I played Battlefield 6, Marvel Rivals and more on laptops using an Intel Core Ultra Series 3 CPU, and its integrated Intel Arc B390 graphics just gave PC gaming a big upgrade.

The balance of power in high-performance computing is tilting toward tightly fused CPU-GPU designs, and two old rivals are suddenly aligned around that future. Intel and Nvidia are now chasing a mega chip that marries general-purpose compute with accelerated AI,

With incredibly powerful integrated graphics but a low CPU core count, the new Ryzen AI Max+ 388 could transform the gaming laptop space.

The GPU made its debut at CES alongside five other data center chips. Customers can deploy them together in a rack called the Vera Rubin NVL72 that Nvidia says ships with 220 trillion transistors, more bandwidth than the entire internet and real-time component health checks.

AMD shows off its world-first 2nm EPYC 'Venice' CPU with Zen 6 cores, and the Instinct MI455X AI accelerator for its Helios AI racks.

RedGamingtech describes Serpent Lake as an "APU monster" similar in remit to AMD's Strix Halo chip. It's said to sport Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPU technology built on TSMC N3P silicon, while CPU tech from Intel's upcoming Titan Lake generation, more on which in a moment. Oh, and it's all supported by LPDDR6 memory.

Announcements included the MI440X GPU for on-prem enterprise deployments and a longer-term roadmap that includes rack-scale AI systems and next-generation accelerators.

Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 'Panther Lake' CPUs feature an upgraded Arc B390 GPU: RTX 4050 perf, 82% faster than the AMD Radeon 890M.

The upcoming Dimensity chipset could be paired with the Mali-G720 MC8 GPU. Leaks suggest that the chipset has scored over 2.2 million points on the AnTuTu benchmark. It is reported to outperform the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 processors in terms of GPU performance.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus SoC is poised to be a huge boon for budget PCs, offering better performance and energy efficiency.

The Ryzen 3 1200 is at least a 4c/4t processor. It's not particularly high end but should at least meet the min requirements for a lot of games. It should be pretty similar to the i3-9100 my son had in his gaming system which worked well enough. The good ...