The focus of the week was the annual Santa Claus competition on ComputerBase, in which there is a high-end gaming PC to be won this year as well. There will be a new question every day until December 12th, after which they can be answered until December 17th, after which the winner will be drawn.
The gaming PC is assembled by Caseking and primarily relies on high-end hardware. Not only will there be a new question every day, but the components will also be revealed one by one. The heart of the computer is an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X on an Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus, which will do its work in a Corsair 5000D Airflow. 2 × 16 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB with DDR5-6000 and the very low timings of CL30-36-36-76 at 1.4 volts as well as a 1 TB Corsair MP600 Pro NH M.2-NVMe will be installed. However, the graphics card used will not be revealed until December 12th.
Intel's Arc is getting better, but still has a long way to go
The post-test of the Intel Arc A770 and the Arc A750 with a newer driver attracted just as much attention. They show slightly better performance than the launch, but are still clearly inferior to competing AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. Both in terms of performance, stability and price. The overall package is still inconsistent, no point speaks for the Intel GPUs.
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TSMC continues to expand US factory
The news that TSMC will massively expand the previously planned small Fab 21 in the desert state of Arizona with a lot of money has attracted a lot of attention. Instead of 12 billion US dollars, a total of 40 billion US dollars will be invested, resulting in 600,000 wafers per year including the latest N3 chips.
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- 4 Radeon RX 7900 XTX First benchmarks should be treated with caution 76%
- 5 Dwarf Fortress Positive Steam reviews prevail 70%
- 6 AMD Ryzen 7000 Three 65-Watt CPUs are said to flank three X3Ds 61%
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- 8 Better euro rate Nvidia gives five percent discount on RTX 4000 57%
AMD's RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT will start next week
Next week will see the launch of AMD's high-end graphics cards based on the new RDNA 3 architecture, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the Radeon RX 7900 XT. AMD is attacking Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4080 and wants to outperform the long-term competition for 999 or 899 US dollars (before taxes). As usual, an extensive test on ComputerBase will clarify whether this succeeds.
With this reading material in your luggage, the editors wish you a relaxing Sunday!