With a collection of CPUs and GPUs, we’re exploring performance in the latest version of Blender, 2.90. As before, we’re going to take a look at rendering performance with both Cycles and Eevee, as well as hybrid and OptiX rendering. For good measure, we’ll also take a look at Material Preview viewport performance.

AMD’s first ‘Big Navi’ Radeon graphics cards have landed, and we have many performance results to share with you. With both the RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 in-hand, we’ve put AMD’s latest to the test at multiple resolutions in thirteen games – four of which revolve around ray tracing. Not to ruin anything, but you’ll probably be pretty happy with what AMD has delivered.

AMD has just launched its much-anticipated Zen 3 processors, with four on offer for mainstream budgets. We’re kicking off our coverage with a look at the top dog Ryzen 9 5950X in gaming, as it goes up against the last-gen Ryzen 9 3950X, and Intel’s de facto best gaming CPU, the Core i9-10900K.

With NVIDIA’s new $499 GeForce RTX 3070 in-hand, we’re taking a look at gaming performance across a wide-range of games, including some sporting ray tracing features. NVIDIA promises a card that goes up against last-gen’s $1,199 RTX 2080 Ti, and overall, it delivers on that.

Watch Dogs: Legion has just released, and given it’s the latest title to implement ray tracing, we couldn’t help but jump in and test its performance across a range of GPUs. In this look, we’re comparing sixteen GPUs at 1080p, 1440p, 4K, and ultrawide, with and without ray tracing and NVIDIA’s DLSS.

NVIDIA has just launched its third Ampere GeForce, and at $499, the RTX 3070 is going to lure in more folks than the previously released 3090 or 3080. NVIDIA says that its RTX 3070 will match the 2080 Ti in gaming, but to kick our coverage off, we’re going to start with an area where even larger gains can be found: rendering.