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 […]
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 today. The first photo is the render of the Radeon RX 6700 graphics solution (although […]
Is the Radeon RX 5600 XT Better Value Than The RX 5700 ? Featuring MSI
Chances are pretty good that if you’re in the market for a graphics card for under $300, you’ve been considering AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card. Priced about $100 cheaper than the RX 5700 (which it shares many of the same specs with), this leads us to the inevitable question of if you should […]
AMD RDNA 3 Is Chiplet Based and RDNA 4 Already in Development
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 GPUs were based on the same Navi 10 graphics core, and of course, have done […]
Big Navi Release Date & Naming Scheme is RX 6000 | Exclusive
If you’ve been following AMD’s GPU plans for any length of time, you’ll know that the current latest line of graphics cards from the company is based on the first generation of RDNA architecture, with the highest-end graphics card in the Navi being the RX 5700 XT, which outputs roughly the same level of performance […]
Navi 12 Isn’t ‘Big Navi’ But Instead Navi 10 With HBM2 | Rumor
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 and RX 5700 XT on July 7th (which we exclusively leaked way before the official […]
Radeon RX 5700 Review – AMD Comes Back Strong
There was certainly lots of hype surrounding the launch of AMD’s Navi graphics cards, with buyers eager to know what alternatives the company would bring to Nvidia’s rather expensive Turing offers. AMD’s strategy with the RX 5700 and the RX 5700 XT was simple – release a GPU targeting Nvidia’s mid-range offerings in value and […]