Keyboard snobs didn’t become snobs for no good reason. There are a lot of crappy keyboards out there. Many feel that a keyboard that doesn’t have mechanical switches in it are not worthy of their attention, and in the past this has been a good argument. With advancements in rubber dome-switches and the like, do they deserve another chance?

Autodesk’s Maya is one of the industry’s most popular design suites, and likewise, its built-in Arnold is one of the most popular renderers. Both solutions are used for TV, movies, architecture, gaming, and even VFX. Join us as we explore both viewport and rendering performance with a wide range of CPUs and GPUs.

NVIDIA’s RTX features may be a bit of a slow starter in games, but on the creative side, it’s a different story. We’re taking a look at Blender’s latest 2.81 alpha build and see NVIDIA’s OptiX render engine in action, leveraging the power of the RT cores to accelerate ray traced workloads. The results are impressive.

Having taken a look at Linux performance with AMD’s Ryzen 5 6-core 3600X and 4-core 3400G last week, we’re now turning our attention to Windows. We’re tackling everything from encoding to rendering and math to gaming with the ultimate goal of finding out how these chips stack up, and see where the greatest strengths lay.

Borderlands is back, and that means one thing: Borderlands benchmarking is also back! We’re taking a look at graphics card performance with the help of fifteen GPUs and four resolutions. Since the performance picture between AMD and NVIDIA varies quite a bit between DX12 and DX11, we’re including results for both.

Following-up on our coverage of AMD’s 8 and 12-core launch Ryzen 3000-series chips, we’re now turning our attention to a couple of options that will not break the bank: the six-core Ryzen 5 3600X CPU and Ryzen 5 3400G APU. We’re also throwing in some comparative Ubuntu 18.04 vs. 19.04 performance to highlight the differences a distro release can make.