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Published: July 23, 2026 | Source: AMD Advancing AI | Author: Mark Campbell At AMD’s Advancing AI 2026 event, Lisa Su unveiled the company’s 6th-generation EPYC (EPYC 9006) processors. With these CPUs, AMD promised next-level performance in the agentic AI era with a wide lineup of processors and critical feature upgrades. AMD’s current-generation Zen 5 EPYC 9005 CPUs are already performing well in the datacenter market, and with Zen 6, AMD aims to extend its lead over its competitors.

Published: July 23, 2026 | Source: AMD | Author: Mark Campbell Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, is ready to host the company’s second annual Advancing AI event. There, AMD will be unveiling its latest AI infrastructure, architectures, and developments. This will give us our first proper look at AMD’s Zen 6 CPU architecture, its new Instinct AI accelerators, and everything else AI-related at AMD. For consumers, this event could give us a glimpse of what’s to come within the CPU market.

Published: July 23, 2026 | Source: Benchlife.info | Author: Mark Campbell Nvidia has reportedly raised the GPU kit prices for its GeForce RTX products, the GPU/memory packages that it ships to its partners to manufacture full graphics cards. According to Benchlife, this change impacts both GDDR7- and GDDR6-based GPU products. In other words, the entire RTX 50 series is affected.

Published: July 23, 2026 | Source: Primate Labs | Author: Mark Campbell Primate Labs is getting ready to release Geekbench 7, the next version of their popular CPU benchmarking utility. While the benchmark is not currently listed on the company’s website, detailed documentation is available, and the tool is available to download. Videocardz were the first to report on the benchmark.

Published: July 23, 2026 | Source: Nvidia | Author: Mark Campbell Nvidia has released a new Hotfix version of its GeForce display drivers to address issues with Halo: Campaign Evolved and Path of Exile 2. This Hotfix is Nvidia’s 610.82 driver, a modified version of its 610.74 “Game Ready” driver. Without this driver, RTX 50 series GPU users may experience stability issues when playing Halo: Campaign Evolved.

Published: July 22, 2026 | Source: Windows Latest | Author: Mark Campbell Following the release of Nvidia’s RTX Spark GPU driver for Windows 11 on ARM, developers (via Windows Latest) have discovered that this driver allows Nvidia’s desktop GPUs to be installed on ARM-based Windows PCs. Below, we can see that a developer has installed an Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics card with a Huawei Kunpeng 920 processor. This Huawei CPU is an ARM-based server CPU.

Published: July 22, 2026 | Source: Microsoft Xbox | Author: Mark Campbell Xbox has announced Xbox (original) backwards compatibility on PC, launching four classic Xbox games as part of the feature’s “early release”. This is the first time that original Xbox games have been officially made available on PC, and Microsoft intends to expand this option with new features and more supported games in the future. Microsoft wants gamers to be able to bring their gaming libraries forward with them.

Published: July 22, 2026 | Source: Battlefield Comms | Author: Mark Campbell Battlefield Studios has recommended that Nvidia GeForce GPU users roll back their GPU drivers to version 596.49, stating that GeForce GPUs are crashing Battlefield 6 maps with “large bodies of water, including Tsuru Reef”.

Published: July 22, 2026 | Source: Windows Latest | Author: Mark Campbell Nvidia has released its first “Developer Preview” driver for its Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev box, and while it isn’t intended for consumer devices, it sheds some light on Nvidia’s future RTX Spark laptops. This driver is an Nvidia GeForce driver for Windows 11 ARM devices, a first-of-its-kind driver from Nvidia. Windows Latest were able to analyse this driver and uncover two Nvidia RTX Spark N1X GPU configurations.

Published: July 22, 2026 | Source: Microsoft | Author: Mark Campbell Microsoft has confirmed that it’s using AMD hardware to build its newest Azure AI/HPC infrastructure, confirming that its new HXv2 virtual machines will use Zen 6 EPYC processors. With this announcement, Microsoft confirmed 5+ GHz maximum clock speeds for AMD Zen 6 EPYC CPUs. This gives AMD’s next-generation CPUs significant improvements to single-threaded performance.