Daily Tech News 13 April 2023

• Nvidia's RTX 4070 is here and it's not terrible. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's as fast as the previous generation's RTX 3080 while being $100 cheaper and using 40% less power, or to put it another way, 20% more expensive and 30% faster than the RTX 3070.
  
  It has 12GB of VRAM as standard which is enough in most cases, but I wouldn't buy an 8GB card for a system I wanted to use for gaming. (A cheap 8GB card for light gaming is a different matter.)
  
  It's a regular two-slot card rather than the monstrous three-slot models that Nvidia and its partners have been shipping lately, and though Nvidia recommends a 650W power supply and it includes a 300W-rated 12-pin power connector, it should run in pretty much any system built in recent memory.
  
  Paired with a Ryzen 7900 (65W based power, around 90W peak) it should provide a almost reasonably priced and very capable system for serious work and what was high end gaming just a few months ago while running happily on a 450W power supply.

• Something that isn't reasonably priced is Intel's new Xeon W-2400 CPUs. The 24 core model - which is the cheapest one in the range that has a chance of being faster than a Ryzen 7950X - costs nearly three times as much as a 7950X; four times as much as a 7900.
  
  Scratch that idea.
  
  
  
• The EU says Broadcom's proposed acquisition of VMWare could restrict competition... In the Fiber Channel HBA market. (Reuters)
  
  Dire news for both the people still using Fiber Channel.
  
  
  
• The liquidators sent in to salvage what remained of FTX have apparently actually been doing their jobs. (Reuters)
  
  So far they've recovered $7.3 billion of about $10 billion that disappeared, which rather justifies the no doubt hefty fees they are receiving.
  
  
  
• The ACCC (Australia's equivalent to the FTC, more or less) wants new powers to crack down on online businesses. (The Guardian)
  
  Get fu-
  
  That deliberately make it hard to cancel subscriptions.
  
  Understandable. Have a nice day.
  
  
  
• NPR has become the first "major" "news" organisation to leave Twitter, flouncing off the platform after being accurately labelled as state-affiliated media. (The Verge)
  
  Lol, as the kids are wont to say. Lmao.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:56 AM

| Access Comments