The architecture synonymous with PC gaming for decades now has been X86, and the processors from both Intel and AMD which uses X86 has gone under a tremendous number of changes over those years, 64-bit support, increases in core counts and clock frequency, SMT, huge IPC increases; but ultimately, buried inside the architecture is.

If I mentioned the term “Machine Learning”, there’s a good chance you start talking about how a Neural Network will become self-aware and deep humanity a threat in judgement day, but the reality is that AI is an extremely broad term and in gaming, it’s way more important than its ever been before. PC.

There’s a rumor swirling around the internet that Nvidia’s next-generation Geforce cards (the RTX 30 series?) based on the Ampere architecture will sport a drastic increase in the ray tracing the performance of the cards, while also sporting large gains in traditional rasterization performance too. As we’re in the closing months of 2019, I believe that the GPU market.

I think it’s a great time to talk about AMD’s GPU plans, given that the lower end Navi 14 cards will soon be on the market (AMD have announced them but they’re not out as of the time I’m writing this), and we’re starting to have a greater understanding of the higher-end Navi 12.

Nvidia’s Pascal lineup of graphics cards have been extremely successful for the company, and since their introduction in May, 2016 have sold extremely well. But these cards are on track to be replaced by the Ampere powered GTX 2080 and GTX 2070 graphics cards in the next few months, if the rumors are true..