AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs: Specifications, release date, pricing, and more revealed
AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs: Specifications, release date, pricing, and more revealed
The AMD RDNA 4 architecture and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs were partially revealed at CES 2025, except they weren’t part of AMD’s keynote. Very little was known (officially) other than the names of the first two graphics cards for the family. That changes today, with AMD detailing many of the architectural upgrades, specifications and more during a video presentation. These will go up against the Nvidia Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs and the Intel Battlemage Arc B-series GPUs and will likely join the ranks of the best graphics cards in the coming days.
Like Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics cards, AMD’s RDNA 4 launch seems to have been delayed, though perhaps for different reasons. There were rumors that the cards would be revealed at CES 2025 and launched in January, then February, and finally March. That last is no longer a rumor, with the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 set to go on ***** on March 6 — and in typical fashion, the “MSRP” or base model cards will have reviews go up the day before, followed by the overclocked non-MSRP models on the launch date. Nvidia’s RTX 5070 will likely land right around the same time, just to make things even more exciting.
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But if you look at graphics card availability right now, what becomes immediately clear is that virtually everything is sold out or at the very least seriously overpriced. AMD has had difficulties in the past with the prior generation hanging around for too long and competing with the new parts. This time, it seems to have gone the opposite way, with RX 7000-series GPUs mostly having disappeared from retail shelves in December and January. Only the lower tier RX 7600 and RX 7600 XT are still in stock at MSRP now.
The result has been dramatically increased demand for everything from mainstream to high-end graphics cards, and Nvidia’s RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti all sold out almost instantly at launch. Will AMD’s 9070 XT and 9070 fare better? We can hope so, but we suspect there’s so much pent up demand that even with another two months’ worth of production and supply, it’s not going to be sufficient. Hopefully, things will settle down later this year, but in the near-term we expect inadequate supplied and increased retail prices — and yes, scalping.
No doubt Nvidia’s record profits driven by AI are a big part of the problem, and while AMD isn’t selling quite as many data center GPUs, a lot of its wafer allocation from TSMC is likely going to data center CPUs and GPUs as well. Gamers are no longer top priority for either company, in other words; they just get the scraps that fall from the AI table for the time being.
But enough sad talk. Let’s check out the specifications for AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs, talk about architectural updates, and dig into all the other details. We’ll even have pricing information, though as you can guess that’s worth about as much as the paper this is printed on. We’ll continue updating this article as additional information becomes available, but for now here’s everything you need to know about the AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs.
RDNA 4 GPU specifications
Here are the known specifications for the RX 9070 series GPUs, along with placeholder information on the RX 9060 series. AMD did share the 9060 name at CES 2025, but no other details have been shared. There are rumors, however, which we’ve used to flesh out the table — these are indicated by question marks in the various cells.
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Graphics Card
RX 9070 XT
RX 9070
RX 9060 XT?
RX 9060?
Architecture
Navi 48
Navi 48
Navi 48?
Navi 44?
Process Technology
TSMC N4P
TSMC N4P
TSMC N4P
TSMC N4P?
Transistors (Billion)
53.9
53.9
53.9
22?
Die size (mm^2)
356.5
356.5
356.5
153?
SMs / CUs / Xe-Cores
64
56
32?
20?
GPU Shaders (ALUs)
4096
3584
2048?
1280?
Tensor / AI Cores
128
112
64?
40?
Ray Tracing Cores
64
56
32?
20?
Boost Clock (MHz)
2970
2520
2790?
2700?
VRAM Speed (Gbps)
20
20
20?
20?
VRAM (GB)
16
16
12?
8?
VRAM Bus Width
256
256
192?
128?
L2 / Infinity Cache
64
64
48?
32?
Render Output Units
128
128
96?
64?
Texture Mapping Units
256
224
128?
80?
TFLOPS FP32 (Boost)
48.7
36.1
22.9?
13.8?
TFLOPS FP16 (FP4/FP8 TFLOPS)
389 (1557)
289 (1156)
183 (731)?
111 (442)?
Bandwidth (GB/s)
640
640
480?
320?
TBP (watts)
304
220
150?
120?
Launch Date
Mar 2025
Mar 2025
Apr–Jun 2025?
Apr–Jun 2025?
Launch Price
$649
$549
$399?
$299?
The RX 9070 XT and 9070 columns should be fully accurate. We’re reasonably sure there will be a trimmed down RX 9060 XT using the same Navi 48 die as the 9070 cards, just with fewer CUs (Compute Units) and memory controllers enabled. Below that, things get murky.
The RX 9060 could use a further binned Navi 48, or it could use Navi 44. Most of the details on Navi 44 are questionable at best, but we’ll certainly find out more in the coming months. There might even be RX 9050-class GPUs at some point, but we’ve avoided listing those for the time being.
Looking at the RX 9070 XT, it uses a fully enabled Navi 48 die that includes 64 RDNA 4 CUs. Combined with a 2.97 GHz boost clock and a 256-bit memory interface with 20 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM, the other specifications mostly come from straight mathematical calculations. The RX 9070 is mostly the same configuration, just with 56 CUs and a 2.52 GHz boost clock — substantially lower than its ******* sibling, though we’ll have to wait and see what real-world clocks actually look like.
Power targets also play a role in the final clock speeds, and where the 9070 XT has a 304W TBP (Total Board Power), the 9070 cuts that all the way down to 220W. That’s probably a big factor in the 450 MHz difference in boost clocks.
Raw compute works out to 48.7 TFLOPS FP32 on the 9070 XT and 36.1 TFLOPS on the 9070, so on paper the XT is up to 35% faster. In practice, we suspect the two chips will be quite a bit closer and that the actual clocks in most games will be closer than the specs suggest.
AMD has also given the AI Accelerators in the CUs a massive overhaul compared to RDNA 3. Each can do twice as many FP16 operations per cycle, and they now support sparse operations. Sparsity can skip up to half of the zero multiply operations to potentially double performance, and it’s a feature Nvidia has supported since its second generation RTX 30-series GPUs. (AMD has also supported sparse operations on its CDNA family of GPUs for several years.)
What’s more, the AI units also support FP8, INT8, BF8, and INT4 operations, with the 8-bit calculations being twice as fast as 16-bit, and 4-bit integers double that again. Put it all together and you get 389 TFLOPS of sparse FP16 compute, and up to 1557 TOPS of sparse INT4 compute.
Keep in mind that the previous generation RDNA 3 architecture featured GPUs with up to 96 CUs and a 384-bit memory interface on the RX 7900 XTX, so while RDNA 4 GPUs are faster on a per-CU basis, AMD doesn’t expect the RX 9070 XT to beat the RX 7900 XTX in all workloads.
There’s a lot more going on than the raw specs will tell you, so let’s move on to the architectural deep dive.
RDNA 4 Core GPU Architecture
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The above slide gallery covers the architectural briefing AMD provided in advance of today’s reveal, including some of the specifications discussed above as well as finer details. AMD worked to refine the underlying architecture to improve per-CU performance in all major workloads: rasterization, ray tracing, and AI.
Rasterization performance sees the smallest generational gains, but it’s still about 40% faster than RDNA 3 according to AMD. Ray tracing performance is basically doubled, and AI performance is doubled for dense FP16 compute, with lower precision formats delivering even higher performance.
The specific details of the rasterization improvements are a bit nebulous. RDNA 4 supports out of order memory requests, which AMD specifically notes as being helpful for ray tracing, but it can help rasterization tasks as well — we just don’t have any details on how much. The other major change involves dynamic register allocation. RDNA 3 (and earlier) allocated registers for the worst case for shaders. By dynamically allocating extra registers only when needed, AMD provides an example use case where it could have an extra wave in flight. The slides show three waves versus four waves, which would be a 33% increase, but we don’t know if that’s representative of real workloads or just for illustrative purposes.
Moving on to ray tracing, this is where AMD spent a significant amount of effort. It doubled the ray/triangle and ray/box intersection rates per RT unit as a start. THen it offers some enhancements including hardware instance transforms (rather than doing a lot of the work via GPU shaders), oriented bounding boxes, an improved BVH (Bounding Volume Hierarchy) structure and traversal, the above-mentioned out of order memory returns, and better ray hardware stack management.
Most of the improvements come from the doubling of intersection rates and BVH compression, but the other aspects combine to deliver a solid improvement as well. How does RDNA 4 compare with Nvidia’s latest hardware? That’s not fully clear, but certainly it’s going to do better per CU than what we saw with RDNA 3 and RDNA 2. It likely won’t match Blackwell, but it might be better than Ampere and at least closer to Ada levels of performance.
AI, as already noted, sees the biggest changes. Nvidia has been iterating on its AI tensor cores since the RTX 20-series, and even before that the Volta data center GPU had tensor cores. So Nvidia is on its fifth generation of AI matrix cores while AMD is mostly on its second generation — mostly because it looks like AMD took a lot of the work that’s been happening in its CDNA GPUs and brought it over to RDNA 4.
RDNA 3 CUs could do 512 FP16 operations per cycle, with no sparsity support, or 1024 INT4 operations per cycle. With RDNA 4, AMD doubles the baseline FP16 throughput for dense operations, doubles that again for sparse operations, and doubles that again for FP8 workloads — which are proving useful in the AI space. That’s up to 8X higher AI throughput for FP8 on RDNA 4 compared to FP16 on RDNA 3, and the INT4 throughput sees a similar up to 8X improvement.
AMD gave a real-world example of how this affects AI performance using Stable Diffusion XL. The RX 9070 XT with 64 CUs took on the RX 7900 XT with 84 CUs. That gives the older GPU a 31% advantage in compute units, but the 9070 XT ended up delivering very close to 2X the performance. That will prove very helpful for other AI and machine learning workloads, including ML-based upscaling and frame generation (see FSR 4 below).
Alongside these changes, AMD has reworked some of the cache and memory hierarchy with RDNA 4. It didn’t provide any clear details on what has changed, but it notes that this is the third generation of Infinity Cache. The capacity remains 64MB, the same as what was present on the 256-bit 7900 GRE and 7800 XT, but now the cache is again part of the monolithic chip, so it likely has better latencies and throughput.
RDNA 4 Other Architectural Improvements
RDNA 4 isn’t just about core architecture upgrades. Along with the above rasterization, ray tracing, and AI enhancements, AMD has also upgraded a few other areas. One of the big changes is with the media encoding hardware. Last time we checked video encoding performance and quality, AMD came in last place, clearly behind Nvidia and Intel. It looks like RDNA 4 will close the gap.
AMD says it has improved H.264 (AVC) quality by up to 25%, H.265 (HEVC) by 11%, and improved the AV1 encoding efficiency. It also has better support for AV1 and VP9 decoding and reduced memory accesses.
Besides the quality improvements, RDNA 4 adds a dual media engine. Nvidia did this with its Ada architecture, and AMD seems to be taking a similar approach. It likely doesn’t help all workloads equally, but AMD says it doubles the AV1 encoding throughput.
Realistically, there’s only so far you can go with improving video encoding quality, particularly with hardware encoders. Intel and Nvidia are pretty comparable, but AMD was behind on quality while being ahead on performance with RDNA 3. It sounds like RDNA 4 will continue to be faster while offering similar quality to the competition, which is a good thing.
Another change with RDNA 4 is that AMD has added hardware flip ****** support, which offloads video frame scheduling to the GPU. While Nvidia discussed something similar for MFG (Multi Frame Generation), it sounds like AMD’s solution is focused on improving video playback by reducing CPU load, as opposed to being something to improve the scheduling of generated frames.
Radeon Image Sharpening (RIS) has also been updated, to RIS2. This is a driver level sharpening solution that’s based on AMD’s CAS algorithm (Contrast Aware Sharpening), only now the quality is supposed to be better. It’s a single click toggle to apply RIS2 across all APIs.
Finally, RDNA 4 GPUs will support PCIe 5.0 interfaces. That doubles the throughput over the x16 link, though in practice most workloads likely won’t see much benefit. Gaming in particular doesn’t tend to need more than PCIe 3.0, or perhaps 4.0, when using a full x16 connection. However, AI and certain content creation tasks can benefit from the added bandwidth.
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Sticking with GDDR6
One thing that isn’t changing from RDNA 3 is the memory support. While Nvidia has moved all of the announced Blackwell RTX 50-series solutions to GDDR7 memory, AMD will continue to use GDDR6 memory, clocked at 20 Gbps. Coupled with a 256-bit interface on the 9070 XT and 9070 GPUs, that results in 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The 64MB Infinity Cache will improve the effective bandwidth, though AMD didn’t elect to provide any estimates of cache hit rates so far. The RX 7900 GRE and RX 7800 XT both had 64MB Infinity Caches, and AMD provided effective bandwidth rates that were about 4X the base memory bandwidth with those GPUs, so we’d anticipate the Navi 48 GPUs will see similar results.
It’s also possible that further improvements to the Infinity Cache have made it less critical for AMD to move to GDDR7 at present. Considering that Nvidia gets a 40% improvement in raw bandwidth from 28 Gbps GDDR7 compared to AMD’s 20 Gbps GDDR6, that might seem like a sizeable advantage. However, effective bandwidth after factoring in the large caches may not be all that different.
Plus, there’s only so much bandwidth needed to drive a 64 CU GPU. Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti for example has 70 SMs (Streaming Multiprocessors), which are roughly analogous to AMD’s CUs, and the 5070 Ti has a 48MB L2 cache. Putting a larger 64MB L3 cache with fewer GPU processing clusters could reduce the need for higher memory speeds.
AMD continues to use 16Gb (2GB) GDDR6 modules, and we’re unaware of any companies currently pursuing 24Gb (3GB) capacities. That’s one area where GDDR7 support could prove beneficial for Nvidia in the future, though so far only the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU is using the higher capacity chips.
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Monolithic GPUs, Built on TSMC 4NP
One of the interesting changes with RDNA 4 is that AMD is, at least for now, ditching the GPU chiplets approach. It may come back to that in the future, but the Navi 48 and presumably rumored Navi 44 will be monolithic chips. Along with that design choice, AMD is also upgrading from TSMC’s N5 process node used on RDNA 3 to the N4P node for RDNA 4.
N4P provides for modest improvements in performance and efficiency compared to the N4 node, which in turn refinese the base N5 node. Our understanding is that N4P may introduce some additional metal layers, and N4 used more EUV than N5. What’s not entirely clear is how N4P compares to 4N and 4NP — the “for Nvidia” variants that are used with Hopper, Ada, and Blackwell. It’s probably pretty similar in most respects, which means that AMD will be on node parity with Nvidia this round.
But AMD isn’t really trying to take down Nvidia’s top GPUs. The lack of GDDR7 memory and the lack of a larger design prove this. The Navi 48 chip will house 53.9 billion transistors in a 356.5 mm^2 die. Nvidia’s GB203 used in the RTX 5080 and 5070 Ti contains 45.6 billion transistors in a 378 mm^2 die… which might suggest AMD actually has a superior process node and/or design. But we can’t really conclude that.
While die sizes are pretty straightforward, transistor counts are not. They’re more of a mathematical estimate, and there are different ways of counting what constitutes a “transistor.” Perhaps AMD does have a denser design with more transistors, perhaps not. Ultimately, we’ll have to see how the various GPUs perform.
One interesting side note here is that Navi 31, the top solution from the RDNA 3 family, had a 300 mm^2 GCD (Graphics Compute Die) with six 37.5 mm^2 MCDs (Memory Cache Dies). I wondered when AMD revealed the specs just how much it was actually saving by going the chiplet route. The GCD had 45.6 billion transistors, which means the overall transistor density — looking at the RDNA 3 GCD compared to the RDNA 4 monolithic design — is basically identical (152 MTrans/mm^2 on Navi 31 GCD compared to 151.2 Mtrans/mm^2 on Navi 48).
But let’s not get too carried away. It’s known that scaling on external interfaces — like the GDDR6 memory controllers — is quite poor with newer process nodes. Navi 31 used twelve 32-bit controllers while Navi 48 has eight 32-bit controllers. If AMD had attempted to make a 384-bit interface on a monolithic design, it would have certainly required a much larger chip. Putting that on an older process node for the prior generation did make financial sense at the time, and may yet prove a smart approach for a future AMD product.
RDNA 4 Release Dates
We listed the March 6, 2025 release date for the RX 9070 cards already, but AMD has also at least partially teased an RX 9060 family of GPUs. Will there be multiple cards or only one? Will there be lower tier RX 9050 cards as well? The short answer: We don’t know. The nebulous answer: Some time between April and the end of the year, hopefully sooner than later.
We’ve seen rumored die sizes for Navi 44 that suggest it’s a much smaller chip, likeof a replacement for the current Navi 33. If that’s correct, it may not come out any time soon. There still appear to be plenty of RX 7600 and RX 7600 XT GPUs floating around, and that’s because when those launched there were still a lot of similar performing RX 6650 XT / RX 6600 XT / RX 6600 cards still available, at lower prices.
The naming scheme from AMD suggests that the RX 9060 will compete with the RTX 5060 family. That would perhaps require a larger chip than what’s indicated. But RX 7600 does technically compete with the RTX 4060, and there’s no RTX 4050 and probably won’t be an RTX 5050.
Will AMD be making a “true budget” RDNA 4 chip? Again, rumors suggest that’s at least possible, perhaps even likely. At less than half the size of Navi 48, AMD may try to create a $200~$250 graphics card to go after budget-minded gamers — and OEMs. Certainly it could get a lot more chips per wafer with the rumored 150~160 mm^2 die size.
But if the cards then only sell for $250 or less? That hardly seems worth the effort, not when companies can charge tens of thousands for data center GPUs.
RX 9000-Series Pricing
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How much will the RX 9000-series GPUs cost? Given the current market conditions, it probably doesn’t matter what AMD puts down as the MSRP. Short-term certainly we expect the cards will all sell out and end up costing much more than the MSRP — unless AMD pulls an RX 6600 XT launch pricing move and pegs them at double what they should cost? Hopefully not.
As we said in the Nvidia Blackwell overview, for dedicated desktop graphics cards we’re now living in a world where “budget” means around $250–$300, “mainstream” means $400–$700, “high-end” is for GPUs costing $800 to $1,000, and the “enthusiast” segment targets $1,500 or more. AMD looks to be targeting the mainstream segment, probably at the higher end of that range.
Depending on supply, as well as performance, the RDNA 4 series might be worth whatever price AMD ends up asking. More likely is that there simply won’t be enough cards to satisfy the current demand, not for many months. If AMD wants to price the cards lower, scalpers will step in and push the prices up. If AMD sets the MSRP higher, AIBs and retail stores may still increase the prices.
It’s basically a repeat of the cryptocurrency GPU mining shortages, only this time it’s caused by AI and demand from that sector may not go away for many years. Let’s hope we’re wrong, but the RTX 50-series launches so far have not been promising.
FSR 4 and HYPR-RX
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Besides the hardware, AMD has been working on a variety of feature improvements. The biggest one is undoubtedly FSR 4. The fourth iteration of AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) algorithm, it will break with tradition in a couple of key ways.
First, FSR 4 will leverage the more potent AI accelerators in the RDNA 4 GPUs. At launch, it will require an RDNA 4 GPU. Down the road a few months, AMD may try back-porting the algorithm so that it can run on RDNA 3 and maybe even RDNA 2 GPUs… but it seems unlikely.
Instead, FSR 4 will basically co-exist with FSR 3.1, or rather, the non-AI upscaling will continue to be offered. It’s not entirely clear exactly how this will play out, but keeping everything unified under one name would make more sense. What we do know is that AMD plans to allow gamers to use the more potent FSR 4 algorithm on games that have FSR 3.1 support. Will that happen automatically or require a driver settings toggle? It seems like the latter would make the most sense, but we’ll have to wait and see.
FSR 4 isn’t just for upscaling, either; it also has frame generation. From our understanding, both upscaling and framegen will use the AI accelerators of the RX 9000-series GPUs. AMD also says it’s “neural rendering ready” without really going into further detail. Presumably that’s related to Microsoft’s new Cooperative Vectors feature, which is something Nvidia also talked about with Blackwell.
We’ve asked for additional details on how FSR 4 works, in terms of the computations. AMD hasn’t responded, but one slide does note that the RX 9070 XT offers “up to 779 TOPS AI Acceleration” while talking about FSR 4. Now, that’s either dense INT4 operations or sparse INT8 operations, as the 9070 XT hits double that figure for sparse INT4, but we don’t have a direct answer on whether the algorithms are using INT4 or INT8 yet.
We also asked if FSR 4 was using a transformers-based network, or a convolutional neural network. DLSS 4 offers better image fidelity than DLSS 3 by using transformers, and AMD may have skipped the CNN approach since it’s late to the AI-powered upscaling and framegen party. However, we don’t have a direct answer yet. We do have some image quality comparisons from AMD, in the slides above, and FSR 4 definitely seems to look better than FSR 3.1.
As with Nvidia’s use of performance mode upscaling with framegen, we don’t generally focus on the promised performance after all these extras. Framegen in particular is very heavy on marketing in our experience. It’s less problematic when you already have a high base framerate, but then it’s also less necessary when you’re already getting 100+ FPS.
AMD says it will have over 30 games with FSR 4 enabled for the RX 9070 series launch, with 75+ games coming in 2025.
AMD also talked about HYPR-RX, which combines a variety of driver-level performance boosting features and can be enabled with a single click. We’ve poked at it a bit in the past, and it can be useful in some cases, but we prefer sticking with apples to apples comparisons. If you’re just playing games, however, enabling HYPR-RX to apply all of the features including FSR/RSR, Anti-Lag, Radeon Boost, and AFMF 2 could be useful.
AMD also has a new AFMF 2.1 release that imprves the quality of the algorithm, reducing ghosting, improving fine features, and detecting and handling overlays better.
Drivers and Software
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The last item AMD discussed is its new Adrenalin 25.3.1 drivers. While most of the driver interface will be familiar to AMD GPU users, there are some new additions along with some behind the scenes changes. AI plays a role in both areas. We’ve already discussed FSR 4 upscaling and framegen, so let’s talk about the other AI uses.
First, AMD is using AI to help find rendering errors and to detect instability and other issues. AMD claims its new 25.3.1 drivers will be perhaps the best and most stable drivers it has ever released, with fewer rendering errors. We’ll have to wait and see how that goes…
Moving on, similar to Nvidia’s Chat RTX and other tools, AMD is providing some easy to access AI-powered features. These are all managed by a new AMD Install Manager that sits alongside the usual AMD Software in your system tray. Besides your GPU drivers, it can also detect if you have an AMD platform and keep your chipset drivers updated. And then there are some new extras: AMD Chat, AMD Image Inspector, and the AI Apps Manager (among others).
AMD Chat is a chatbot designed to answer questions specifically about your PC hardware and GPU. You can ask it about GPU temperatures, performance, and more. It’s a hefty 25GB download, though, so you might not want to install if it you’re low on space — or if chatting with your PC isn’t something you plan on doing.
The AI Apps Manager provides a list of software utilities that can use AI that are installed or available to install. So if you have Adobe CC, some of those apps might show up. Or you can use it to install Amuse.
Finally, the Image Inspector is a feature to help with finding and reporting rendering errors and bugs. AMD is already using AI to help it find issues internally, and the Image Inspector is an opt-in feature that allows you to participate. Using spare GPU resources (so it won’t go crazy and use all your GPU power if you’re in a demanding game), it can automatically capture rendering errors and submit them to AMD, should you enable the feature. It sounds interesting, but we suspect there might be a performance hit still, even if it’s small.
The GPU landscape
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AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs will have to compete with Nvidia Blackwell RTX and Intel Arc Battlemage solutions. As we discussed already, supply and availability of all graphics cards has become quite poor of late. Every recently launched GPU has sold out quickly, with many cards then selling at prices far above the original MSRP. It started with the Arc B580 and became especially painful with Nvidia’s Blackwell launches.
Things aren’t going to get better in the near term. The big issue is that there are a lot of companies competing for a limited supply of silicon manufacturing. TSMC only has the ability to process so many wafers in a month. Right now, AMD, Apple, Intel, and Nvidia are all using TSMC for various chips, and there are plenty of other companies as well — Broadcom, Facebook, Google, Amazon… the list can get quite large.
Even if a company pays for a certain number of wafers in a given month, what to do with those wafers is still up for debate. Just looking at the main PC companies, AMD could make RDNA 4 GPUs on TSMC’s N4P node, sure. Or it could make Zen 5 CPU chiplets, CDNA 3 data center GPUs (MI300X), or the future CDNA 4 GPUs that are coming this year. Nvidia has Grace CPUs, Hopper and Blackwell data center GPUs, NVLink processors, Ada Lovelace previous generation GPUs, and the new Blackwell RTX GPUs that are all using variants of TSMC’s 5nm-class nodes. And Intel has leveraged TSMC for Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, and Battlemage.
Nvidia made record profits last year of $130 billion, primarily driven by AI. Its consumer gaming division only accounted for $11.35 billion, 8.7% of the total. And going forward, Nvidia will likely invest even more heavily in data center GPUs. That will eat up a lot of wafers, needless to say, and gaming will have to compete for its share.
The good news is that more manufacturing capacity is coming online. A lot of that will likely go to power AI processors, but the more capacity that exists, the more likely it is for other, less profitable chips — like consumer GPUs — to get made. And maybe AMD and Intel will try to grow their gaming GPU divisions while Nvidia is otherwise occupied. Or maybe Nvidia will treat gaming as a passion project that started the company and so it will try to ensure at least a reasonable number of chips get made.
Whatever happens, what’s clear right now is that, as long as AI continues to grow as an industry, gaming GPUs are now a lower priority item for most of the biggest players in the graphics space. Let’s hope that, like cyptocurrency mining, this turns out to be just a passing phase.
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Premier League champs-elect Liverpool make $115m loss
Premier League champs-elect Liverpool make $115m loss
High-flying Premier league leaders Liverpool have reported pre-tax losses of Stg 57 million ($A115 million) in their latest financial accounts.
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EA Releases Full Source Code For Multiple Command & Conquer Titles
EA Releases Full Source Code For Multiple Command & Conquer Titles
The Command & Conquer community is in for a treat, as EA has released the source code for four classic C&C games, as well as adding Steam Workshop support and releasing further modding tools for other titles in the franchise.
In collaboration with community creator Luke “CCHyper” Feenan, EA has released the fully recovered source code for the original Command & Conquer (aka Tiberian Dawn), C&C Red Alert, C&C Renegade, and C&C Generals–along with its expansion pack, Zero Hour. The source code for the games is available on EA’s GitHub page under a GPL license, which grants users the right to run, study, share, or modify the software.
“Over the past year I have been working alongside the amazing C&C stakeholders here at EA to restore the Perforce source code archives for the C&C games back to buildable states, which now provides us with the ability to patch these classic games in a deeper way going forward,” CCHyper said of his collaboration with the C&C team at EA. “As a long time modder, it was amazing to finally get a chance to deep dive into the source code for these games and see how they work!”
With the first Command & Conquer now over 30 years old, CCHyper celebrates the release of its recovered source code as a win for video game preservation, saying the decision will help fan communities to “continue to support these games and keep them playable for future generations to come.”
Alongside the release of the source code, EA is also releasing further tools for modders, as well as Steam Workshop support for multiple C&C titles including: C&C Renegade, C&C Generals & Zero Hour, C&C 3 Tiberium Wars and Kane’s Wrath, C&C Red Alert 3 & Uprising, and C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight. Fans will also be able to publish maps directly to Steam Workshop through the Mission Editor and World Builder tools.
Modders will also be able to take advantage of a C&C Modding Support Pack, which contains the source Xml, Schema, Script, Shader and Map files for all C&C titles using the SAGE engine.
As one last gift to C&C historians, EA has released half an hour of archive footage from the development of Renegade and Generals, including tech demos and concept videos from the classic games.
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Vivo V50 Lite 4G Reportedly Spotted on Google Play Console Showcasing Design, Key Features
Vivo V50 Lite 4G Reportedly Spotted on Google Play Console Showcasing Design, Key Features
Vivo V50 Lite 4G is expected to launch as a successor to the Vivo V40 Lite 4G, which was unveiled alongside a 5G variant in September 2024. The purported Vivo V50 series variant has now started surfacing online. A recent report has claimed that the phone appeared on a certification site. The listing reportedly revealed the design and some key features of the rumoured smartphone. The Vivo V50 Lite 4G is tipped to launch alongside a 5G version.
Vivo V50 Lite 4G Design, Key Features (Expected)
The Vivo V50 Lite 4G has the model number V2441, according to Xpertpick, who spotted the phone on the Google Play Console. Meanwhile, an earlier report suggested that the Vivo V50 Lite 5G carries the model number V2440. Both the 4G and 5G variants are said to have passed the FCC certification.
As per the Google Play Console listing, the Vivo V50 Lite 4G appears with a vertical pill-shaped rear camera module on the top left corner of the panel. The camera island holds two sensors and a squircle Aura Light unit.
Vivo V50 Lite 4G Design Photo Credit: Xpertpick/Google Play Console
The front panel of the Vivo V50 Lite 4G has slim bezels and a centred hole-punch slot at the top for the front camera. The volume rocker and power button are placed on the right edge. The handset appears in a golden colour option in the listing.
According to the report, the Vivo V50 Lite 4G could get a curved-edge OLED screen and an in-display fingerprint sensor. The Vivo V50 Lite 5G version could come with a nearly identical design. The 4G variant will likely get the Snapdragon 680 chipset paired with 8GB of RAM and support 256GB of onboard storage. The phone may ship with Android 15 with OriginOS skin on top.
The Vivo V50 Lite 4G display is expected to support a resolution of 1,080 x 2,392 pixels. It could be backed by a 6,500mAh battery with 90W wired fast charging support.
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AMD’s $549 Radeon 9070 and $599 9070 XT are gunning for NVIDIA’s mid-range throne
AMD’s $549 Radeon 9070 and $599 9070 XT are gunning for NVIDIA’s mid-range throne
AMD’s decision to start off with mid-range RDNA 4 GPUs now seems prescient. NVIDIA’s high-end RTX 5090 and 5080 are already selling well beyond their absurdly high prices, if you can find any in stock at all. And while the RTX 5070 Ti impressed us, it’s already selling for close to the 5080’s $1,000 launch price. Now AMD’s Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT, which are set to arrive on March 6, have the chance to swoop in and deliver some serious competition.
Based on early briefings from AMD, which include some impressive benchmarks (still untested by us), the RDNA 4 GPUs appear to be compelling 4K and 1,440p for discerning gamers who aren’t ready to drop four figures on a video card. The Radeon 9070 starts at $549, but even more impressive, AMD managed to keep the 9070 XT at a very reasonable $599 launch price. Naturally, those prices will rise based on demand and the whims of card manufacturers, but they’re still impressive compared to the RTX 5070 ($549 MSRP) and 5070 Ti ($749 MSRP).
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On top of the usual raw performance upgrades, the major selling point for these new cards is AMD’s Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4 (FSR4) upscaling technology. Unlike previous iterations, this time around it’s powered by machine learning, similar to NVIDIA’s DLSS. According to AMD, that allows for better image quality while upscaling from lower resolutions, as well as low latency and frame generation.
AMD RDNA 4
So what does that mean in action? AMD claims the 9070 XT can run Space Marine 2 at an average of 53fps in 4K, but with FSR 4 running that jumps to 182fps. That’s similar to the leap in performance we’ve seen on NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series GPUs, which can generate multiple frames. FSR 4 is supported on more than 30 titles at the moment, but for other games like Star Citizen and Forza Horizon 5, AMD claims its HYPR-RX driver-level upscaler can also improve performance by up to 3X.
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While both the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT come with 16GB of VRAM (unlike the 12GB the RTX 5070 is stuck with), the latter card will likely do a better drop driving 4K 240Hz screens. The 9070 XT sports 64 RDNA 4 compute units, 64 hardware ray tracing accelerators and 128 hardware AI accelerators, while the 9070 includes 56 compute units and RT accelerators, as well as 112 AI units. The 9070 XT can also draw significantly more power — 304 watts instead of 220W — and has more than a 500Mhz boost clock lead. The standard 9070 will likely be better suited for players who game in 1,440p most of the time, but who may occasionally dabble in 4K.
Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT specs.
Curiously, most of AMD’s benchmarks compare the new cards to the $549 RX 7900 GRE, a slightly under-specced card originally meant for China. But the company did make a handful of comparisons to other cards: For one, it claims the RX 9070 XT is 51 percent faster than the Radeon 6900 XT on average across 30 games while playing in 4K with maximum graphics settings. It’s also reportedly 26 percent faster than the RTX 3090 across those same 30 games. As for the RX 9070, AMD says it’s 38 percent in 4K/max settings than the RX 6800 XT and 26 percent faster than the RTX 3080. Surely AMD could have compared these cards to the RTX 40 lineup and newer Radeons, but then those gains wouldn’t be as high.
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Beyond gaming, AMD says its new RDNA 4 media engine will be able to encode H.264 with better image quality, and it’ll support up to 8K/80fps encoding and decoding. As for AI, the 9070 XT is 34 percent faster than the RX 7900 GRE while using Davinci Resolve’s Magic Mask Tracking Tool, and it’s 70 percent faster while using Procyon SD XL for generative AI.
If AMD can manage to keep the Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT in stock, and also hold prices close to their $549 and $599 launch figures, I wouldn’t be surprised if some NVIDIA diehards jump ship. And if you’re looking for something even cheaper, AMD says its RX 9060 cards will be coming in the second quarter.
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MTA strapped Google Pixels to subway cars to spot track defects
MTA strapped Google Pixels to subway cars to spot track defects
Anyone who has rode the New York City subway can tell you that it has a lot of problems, from strange noises to flammable debris on the tracks. Now, as is the solution for everything these days, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is testing how AI could improve the repair process with the help of six Google Pixel phones.
In this case, the Google Pixel phones rode on four different subway cars between last September and January. The experiment, conducted in partnership with Google Public Sector, used the phone’s accelerometers, magnetometers and microphones to pick up on any worrisome noises. This data was thn sent to cloud-based systems that generated predictive insights using machine learning algorithms.
The tech, known by Google as TrackInspect, found 92 percent of the defect locations that inspectors located. “By being able to detect early defects in the rails, it saves not just money but also time — for both crew members and riders” New York City Transit President Demetrius Crichlow stated in a release. “This innovative program — which is the first of its kind — uses AI technology to not only make the ride smoother for customers but also make track inspector’s jobs safer by equipping them with more advanced tools.”
Typically, inspectors walk all 665 miles of the subway tracks to find any issues, along with sensor-laden “train geometry cars” picking up data three times a year. During the experiment, inspectors checked out any locations highlighted and confirmed whether there was a defect. They could also ask questions about maintenance and protocols through the tools generative AI system.
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The slow death of Skype could finally come to an end this year
The slow death of Skype could finally come to an end this year
Skype, once a trailblazer for internet-enabled video calling, might finally ride into the sunset after years of a shoddy competitive streak. The latest preview build of Skype ships with a few lines of code that mention a planned digital demise later this year.
“Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams,” says the string, which was first spotted by the folks over at XDA-Developers. The strings, which are located within the JSON files of the software package, also mentions that Microsoft wants the Skype user base migrating to its Teams platform.
The code suggests that users will either be shown a dialog box, or a text ribbon, that will inform them about the impending service shutdown. It will also nudge users to install Teams, and through a button, they will be directly taken to a page where they can download the app.
It seems Microsoft will make the whole process as seamless as possible. Moreover, since Skype has access to contact data associated with a Microsoft account, it will also inform users about the number of acquaintances that are already using Teams.
The inevitable was foreshadowed
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Microsoft acquired Skype for a cool $8.5 billion back in 2011. The road ahead was riddled with some serious security hiccups and laggardness at innovation. In 2013, The Guardian reported on a top-secret eavesdropping program called PRISM, which allowed the NSA to collect an unprecedented amount of data from Skype video calls.
In 2018, Skype’s name again popped up in ********* trafficking as part of a multinational network. The real demise, however, came at Microsoft’s own hands.
Despite being a pioneer, Skype quickly lost ground to competitors. The tech giant started focusing on Teams as its standout collaboration software, and soon, it became the company’s flagship communication product for enterprises as well as education clients.
Skype couldn’t even capitalize on the video conferencing ***** that came courtesy of a worldwide shift to remote work and team collaboration. A global pandemic, which turned Zoom into a tech giant, proved to be another death knell for Skype, as Microsoft continued with its relentless Teams push while sidelining Skype.
As rival products continued to get refinements and added new features, Skype looked more like a relic in terms of its tech stack and function parity, which resulted in a sustained bleeding of its once-sprawling user base. What now remains is an official announcement from Microsoft, one that puts Skype to rest, for good.
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******* inflation, February 2025
******* inflation, February 2025
People shop and walk in the shopping streets in the city center of Munich, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria, Germany, on February 20, 2025.
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******* annual inflation came in at an unchanged but higher-than-expected 2.8% in February, provisional data from statistics agency Destatis showed Friday.
The print is harmonized across the euro area for comparability.
The February print compares to a 2.7% estimate from economists surveyed by Reuters. The January harmonized annual inflation reading had also come in at 2.8%, which was already unchanged from December.
On a monthly basis, harmonized inflation rose 0.6%, according to the preliminary data from Destatis.
So-called core inflation, which strips out food and energy costs, came in at 2.6%, down from the 2.9% reading of January. The closely watched services inflation print also eased, coming in at 3.8% in February after 4% in the previous month.
******* inflation had fallen below the 2% European Central Bank target in September last year, but re-accelerated after and has remained above the crucial mark for five months in a row now.
The ******* data arrives ahead of the consumer price index print for the euro zone on Monday and the latest ECB decision later next week. The central bank in January cut interest rates for the fifth time since starting to ease monetary policy last summer and markets are widely pricing in another trim on Thursday.
The figures are also one of the first key economic data points to be released since the ******* election last weekend, in which the conservative alliance between the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes.
This puts their lead candidate Friedrich Merz in line to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor, although it appears likely that the CDU-CSU will form a governing coalition with Scholz’s Social Democratic Party.
Economics was a hot topic during campaigning, with Merz suggesting that his policy plans — including income and corporate tax cuts, less bureaucracy, changes to social benefits and deregulation — would give the country’s economy a needed boost. Germany’s gross domestic product has long been hovering around recession territory, and shrank 0.2% after price, seasonal and calendar adjustments in the last quarter of 2024 from the previous three months, according to Destatis.
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Terminator 2D: No Fate Looks Like a Modern Day Mega Drive Game for PS5, PS4
Terminator 2D: No Fate Looks Like a Modern Day Mega Drive Game for PS5, PS4
Experience the events of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ brought to life through glorious pixel artwork and action-packed arcade gameplay! Play as Sarah Connor and the T-800 through a variety of thrilling missions as they take on the T-1000 and try to put a stop to Skynet’s plans before the human race is annihilated. Lead the Resistance as John Connor in the future, fighting on the front lines as mankind’s only hope in the War Against the Machines. In this unique story blending iconic scenes from ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
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Skype to finally be shuttered in May, 22 years after its August 2003 launch
Skype to finally be shuttered in May, 22 years after its August 2003 launch
Yesterday, a hidden string was discovered in the code for the latest Skype for Windows 11 preview that states “Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams.”, precluding the imminent retiring of 22 year-old messenger Skype — this information being discovered over at XDA Developers. Since Microsoft Teams is already built over the Skype infrastructure that Microsoft first bought back in 2011, this should be a seamless transition in the long run— but it still marks the death of a classic staple in online messaging platforms.
The recent reports regarding of Skype’s future is true. Inside of the Skype Insider version 8.137.76.425 APK located in ./assets/resources/strings, there’s a newly added text string that says “Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available.”R.I.P Skype 2003-2025 pic.twitter.com/WJTf5zN1LSFebruary 28, 2025
Skype has its origins back in August of 2003, and in the 22 years since its launch, it has seen a myriad of ports, official and unofficial, to countless devices and operating systems. Skype has appeared on Nokia’s Symbian phones, Sony’s PlayStation Portable and even HoloLens!
To the say the least, the final death of Skype marks a key turning point in the history of online messengers. The recent pandemic proved that services including Skype were essential during such a dark time. One could argue that the end of Skype is moot, as it continues to exist in a different form through Microsoft Teams.
Once upon a time, Skype was regarded as one of the best messaging apps out there— but its reputation began to sour when it received in-app advertisements in September 2011, after the Microsoft acquisition. While Microsoft would phase out its other communication apps to make Skype a focus, the unwanted addition of advertisements and waves of spam bot slowly but steadily pushed Skype out of the limelight.
As sad as it is to give a post mortem on Skype, we think it’s fair to say that this application has long served its purpose in the grand scheme of things. Remote workers have Teams and other messaging applications to make the most of video conferencing and productivity-centered communications. Gamers now have the free-but-intensive Discord, alongside the always-reliable lightweight VoIP clients like Mumble and Teamspeak, to rely on instead of Skype.
Skype and its era of competing messengers including MSN Messenger finally seems to be over. As the industry moves past Skype in the coming months, it will become a footnote in the ongoing history of computing.
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Domino’s Pizza Is a Strong Buy After 15% Dividend Boost
Domino’s Pizza Is a Strong Buy After 15% Dividend Boost
Domino’s Pizza’s (NYSE:) stock price action shows a buying signal following the Q4 results and 2025 outlook. The results and outlook align with many of the company’s industry and SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE:) peers in that growth is present but not as robustly as anticipated, causing a reset of expectations.
Domino’s Pizza’s results caused the market to reset its outlook, but the takeaway is that growth is present, margins are strong, and cash flows allow the company to improve its financial position while investing in development and returning capital to shareholders.
The capital return in 2025 includes a substantial distribution increase that reflects the company’s strengths. The increase is worth 15% to investors, more than triple the pace of inflation, and aggressive increases may be expected in future years.
Domino’s still carries debt on its balance sheet, but the load is dwindling, and the company is on the path to fortress-like conditions. Highlights at the end of 2024 include reduced cash offset by increased assets and a 20% reduction in long-term debt.
Domino’s Gains Leverage in 2024
Domino’s Q4 and 2024 results aren’t robust but reveal core strengths and increasing leverage with market share gains. The $1.44 billion in net revenue is up 2.9% year-over-year, missing the consensus estimate by a slim margin, driven by a 4.4% FX neutral increase in global retail sales and positive comps.
Global are up on a 2.3% increase in the U.S. and a 6.4% increase internationally; comparable store sales are up 0.4% in the U.S. and 2.7% internationally, compounded by a 3.7% increase in store count.
Margin news is good. The company widened its margin on pricing, traffic, and efficiencies driven by the Hungry for MORE strategy. Results include a 6.4% increase in income from operations, a 7.7% increase in net income, a 5.8% increase in net cash, and a 5.5% gain in free cash flow despite increased CapEx. CapEx is up 7.1% on investments in technology, store count, and marketing.
Guidance for 2025 is good, if not spectacular. The company expects 2025 growth to align with 2024, which will run in the mid-single-digits. While below the long-term targets, the company forecasts normalization in 2026 and will continue to build leverage through store count and marketing until then.
Analysts Sentiment Firms: Domino’s Pizza to Rise in 2025
The analysts’ response to Domino’s results and guidance is mixed, including reiterated ratings and price targets, a downgrade, price target reductions, and price target increases.
However, the net result is that consensus sentiment is unshaken at Moderate Buy, and the range of price targets is narrowing to around $500 to $520. A move to $500 puts the stock at a 1-year high and in easy striking distance of the all-time high, just above $520.
The takeaway from the analysts’ chatter is that improving operational quality and market share gains offset sluggish growth, and the long-term outlook is still robust. It includes an expectation for a high single-digit to low double-digit EPS CAGR beginning in 2026 and lasting until late in the next decade.
The institutional activity is more supportive of this market. Institutional activity is mixed with selling and buying ramping higher in the second half of 2024 and the first two months of 2025, but buying outpaces selling volume significantly.
This is a strong tailwind for the price action because the institutions own about 95% of the stock.
Domino’s Pizza Confirms Support and Sets up for Larger Move
The market response to the news is also mixed. Domino’s share price fell initially but quickly regained traction as investors seized the opportunity. The market subsequently confirmed support and advanced to reclaim all losses and set up for a larger movement. The indicators align with an uptrending market and suggest a bullish momentum swing is building.
The market for this stock could rise to set new highs quickly in this scenario and has the potential to set news by year’s end. By then, the market will have a clearer picture of what to expect in 2026.
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Trump, Zelenskyy set to met with Ukraine’s security in focus – National
Trump, Zelenskyy set to met with Ukraine’s security in focus – National
Ukraine’s leader will meet with President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday at a pivotal moment for his country, one that hinges on whether he can persuade Trump to provide some form of U.S. backing for Ukraine’s security against any future Russian aggression.
During his trip to Washington, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s delegation is expected to sign a landmark economic agreement with the U.S. aimed at financing the reconstruction of war-damaged Ukraine, a deal that would closely tie the two countries together for years to come.
Though the deal, which is seen as a step toward ending the three-year war, references the importance of Ukraine’s security, it leaves that to a separate agreement to be discussed between the two leaders — talks that are likely to commence Friday.
As Ukrainian forces hold out against slow but steady advances by Russia’s larger and better-equipped army, leaders in Kyiv have pushed to ensure a potential U.S.-brokered peace plan would include guarantees for the country’s future security.
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Many Ukrainians fear that a hastily negotiated peace — especially one that makes too many concessions to Russian demands — would allow Moscow to rearm and consolidate its forces for a future invasion after current hostilities cease.
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According to the preliminary economic agreement, seen by The Associated Press, the U.S. and Ukraine will establish a co-owned, jointly managed investment fund to which Ukraine will contribute 50% of future revenues from natural resources, including minerals, hydrocarbons and other extractable materials.
A more detailed agreement on establishing the fund will be drawn up once the preliminary one is signed.
Trump, a Republican, has framed the emerging deal as a chance for Kyiv to compensate the U.S. for wartime aid sent under his predecessor, President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
But Zelenskyy has remained firm that specific assurances for Ukraine’s security must accompany any agreement giving U.S. access to Ukraine’s resources. On Wednesday, he said the agreement “may be part of future security guarantees, but I want to understand the broader vision. What awaits Ukraine?”
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Trump remains noncommittal about any American security guarantees.
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“I’m not going to make security guarantees … very much,” Trump told reporters this week. “We’re going to have Europe do that.”
If a truce can be reached, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to send troops for a potential peacekeeping mission to Ukraine to ensure that fighting between Ukraine and Russia doesn’t flare up again. Both leaders traveled to Washington this week before the Zelenskyy visit to discuss with Trump the potential peacekeeping mission and other concerns about the war.
White House officials are skeptical that Britain and France can assemble enough troops from across Europe, at least at this moment, to deploy a credible peacekeeping mission to Kyiv.
It will likely take a “consensual peace settlement” between Russia and Ukraine before many nations would be willing to provide such forces, according to a senior Trump administration official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
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Zelenskyy and European officials have no illusions about U.S. troops taking part in such a mission. But Starmer and others are trying to make the case that the plan can only work with a U.S. backstop for European forces on the ground — through U.S. aerial intelligence, surveillance and support, as well as rapid-response cover in case the truce is breached.
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“You’ve created a moment of tremendous opportunity to reach a historic peace deal — a deal that I think would be celebrated in Ukraine and around the world,” Starmer told Trump. “That is the prize. But we have to get it right.”
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Zelenskyy has been vague on exactly what kinds of security guarantees would be suitable for his country, and while he continues to advocate for Ukraine’s eventual membership in NATO, he has also suggested a similar security arrangement would suffice.
But Trump on Wednesday said Ukraine “could forget about” joining the Western military alliance.
Still, Zelenskyy’s meeting with Trump, their first since the U.S. leader’s inauguration in January, is seen in Kyiv as a diplomatic win for Ukraine. On Wednesday, Zelenskyy said being able to meet personally with Trump before Russian President Vladimir Putin does “is a good signal.”
Zelenskyy said he hopes to discuss whether the U.S. plans to halt its military aid to Ukraine and, if so, whether Kyiv would be able to purchase weapons directly from the U.S.
He also wants to know whether Ukraine can use frozen Russian assets for the purchase of weapons and whether Washington plans to lift sanctions on Moscow.
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Fears that Trump could broker a peace deal with Russia that is unfavorable to Ukraine have been amplified by recent precedent-busting actions by his administration. Trump held a lengthy phone call with Putin, and U.S. officials met with their Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia without inviting European or Ukrainian leaders — both dramatic breaks with previous U.S. policy to isolate Putin over his invasion.
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Trump later seemed to falsely blame Ukraine for starting the war, and called Zelenskyy a “dictator” for not holding elections after the end of his regular term last year, though Ukrainian law prohibits elections while martial law is in place.
As Zelenskyy seeks to lower the temperature with the U.S. while in Washington, American officials are saying the economic deal, if implemented, would itself provide a measure of security to Ukraine through the presence of U.S. investments on its territory.
On Wednesday, Trump said the U.S. working on mineral extraction in Ukraine would amount to “automatic security because nobody’s going to be messing around with our people when we’re there.”
“It’s a great deal for Ukraine too, because they get us over there and we’re going to be working over there,” Trump said. “We will be on the land.”
That perspective is echoed by the text of the economic agreement, which says the U.S. “supports Ukraine’s efforts to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace.”
Washington, it continues, has “a long-term financial commitment to the development of a stable and economically prosperous Ukraine.”
Spike reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Housing market jumps to record high on RBA rate cut
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AMD’s Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT are gunning for NVIDIA’s mid-range throne
AMD’s Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT are gunning for NVIDIA’s mid-range throne
AMD’s decision to start off with mid-range RDNA 4 GPUs now seems prescient. NVIDIA’s high-end RTX 5090 and 5080 are already selling well beyond their absurdly high prices, if you can find any in stock at all. And while the RTX 5070 Ti impressed us, it’s already selling for close to the 5080’s $1,000 launch price. Now AMD’s Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT, which are set to arrive on March 6, have the chance to swoop in and deliver some serious competition.
Based on early briefings from AMD, which include some impressive benchmarks (still untested by us), the RDNA 4 GPUs appear to be compelling 4K and 1,440p for discerning gamers who aren’t ready to drop four figures on a video card. We’re still waiting for pricing details to be announced during this morning’s livestream event, but expect the Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT to be aligned with the RTX 5070 ($549 MSRP) and 5070 Ti ($749 MSRP). According to early retailer leaks, they may start at $649 and $749, respectively.
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On top of the usual raw performance upgrades, the major selling point for these new cards is AMD’s Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4 (FSR4) upscaling technology. Unlike previous iterations, this time around it’s powered by machine learning, similar to NVIDIA’s DLSS. According to AMD, that allows for better image quality while upscaling from lower resolutions, as well as low latency and frame generation.
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So what does that mean in action? AMD claims the 9070 XT can run Space Marine 2 at an average of 53fps in 4K, but with FSR 4 running that jumps to 182fps. That’s similar to the leap in performance we’ve seen on NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series GPUs, which can generate multiple frames. FSR 4 is supported on more than 30 titles at the moment, but for other games like Star Citizen and Forza Horizon 5, AMD claims its HYPR-RX driver-level upscaler can also improve performance by up to 3X.
While both the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT come with 16GB of VRAM (unlike the 12GB the RTX 5070 is stuck with), the latter card will likely do a better drop driving 4K 240Hz screens. The 9070 XT sports 64 RDNA 4 compute units, 64 hardware ray tracing accelerators and 128 hardware AI accelerators, while the 9070 includes 56 compute units and RT accelerators, as well as 112 AI units. The 9070 XT can also draw significantly more power — 304 watts instead of 220W — and has more than a 500Mhz boost clock lead. The standard 9070 will likely be better suited for players who game in 1,440p most of the time, but who may occasionally dabble in 4K.
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Curiously, most of AMD’s benchmarks compare the new cards to the $549 RX 7900 GRE, a slightly under-specced card originally meant for China. But the company did make a handful of comparisons to other cards: For one, it claims the RX 9070 XT is 51 percent faster than the Radeon 6900 XT on average across 30 games while playing in 4K with maximum graphics settings. It’s also reportedly 26 percent faster than the RTX 3090 across those same 30 games. As for the RX 9070, AMD says it’s 38 percent in 4K/max settings than the RX 6800 XT and 26 percent faster than the RTX 3080. Surely AMD could have compared these cards to the RTX 40 lineup and newer Radeons, but then those gains wouldn’t be as high.
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Beyond gaming, AMD says its new RDNA 4 media engine will be able to encode H.264 with better image quality, and it’ll support up to 8K/80fps encoding and decoding. As for AI, the 9070 XT is 34 percent faster than the RX 7900 GRE while using Davinci Resolve’s Magic Mask Tracking Tool, and it’s 70 percent faster while using Procyon SD XL for generative AI.
If AMD can manage to keep the Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT in stock, and also keep the prices at a reasonable level, I wouldn’t be surprised if some NVIDIA diehards jump ship.
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Microsoft’s latest bit of nagging in Windows 11 might come from a good place, but it’s seriously annoying some people
Microsoft’s latest bit of nagging in Windows 11 might come from a good place, but it’s seriously annoying some people
Windows 11 is warning some folks to back up their PC with a banner in the Settings app
This is a way of pushing Microsoft’s own Backup app which uses OneDrive
Not everyone needs to hear about this, and some users are getting frustrated with the banner repeatedly appearing
If you use Windows 11, you’re doubtless accustomed to Microsoft’s attempts to prod you into using its various services, and there’s been another spot of nudging (or shoving, even) in the OS regarding OneDrive.
Windows Latest picked up on this one, and it works in a roundabout kind of way, meaning that it’s not a flashing banner telling you that ‘You must use OneDrive’ (that’s coming in next month’s update – not really, ahem, though you never quite know with Microsoft).
The tech site tells us that Windows 11 is pushing an ‘Action advised – backup your PC’ warning panel on certain users, at the top of the Settings app home screen. And when I classify it as a warning, that’s because it’s displayed in yellow with an exclamation mark to urge taking action.
According to Windows Latest, this warning is being presented on a regular basis to them (and others). So, what happens if you click on the ‘Continue’ button in the banner? Windows 11 will launch its built-in Backup app, a tool designed to fully back up your PC to the cloud.
But of course, it’s tied specifically to Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage locker, which is why this is an indirect way of promoting that service. The catch is that if you don’t have enough storage space on OneDrive – and the free allocation almost certainly won’t be enough – you might be tempted to buy more space in order to back up your PC, and then Microsoft makes a bit of extra cash.
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Back off on the backups, Microsoft – or at least provide a choice here
Isn’t backing up your PC a useful thing to do, though, if you haven’t? Well, yes, very definitely, so to be fair, for novice computer users who haven’t taken any such steps to protect their data (or indeed system settings), this could be very useful.
But OneDrive isn’t the only way forward in this regard, and if you’ve already availed yourself of a third-party backup solution of one kind or another, then you might not – well, you almost certainly won’t – want to get nagged in this way on a trip to the Settings app.
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And nagged you will be, apparently, as Windows Latest notes that this banner only appears in Settings for users who have turned off cloud syncing and backup settings in Windows 11 (which, of course, you’re likely to have done if you’re taking care of backup duties yourself, and not leaving it to the OS). The repeated nature of this warning popping up also makes it more irksome.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually like the idea of the Backup app, which Microsoft has done some commendable work on in recent times to make it a good way to transfer all your stuff from an old PC to a new one. It’s convenient and handy for less tech-savvy folks in that respect, for sure, despite some limitations (notably third-party apps aren’t included in the backup images, just software from the Microsoft Store).
Even so, this remains a case of overreaching with ‘recommendations’ from Microsoft (once again). Windows Latest further observes there’s a fair bit of chatter on the likes of Reddit discussing possible fudges and workarounds to turn off this warning, but we shouldn’t have to resort to that.
Really, at the very least, there should be a box to tick along the lines of ‘don’t show this again’ with the banner, for those who know what it’s all about, and have their backups well in hand themselves. Surely that isn’t too difficult to implement, Microsoft, while still leaving the nudge present for those who might genuinely benefit from it?
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Trump Supporters Fume at AG Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files Debacle: “She Should Resign”
Trump Supporters Fume at AG Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files Debacle: “She Should Resign”
Conservative commentators and MAGA diehards are up in arms over the calamitous release of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case by the White House that saw a number of right-wing social media influencers on Thursday given special access to supposedly declassified files, who then trumpeted information that had largely been in the public domain for years.
On Thursday, the Justice Department, under orders from Attorney General Pamela Bondi, released a set of documents it dubbed The Epstein Files: Part I. The rollout of the documents was done rather unusually via a group of right-wing social media stars, including Mike Cernovich, Liz Wheeler, Jack Posobiec, Rogan O’Handley, known as DC Draino, as well as Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik, who were seen leaving the White House with binders that purported to be the first phase release of the Epstein files.
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(From L) Political commentator Rogan O’Handley, aka DC Draino, TikToker Chaya Raichik, US conservative activist Scott Presler, commentator Liz Wheeler and US conservative political commentator Chad Prather carry binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Department reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” as they walk out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 27, 2025.
According to various media reports, the limited set of documents contained copies of flight logs from Epstein’s private plane, which have previously been accessible in various court cases. They also included a heavily redacted photocopy of an address book allegedly created by Epstein and his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell, which has been referenced in media reports for many years.
Additionally, the Justice Department also published a redacted list of masseuses, along with an evidence list detailing over 150 items, such as nude images, massage tables, sex toys, and additional items. It was unclear whether this list was related to Epstein’s case, Maxwell’s case, or another investigation.
The reaction from some prominent Trump supporters on social media to the document release, particularly the lack of new information, was swift and damning, with lots of criticism for the right wing influencers involved — but much of the opprobrium reserved for Bondi.
“Influencers shouldn’t be getting the Epstein Files. This is absurd. They should be released to the public all at once not used to make money for “insiders,” tweeted Jeremy Hambly, the real name of popular right-wing YouTube commentator The Quartering.
In another tweet, The Quartering wrote, “When Pam Bondi went on Fox news last night and said that her office was releasing “new” Epstein flight logs, names and information,” saying, “It’s pretty sick what that man did. She already KNEW what was in the binders. She lied to the American People. She should Resign.”
There is one person who takes the blame for what happened today.
It’s @PamBondi.
I think she should resign.
She went on Fox News and said the files were on her desk. Then she went on Fox News last night and said we would have files today.
She is a total liar.
Just face it.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) February 28, 2025
Laura Loomer, a political activist and prominent right-wing personality, didn’t ****** her words over the farcical nature of the rollout and also called on Bondi to resign. “I hate to say it, but the American people can’t trust the validity of the Epstein files released today,” Loomer wrote on X. “It was released in an unprofessional manner with paid, partisan social media influencers to curate their binders for us. I can’t trust anything in the binder.”
Loomer also took shots at the influencers who received the documents, writing in another tweet, “Most of the influencers took selfies of themselves holding the binder and said “exclusive” and then proceeded to not post online for hours. That’s called gate keeping.”
In something of a screed of tweets on Thursday, Loomer also wrote, “Enough is enough. Donald Trump needs some real vetting in his admin. The entire world is laughing at our country today. And if you say they aren’t, you’re full of ***** or you’re one of the influencers who received the binder. This is honestly shocking levels of incompetence.”
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, who supported Trump during the last election, also tweeted his frustrations about the Epstein files and the administration in general. “If I’m gonna be fair these questions needs to be asked today. Why is the release of the Epstein list always a ***** show?,” Portnoy wrote, adding, “What’s the point of booting out illegals and criminals while somehow becoming a safe haven for the Tate brothers? Why is Crypto in the toilet if Trump is crypto king? How far does [Tesla] stock have to ****** before Elon goes back to work?”
Actor Kevin Sorbo was disappointed with the document release, tweeting, “So… nothing new was released today. So much for government transparency.” In a much angrier followup tweet, Sorbo wrote, “Our government used children who were trafficked as a publicity stunt. Disgusting. Release the files, now.”
Among elected officials, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) was particularly vocal, writing on X that the rollout a “complete disappointment.” “GET US THE INFORMATION WE ASKED FOR!” Luna added.
The president has the authority to unilaterally declassify documents, if the Epstein files are heavily redacted either Trump wants it that way or the FBI is being insurbodinate
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) February 27, 2025
Also on Thursday, Raheem Kassem, a former editor at Breitbart, published a behind the scenes account in The National Pulse of what transpired with the Epstein documents rollout, which one of Kassem’s sources described as a “clusterfuck.” “One of the more intriguing details of today is that President Donald J. Trump himself was in a room with these binders containing Epstein’s flight and phone call logs. One of the pages even contained President Trump’s name, having been listed in Epstein’s phone book,” Kassem writes.
“Again, that information is not new. But it is embarrassing for the White House, the vast majority of which is unlikely to have had any eyes on the documents handed to social media influencers who believed they were attending a simple series of policy briefings today,” Kassem writes.
He added, “Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team are being blamed very clearly in at least six conversations I’ve had this afternoon. Again, they gave no heads-up to either the influencers attending or White House staff about their intentions to distribute binders of information that contained little new information, frustrating both the administration and the general public.”
Later on Thursday, Bondi, perhaps reacting to the backlash to the document release, posted a letter she had sent to newly installed FBI Director Kash Patel on X that intimated that more records were recently discovered. Bondi ordered the FBI to hand over “the full and complete Epstein files” to her by Friday morning, and directed the newly installed bureau chief to “conduct an immediate investigation” into why her order to the FBI to turn over all documents was not followed.
In a post on X, Patel committed the FBI to ensuring that all documents related to the Epstein case are provided to the Department of Justice.
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Pineboards Modulo Series Review: All the extra features for your Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and 5
Pineboards Modulo Series Review: All the extra features for your Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and 5
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Poland’s Pineboards (formerly known as Pineberry Pi) has a history of beating Raspberry Pi to the market, a market that Raspberry Pi often kickstarts with a new product launch. We saw this with Pineboards’ Hat Drives, which brought PCIe based storage (and AI accelerators) to the freshly released Raspberry Pi 5. We even gave the Pineboard Hat Drive Nano a rare 5-star review because of its price and performance.
For Pineboards’ latest product line, our focus shifts from the Raspberry Pi 5, to the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 and the older Compute Module 4. The €35 ($37) Modulo5 Basic introduces a Raspberry Pi 5 form factor to the Compute Module 5 (CM5) which sees all of the ports on a Pi 5 replicated for the CM5. We also get the added bonus of being able to upgrade our Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 when we need a little more RAM or storage.
For Compute Module 4 (CM4) users, the €35 ($37) Modulo4 looks identical to the Modulo5 but offers access to the same PCIe accessories, designed for the Raspberry Pi 5, and any Pi 5 cases or accessories. Essentially it offers a life extension to the CM4, which still has enough grunt to get the job done, by providing access to PCIe storage and AI accelerators.
Compute Module 5 users have another board, the €47 ($49) Modulo5 IO PoE+ which offers all of the features found on the official Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Development Board (often referred to as a carrier board), but also includes Power over Ethernet. Something that Raspberry Pi announced along with the Raspberry Pi 5, but has yet to release.
In this triple review I’ll put each of the boards through its paces, and award an individual score at the end of the review.
Modulo5 IO PoE+
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The Modulo5 IO PoE+ is a beefed up version of the official Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 development board. Heck, the ports and footprint are identical! Sure a few things are moved around, but they are essentially the same thing. But, they are not!
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The key difference between the two is in its name PoE, Power over Ethernet. Yes, the Modulo5 IO PoE+ has built in PoE, before Raspberry Pi even released its version. PoE is useful for those projects where we need to power a Raspberry Pi in a location without ready access to power. You may want to build a wildlife camera in your garden, but don’t fancy digging up half the garden to properly install a mains voltage supply. PoE provides the network access and the power for your Raspberry Pi 5. Incredibly, the *** made PoE+ power module can provide 25W (5V at 5A) of continuous power (30W peak).
The best part of PoE on the Modulo5 IO PoE+ is that it just works. I used a Netgear PoE switch and I had zero config to do on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. It just worked!
Power can also be provided by the USB Type C port; you’ll need the official Raspberry Pi 5 27W PSU, otherwise the CM5 will complain about low power.
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Just like the official dev board, Modulo5 IO PoE+ has an M.2 PCIe slot for an SSD, an AI accelerator or if you are daring enough, a GPU. If you are using a CM5 Lite board (no eMMC) then the onboard micro SD slot will come in useful. Two USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet and dual HDMI ports round off the front edge of the board. Around the back we have dual camera / display connectors.
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The Compute Module 5 can be flashed directly on the board, just set the RPIBOOT switch to flash mode, run the boot software on your PC, plug in and then flash the drive using Raspberry Pi Imager. The USB Type C port is “only” USB 2.0, but it is fast enough to get the image across. You can use any CM5 cooler with the Modulo5 IO PoE+, including the aforementioned EDA Tec cooler. There is a fan connector on the board, along with the SWD and RTC connectors. You can’t use the official Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler as there are no mounting holes on the board.
Testing the M.2 PCIe slot and I thought it was PCIe Gen 3 compatible. I looked at the Modulo5 IO PoE+ product page and saw nothing on PCIe speeds. So after setting up the CM5 to boot from a PCIe Gen 3 SSD, I went into raspi-config and set the CM5 to use PCIe Gen 3 speeds, rebooted and then ran a test using dd to read the drive to /dev/null. I got a speed of 893MB/s. Definitely PCIe Gen 3 performance!
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The dual camera / display connectors work just like the Modulo5 Basic, and yes I did have to make the same configuration changes in order for the CM5 to see the devices. Both worked well and with no incidents. I even found a way to add the Modulo5 IO PoE+ to the Touch Display 2, creating an unholy union of tech.
If you want to use the GPIO, then go for it. There is a full HAT compatible 40-pin GPIO. But, the issue of the RP1 means that you will need to double check that your favorite HAT works. General GPIO use, such as projects with digital IO, I2C etc will work just like the Raspberry Pi 5.
Modulo5 Basic
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At a glance, this is a Raspberry Pi 5, but delving deeper, we can see that there are many key differences between the two. Chiefly, the CM5 PCB in the center of the board which has an almost similar layout to the Raspberry Pi 5. The SoC, RP1 and RAM are in similar locations. Only the eMMC (if your CM5 has it) is on the underside of the CM5.
The other differences are the location of the Camera / Display connectors, moved behind the USB ports and the ports for the RTC battery, fan and SWD debug. Everything else is as it is on a normal Pi 5. This means that the Modulo5 Basic can be used inside the official Raspberry Pi 5 case, other cases may require some tweaking.
The PCIe connector is in the same place as the Raspberry Pi 5 and that means we can use Pineboards HatDrive! Nano or another M.2 HAT for a full PCIe Gen 3.0 experience. I tested it and yes, we get the same performance as a regular Raspberry Pi 5.
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Technically, the official Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler is compatible, but you need to use the included Modulo5 Basic compatible plastic plugs. I tried to put the active cooler on my Modulo5 Basic without the Modulo5 plugs and it was just too thick, because the CM5 sits on top of the connectors, raising it a few millimeters. You can get one side on, but the other side tilts upwards, with the plastic barb tantalizingly close to the Modulo5 Basic. Don’t try to force it! I did and I “slightly” warped the Modulo5 Basic’s PCB.
It bent back ok, and everything works! If you want cooling for your CM5, then use the official Raspberry Pi 5 Active Cooler with the Modulo5 Plugs! Or use the CM5 passive cooler (it comes with the official CM5 development kit) or the EDATec cooler which brings active cooling, fully controlled by the OS via the fan connector.
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The various Raspberry Pi Cameras and the new Touch Display 2.0 work with the Modulo5 Basic but access to the connectors is tight, especially if the CM5 is already inserted. I used a plastic spudger to unlock and lock the plastic tabs. After that, I told the Raspberry Pi CM5 where to find my camera and screen. You see, the CM5 does not automatically detect the devices. You need to add some extra lines to /boot/firmware/config.txt in order for it to find them. I spent a little longer than I wanted on this step. Not the fault of Modulo, that lies with Raspberry Pi OS.
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Flashing an OS to the CM5 via the Modulo5 Basic is really simple. On your PC, run Raspberry Pi’s RPiBoot application. On the Modulo5 Basic flip the switch to Flash Mode, then connect to your PC via the USB Type C cable. Press the power button twice and the CM5 appears as a USB device. All you need to do now is open Raspberry Pi Imager and flash your chosen OS.
Using the GPIO on the Modulo5 Basic is just as easy as a Raspberry Pi 5, and it comes with the Python and RP1 issues that face the Pi 5. I had an LED blinking and fully controlled from a push button with just a few lines of the GPIO Zero Python 3 code. Adding a HAT to the GPIO will vary greatly depending on software support. Newer HAT+ boards will work, but right now I’ve only used HAT+ boards that connect to the PCIe connector, not the GPIO. Using something like Pimoroni’s Explorer Hat Pro would require significant workarounds given the changes to how the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO now works.
Modulo4
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Putting the Modulo4 and 5 Basic next to one another is pretty much like the Spiderman pointing meme. They look very alike! There are only two slight visible differences. First, there is no switch for flashing the eMMC of your Compute Module 4 (if you have that version), but you can still flash the eMMC using this carrier board. Secondly, the USB ports are all USB 2.0, no USB 3.0 here!
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The camera connectors are in the same place. Note that I said camera connectors. There is no DSI connector for the Touch Display 2.0, and no, it won’t work if you try to plug it in. It just causes the CM4 to not power up. You need to remove the display and power on the Module4 and CM4, wait a few minutes and it will power on again. As for cameras, they work with just a little config.txt magic.
The GPIO works as expected for a Raspberry Pi 4, no RP1 issues here, but PEP668 still applies to the latest Raspberry Pi OS, so you will need to ensure that you are using Python virtual environments. I tested a quick GPIO Zero script to control an LED on GPIO 17, with a button on GPIO 27. That worked flawlessly. The HATs that I tested also worked. Pimoroni’s Unicorn HAT needed a little tweak inside of the virtual environment, but it worked. The Pimoroni Explorer HAT Pro, which uses digital IO, PWM and I2C installed into a virtual Python environment and just worked.
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The Modulo4 also features a PCIe connector, and yes, the CM4 development board also features PCIe. On the official CM4 dev board it was broken out as a single-lane PCIe Gen 2 x1 slot. Modulo4 breaks this out to the same style PCIe connector as the Modulo5 Basic and the Raspberry Pi 5. To test, I connected the mighty Pineboards HatDrive! Nano with a Cytron MakerDisk. I wrote the contents of the eMMC to the SSD and then set the OS to boot from NVMe. Opening a terminal, I used dd to read the drive to /dev/null and achieved 415MB/s, in-line with PCIe Gen 2 speeds on the Raspberry Pi 5. We’ll never get PCIe Gen 3 on the CM4, but Gen 2 is plenty fast for this former flagship.
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The PCIe connection can also be used with HAT+ boards, and so I delved into my box of bits and pulled out the latest AI HAT+ from Raspberry Pi. Yes, the Raspberry Pi AI Kit, designed for the Raspberry Pi 5 works with the Modulo4 and the Compute Module 4. You won’t get the same performance as a Pi 5, but it does work.
Who are the Modulo boards for?
Each of the boards has a specific user in mind. The Modulo5 Basic is aimed at users who want to use the CM5 with Raspberry Pi 5 accessories such as HATs and cases. This does sound niche, but hear me out. The CM5 on a Modulo5 Basic can be upgraded. Need more RAM, eMMC, Wi-Fi? Just buy the CM5 that suits your needs. You’ve got an upgradable “Raspberry Pi 5” that should do the job for a few years to come.
The Modulo4 is for those of us with a CM4 gathering dust in a drawer. With the Modulo4 we can use Raspberry Pi 5 HATs, PCIe products, AI accelerators and cases with the CM4. sure we don’t get the same performance as a CM5, but the CM4 has plenty of power to give, and without the added expense of buying into the CM5 range.
The Modulo5 IO PoE+ is the Rolls Royce of CM5 carrier boards. It gives us everything that the official development board offers, then gives us PoE. I can see myself using this board a lot more than my official development board. This is the board that you buy if you are serious about PoE and want to build a product that uses it.
Bottom Line
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All of the Modulo boards are worth the money. Yes they are niche, but they work extremely well and the PCB quality is excellent.
Modulo4 Score: 4.5 / 5
The Modulo4 will squeeze a little more life out of the aging Compute Module 4, largely thanks to the easy PCIe connector and the plethora of Raspberry Pi AI products. As I’ve already said, you won’t get the same performance, but you won’t have to spend more money on a CM5.
Modulo5 Basic Score 4 / 5
The Modulo5 Basic is a good compromise of the Raspberry Pi 5 form factor. It gives us the Raspberry Pi 5 experience, but with an upgradeable CM5 at its heart. This could be useful for those wanting an upgrade path that doesn’t require buying a whole new Raspberry Pi.
Modulo5 IO PoE+ Score 4.5 / 5
Finally, Modulo5 IO PoE+. This is an excellent PCB and credit to the design team for matching the port placement and footprint of the official development board so well. The addition of PoE makes this instantly more attractive than the official board, and we don’t lose any features for its inclusion.
So it all boils down to which board meets the needs of your projects. The price is decent, probably a little higher than some would pay. But you are paying for good quality PCBs and components, and not a clone board that uses poor quality parts.
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Monster Hunter Wilds: Capcom responds to performance issues on PC
Monster Hunter Wilds: Capcom responds to performance issues on PC
Capcom has responded to performance issues faced by PC players of Monster Hunter Wilds.
Monster Hunter Wilds was released on Friday, and almost as soon as the PC version was in the public’s hands, players reported issues with optimization, performance and more. The game which has received praise from fans outside of the performance issues, hit almost 1 million concurrent Steam players on launch night.
Now, Capcom has responded to the issues, and has provided some suggestions to fans as to how to fix their performance problems.
A post on Monster Hunter Status, the franchise’s official support account, reads “If you’re experiencing any initial issues with Monster Hunter Wilds on Steam, please try updating your graphics driver, turning off compatibility mode, and then readjust your settings.”
In the linked post on the Monster Hunter support website, Capcom has suggested several steps that could fix the issues, including updating drivers, adding the game’s folder and files to a player’s anti-virus exception list, and more.
“If you still experience issues, please also try the troubleshooting steps on the Official Monster Hunter Wilds Troubleshooting & Issue Reporting Thread posted on the Steam community page as they contain more detailed and additional steps that may help resolve your issue.”
VGC’s five-star Monster Hunter Wilds review, which was played on PS5 Pro, calls it “a victory lap for Capcom’s golden age”, concluding: “Monster Hunter Wilds is confident, bold, and one of the best Monster Hunter games ever, thanks to its ability to stand on the giant shoulders of Worlds and improve it in virtually every way.”
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Trump says minerals deal with Ukraine is worth billions. Is it?
Trump says minerals deal with Ukraine is worth billions. Is it?
Workers go about their job at a granite mine on Feb. 26, 2025 in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.
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Ukraine might have turned the tide in its rocky relations with the U.S. by offering President Donald Trump’s administration access to its critical minerals as part of wider peace negotiations, but experts warn that question marks remain around the value and accessibility of such deposits.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to travel to Washington Friday for a potential signing of a deal with Trump that would see Kyiv and the U.S. jointly develop and monetise Ukraine’s deposits of rare earths, critical minerals, oil, gas and other natural resources.
Trump previously said he saw the deal as compensation for the U.S.’ aid to Ukraine throughout the war with Russia, and had claimed the deal was worth $500 billion.
Speaking Thursday, the U.S. president also said the economic pact would serve to prevent further Russian aggression. “We are a backstop because we’ll be over there, we’ll be working in the country. That’s a great thing economically for them,” he said in the Oval Office.
The “framework agreement,” as Ukraine described it on Wednesday, however, made no mention of the $500 billion figure or the wider value of the deal. Ukraine has already heavily disputed it owes the U.S. such a sum.
That Ukraine has “significant deposits of rare earths,” as the United Nations states, is not generally disputed. The country is seen to be a treasure trove of deposits of rare earth metals such as lithium and cobalt — widely used in rechargeable batteries for electronic devices — as well as scandium (an alloying agent with aluminum), graphite (used in the production of electric vehicle batteries), tantalum (also used in electronic devices), and niobium, which is used to make steel lighter and stronger.
“About 5% of all the world’s ‘critical raw materials’ are located in Ukraine, which occupies only 0.4 per cent of the Earth’s surface,” Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Svetlana Grinchuk said back in 2022.
Analysts say there are many unanswered questions on the size of Ukraine’s rare earths and strategic minerals deposits, however, as well as how accessible they are given Russia’s occupation of a swathe of Ukraine and the massive reconstruction process the country will face post-war.
They also question the ultimate value of a U.S.-Ukraine agreement given changing demand for such natural resources.
Nataliia Shapoval, head of KSE Institute, a think-tank within the Kyiv School of Economics, which has compiled a database of Ukraine’s critical minerals, said that President Trump’s demand for $500 billion worth of deposits was “theoretically possible.”
“I think there will be some alignment to this figure that Trump mentioned,” Shapoval told CNBC via video call earlier this month. However, she questioned the validity of some of the current Soviet-era valuations.
“Other estimates are still confidential,” she continued. “There, the numbers are lower and may be not in the trillions.”
The not so good bit
Complicating matters, however, is the location of Ukraine’s mineral wealth, with most situated in the largely Russian-occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, as well as central Dnipropetrovsk, and the southern and also partly Russian-occupied area of Zaporizhzhia.
Not only is an active war raging in those areas, making access contingent on the outcome of the war and any subsequent peace deal, but they are heavily mined, making extraction in future very difficult.
There’s been a lot of buzz about Ukraine’s “rare earth” minerals, but the country does not in fact have large quantities of rare-earth elements, according to experts at the Atlantic Council.
“What it has instead is significant reserves of titanium, graphite, and lithium, which are foundational resources for the U.S. defense industry and wider high-tech economy,” Reed Blakemore, director of research and programs at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, commented online Wednesday.
But accessing these minerals, along with other reserves of aluminum and hydrocarbons, will hinge on the outcome of the ongoing war, he noted.
“A significant portion of these resources, both active and underexplored, are in the eastern third of Ukraine,” Reed said.
A view of granite being mined on Feb. 26, 2025 in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.
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Geopolitical expert Robert Muggah, founder of consultancy the SecDev Group and a frequent commentator on Ukraine’s critical minerals, noted earlier this week that while Ukraine may be an attractive proposition for investment partners looking to monetize its critical minerals “actually getting it out of the ground is an entirely different matter.”
“Russia currently occupies over 60% of Ukrainian coal mines, and a share of caesium, lithium, manganese and rare earth deposits [which] potentially denies revenue to Ukraine and deepens Russian influence across supply chains,” he said on X.
Even after the minerals are extracted there will be additional obstacles to overcome.
“China remains far and away the dominant market force in minerals refining and processing,” the Atlantic Council’s Reed noted Wednesday.
“For a deal to really de-risk the U.S. minerals supply chain, more infrastructure is likely needed to ensure that the newly acquired mineral ores don’t flow toward Beijing.” Currently, he stated, “the United States lacks the infrastructure to transport and refine these ores in Europe or North America at scale.”
— CNBC’s Karen Gilchrist contributed to this report.
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Trump says minerals deal with Ukraine is worth billions. Is it?
Trump says minerals deal with Ukraine is worth billions. Is it?
Workers go about their job at a granite mine on Feb. 26, 2025 in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.
Kostiantyn Liberov | Libkos | Getty Images
Ukraine might have turned the tide in its rocky relations with the U.S. by offering President Donald Trump’s administration access to its critical minerals as part of wider peace negotiations, but experts warn that question marks remain around the value and accessibility of such deposits.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to travel to Washington Friday for a potential signing of a deal with Trump that would see Kyiv and the U.S. jointly develop and monetise Ukraine’s deposits of rare earths, critical minerals, oil, gas and other natural resources.
Trump previously said he saw the deal as compensation for the U.S.’ aid to Ukraine throughout the war with Russia, and had claimed the deal was worth $500 billion.
Speaking Thursday, the U.S. president also said the economic pact would serve to prevent further Russian aggression. “We are a backstop because we’ll be over there, we’ll be working in the country. That’s a great thing economically for them,” he said in the Oval Office.
The “framework agreement,” as Ukraine described it on Wednesday, however, made no mention of the $500 billion figure or the wider value of the deal. Ukraine has already heavily disputed it owes the U.S. such a sum.
That Ukraine has “significant deposits of rare earths,” as the United Nations states, is not generally disputed. The country is seen to be a treasure trove of deposits of rare earth metals such as lithium and cobalt — widely used in rechargeable batteries for electronic devices — as well as scandium (an alloying agent with aluminum), graphite (used in the production of electric vehicle batteries), tantalum (also used in electronic devices), and niobium, which is used to make steel lighter and stronger.
“About 5% of all the world’s ‘critical raw materials’ are located in Ukraine, which occupies only 0.4 per cent of the Earth’s surface,” Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Svetlana Grinchuk said back in 2022.
Analysts say there are many unanswered questions on the size of Ukraine’s rare earths and strategic minerals deposits, however, as well as how accessible they are given Russia’s occupation of a swathe of Ukraine and the massive reconstruction process the country will face post-war.
They also question the ultimate value of a U.S.-Ukraine agreement given changing demand for such natural resources.
Nataliia Shapoval, head of KSE Institute, a think-tank within the Kyiv School of Economics, which has compiled a database of Ukraine’s critical minerals, said that President Trump’s demand for $500 billion worth of deposits was “theoretically possible.”
“I think there will be some alignment to this figure that Trump mentioned,” Shapoval told CNBC via video call earlier this month. However, she questioned the validity of some of the current Soviet-era valuations.
“Other estimates are still confidential,” she continued. “There, the numbers are lower and may be not in the trillions.”
The not so good bit
Complicating matters, however, is the location of Ukraine’s mineral wealth, with most situated in the largely Russian-occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, as well as central Dnipropetrovsk, and the southern and also partly Russian-occupied area of Zaporizhzhia.
Not only is an active war raging in those areas, making access contingent on the outcome of the war and any subsequent peace deal, but they are heavily mined, making extraction in future very difficult.
There’s been a lot of buzz about Ukraine’s “rare earth” minerals, but the country does not in fact have large quantities of rare-earth elements, according to experts at the Atlantic Council.
“What it has instead is significant reserves of titanium, graphite, and lithium, which are foundational resources for the U.S. defense industry and wider high-tech economy,” Reed Blakemore, director of research and programs at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, commented online Wednesday.
But accessing these minerals, along with other reserves of aluminum and hydrocarbons, will hinge on the outcome of the ongoing war, he noted.
“A significant portion of these resources, both active and underexplored, are in the eastern third of Ukraine,” Reed said.
A view of granite being mined on Feb. 26, 2025 in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine.
Kostiantyn Liberov | Libkos | Getty Images
Geopolitical expert Robert Muggah, founder of consultancy the SecDev Group and a frequent commentator on Ukraine’s critical minerals, noted earlier this week that while Ukraine may be an attractive proposition for investment partners looking to monetize its critical minerals “actually getting it out of the ground is an entirely different matter.”
“Russia currently occupies over 60% of Ukrainian coal mines, and a share of caesium, lithium, manganese and rare earth deposits [which] potentially denies revenue to Ukraine and deepens Russian influence across supply chains,” he said on X.
Even after the minerals are extracted there will be additional obstacles to overcome.
“China remains far and away the dominant market force in minerals refining and processing,” the Atlantic Council’s Reed noted Wednesday.
“For a deal to really de-risk the U.S. minerals supply chain, more infrastructure is likely needed to ensure that the newly acquired mineral ores don’t flow toward Beijing.” Currently, he stated, “the United States lacks the infrastructure to transport and refine these ores in Europe or North America at scale.”
— CNBC’s Karen Gilchrist contributed to this report.
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You Can Now Play as Luffy and Ace in the Same Team in Marvel Rivals
You Can Now Play as Luffy and Ace in the Same Team in Marvel Rivals
Marvel Rivals is a dream come true for a lot of Marvel fans with its excellent execution of the Marvel IP and the hero shooter genre. But one other group of fans that can realize their dreams with the game is the One Piece fandom. Of course you know what we’re talking about, it’s the character mods that the community has started to make.
There are some very goofy mods. | Image Credit: @HasB/NexusMods
Despite NetEase’s crackdown on mods with the Season 1 update, the modding community is still going strong. And if you’re a One Piece fan, you can get the Luffy and Ace brothers combo going with Mr. Fantastic and Human Torch. Ironically enough, the Marvel characters are brothers-in-law so the skins match them both in terms of abilities and theme.
Be the best version of Luffy and Ace in Marvel Rivals
Mods come with risks though. | Image Credit: @FusionFalcon05/NexusMods
Mister Fantastic joined the Marvel Rivals roster with the Season 1 update and fans immediately noticed the similarities in ability between him and One Piece protagonist Monkey D. Luffy. So it was only a matter of time before modders stepped in to transform Mister Fantastic into Luffy. Well, that is, until it got taken away from us in Season 1.
You can no longer use Custom Mod Skins in Marvel Rivals
Marvel Rivals has introduced Asset hash checking in the latest update, due to which, Mods do not work anymore.
[ Via: @X0X_LEAK, ToastedShoes, Modders: Irastris, Kboy ] pic.twitter.com/4LXzohzsDP
— Marvel Rivals Intel (@RivalsAssembled) January 10, 2025
It seems that Modders have found a work around and are able to Mod #MarvelRivals again
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— Marvel Rivals News (@MRivalsHub) January 12, 2025
Luffy isn’t the only One Piece character making the crossover in Marvel Rivals. The Human Torch is one of two new characters in the game, and there is already a Portgas D. Ace skin mod that you can get for him. This mod swaps Johnny Storm’s abilities and appearance with Ace’s iconic look, making it a perfect fit for One Piece fans.
Marvel Rivals developers have taken an aggressive stance against modding, especially after the Season 1 update. NetEase added more security measures to detect altered game files, so it’s gotten a bit harder for us to use mods. However, the modding community has found ways around these restrictions.
GOOD NEWS MODDING IN MARVEL RIVALS IS BACK will update and share link for Leonaura’s mod when all of the mods are patched accordingly pic.twitter.com/hBtlBLA35N
— SugarRatio (@SugarRatio) February 10, 2025
Some fans believe NetEase should adopt a more lenient approach. The devs could just do it like Saber and allow us to use mods in private lobbies similar to how Space Marine 2 did it. Until that happens, players who want to see Luffy and Ace in Marvel Rivals will have to weigh the risks and decide whether it’s worth the gamble.
NetEase could ignore modders and the game would still have a bright future
Let’s hope NetEase makes the right choice. | Image Credit: NetEase Games
Still, Marvel Rivals is thriving. In just its first month, the game generated an estimated $136 million (via Level80). Despite being a free-to-play game, its combination of strong gameplay, a beloved IP, and a steady stream of content updates has hooked us all. The game’s continued popularity suggests it has the potential to become one of the biggest live-service shooters in recent years.
Looking ahead, Season 2 of Marvel Rivals is expected to bring even more content, with strong hints pointing toward an X-Men-themed update. We’re also getting leaks and datamines suggesting that characters like Cyclops, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Blade, and Ultron could be joining the roster soon.
The modding scene in Marvel Rivals isn’t going away anytime soon. Despite NetEase’s attempts to restrict modding, modders continue to find new workarounds. We’ll have to wait and see if NetEase continues to stop the efforts of the modding community in the future.
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'Really good sportsmanship'- Smith retracts run-out appeal
'Really good sportsmanship'- Smith retracts run-out appeal
Australia captain Steve Smith retracts an appeal from teammate Josh Inglis to review a possible run-out in the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy.
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Walatee injured as Western United beat Mariners in ALM
Walatee injured as Western United beat Mariners in ALM
An injury to Abel Walatee has cast a shadow over Western United’s 3-1 win at Central Coast, their first A-League Men victory since 2021.
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