Next-generation consoles bring with them a myriad of improvements, an assortment of raw spec upgrades (such as more GPU grunt, additional RAM and such things), but new hardware features and optimization is just as important. The Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S both support several new features on their GPUs thanks to using.

The next generation of consoles is finally here, and one of the surprise features that Sony had for us was PS5 Remote Play. This feature was stealthily added to PS4 consoles shortly before the launch of the Playstation 5 in the United States, and enables you to remotely control and use your – or.

The drilldown of new Xbox hardware has been a tradition for Microsoft, and after the rather extensive rundown for the Xbox One console before its 2013 launch, I was very excited to see what Microsoft would reveal of the Xbox Series X architecture. There are still some mysteries for the machine, but overall Microsoft.

On March 2nd of next year, it will have been three years since the launch of the first-gen Ryzen processors and with their launch, AMD caused significant disruption to what consumers expect from mainstream processors. It’s easy to focus in on the core count increase, doubling the core count over Intel’s then flagship offerings,.

So, let’s assume that you’re primarily a gamer and want to squeeze every last drop of performance possible out of your rig, does Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology hurt the frame rate, or are you better to leave it enabled? Intel’s Hyper-Threading has been part of Intel’s gaming-focused CPUs since back in the days of the Pentium 4,.

It was almost a year ago that Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia first announced the Turing powered GeForce cards. The hype prior to the Turing announcement had been crazy, expectations were set high not just because of how impressive a leap Pascal was over Maxwell, but also because of how amazing real-time Ray.

Intel’s Skylake line of processors were the first desktop CPUs to use DDR4, this was back in August 2015 and along with the added bonus of lower operating voltages, the radically increased clock frequencies compared to the older DDR3 standard was the real improvement DDR4 bought to the table. You can certainly buy DDR3.

In several days, we’ll know a lot more about Nvidia’s plans for the GeForce RTX 2080 (along with the other cards in the GeForce 20 series lineup), but as of right now, the Turing architecture is a very impressive jump in performance. Ray Tracing has been a lofty goal in computer graphics for years,.

For a long time in computer graphics, we’d regularly see new graphics card launched on an annual basis (and sometimes sooner than that), but for just about two years now, gamers in particular have been been left with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 10 series, powered by the companies’ Pascal architecture. But finally after months.

2014 seems a very long time ago, but that’s when Microsoft first unveiled news that it was working on releasing DirectX 12, to serve as the companies answer to developers asking for a low level API. DX12 was designed from the ground up to tackle the issues and constraints plaguing PC game development at.

AMD are back in the PR limelight, dominating much of the technology and gaming talk with their upcoming Zen architecture. Enthusiasts debate on the performance of the processor, speculate the price points (particularly when it comes to Summit Ridge, the Zen based platform for the desktop) and how their chips will stack up against.

Rumors concerning Nintendo’s NX have been pretty consistent recently, with a plethora of new reports popping up over the past several hours. These new rumors hint the Nintendo NX will not only have a Polaris based GPU, but will also natively support the upcoming Vulkan low level API, and also launch with Luigi’s Mansion.

Oxide Games have unleashed their eagerly anticipated Ashes of the Singularity, a real time strategy title where tens of thousands of units can battle each other across huge battlefields. Ashes of the Singularity also represents the first chance for gamer’s to see how DirectX 12 compares to DirectX 11 in an actual game environment,.

We’ve entered an extremely exciting time for PC gaming, with promising new memory technologies, die shrinks and increasingly powerful processors heralding in unparalleled graphics. But, the biggest buzz this year isn’t from a piece of hardware, it’s instead from an API – Microsoft’s DirectX 12. Much has been made of DirectX 12’s multi-threaded improvements,.