The initial launch period for graphics cards is always exciting, as new architectures bring with them new features and the flagship halo products which offer bleeding-edge experiences to gamers… assuming they have the budget to afford those products. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti then is, in my opinion, Nvidia’s best Ampere graphics card to.
Read More →Sony’s Playstation 5, much like the Xbox Series of consoles from Microsoft, is an interesting beast, because the paradigms of performance aren’t just raw CPU and GPU performance now, or the increase in RAM, as has been typical from the last several generations of consoles, but instead there are a number of other fundamental.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →In the first part of our analysis of the Xbox Series X hot chips conference, we deep-dived into the CPU and the GPU of the console, as well as some of the functionality such as hardware-based ray tracing. But, there was a lot of ‘stuff’ Microsoft revealed of their next-generation console, and so in.
Read More →Chances are pretty good that if you’re in the market for a graphics card for under $300, you’ve been considering AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card. Priced about $100 cheaper than the RX 5700 (which it shares many of the same specs with), this leads us to the inevitable question of if you.
Read More →Halo Infinite has been confirmed by Microsoft to be delayed until 2021 because the game needs extra time in development, though to help soften the blow some Microsoft also released a blog post confirming that the Xbox Series X will launch in November of this year. Halo Infinite was on the receiving end of.
Read More →Nintendo’s Switch has been a runaway success for the company, and given Nintendo’s approach to crafting a unique hybrid system combined with a fantastic lineup of first-party and exclusive games, it’s unsurprisingly that the Nintendo Switch has enjoyed particularly strong sales. But, with the Playstation 5 and next-generation Xboxes posied for release later this.
Read More →In July 2019, after much anticipation, AMD launched the first generation of RDNA based graphics cards, with the RX 5700 XT sporting 40 Compute Units, and the RX 5700 snipping 4 of those (leaving just 36 active). Both of these GPUs were based on the same Navi 10 graphics core, and of course, have.
Read More →Improvements in performance alone aren’t enough from one generation to another – they need to be combined with jumps in efficiency too. Space on the die itself is always at a premium, and even with leaps in process technology, you can only do so much with a chip. The larger the chip, the more.
Read More →The launch of next-generation consoles is always an exciting time, with the speculation of what these new beasts will be capable of, and how they will bring richer, more immersive worlds. Both Sony’s Playstation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will be on store shelves by the run-up to Christmas, sporting a plethora of.
Read More →We have heard a few rumblings before that Intel’s long running 14nm supply issues were going to persist this year, and a new report from DigiTimes has surfaced stating that they expect Intel’s supply problems to continue until the end of the year. DigiTimes are a very reliable source of information, so while we.
Read More →Last year, AMD debuted their highly anticipated RDNA architecture to the world, with the highest-end SKU being the Radeon RX 5700 XT, powered by the Navi 10 silicon. This graphics card was impressive in its own right, measuring a mere 251mm2 and built using TSMC’s 7nm process. RDNA represented a significant design shift for.
Read More →In graphics, 2020 has started in a similar fashion to how virtually all of 2019 played out – with AMD offering competitive solutions in the mid and low-range, but failing to have any real answer for the top-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 series SKUs. AMD’s Radeon VII had been a viable option for the.
Read More →If you’ve been following AMD’s GPU plans for any length of time, you’ll know that the current latest line of graphics cards from the company is based on the first generation of RDNA architecture, with the highest-end graphics card in the Navi being the RX 5700 XT, which outputs roughly the same level of.
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