According to hardware leaker "chi11eddog", MSI has conducted internal testing on the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU equipped with 3D V-Cache technology. The testing revealed that optimizations can provide a 2% to 4% boost in average gaming performance. However, individual games can see a performance increase of 9% to 12%. The memory upgrade alone can give a 2% increase in performance, while High-Efficiency Mode and Enhanced Mode Boost can each provide an additional 1% boost. The testing was conducted on a system equipped with an MSI X670E Tomahawk motherboard, Kingston Fury DDR5-6000 EXPO kit, RTX 4090 GPU, and MSI AIO/PSU. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is set to launch on April 6th at a price of $449, and this is the last known Ryzen 7000 desktop CPU to launch in the near future.

There are reports that NVIDIA's new RTX 4070 GPU is close to being released, and there may even be a benchmark for the card already available. The RTX 4070 is expected to be a mid-range card that replaces the Ampere RTX 3070 that was released over two years ago. The new card is said to have 12GB of memory and a clock speed of 10.5 GHz (21 Gbps), the same configuration as the RTX 4070 Ti.

A leaked benchmark indicates that the RTX 4070 has been tested on a Core i9-13900K system with an ASRock Z790 Taichi Carrara motherboard. The benchmark also confirms that the card has 46 Streaming Multiprocessors, which translates to 5888 CUDA cores. The benchmark result shows that the card scores 202437 points in Geekbench CUDA test and 177594 in OpenCL. However, since these tests are synthetic and not gaming-related, it's difficult to make direct comparisons to other cards.

The RTX 4070 is set to launch on April 13th at a price of $599, which is $200 less than the RTX 4070 Ti, but the new card is expected to be around 20% slower in initial benchmarks.

ASUS recently announced their ROG Ally handheld gaming console, which they claim to be 50% to 100% faster than Valve's Steam Deck. Two influencers were given early access to the product and shared some information on the console. The ROG Ally is said to feature a custom AMD Ryzen APU with Zen4 and RDNA3 architectures, 16GB memory, a 7-inch full-HD screen with a higher brightness than Steam Deck and twice the refresh rate (120 Hz). LinusTechTips reports that the console is said to offer 50% higher performance at 15W than Steam Deck and twice the performance at 35W. The console also includes the option to change resolution, refresh rate, and enable AMD RSR, which is AMD's OS-level super resolution tech. ASUS has not yet confirmed the pricing but has promised that it will be competitive. Rumors suggest that it might be around $680, which is nearly the price of the flagship Steam Deck option. The ROG Ally is expected to hit the market in the next two months.