Daily Tech News 24 February 2023

• If you're looking for a workstation that you can pick up and take with you AMD's new "Dragon Range" 7945HX could be the CPU for you. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  On single-threaded tasks it's 25% faster than last year's 6900HX, but on multi-threaded workloads it's twice as fast. Which it should be, because the 6900HX has eight cores and the 7945HX has sixteen.
  
  Which is a lot for a laptop. Intel's 13980HX has 24 cores, but 16 of those are half-speed Efficiency cores, so the two CPUs offer roughly the same performance.
  
  These should be roughly the speed of the 12 core desktop Ryzen 7900, and at least on the AMD side use a similar amount of power - the 7900 is the low-power version of the 7900X. The Intel laptop chip has a peak power consumption of 157W compared to 89W for the desktop 7900.

• G.Skill has announced a range of DDR5 registered ECC RAM for servers and more significantly workstations like Intel's new W-2400 and W-3400 range. (WCCFTech)
  
  Good, because I literally couldn't find anything suitable at any of the usual places - not Amazon, not Newegg, not Micro Center.
  
  
  
• How are Intel's Arc graphics cards holding up after a few months of driver updates? (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Pretty good. Performance on current games is down slightly, but older games that still use DirectX 9 run an average of 77% faster.
  
  Also they've cut the price on the A750, making it a reasonably attractive option.
  
  
  

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