In this special episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung and Adam Patrick Murray are joined by Tom of Moore’s Laws is Dead to kick around the massive pile of CPU and GPU rumors that have been building up.

Heading into the second half of the year, will Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” crush AMD’s Ryzen 7000? Will We get a Zen 4-based Ryzen chip in older AM4 boards? And will Nvidia’s GeForce 4000 really be that fast? Gordon and Adam talk all this and more with one of most prolific hardware gossipers out there: Tom of Moore’s Law is Dead.

Among the predictions Tom makes is whether Raptor Lake or Zen 4 (and Zen 5) will win the battle for nerd’s hearts and benchmarks and some bonker performance expectations from Nvidia’s GeForce 4000-series. Intel’s much anticipated Arc graphics cards are also heavily discussed—or rather, just where is Intel’s Arc?

You can witness it all in the video embedded above. You can also watch The Full Nerd episode on YouTube (subscribe to the channel while you’re there!) or listen to it on Megaphone.fm if you prefer the audio alone. 

Speaking of audio, you can subscribe to The Full Nerd in iTunes (please leave a review if you enjoy the show). We’re also on Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or you can point your favorite podcast-savvy RSS reader to: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/IDG8935300959

If you want to wear your geekiness on your sleeve, check out our Full Nerd merch! We just rolled out some new designs so you can proudly proclaim that you’re a friend of the show, or your love of 19×10 gaming. (If you know, you know.)

Have a PC- or gaming-related question? Email [email protected] and we’ll try to answer it in the next episode. You can also join the PC-related discussions and ask us questions on The Full Nerd’s Discord server. Finally, be sure to follow PCWorld on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch to watch future episodes live and pick our brains in real time! 

Author: Gordon Mah Ung, Executive Editor

One of founding fathers of hardcore tech reporting, Gordon has been covering PCs and components since 1998.

Recent stories by Gordon Mah Ung:

I’m not afraid of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X ElitePC maker offers a potential fix for crashing Intel CPUsThe Full Nerd ep 248: Ryzen 9 7950X3D and the state of PC gaming