AMD unveils the RX 7900 XTX for $999 and the lower powered RX 7900 XT for $899, its first GPUs built on the RDNA 3 chiplet architecture, coming December 13 (The Verge)

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close  —  New $899 and $999 GPUs maintain the status quo in the Nvidia-AMD rivalry.  —  Nvidia’s RTX 4080 and 4090 GPUs are amazing performers.

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel reveals specifications for its Arc desktop GPUs for demanding, budget, and casual gamers; top of the line GPU will have 32 Xe cores and 16GB of GDDR6 RAM  —  Specifications of Intel’s A770, A750, and A580.  —  the specifications of all of its Arc Alchemist A-series discrete graphics cards for desktop PCs.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
A review of Intel’s $329 Arc A770 and $289 Arc A750: ideal for 1080p gaming, slick design, and good performance, but weird driver bugs and few software controls  —  Intel’s GPU effort is impressive but early … Intel’s Arc graphics cards are finally here, and they’re priced to take on Nvidia’s popular RTX 3060 for budget PC gamers.

Max A. Cherney / Protocol:
Nvidia and AMD say the US imposed export restrictions on chips used for AI applications to Russia and China, affecting chips like Nvidia’s A100 and AMD’s MI200  —  The U.S. has begun to impose fresh restrictions on exports of advanced chips necessary for AI-related applications to Russia and China …

AnandTech:
Review of AMD’s new $699 Ryzen 9 7950X, built on Zen 4 with 16 cores: blistering single- and multi-threaded performance and efficiency helps beat Intel’s chips  —  Back at CES 2022, which was held in Las Vegas earlier at the beginning of the year, AMD announced that its new Zen 4 core would be coming sometime in the second half of 22.

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware:
Report: discrete and integrated GPU shipments fell 25.1% YoY to 75.5M in Q3, desktop GPUs fell 15.43% YoY, and notebook 30% YoY, the biggest drop since 2009  —  Intel solidifies GPU positions amid graphics market slump.  —  Shipments of integrated and discrete graphics processing units dropped …