What used to be an afterthought is now a first-order concern for performance and power at the leading edge. The shift from planar designs to multi-die assemblies with complex interconnects is ...

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2025) has all the makings of a stylish, powerful gaming laptop that's worth a second glance, ...

Since games can use more cache, more data can be stored on the chip. This means that the CPU doesn ... advantage in gaming scenarios. Inside the RTX 4090 is the biggest and most powerful die of the ...

The internal examination revealed that the card housed a GA102 GPU die ... 4090. Additionally, the layout of the surrounding capacitors and the absence of proper markings on the memory chips ...

There was also a lack of labelling on the memory chips. another fake 4090 that used a 3090 die lapped the die then remark it as 4090 ad102 the mlcc surrounding the die are the layout that 3090 ...

In one instance, the scammer even went as far as polishing the GPU die itself and adding a fake RTX 4090 GPU label to the chip directly. Buying second-hand graphics cards is always fraught with ...

Multi-die and chiplet-based designs — which integrate multiple specialized dies in a single package or stack integrated circuits vertically — stand to deliver far greater performance and flexibility ...

Creating a detailed die shot of any processor isn't simple. It takes many failed attempts, involving numerous cracked chips and skin ... it to the AD102 (the RTX 4090's GPU), you'll see that ...

The 5090's GB202 GPU die is said to be physically larger than the AD102 GPU die used in the 4090, despite using a ... who has said that chips getting less expensive over time is "a story of ...

Upon delidding the fake chip, the IHS came off way easier than usual and there ... one victim submitted a PSA to Hong Kong-based tech media HKEPC where his 2nd-hand NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 had its die ...

The two cards are also built on different GPUs — the RTX 4090 comes with the AD102 chip, and the RTX 4080S maxes out the AD103 chip. A difference of over 6,000 CUDA cores, 8 GB of extra VRAM ...

Chip fraud is widespread in the computer component market. The Northwestrepair repair service showed an ASUS NVIDIA RTX 4090 TUF video card with a GPU from a less powerful model of the previous ...