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Microsoft DirectX update drastically boosts ray tracing performance while reducing VRAM usage by up to 90%

Microsoft has two new tricks up its sleeve to boost ray tracing performance, Clustered Geometry and Partitioned TLAS.
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Tape is back – Fujifilm boosts production by 5x, as AI storage demands boom

Fujifilm says it's responding to demand for secure offline storage that can house huge amounts of data, beefing up its Ultrium10 magnetic tape production.
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AMD may be planning another Radeon GPU price hike in November

Prices of AMD Radeon GPU and GDDR6 memory price bundles are reportedly about to go up for graphics card makers, adding to previous hikes.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 24GB could arrive in time for Christmas, as 16GB inventory reportedly runs dry

Nvidia has allegedly cleared its stock of RTX 5080 16GB graphics cards in China, paving the way for its long-rumoured 24GB Super refresh.
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Phantom Blade Zero dev claims latest Nvidia GPU driver is unstable, suggests rollback for stable performance

Nvidia Game Ready Driver 621.01 apparently exhibits performance instabilities in Phantom Blade Zero.
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Discord to allow public server messages to be searchable through Google

Discord is set to let Google and other search engines trawl its public server messages, starting in December 2026, but you can opt out.
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AMD FSR 4.1 upscaling on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs looks every bit as good as we hoped

RDNA 2 desktop graphics cards just got a major upscaling boost, as AMD's work to bring FSR 4.1 to older stock bears fruit.
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Intel is reportedly cooking up two new mobile CPU series, with power draw as low as 6W

Intel is apparently readying Moon Lake and Wildcat Lake Refresh chips, combining four LPE cores with different P-Core configurations.
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AMD finally fixes FSR Frame Generation smoothness, but there’s a big caveat

AMD fixes the ML-based FSR 4 Frame Generation on Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs.
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