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The Intel Core i3-12100 kills the Ryzen 3 3300X

Intel's processor compared to the Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X in several benchmarks and games. In the desktop segment , Intel had somewhat abandoned the Core i3s with its eleventh generation (Rocket Lake-S), since the Core i3s offered were Comet Lake Refresh. The situation will change with the Alder Lake-S range, which will contain well of Core i3s. One of them, the Core i3-12100, which should, according to our table listing all the Alder Lake desktop chips , coexist with a Core i3-12300, has been subjected to a whole series of tests. by XFastest. It takes on two chips from AMD, the Ryzen 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100. Like other Alder Lake processors, this Core i3-12100 does not benefit from the hybrid architecture characteristic of this family. It has indeed four Golden Cove cores and no Gracemont core. This results in a classic 4-core / 8-thread configuration. Each of the cores relies on 1.25MB of L2 cache, and all share 12MB of L3 cache. The base frequency is apparently 3.3 GHz; Th

Sapphire launches GearBox 500 eGPU housing a Radeon RX 6600 XT

A backdoor way to get a Radeon RX 6600 XT? Getting a Radeon RX 6600 XT isn't easy, but Sapphire decided to install one in their GearBox 500 Thunderbolt 3 Pulse Radeon RX 6600 XT eGFX.  This eGPU houses the AMD card launched last August.  The case measures 300 × 138 × 204mm, which is a rather compact jig compared to most eGPUs.  The other side of the coin is that the internal space for the graphics card is limited: it must not exceed 266 x 125 mm. To find all the information about the Radeon RX 6600 XT , we invite you to read our test of this reference. Let us simply remember that it is armed with an AMD Navi 23 GPU with 2048 stream processors; 8 GB of 16-bit / s GDDR6 memory with a 128-bit interface, for a memory bandwidth of 256 GB / s. The version installed in the GearBox 500 is therefore the Sapphire Pulse. This has a two-fan cooling system and occupies two slots. Basically, it provides four display outputs (three DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0) and draws its energy from an 8-