Years ago I remember a friend of mine purchasing a TFT monitor and marveling at how thin it was compared to the clunky CRT’s which cluttered up PC users desks at the time; he eagerly invited me round to marvel…
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ASUS Radeon R9 380X STRIX Gaming 4GB Review & Analysis | Tech Tribunal
Disclaimer: We received this GPU from AMD to review. For the past year, PC gamer’s have been spoiled for choice in the GPU market, with an excellent range of hardware from both vendors to fit in almost any budget; from…
MSI Z170A Gaming M5 Motherboard and Intel Skylake I7 6700K Processor Review | Tech Tribunal
Intel’s introduction of Skylake comes at a rather turbulent time in the PC market place. The PC gaming market is flourishing, virtual reality seems just a stones throw away, DirectX 12 and other low level API’s improve game performance, and…
Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB SSD Review | The Perfect Gaming SSD?
It wasn’t too long ago SSD’s were the realm of the power user; drives were small and expensive – but fast as hell. Fortunately, prices (and performance) have improved considerably, with most gamer’s considering an SSD an essential piece of kit.…
Ashes of the Singularity | DirectX 12 Destroys DirectX 11 In Our Early Benchmark & Analysis
Oxide Games have unleashed their eagerly anticipated Ashes of the Singularity, a real time strategy title where tens of thousands of units can battle each other across huge battlefields. Ashes of the Singularity also represents the first chance for gamer’s…
DirectX 12 Explicit Multi Adapter Explained | Analysis Of AMD’s DX12 Multi GPU Info
We’ve entered an extremely exciting time for PC gaming, with promising new memory technologies, die shrinks and increasingly powerful processors heralding in unparalleled graphics. But, the biggest buzz this year isn’t from a piece of hardware, it’s instead from an…
God of War 3 Remaster – Does The PS4 Experience Live Up To The Hype
The Playstation 4 finally has its first God of war title, in the form of a budget remaster of the 2010 PS3 classic, God of War 3; but if you already own the original PS3 version of the game, do…
MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 2g Graphics Card Review – Midrange Maxwell
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 970 drastically changed the landscape of high-end PC gaming, providing a massive amount of performance with fantastic TDP, it essentially made Nvidia’s own Kepler lineup obsolete and competed against AMD’s R9 290X, albeit with better TDP performance.…
AMD Radeon R9 390 GPU Review | Sapphire Nitro
Finally, AMD’s 300 series of graphics cards have hit the shelves, and offer a modest performance boost over the previous 200 generation thanks to mild improvements in both architecture and higher clock speeds. This review will be focused on the…
AMD Exclusive Interview | High Bandwidth Memory | TressFX & Graphics Technology With Robert Hallock
Robert Hallock, AMD’s Head of Global Technical Marketing was kind enough to agree to an interview to discuss several key upcoming technologies for gamer’s, including Vulkan, DirectX 12 and of course, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). This first of a two part…
AMD X86 Zen Based APU Features 16 Cores, 16GB HBM & DDR4 Support | Rumor
There are rumors floating about that AMD are planning to release an APU containing no fewer than 16 Zen CPU cores, 16 GB HBM and a built in Greenland GCN based GPU. This supposed leaked slide focuses on the highest…
Vulkan API Analysis Part 1 | Overview, Purpose & Benefits Of Vulkan | Tech Tribunal
Although I’m in danger of repeating myself a little, there’s a lot of excitement in the air for Microsoft’s DirectX 12 and for good reason too. The new API has a lot of benefits over the old guard (DX11), including…
AMD Radeon R9 290X Sapphire Tri-X 4GB Review & Benchmark | Tech Tribunal
When Nvidia released their Maxwell architecture, AMD responded by rather aggressively slashing the prices of their 200 series of Radeon graphics cards. It’s an effective strategy, and combined with a few of Nvidia’s own PR blunders (namely, the GeForce GTX…
ESRAM Performance Improves By 15% & DX12 Info For Xbox One | Analysis
The Xbox One will be receiving a nice boost in performance thanks to additional tools available for developers to profile the best way to use the ESRAM memory. Regarding Microsoft’s new API, the Xbox One has been said to benefit largely…
DirectX 12 GDC 2015 Early Technical & Performance Analysis Of The News
GDC 2015 is well underway, and Microsoft (along with other key developers) have taken to the stage to tout the benefits of DirectX 12. But the question is, have the earlier reports been overblown and the reality can’t possibly live…