AMD becomes the first major GPU vendor to release a new model in 2022, and it comes to us in the form of a new lower-end part: Radeon RX 6500 XT. This latest Radeon slots into the $199 price-point, but while it’s a more modest part, there’s still quite a bit to talk about. Let’s dig in and see how it performs against AMD’s and NVIDIA’s current-gen lower-end cards.

Blender has just released its latest major update, pushing the software to new 3.0 versioning. As always, we’ve dug into the latest update to take a look at it from a performance perspective. Join us as we throw all of the current-gen GPUs from GeForce and Radeon at Cycles X, EEVEE, and the viewport.

Intel’s 12th-gen Core architecture represents a huge shift from previous designs, with ‘performance’ cores being teamed up with ‘efficient’ cores in launch models. For our first performance deep-dive, we’re going to put the i5-12600K and i9-12900K up against many encoding, rendering, and system benchmarks.

AMD has so far released two Radeon Pro models built around its RDNA2 architecture – W6600 and W6800 – and compared to the previous-gen, there’s a lot of improvement. In addition to faster performance in general, we see additions like hardware RT, as well as support for resizable BAR and variable rate shading. Let’s see how both cards fare in our gauntlet of tests.

It wasn’t all too long ago that Intel debuted its 11th-gen Core series, but here we are, with the 12th-gen launch upon us. Unlike most architecture launches we’ve seen from Intel recently, this one represents truly major changes, both to the architecture itself, and the accompanying platform.

AMD has just launched its sixth RDNA2-based graphics card: Radeon RX 6600. At $329, this Radeon becomes the entry-point in AMD’s current-gen lineup, and does battle with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060, also priced at $329. In this review, we’re going to take a look at both cards (and more) at 1080p.