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Tom's Hardware is a technology-focused online magazine that started in 1996, thanks to its founder, Thomas Pabst. It is currently owned by Purch.

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K performance sees 6% improvement on Linux - Arrow Lake boosts even without new '200S Boost' BIOS

1 day ago | tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm

(Image credit: Tom's Hardware)Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K has been on the streets for six months, and in those six months its performance has improved — if only a little bit. Recent retesting from Phoronix reveals that the Arrow Lake flagship has seen a 6% performance increase on average across a litany of benchmarks on Linux over its original launch testing numbers.
Nvidia's DLSS tech now in over 760 games and apps - native and override DLSS 4 support has broad reach

2 days ago | tomshardware.com | Dallin Grimm

Nvidia has just announced a new list of recently-released and upcoming games with native Nvidia DLSS support, including RuneScape: Dragonwilds. Counting the six new games discussed in Nvidia's newest blog post, DLSS and RTX support is now natively available at some level across 769 video games and applications, a number outpacing AMD and Intel's similar tech by incredible margins. DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, is Nvidia's suite of AI video and rendering upscaling enhancements.
Radeon PRO W9000 GPUs said to use the Navi 48 XTW die, 32GB VRAM - Computex reveal suggested

4 days ago | tomshardware.com | Hassam Nasir

AMD is reportedly preparing to debut its RDNA 4 workstation GPU offerings for desktops, presumably under the Radeon Pro W9000 family. As put forwaard by Hoang Anh Phu, who frequently obtains inside scoops, AMD is considering using the Navi 48 XTW die for its top-end SKUs, paired with 32GB of video memory, likely GDDR6. As always, this leak shouldn't be taken as definitive, but there's likely some truth to it given the proximity of Computex next month, followed by AMD's Advancing AI event in June.
FramePack can generate AI videos locally with just 6GB of VRAM

5 days ago | tomshardware.com | Hassam Nasir

Lvmin Zhang at GitHub, in collaboration with Maneesh Agrawala at Stanford University, has introduced FramePack this week. FramePack offers a practical implementation of video diffusion using fixed-length temporal context for more efficient processing, enabling longer and higher-quality videos. A 13-billion parameter model built using the FramePack architecture can generate a 60-second clip with just 6GB of video memory.
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs will seemingly use a new LGA1954 socket

5 days ago | tomshardware.com | Hassam Nasir

Shipping documents sourced from NBD.ltd purport that Intel might switch to the LGA1954 platform for its next-generation Nova Lake processors on desktop (via Olrak). This is accompanied by PCH tooling likely intended for the 900-series chipsets. Importantly, these listings do not indicate an imminent launch, especially since Nova Lake has officially been confirmed as a 2026 product. Nova Lake is officially a part of Intel's product family, set to supersede Arrow Lake next year.
How to run FreeDOS, an open-source version of DOS, on any PC

5 days ago | tomshardware.com | Les Pounder

I remember using MS-DOS 6.22 on my first PC, a 486 DX 33 with a “massive” 4MB of RAM. It was quite the culture shock, upgrading from a Commodore Amiga 500, and its Workbench graphical operating system, to the text based MS-DOS. I quickly learnt how MS-DOS worked, and because I wanted sound when playing Star Wars: X-Wing, I learnt how to tweak my configuration.
World's fastest Flash memory developed: writes in just 400 picoseconds

6 days ago | tomshardware.com | Kunal Khullar

(Image credit: Fudan University)Setting a new benchmark for Flash memory performance, a team of researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai has developed a super-fast, picosecond-level non-volatile memory device. But what exactly is picosecond-level memory? It refers to memory that can read and write data within one-thousandth of a nanosecond or one-trillionth of a second.
OpenAI spends millions to process polite phrases such as "Thank You" and "Please" with ChatGPT

6 days ago | tomshardware.com | Hassam Nasir

(Image credit: Shutterstock)For all its advanced features, running AI is considerably expensive, necessitating extensive capital for the underlying hardware and power consumption. It turns out that engaging in casual conversation and polite exchanges leads to "tens of millions of dollars" in expenses for companies like OpenAI.
64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9985WX spotted in shipping manifests - 16- and 12-core siblings also spotted

6 days ago | tomshardware.com | Hassam Nasir

Several new Ryzen 9000 Threadripper CPUs have been spotted at trade data aggregator NBD.ltd, thanks to Everest at X. These entries include 64-core, 16-core, and 12-core models, which are reportedly actively being shipped to different facilities, likely for validation and testing. This development does not indicate an imminent launch but rather suggests these CPUs are likely in their final development stages. It's best to approach this leak with some skepticism.
Latest Nvidia drivers boost synthetics by 6-8% on RTX 50 GPUs - Users still report stability woes

6 days ago | tomshardware.com | Hassam Nasir

The latest addition to the Nvidia R570 branch of GPU drivers, 576.02, has resolved many stability problems troubling RTX GPUs for the past three months, including crashes and black screens. Adding to the mix is increased synthetic performance, as reported by ComputerBase, whose data suggests an up to 8% performance bump in 3DMark Steel Nomad. Alas, it's not all sunshine and rainbows, as it appears a new set of stability woes has surfaced with these new drivers, as indicated by user reports.