Nvidia video cards of the new generation are credited with incredible gluttony up to 600 watts of power consumption. True, the latest data allows us to hope that at least the GeForce RTX 4090 will require only 450 watts. But the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, if it comes out, will obviously consume more.

One would think that a card with such appetites could only have a liquid or, in extreme cases, a hybrid approval, but perhaps an air one would suffice. This is indicated by photos of the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti Founders Edition cooler, which appeared on the Web today.

Without a direct comparison, it is not so easy to estimate the dimensions, but you can still see that the radiator is huge. It’s very big on current top Nvidia cards, but here it’s even bigger.

At the same time, one can only guess whether even such a monstrous CO is enough to cool a card with a consumption of 600 W.

It also cannot be ruled out that this is just one of the prototypes of the cooler, and as a result the card will receive a different CO. Also, it could be a fake. But it is worth remembering that the photos of the GeForce RTX 3080 cooler at one time also appeared long before the announcement of the video cards themselves.

Asus today introduced several new products, including the ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE, one of the company’s most powerful and most expensive laptops. So, it is built on a 16-core Core i9-12950HX processor, the most powerful representative of the Alder Lake-S line.

Recall that the Core i9-12950HX debuted last week. Its configuration includes 8 high-performance cores up to 5 GHz and 8 energy-efficient cores up to 3.6 GHz, as well as 30 MB of L3 cache. There are two options for discrete graphics accelerators: the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory in the base version and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 16 GB of its own memory in the top version. In both cases, the battery capacity was 90 Wh.

There are also two screen options: Full HD with a frame rate of 360 Hz and coverage of 100% of the sRGB color space or QHD with a frame rate of 240 Hz and coverage of 100% of the DCI-P3 color space.

There are two slots for RAM modules, you can install 64 GB of DDR5 memory. There are also two slots for M.2 drives, you can install two 2 TB SSDs. There are also Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6E adapters, HDMI 2.1 video output, RJ-45 network port, USB-C with Thunderbolt 4, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (DisplayPort 1.4/Power Delivery) and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A.

Model dimensions – 395 x 282.1 x 23.4-28.3 mm, weight – 3 kg. The ROG Strix SCAR 17 SE will be available in Europe in the third quarter of 2022 starting at €3,200.

Phoenix generation Ryzen 7000 mobile processors are credited with incredibly powerful iGPUs. But these APUs may turn out to be even more interesting than previously thought.

Recall that these will be processors based on the Zen 4 architecture. The iGPU of the top models will supposedly have 1536 stream processors, which is twice as much as the Ryzen 7 6800U. This alone is enough to take iGPU performance to a whole new level. But lately, rumors have attributed to the new products a graphics core based on the RDNA 3 architecture. In this case, the performance gain will obviously be much more than twofold.

Now, an insider who has accurately described data about AMD video cards and processors many times has said that mobile Ryzen 7000 can also get a 3D V-Cache chip. This is allegedly indicated by information directly from the factory.

However, it is not clear whether this cache will work with the CPU or with the GPU. In the second case, it will be almost the same as Infinity Cache for Radeon RX 6000 video cards. And this will significantly increase the performance of the graphics core. True, it seems that such APUs will only be in the Ryzen 7000HX line.

But, if all these rumors and leaks are true, the same source’s recent claim that the Ryzen 7000’s iGPU could be comparable to the mobile 60W GeForce RTX 3060 doesn’t sound so fantastic anymore.