The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is finally here, and this new entry into Nvidia’s Ampere lineup cranks up the expected performance dials, but the questions are – how well does it perform, what are the final specs and is…

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is finally here, and this new entry into Nvidia’s Ampere lineup cranks up the expected performance dials, but the questions are – how well does it perform, what are the final specs and is…
After the lacklustre hardware sales of the Wii U, Nintendo’s Switch has marked an incredible turnaround for the company and the system has been incredibly popular, bolstered by an impressive library of exclusive titles and ports, despite the fairly meagre…
Nintendo’s Switch console has been a runaway success for the company, but even when the system launched it wasn’t a graphical powerhouse, despite punching well above its weight-class with titles such as Doom. Rumors for an upgraded Switch Pro have…
Despite Nvidia’s RTX 30 series of cards launching, and AMD taking the CPU performance crown with Ryzen 5000 series and being very competitive with their Radeon RX 6000 series, the hardware shortages have left a lot of people still without…
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…
One of the big changes AMD’s Ryzen processors brought to the table with their original debut in 2017 was SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading), which allows two threads to run on the same Zen processor core at once, doubling the number of…
Smart Access Memory or SAM if you prefer, was a feature AMD touted heavily as it marketed both its Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, and the Ryzen 5000 series processors. This feature AMD claimed, offered a nice bump…
The first generation Ryzen is still a pretty impressive chip, but if you’re running a Ryzen 7 1700X, should you upgrade to a Zen 2 based CPU? As the title of this article probably hints, I’ve done the testing and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here’s just a quick article for those who to see AMD’s RDNA 2 based RX 6900XT graphics card in the flesh. These photos were sent to us awhile ago, but I was asked to hold off posting them until just…
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…
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…