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n the market for GPUs, prices are extremely high, as the prices are so out of reach. As researchers have been paying attention to the market they have realized that prices are dropping, not slowly either. Many are wondering why. About DIY Brandon Hooper, a computer repair technician computer at Discount Electronics, said tech fans want to building, by an know everything possible about what goes into their enthusiast for computers. enthusiasts. “I like things that are technical,” Hooper said. “I like things I can put my hands on, and every computer has its niche problems.” The key is finding new ways to better what the consumer already has. “I rarely have an issue that’s the same issue and if it is then it’s an easy fix,” Hooper said. “The excitement comes from not knowing why something isn’t working and researching it to figure it out is the motivation of most people who work in tech.” The 2022 Consumer Electronics Show gave customers a preview of the future of technology. With tech company Intel’s 12th gen with the release of the new fastest gaming CPU the 12th gen I9 with the new 12th gen Alder Lake architecture, and the introduction of P (performance) cores and E (efficiency) cores. Performance cores are mainly for games and heavy workloads while efficiency cores are for small tasks like apps loaded in the

background. dramatically reduced the

This is why Hooper and other bandwidth of the card. At the time tech afficionados want to learn of writing, AMD released another more about what is coming out in budget GPU called the 6400xt, its the future. MSRP will be $160. Its performance

“I haven’t done much research is equivalent to that of a GTX 1650, on the 12th and yet I have a 10th gen while only using 56 watts. GPU so I don’t plan on upgrading to too prices are falling for a multitude soon,” Hooper explained. “Maybe a of reasons, firstly TSMC the couple of years from now. I’ll look manufacturer of NVIDIA and AMDs into it. But I don’t. I couldn’t tell GPU chips is increasing production you much about the 12th.” by a whopping 25%. Additionally,

Hooper said this helps in many NVIDIA is preparing to release its ways in improving performance, next-gen 40 series, and, according however some old games that don’t to information leaks published on receive updates won’t be playable hardware website VideoCardz, the on these new CPUs due to the game 40 series is set to be an incredible not knowing what to do with these new cores. Intel released many 12th gen CPUs, according to computer news website 3D Center. This helps a lot with the budget computer situation and gives more options, and highend CPUs. At CES, AMD CPU and - Photo from NVIDIA GPU manufacturer and Nvidia set of cards with unprecedented showed off the RTX 3050 and the performance. The same goes for 6500xt as budget graphics cards. AMD with the 7000 series. The 3050’s MSRP is $240 and the “Any type of manufacturing to 6500xt has an MSRP of $200. The me is a good thing,” Hooper said. release went says source Gamer “The supply on there is so slim that Meld A hardware news YouTuber we just need numbers.” and Linus Tech Tips, the biggest Crypto mining is starting to hardware enthusiast channel as become less and less profitable they both had some weird problems due to Ethereum about to become that just made the unmineable and a Dallas crypto performance miner said “20% of Miners will just worse such stop mining altogether and sell as the their GPUs.” That is a reason why 6500xt’s big GPU’s are dropping in price. problem: AMD Next-gen GPUs are looking Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, to be incredible said holding a future Ryzen Moore’s Law is 7000 CPU. Dead, tech reporter - Photo from AMD on YouTube. NVIDIA - Photo from 40 series will be Linus Sebastian on TSMC’s 5nm or 4nm (Leakers seem to not have a confirmation of which one) manufacturing and are to be very powerful as is stated by Moore’s Law is Dead. The 4060 is projected to be faster than a 3090, according to the VideoCardz leak, with the 4090 being more than twice as powerful as the 3090.

However, this comes at a cost, according to YouTuber Gamer Meld Tech. With the new PCIe gen 4 8-pin connector, just one of these new connectors can give as much as 600 watts. High-end EVGA 4090’s have two of these connectors on the card. The 40 series cards, due to information leaks are going to take in a massive amount of power. and those who want a 4090TI in the USA might have to upgrade their house, as the USA outlet only gives what Gamer Meld Tech called a “measly” 1800 watts and 20 amps. For creators that might want two 4090 Ti GPU’s, they would need a socket that could supply 3000 watts. As for AMD, the 7900 xt is looking to be more powerful than the 4090 but more power-efficient. It is also going to be a multi-chip module design. It will have seven chips, making it an exceptionally powerful card for work.

“Any manufacturing of a card at all is to be a good thing,” Hooper said. “It doesn’t matter what price range it is if there is a graphics card being manufactured. I don’t think I care too much about the series or the increments of the steps. I just think that they should be produced in a large quantity. And if that if producing a lower in graphics card means that they can produce more of them, then I would say that that’s a good thing.”