2016 has been a pretty great year for technology enthusiasts, and for folks with an interest in processors the past couple of months have been particularly interesting. There’s been no shortage of news, rumors and leaks on AMD’s upcoming next generation processor architecture, Zen. Now we have yet more information on AMD’s upcoming Summit.
Read More →I think it’s safe to say AMD’s upcoming Zen architecture is about the most anticipated CPU debut in quite a number of years, with gamer’s and technology enthusiasts hopeful we’ll see AMD climb back on top of the CPU mountain and reclaim some of Intel’s marketshare. It’s not that AMD’s current products are bad,.
Read More →The price of larger SSD’s have fallen over the past few years, and gone are the days where ever low performance drives would cost you an arm and leg for such a minute amount of space, you’d wondering which of your OS features you could uninstall to squeeze a few of your frequently used.
Read More →There’s one certainty in the graphics industry – nothing is stagnant. Earlier this year AMD released the Polaris range of graphics cards, spanning from the RX 460 all the way up to the Radeon RX 480, but these rumors show that we’re we’ll be seeing new revisions of Polaris which offers a large boost.
Read More →A whole host of images of Nvidia’s new Pascal based GP107 card, the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti have leaked out onto the internet, further solidifies the positioning of the new card, specifications and the fact it actually exists. Okay – I admit it, much of the press, coverage and excitement of graphics cards and.
Read More →Despite both Skylake and the upcoming Kaby Lake both running on the same socket type, there were fears that Kaby Lake wouldn’t be backwardly compatible with the 100-series motherboard chipsets, and Intel were being pretty damn quiet on the issue too. But we’ve finally have confirmation that should mean that current LGA 1151 platform.
Read More →Specifications and details of AMD’s Upcoming Polaris 11 and Polaris 10 based graphics cards have leaked onto the internet, and show that the upcoming Radeon GPU’s are not only going to be extremely powerful efficient, but quite the performance monsters to boot. As is par for the course as a product gets closer to.
Read More →Despite the GPU market being rather quiet during 2015, there was always the anticipation and excitement of both Nvidia’s Pascal lineup and AMD’s Polaris lineup. The latter of the two has certainly seen a lot more limelight when it comes to leaks, and earlier today we learned the number of Stream Processors in certain.
Read More →As regularly readers and viewers will know, there are two known Polaris based Radeon GPU’s to be released this year, the Polaris 11 and the Polaris 10, with Vega 10 (the Fury / Fiji replacement cards) to see release during 2017. Rather counter-intuitively, the Polaris 11 is actually the lower end of the two.
Read More →Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference has been pretty interesting thus far, and as Phil Spencer took to the stage, it was clear his primary goal was to diffuse the growing complaints in the PC community regarding the limitations of UWP. “Through the Universal Windows Platform, our plan is to deliver games that will run better.
Read More →A growing number of titles relying on Asynchronous Compute has started growing since DirectX 12 was first announced. A new rumor has popped up that Nvidia’s upcoming Pascal architecture doesn’t handle Asynchronous Compute much better than Maxwell, and thus will likely still lag behind AMD’s performance. Nvidia’s GTX 9xx series cards (which are based.
Read More →Just days ago Nvidia made the surprising announcement that it would be releasing parts of its GameWorks 3.1 SDK as open source code on GitHub and at the time a plethora of Physx technology had been uploaded. This move would allow developers to download the source code and tweak it, change it as they.
Read More →We’re not far from getting the first virtual reality headsets into the hands of consumers, and there has been a lot of talk about the specs you will need to run VR comfortably. We have seen upcoming GPUs like AMD’s Polaris and Stardock’s DX12 multi GPU technology make virtual reality seem cheaper than we.
Read More →During AMD’s Capsacian event we were all rather eager to see a plethora of demos, perhaps several slides explaining what AMD’s plans for their upcoming range of Radeon 400 GPU’s, or best of all some concrete specs. Unfortunately this wasn’t to be, and we were instead given a pretty short Hitman 2016 demo (running.
Read More →After years of a console focus, Microsoft are taking PC gaming seriously once again; from new software and initiatives such as DirectX 12, Windows 10, Universal Windows Platform to bringing former Xbox One exclusives such as Quantum Break and Gears of War onto the PC. But there’s a growing concern among both developers and gamer’s that.
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