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…
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Nintendo Switch Pro Features 4K & Nvidia DLSS Support
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…
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…
Nvidia Killed The RTX 3070 | RTX 3060 Ti Review & Benchmark
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…
Native Resolution Is Dead | The Rise Of Upsampling
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…
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…
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…
Nvidia Ampere To ”Massively’ Improve Ray Tracing Performance & Other Info
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.…
An Investigation Of AMD’s Navi GPU & Ray Tracing Plans
I think it’s a great time to talk about AMD’s GPU plans, given that the lower end Navi 14 cards will soon be on the market (AMD have announced them but they’re not out as of the time I’m writing…
AMD Radeon Fiji R9 390X High Bandwidth Memory 2.5D & 300W?
There have been rumors AMD’s latest discrete range of GPU’s, the Radeon R9 300 series, will feature HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) for the past 12 months. We’re still awaiting an official confirmation from AMD, but a ‘leak’ of sorts has popped…
Microsoft Forms Secret Team To Push Xbox One Kinect Technology
It looks like Microsoft has far from given up on the Kinect v2, which is obviously out for both Xbox One and PC. This according to a job listing for Senior Software Engineer, that definitely gives the impression that MS…
Jargon Buster – Learn Your CPU From Your GPU & RAM From HUMA
Despite our best attempts to make our tech analysis and post-mortems as in-depth and easy to understand as possible, not everyone is aware of some of the basic terms and phrases that we throw about frequently. In this very article…
Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M Performance Leaked – Welcome to Maxwell
Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture was kicked off on the desktop by the release of the GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750 Ti, and now we’re seeing the first hints of what the new architecture can achieve with the GTX 860M. A…
Xbox One eSRAM “Not Complex, Just a Bottleneck”, Claims Developer
The Xbox One’s eSRAM has continued to be in the news since before even the consoles release, but for all of the wrong reasons. It’s often attributed to the systems lower performance “I don’t get this obsession with MS fanboys…
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition Playstation 4 Frame Rate Tests & Analysis
Tomb Raider Definitive Edition has been released on Sony’s Playstation 4 and features numerous graphical improvements over the previous generation, trading blows with the PC’s Ultimate Edition. As we discussed in our PS4 vs PC comparison article, the PS4 version…