Nintendo officially unveils the Switch OLED console
Not the update all have been waiting for
Nintendo has officially announced the refreshed Nintendo Switch OLED console which will be launching on October 8th with a $349.99 price tag. Unfortunately, the new Switch OLED only got an updated screen, audio, stand, and dock, and there are no other hardware and/or performance updates.
Powercolor lists RX 6600 series on its website
Impending launch
AMD's AIB partner, Powercolor, has jumped the gun and briefly listed the Radeon RX 6600 series on its website, suggesting that the official launch is just around the corner.
AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT render leaks online
Single-fan and 8-pin power connector
A rendering of what appears to be the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT has leaked online, showing a dual-slot graphics card with a single center-placed fan and a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.
Seagate rolls out FireCuda 530 PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD at SG21
Phison controller and Micron's 3D TLC NAND
During SG1, Seagate has unveiled its latest flagship SSD, the FireCuda PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD, reaching a sequential performance of up to 7,300/6,900 MB/s, thanks to Phison controller and 176L 3D TLC NAND.
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 888+ 5G SoC
Cortex-X1 almost hits 3GHz
Qualcomm has kicked off the first day of Mobile World Congress with its higher-clocked Snapdragon 888+ 5G SoC, which is pretty much identical as the Snapdragon 888 but with a higher clocked Cortex-X1 core.
Lian Li launches new 750W SFX PSU, the SP750
Fully modular PSU
Lian Li has announced a new SFX form-factor PSU, the 750W SP750, which packs some high-end components and high power output in a compact SFX form-factor, 80 PLUS Gold certification, as well as offering a fully modular design.
3DMark gets the new CPU benchmark
Available in 3DMark Advanced and Professional Edition
UL Benchmarks has expanded 3DMark to include a set of dedicated CPU benchmarks, which shows the CPU performance scaling across a number of cores and threads and that allows gamers to check if their CPU is performing as expected, as well as giving overclockers a way to measure the performance gain.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution coming to Xbox
Valve also adds it to DOTA 2
It appears that AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) will be coming to Xbox consoles as it is has already been made available to preview in Xbox GDK.
Western Digital preparing update for WD Black SN850 SSD
One for AMD's X570 platform
Western Digital is apparently working on a firmware update for WD Black SN850 M.2 NVMe SSD that should fix issues that this drive has on AMD X570 chipset motherboards.
MSI launches CMP 50HX MINER card
Packs 3584 CUDA cores
MSI has unveiled its newest cryptomining-oriented graphics card, the CMP 50XH MINER, featuring 10GB of GDDR6 memory and 3584 CUDA cores.