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…
Back in the Before Times ™ when Nvidia announced the RTX 30 series of GPUs, they were praised for their improvements in gaming and ray tracing performance vs RTX 20, and at a much more affordable MSRP than their Turing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The excitement surrounding the launch of DirectX 12 and Vulkan seems so very long ago, these modern creations designed to lower the overhead on the system, recruit more CPU cores into running game logic and bring new features to the table. DX12…
AMD’s Zen 3 processors will be pretty special, because not only will be the final Zen architecture on their respective sockets and platforms but also because the CPUs performance is nothing to sneeze over. Recently, I released an exclusive detailing…
It seems like the excitement for Zen 2 hasn’t even stopped and the hype for Zen 3 is already starting. AMD has been a merciless execution machine, and timing and staggering their product launches perfectly to not just keep the…