Introduction


Recently the AMD company hasn’t produced anything of such a high level but cutting edge Radeon R9 Fury X accelerator card as it paid more attention to the middle and low-budget segment. But finally after a long announcing Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon RX Vega 56 were officially presented and are being intensively bought.So what are their main characteristics?



Basic Features


No doubt it is a great step forward if to compare with the previous «Polaris 10» and «Fiji» graphic cards. The high-bandwidth cache controller (HBCC) is a serious improvement for using with large asset sizes, but gamers will also appreciate it.Vega RX 56 and 64 have 8 GB of VRAM.Newcomers have the Vega 10 processor in their base. It is a silicon with 64 huge Compute Unit blocks, general potential of 4096 streaming processors and speed memory HBM of the second generation. Vega 10 Processor is grounded on the most progressive version of Graphics Core Next architecture, that of …

Thermaltake Technology, a renowned Taiwanese designer of varied PC hardware pieces, is going to release its new original water-cooling system, codenamed Bigwater 760 Pro. This cooler is targeting powerful processors that require no less powerful cooling. The product demonstrates a wide compatibility with all novel processors that support Socket LGA775, LGA1366, LGA115x, LGA2011, FM1, FM2, AM2(+), and AM3(+).



Bigwater 760 Pro consists of three major parts: waterblock, head block and a couple of hoses. The implemented waterblock features nickeled-copper base of 45x35 mm dimensions. The head block features 252.8x145.8x84 mm dimensions and takes two 5.25-inch bays within the chassis. Its framework involves a pump, a heatsink and a tank for coolant.


The pump is based on a ceramic bearing and produces not more than 16 dB noise. Its performance level achieves 500 liters/hour, while Mean Time Between Failures index is estimated at eighty thousand hours. The integrated heatsink is …

The rising competition between the two giants in the manufacture of processing units, Intel and AMD, makes each of the two invent ever newer technologies and implement them in their products. The attempts to dominate in the market and win as many consumers usually develop into brand new approaches and brand new advanced facilities.



In this light, Intel is going to upgrade its Ivy Bridge processors to make them more power-efficient. But power-efficiency does not imply that processing units will show less performance; quite the contrary, the manufacturer is willing to combine an utmost performance with the maximal power efficiency level.


Currently, the most power-saving processors of Ivy Bridge generation can be found in mobile devices on Windows platform and in Apple MacBook Air devices. Their TDP level is recorded at 17W. As appears from the above mentioned, the TDP level in upgraded Ivy Bridge processors will be lower than 17W, though the developers do not voice the margin …