Intel ARC graphics cards support 10-bit HDR color, which is hard coded at the hardware level. Sadly, there is no 10-bit SDR color support over the DP port. Several tickets have been issued in Intel’s forum, but there is still no solution. To make things worse, Intel uses a PCON converter for the HDMI connection, … Read more
For a long time, I thought that TDP is the power consumption of a CPU. I was wrong, TDP is not the CPU’s power consumption even though both are measured in Watts. Not only the CPUs, but we also have TDP figures in GPU and SOC as well. To make things more confusing, Intel and AMD … Read more
Have you ever checked your CPU temperature after hours of heavy gaming or CPU-intensive rendering/ video editing applications? If the answer is no, you can check your CPU’s temperature in BIOS/UEFI or use any third-party software such as HWMonitor, Core Temp, etc. If you’re running at 50-60OC, then you’re good to go, but when you … Read more
You can get a top-tier Nvidia/AMD gaming graphics card for $1500, but top workstation cards cost almost 3X-5X of its gaming variants. If you wonder why these professional graphics cards are so expensive even though they use the same graphics processor? Well, they aren’t exactly the same and their target audiences are also different. Both … Read more