Ahead of the launch of the upcoming Intel Arc flagship, A770, we wanted to kick off our Arc creator coverage with an in-depth performance look at a wide-range of real-world scenarios – from encoding to rendering to photogrammetry. What does a $140 option from Intel grant you? We have many performance graphs that will show you.

At an event held in Austin, Texas, AMD has just unveiled more details about its Ryzen 7000 series processors and AM5 platform, both set to launch to consumers on Sept 27. Some huge promises revolve around the product, including a 13% IPC boost, and hugely competitive performance in both creator and gaming workloads.

We’re taking a fresh look at viewport performance in popular design software with the help of SPECviewperf 2020. With 21 gaming and workstation GPUs in-hand, we’re testing not just the performance in Windows, but also Linux – which has made for some interesting comparisons.

No one likes juggling a bunch of game store clients, so when we recently discovered Playnite, we were kicking ourselves for not finding it sooner. The software acts as a front-end for clients like Steam, GOG, and Epic, and even adds emulation capabilities to the mix. If you’re worried that it will be difficult to set up, don’t be!

We’re taking a look at rendering and viewport performance in Blender 3.2 with our collection of current-gen GPUs, and while 3.3’s launch isn’t too far off, there are some notable improvements between 3.2 and 3.1 worth talking about. We’ve also introduced a couple of new viewport test projects, and two rendering projects.

Chaos has just released version 6 of its popular photorealistic V-Ray render engine, so we of course couldn’t wait long before giving it a good test. Equipped with NVIDIA’s current-gen Amperes, along with a top-end Turing and Pascal-based GPU, we’re analyzing rendering performance across five different scenes.