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…
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How Variable Rate Shading Changes Xbox & PC | The Huge Performance Impact of VRS & DX12 Ultimate
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…
AMD Ryzen Zen 3 & Zen 2 Demolish Sales Records
I’ve spoken a few times on Youtube about how AMD has been absolutely crushing it against Intel when it came to the the sales and revenue at Germany’s biggest tech retailer, Mind Factory. Now we have a new report for…
Nintendo Switch Pro Still Coming in 2021, Say Analysts
Last year, we heard a lot about the Nintendo Switch Pro, with leaks, rumours and trusted sources all pointing to Nintendo doing a more powerful variant of their hugely successful Switch. Now of course, Nintendo haven’t commented officially on this…
RX 6800 XT & Intel i9 10900K Smart Access Memory Benchmarks & Analysis
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…
Ryzen 3700X Vs 1700X – Zen 1 ROCKS But Should You Upgrade For Gaming
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…
Cyberpunk 2077 – Save Game Corruption Bug Discovered on PC
Cyberpunk 2077 had sadly suffered from what can only be described as a disastrous launch. While many people are having great experiences with the game with minimal bugs, that isn’t the case with everyone. Of course, the most publicised issues…
Playing PS5 Games on PC – PS5 Remote Play is Actually GREAT ?! | Analysis
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…
Playstation 5 | RDNA 2 GPU Features, OS Reserves, Geometry Engine | EXCLUSIVE
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…
Nvidia’s Plan for ARM To Take X86 throne | Exclusive
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…
Radeon RX 6900XT Photos EXCLUSIVE
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…
Xbox Series X Hot Chips Analysis Part 2 – SSD, Memory, Audio & 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…
Xbox Series X Hot Chips Analysis Part 1 – GPU, CPU & Overview
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…
Halo Infinite Delayed Until 2021 & Xbox Series X Launches November Confirms Microsoft
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…
Nintendo Switch Pro or Successor Being Tested By Nintendo | Exclusive
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…