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AMD to Use RDNA 3.5 iGPU Until 2029, RDNA 5 Only on "Premium" SKUs
AMD's RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics is poised to become one of the company's longest-running iGPUs. A slide generated by AI and shared on the Chinese Weibo forums by Golden Pig Upgrade suggests that AMD plans to use RDNA 3.5 until 2029, making it one of the most enduring versions of RDNA GPUs. Although this slide is not an official roadmap, it provides insight into the company's future plans. Golden Pig Upgrade is known for accurate information from various industry sources, lending credibility to this illustration of AMD's product strategy. According to this roadmap, most consumers buying laptops in the coming years will experience the same integrated graphics capabilities as those found in today's Ryzen AI 300 and 400 series processors.
AMD seems to be reserving architectural updates for high-end "Halo" products, potentially equipping the rumored "Medusa Halo" lineup's premium variants that use separate GPU tiles with the next-generation RDNA 5. However, standard "Medusa Point" chips are expected to maintain the existing RDNA 3.5 architecture. This approach effectively halts progress in integrated graphics for most of AMD's product line, leaving office laptops and midrange machines without significant visual performance improvements until the end of the decade. The only expected advancements in the coming years are at the CPU level, making the future "Zen 6" architecture the main attraction for midrange laptops. AMD's only chance to boost iGPU performance in the near future would be by increasing the number of compute units, either through a larger die area or a more advanced manufacturing process that allows for a denser package. However, with RDNA 5 anticipated for "Medusa Halo" and other products, this seems less likely.
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(PR) Retro Games THEQUICKSHOT II Is Now Available
Retro Games Ltd., in partnership with PLAION REPLAI, today confirm that THEQUICKSHOT II is available now, bringing one of the most iconic joysticks in home-computer gaming back into players' hands. This new joystick has been faithfully recreated and precision-engineered for modern retro play. Originally launched in the early 1980s, the QuickShot II became a staple of home-computer gaming. Now, THEQUICKSHOT II has been rebuilt to deliver the same unmistakable feel players remember, while addressing the limitations of vintage hardware with modern reliability and responsiveness.
Designed to be played, not just displayed, THEQUICKSHOT II features an all-microswitch internal design, delivering immediate, reliable inputs with distinct click points for every direction and fire button. This ensures precise eight-way control with no dead zones or vague movement, even during the most demanding arcade-style gameplay.
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GOG Takes Flak for AI Art in Sale Banner
GOG recently announced its New Year sale, and fans immediately noticed something was off about the site banner advertising the event, with Liam Dawe from GamingOnLinux taking to Reddit to question whether or not the banner was AI-generated. The post generated a range of responses, mostly ranging from outrage to apathy, but a handful of redditors also pointed out that this wasn't the first time GOG used AI art in its marketing images, and that it had recently specifically mentioned proficiency with AI tools in a recent job listing for a developer to work on the Linux version of GOG Galaxy.
The topic of the AI-generated banner was also brought up on the GOG forum, where a GOG employee, who is involved in graphic design in the marketing department, commented at length on the post. The artist confirmed that the artwork is completely AI generated, although they deny that it was their work and decline to comment further on the company's internal AI use. However, they do expand on their personal opposition to AI at length, lamenting how ubiquitous it has become and how, around five years ago, "everything you'd see was something someone had spent time on...so it was worth being looked at," while this is not the case anymore. The full comment speaks to what appears to be an internal divide on the use of AI art, and this is a divide we observed in a recent State of the Gaming Industry survey as well, where many game industry workers admitted to using AI but most still thought it was harmful to gaming.
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Leaked Intel Core Ultra 7 356H Benchmark Scores Reveal Middling Gains
Intel's Core Ultra 356H is an upcoming 16-core (4 P-cores, 12 E-cores) mobile Panther Lake CPU. Although official review embargoes for the rest of Intel's Panther Lake CPUs are said to be right around the corner, supposed performance benchmarks for Intel's latest have already started to leak, with Cinebench R23 and 3DMark Steel Nomad Light results coming by way of @realVictor_M on X. The results indicate strong multicore performance but stagnant single-core scores compared to Intel's last-generation chips. The iGPU is also notably slower, since the Arc 140V iGPU in the outgoing Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores than the new Intel Graphics 4 Xe3 iGPU in the Panther Lake chip.
According to the leaker, whose results are so far unverified, the Core Ultra 7 356H scored 2013 points in the Cinebench R23 single-core benchmark and 20,721 points in the Cinebench R23 multicore test. For reference, this is slightly ahead of the outgoing Core Ultra 7 255H, which features two more P-cores and two fewer E-cores and averages around 18,679 points in the Cinebench R23 multicore benchmark. Single-core scores, for their part, are about dead even, with the 255H averaging around 2060 points in the R23 single-core benchmark. In the 3DMark Steel Nomad Light test, the Panther Lake iGPU scored 2,110 points. By comparison, its predecessor's average score in the same benchmark ranges between 3,279 and 3,532 points, depending on whether the benchmark is running in DX12 or Vulkan mode. The upcoming laptop CPUs will have to contend with AMD's new Ryzen AI 400 APUs, which have already started showing up in laptops and have shown to perform admirably in comparison with current-gen Intel CPUs.
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Modder Puts vBIOS From ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 5090 With +200 W Extra Powe
Flashing alternative vBIOS versions onto GPUs is a common practice used by modders to increase power limits on GPUs, and it has only become more common since NVIDIA started clamping down on overclocking options available to users via software tools. The recently announced ASUS ROG Matrix Platinum has become an attractive source for one such high-wattage vBIOS, although it has proven difficult to get the aforementioned vBIOS onto certain cards. One user on the HardwareLuxx forum, however, has managed to get the 800 W vBIOS from the Matrix Platinum GPU onto an ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 (read our review of the latter here), although the mod only seems to be necessary on the black version of the card.
It turns out that in order to flash the Matrix vBIOS onto the black Astral 5090 required physical modifications to the GPU PCB itself—this is due to the rear-mounted fan being wired with the front middle fan on that particular version of the card, as opposed to on a separate header as it is on the white version. The modification in question involves swapping a pull-down resistor in the serial in signal line of the EEPROM to a pull-up resistor. Obviously, this mod alone requires more than a little bit of soldering experience, but there's also the question of cooling. The stock version of the ROG Astral is designed with a 600 W power limit, and the Matrix vBIOS lifts that to 800 W, so realistically, any overclocking attempts made with the modded card requires an aftermarket cooling solution to handle the increased power and corresponding heat.
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(PR) Apple Announces Financial Results for Its Fiscal 2026 First Quart
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 first quarter ended December 27, 2025. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $2.84, up 19 percent year over year.
"Today, Apple is proud to report a remarkable, record-breaking quarter, with revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent from a year ago and well above our expectations," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven by unprecedented demand, with all-time records across every geographic segment, and Services also achieved an all-time revenue record, up 14 percent from a year ago. We are also excited to announce that our installed base now has more than 2.5 billion active devices, which is a testament to incredible customer satisfaction for the very best products and services in the world."
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State of the Game Industry Survey: Game Workers United on Unionization
The 2026 State of the Game Industry survey report, conducted by the GDC Festival of Gaming, has revealed a number of interesting insights in to the current state of the game development landscape. The report showed that US game industry workers have a strong inclination towards unionization, with 82% of workers surveyed supporting unionization, while 13% were unsure, and only 5% opposed the idea. Up-and-coming talent, specifically those aged 18-24, were overwhelmingly in support of unionization, with zero respondents opposing the idea. This report comes shortly after unions representing Ubisoft workers in France called for a massive three-day international strike after the studio's ill-received cost-cutting measures and recent game cancellations.
On the topic of Generative AI, game workers were somewhat divided. 36% of industry workers reported using generative AI in their daily work, although it was far more common amongst those working at publishing companies (58%) than workers at development studios (30%). Despite moderate use of generative AI tools across various disciplines and workloads, like research and brainstorming (81%), email and code assistance (47%), and prototyping (35%), most professionals in the gaming industry think that generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry. 64% of visual and technical artists, 63% of game and narrative designers, and 59% of programmers think share their negative outlooks on the impact of generative AI on the industry, while only 7% of surveyed workers generative AI is having a positive impact on gaming.
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Maingear Retro98 Desktops Pack Modern Gaming Hardware in Vintage Beige
Maingear has officially announced its latest retro-themed pre-built desktop PCs, the Retro98. The new pre-built desktops are built in SilverStone FLP02 chassis, replete with a functional turbo button—for setting PWM-controlled fans to max speed—and a big red power toggle switch, and they can be had with either a 360 mm AIO or open-loop liquid cooling designed in collaboration with Alphacool. The entire build looks rather authentic, with classic ketchup and mustard cables and classic 5.25" drive bay covers for the HDD bays tying the look together. The open-loop version is called the Retro98α, and the version that features AIO cooling is just the Retro98. Both versions of the Retro98 are limited edition, though, with only six units of the Retro98α and 32 units of the Retro98 available—by the looks of it, each specific SKU is limited to these quantities, not the series as a whole. Prices start at $2,499 for the Retro98, with the Retro98α topping out at $9,799.
Internally, the Retro98 series starts with the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K paired with 32 GB DDR5-6400 RAM, a 2 TB NVMe Gen 5 SSD, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 5080 available from $3,499. Stepping up again to $4,999 gets you an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9850X3D, and the $9,799 Retro98α coming equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 64 GB of RAM, a 4 TB SSD, and an RTX 5090. All versions of the Retro98 also come with onboard Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, and the cooling configuration consists of dual 120 mm front intakes, a single 120 mm rear exhaust, and three top-mounted 120 mm exhaust fans for the radiator. The Intel variant ships with an MSI Z890 Gaming Plus WiFi motherboard, while the AMD versions are all built around the MSI X870E Gaming Plus WiFi, and they all come with appropriately sized 80+ Gold-rated PSUs ranging from 650 W to 1600 W.
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