At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Qualcomm took its usual timetabled opportunity to reveal its next-gen platform: the Snapdragon 888 Plus. So what can you expect from this mid-season bump to the top-tier processor in 2021? Qualcomm is saying there’s over a 20 per cent improvement …
Yesterday we reported that a set of benchmarks showed that Windows 11 was up to 15% faster than Windows 10. Today we have Hot Hardware posting their own set of benchmarks, which appear to show the same boost in performance. The site specifically tested to see …
Dell recently announced the Alienware X15 and Alienware X17 lineups of slim performance/gaming laptops, and I wanted to quickly go over these, as they seem to be some of the more powerful portable notebooks of this generation, mostly thanks to their complex thermal module with no …
RTX 3000 laptops have been available for a couple of months now. Still, as they always do, Nvidia first launched their higher-tier (and expensive) RTX 3080 and 3070 SKUs, later followed by the mid-tier 3060 models and only a few months later by the true-value chips, …
Phison kicked off the transition to PCIe 4.0 for storage in 2019, and dominated the high-end SSD market for over a year with the only available PCIe 4.0 solution. There are now several competing PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs and controllers that handily outperform the Phison E16, …
Some Windows users reported game performance issues after installation of the Windows 10 updates KB5000842 and KB5001330. The updates were released in March and April of 2021 to devices running Windows 10 version 2004, 20H2 and 21H1. Ashwin wrote about the game performance issues caused by …
Microsoft is testing a new feature in the Canary version of its Edge web browser. Called performance mode, it is designed to optimize the browser’s performance. The feature is being rolled out in Canary builds at the time of writing, We spotted it in Edge Version …
Microsoft released the KB5001330 Windows Update this Tuesday, which brought many security fixes. Unfortunately it also seems to have introduced some issues, at least on some devices. A handful of users on reddit have reported that the latest update causes performance drops in games. The troubles …
Earlier this week we asked — slightly tongue-in-cheek — what problems would be caused by this month’s Patch Tuesday updates. As the weekend crests the horizon, we have our answer, and this time around it is the Edge-killing KB5001330 update that is proving problematic. And the …