RTX 30 Launch “Best Launch Ever”, Says Nvidia
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 counterparts. Of course, finding a card for MSRP now is tantamount to finding a unicorn, […]
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 circulated for some time, and now we have further details that this upgraded console is […]
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 Xbox Series S both support several new features on their GPUs thanks to using a […]
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 in performance, and came with no real downsides, and their announcement of SAM prompted waves […]
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 the answers we’re left with are pretty intriguing. This follows on from my Zen 1 […]
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 RTX 3060 Ti then is, in my opinion, Nvidia’s best Ampere graphics card to date, […]
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 last several generations of consoles, but instead there are a number of other fundamental changes […]
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 term and in gaming, it’s way more important than its ever been before. PC gamers […]