To say that the graphics card market has been extremely scuffed is a bit of an understandment, as prices shot through the roof and extreme stock shortages became commonplace. But, there is hope on the horizon. As we discussed in…

To say that the graphics card market has been extremely scuffed is a bit of an understandment, as prices shot through the roof and extreme stock shortages became commonplace. But, there is hope on the horizon. As we discussed in…
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 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…
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…
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…
Over the past few months, there’s been a lot of mystery to what is going on with AMD’s ‘Big Navi’ GPU, which we assumed to be Navi 12. AMD launched Navi 10 in the form of the Radeon RX 5700…
Intel’s Xe line of GPUs is progressing extremely well according to Raja Koduri, as he outlines the companies graphics and compute vision at the Intel HPC Developer Conference. Of course, Raja Koduri used to be the head of Radeon Technologies…
There’s a rumor swirling around the internet that Nvidia’s next-generation Geforce cards (the RTX 30 series?) based on the Ampere architecture will sport a drastic increase in the ray tracing the performance of the cards, while also sporting large gains in traditional rasterization performance too.…
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…
AMD’s CES 2019 conference has finally happened, and we’re left with as many questions as we have answers. Lisa Su took to the stage, and the presentation started with her running through some of the biggest and most important innovations…
While I wouldn’t say that stagnant is the right word for the graphics card markets prior to the reveal of the RTX 20 series and 7nm Vega graphics cards, we did see the status quo of Polaris vs Pascal for…
During Gamescom, Nvidia announced 3 distinct GeForce SKUs all based on the new Turing architecture, the top of the line card being the RTX 2080 Ti, followed by the RTX 2080 and finally the RTX 2070 GPU. Given it’s been…
Nvidia’s Turing lineup isn’t due for release until mid September, so until the cards are closer to launch performance details will continue to trickle out. Nvidia tout the GeForce RTX 20 series as ‘graphics reinvented’ – keen to make much…
If you’ve not had your fill of Nvidia Turing leaks, then good news everyone; there’s been a goldmine of information discovered by a leak from PNY, and we have now confirmation on clock speeds, CUDA core count, memory bandwidth and…
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…