Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

3DMark is doing its annual benchmark refresh and moving in the expected direction of including a new ray tracing benchmark, built on top of Microsoft’s DirectX RT API. To cater to more mainstream systems, another new benchmark, Night Raid, will be built around testing integrated graphics processors, low power devices, and always…..

With the release of NVIDIA’s Turing-based GeForce RTX cards being imminent, we get a chance to look over the underlining architecture that makes up the most complex system we’ve ever seen. With so many new technologies from different fields interwoven, Turing has a lot riding on it, and it makes us ask, is this the start of real-time ray tracing?

In an announcement that came out of nowhere, AMD is announcing the availability of two new CPUs in its second generation Ryzen processors, with the Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X. What’s somewhat surprising is that these two chips will be limited to OEM and System Integrators only. The chips in…..

AMD is kicking off its refresh of the now budget branded Athlon CPUs, built around the very successful Zen architecture CPU, and introduces Vega graphics to the package for some gaming on the cheap APUs. On top of this is also the launch of the 2nd generation Ryzen PRO CPUs for businesses.…..

Wireless mice are one of those things that rarely meets expectations, but Logitech seems to have cracked it with its LIGHTSPEED mice. The G305 under review today might be on the low-end, but we soon find out it’s a solid performer with an absurd battery life. Dig in for more details.

After spending a day being briefed on NVIDIA’s newest GeForce family, based on the Turing architecture, NVIDIA decided to let us reveal some interesting information. The kind of information you’re probably really wanting to see: actual gaming performance. Or, at least projected gaming performance. We’ll be taking a deep look at GeForce…..

After months of some of the worst kept secrets in NVIDIA’s history, the new Turing-based GeForce RTX GPUs are set to bring real-time ray tracing to the masses. With the launch of the RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070, we’ll get to see if the wait was worth. Dedicated ray tracing cores, Tensor cores, deep learning on a gaming card, this is some truly exciting stuff coming from Gamescon 2018.

If you follow AMD’s professional graphics segment, you’ll be well aware of a gap in its product stack, a gap that has existed for quite a while, now. The Polaris-based WX 2100 to the WX 7100 came out quite a while ago, and remained so until the Vega GPUs started to ship.…..

The excitement starts as we get a glimpse into NVIDIA’s next generation of GPUs, and it’s starting with the professional graphics market with Turing-based Quadro RTX GPUs with brand-new dedicated ray tracing cores. There’s a lot to cover, and a huge number of threads to weave together, but it’s all starting to…..

Don’t get too excited over the headline, but 10nm chips from Intel are going up for pre-order through an enterprise retailer called SimplyNUC that deals in specialized Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs. The NUC8i3CYSM and NUC8i3CYSN going up for pre-order are the first NUCs to come with AMD discrete graphics chips in…..

With the release of DirectX Raytracing and NVIDIA’s RTX API, it’s time we took a look at the history behind ray tracing, and how it came about. With SIGGRAPH just around the corner, we speak to Turner Whitted, who used his knowledge of sonar to pioneer ray tracing as a method for rendering computer graphics back in 1979.

When you look around for ‘Open Standards’ in the virtual reality space, you will be bewildered by dozens of competing standards, all open, but all setup by different bodies with different interests. OpenVR and later SteamVR was created by Valve, OSVR was created by Razer, OpenXR was created by Kronos Group and…..

From mice and keyboards, to power supplies, cases, and coolers, Corsair is taking advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day sale that’s just kicking off. Pretty much everything from Corsair’s latest products are on sale to some degree, with the only unfortunate exception being memory. However, if you’ve been looking into get a new…..

Intel is rounding up its workstation focused Xeon range, with a new entry-level range, the Xeon E series. This will be a direct replacement of the Xeon E3 V6 range, complete with a new chipset to boot. The new E-series chips are basically Coffee Lake 8000-series CPUs, but with the usual assortment…..

Qualcomm’s chips are not always just for the high-end flagship mobiles like the Snapdragon 845, new generation Windows-based laptops, and VR/AR standalone devices – there are of course, more budget minded chips for when you don’t need the best of the best. It’s with these three new chips that Qualcomm is expanding…..

Some updates don’t have to be big and bold to improve a product, and while things might seem ‘boring’ from be quiet!, they are important and improve the overall quality of life for a product. The Silent and Dark Base cases are rather minimalist, and don’t hinge on flashy RGB LEDs and…..

With Computex 2018 still going on, we managed to pop over to Noctua’s booth and see what was up there. While some of the products had been recently released, others were being finalized for production, and more still were still in the prototype phase. Of course though, we’re going to start with…..

Lots of conflicting information floating around at the moment, regarding Intel’s latest publicity stunt centering around the mysterious 28 Core CPU running at 5GHz across all cores. While there is nothing fake about the product, there are a few things that need delving into to help clear the picture. First of all,…..

Before Computex 2018 kicked off, quite a few of us in the tech press were fairly sure that AMD would be announcing a new Threadripper, and possibly an update on some new Vega GPU tech to come. What we got was some surprises, as well as confirmation of what we already knew.…..

Keyboards have had a little bit of stale period lately. Mechanicals took over very quickly and I have to say, we’re better off as a result, but then RGB took over, and it’s getting a bit much. When you RGB all the things, what’s left to innovate and change? Fortunately, there is…..