the majority of consumers, helping us to bring down the price of graphics cards, of course, this largely depends on the performance of the sharp desktop graphics card launched in the second half of this year.
· NVIDIA King GeForce RTX 3090Ti is available on sale for 14999
NVIDIA announced at the beginning of this year GeForce RTX 3090Ti graphics card is finally officially available, as the top flagship in the RTX30 series, RTX 3090 Ti uses a full ampere GA102 core, the number of CUDA cores is as high as 10752, 256 more than the RTX3090, with 84 RT Cores light chasing cores, the default core frequency is increased to 1560-1860MHz, equipped with 384-bit 24GB GDDR6X video memory with error correction code (ECC), with a memory rate of up to 21Gbps, a bandwidth of more than 1TB/s, a power consumption of up to 450W, and an official recommended retail price of 14,999 yuan.
Major AIC brands, including ASUS, Rainbow, MSI, Yingchi, Gigabyte, EVGA, etc., a number of non-public RTX 3090Ti products have been launched. Although the RTX 3090Ti is only about 10% higher in performance than the RTX3090, the price is 3,000 yuan more expensive, which is obviously for enthusiasts and professional users.
Spicy cool comment: The belated arrival of the Kahuang RTX 3090 Ti marks the official completion of the RTX30 family, with the wave of graphics card price increases in several years, will the RTX40 series that will be launched this year return to normal pricing? That's a problem.
Domestic GPU debut! Moore Thread launches the first MUSA architecture product
On the same day that Intel's Iris Unique Display was announced, Moore Threads, founded by former NVIDIA global vice president Zhang Jianzhong, released the MUSA unified system architecture and launched two full-featured GPU chips based on this architecture, including the desktop graphics card MTT S60 for PCs and workstations and the graphics rendering and computing card MTT S2000 for data centers, which is a bombshell for the domestic GPU market.
Spicy cool comment: Moore thread in just 18 months launched the first mass production GPU products, and cover both consumer and enterprise products, is indeed a great achievement, of course, there are also netizens said that it is because of the purchase of Imagination PowerVR GPU IP core to have such a speed, this model is also commonplace in the GPU industry, after all, there are few in the world that can develop their own GPU cores.
· The AMD 5nm Ryzen™ 7000 mass production is about to be the AM5 platform motherboard also on the road
According to recent news, AMD's Zen 4 architecture processor codenamed Raphael, the Ryzen 7000 series processor using the 5nm process process is scheduled to start mass production in May, and the chip packaging plant is ready. The Ryzen™ 7000 series processors will feature an LGA1718 interface with a maximum core count of 16 and a maximum frequency of 5.0GHz.
The Ryzen™ 7000 series processor is expected to be officially released in the third quarter of this year, and the accompanying motherboard samples with socket SOCKET AM5 will soon be produced. It is reported that the AM5 platform will be compatible with the existing AM4 slot and support the latest DDR5 memory technology as well as the PCIe Gen5 standard.
Spicy Cool Review: AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series desktop processors have performed so well since their release that AMD has not had a power update for more than 1 year. Until the launch of Intel 12th Generation Core, it was slightly weak, can the Ryzen™ 7000 turn over? We'll see.
Apple launched M1 Pro/Max official remake price of the new machine 10% off
On April 2, Apple launched several new models of official models on the official website in the United States, including the 14-inch/16-inch MacBook Pro model equipped with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
Among them, the 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the M1 Pro chip costs $1799, which is about a 90% discount compared to the price of the new machine '1999, which is $200 cheaper, while the official version of the 16-inch MacBook Pro using the M1 Max chip can save up to $350.
Spicy cool comment: The quality of Apple's official flip Mac is still relatively guaranteed, and interested partners can wait for the domestic official version to be listed, after all, the price of 90% off is still a bit tempting.
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