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Rob Williams

Rob founded Techgage in 2005 to be an 'Advocate of the consumer', focusing on fair reviews and keeping people apprised of news in the tech world. Catering to both enthusiasts and businesses alike; from desktop gaming to professional workstations, and all the supporting software.

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NVIDIA Officially Launches Omniverse Enterprise Platform At GTC 2021

NVIDIA unveiled its Omniverse platform at GTC in 2019, and since then, the company’s iterated on what it can do, bringing it closer and closer to an official launch. Following a beta cycle that lasted a few months, NVIDIA seems confident that its Omniverse platform is finally ready for the enterprise, and…..

Published on April 14, 2021
NVIDIA Omniverse - BMW AI Factory

NVIDIA Announces Grace, An Upcoming Arm-based Data Center CPU

When NVIDIA announced its plans to acquire Arm, it became obvious that the company had plans to take much fuller advantage of the company’s technologies, and perhaps even release its own CPU. Well, at the ongoing GTC 2021, NVIDIA announced that very thing. It’s called Grace (named after programming pioneer Grace Hopper),…..

Published on April 13, 2021
NVIDIA Grace Arm-based CPU For The Data Center

Adobe Improves Premiere Pro QuickSync Encoding, Adds Apple M1 Support To Premiere Rush

Adobe has been in the routine lately of releasing new builds of its Premiere products every month, and the latest rollout is notable for a few reasons. While Adobe may prefer to focus on Apple M1 SoC support being added to its Premiere Rush tool, we can’t help but think the improvements…..

Published on April 13, 2021
Adobe Premiere Pro - Dynamic Lumetri Presets

NVIDIA Launches New Workstation, Mobile & Enterprise GPUs At GTC 2021

NVIDIA’s latest GPU Technology Conference begins today, and to say the company has a lot to talk about is a true understatement. This may be the newsiest GTC that NVIDIA has ever had, making it difficult to figure out where to even begin. Well, given our love for the latest graphics tech,…..

Published on April 12, 2021
NVIDIA A5000 Workstation Graphics Card

Alienware Launches First AMD Notebook In 14 Years, With m15 Ryzen Edition R5

Prior to the launch of AMD’s first Ryzen CPUs in 2017, no one knew what kind of impact they’d ultimately have. We vividly remember that launch, both because the product was good, and also because there were a fair number of platform issues out-of-the-gate. Fortunately, AMD got on top of those issues…..

Published on April 7, 2021
Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 Gaming Notebook

GeForce & Radeon 1080p & 1440p Gaming Performance Roundup

Equipped with 11 graphics cards, ten game titles, and a bunch of synthetic tests, we’re taking a look at select GPUs from AMD’s and NVIDIA’s previous- and current-gen series to see which models stand out of the crowd, and perhaps offer the best bang-for-the-buck (…at least, as far as SRP goes).

Published on April 7, 2021
AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - Thumbnail

Official Graphics Driver For Intel’s 11th-gen CPUs To Land In A ‘Few Weeks’

6:30PM ET update: It appears that the driver will land much quicker than a ‘few weeks’. The latest is that it will drop this coming Monday. Earlier this week, Intel launched its 11th-gen CPUs, and to say it was a bit of a rough launch is an understatement. We’re still in the…..

Published on April 2, 2021
Intel Rocket Lake-S Desktop Packaging

TSMC To Spend $100 Billion Over Next Three Years To Expand Fab Capacity

With ongoing chip shortages plaguing companies and consumers alike, we’ve all been hoping that the situation would be improved sooner than later, and that the world’s largest fabs would move to expand. At this point, it seems incredibly unlikely that any efforts to expand would be regretted later, as chip demand doesn’t…..

Published on April 1, 2021
TSMC's 5nm Producing Fab 18

Computex Cancels On-site 2021 Event, Will Hold Virtual Alternative Instead

Here’s a quick reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for far too long: on-site Computex has been canceled for the second time in a row. You might recall that last March, once the pandemic became well-known to the entire world, Mobile World Congress was the first trade show to…..

Published on April 1, 2021
Computex 2019 Press Conference

World Backup Day Is Your Reminder To Prevent Data Disasters

Today is World Backup Day, as it is every March 31st. It acts as an annual reminder to YOU that backing up your data is important, and shouldn’t be treated haphazardly. If you don’t take proper measures to protect your data, you can’t be surprised if you wake up one day and…..

Published on March 31, 2021

NVIDIA Releases Feature-packed GeForce 465 Series Drivers For Linux & Windows

It’s not often that NVIDIA releases both a Linux and Windows driver on the same day that bring their own notable changes, but the newly-released 465 versions do just that. On the Windows side, the new 465.89 driver adds NVIDIA Reflex low-latency technology to Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, with promises of…..

Published on March 30, 2021
Outriders

14nm Refined (Again): Intel Launches Its 11th-gen Core Processor Series

It’s been a fairly busy year so far for CPU launches, with AMD being responsible for the lion’s share up to this point. Intel’s beginning to make some big moves, however, starting today, with the official launch of its 11th-gen Core processors. While Intel targets many folks with its new series, gamers…..

Published on March 30, 2021
Intel Core Rocket Lake - Chip Shot Thumbnail

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB Rumored To Launch In May

There seem to be few product lines that get as much rumor treatment as NVIDIA’s GeForce. Long before the latest Ampere generation kicked-off, we all knew what the cards would look like, and largely how they would perform. With five Ampere cards released so far, it’s been both the (supposedly) upcoming RTX…..

Published on March 29, 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - Bare Card

Cyberpunk 2077’s 1.2 Patch Includes Huge List Of Fixes, Adds Support For Radeon Ray Tracing

If you’re a Cyberpunk 2077 who has been dying to see a major patch drop for the game, your wish has been granted today. While CD Projekt has been hard at work patching the game ever since its launch in December, today’s 1.2 patch is the first truly major update. In fact,…..

Published on March 29, 2021
Cyberpunk 2077

Qualcomm Announces Newest 7-series Flagship SoC: Snapdragon 780G

Qualcomm has just announced the launch of its latest top-end 7-series Snapdragon SoC: 780G. This launch comes just a few months after the company released its latest top top-end Snapdragon, the 888. The new 780G takes some features from the 888, with the overall package giving consumers a new high-end 5G option…..

Published on March 25, 2021
Woman's hand taking a photo of local city street view in Hong Kong with smartphone

Autodesk Launches 2022 Versions Of 3ds Max & Maya

It’s that time of year again, when Autodesk unveils the latest major versions of its popular M&E products. This time around, both 3ds Max and Maya see their 2022 releases happen at the exact same time, which is something that will nicely complement anyone who wants to take Autodesk’s new custom installer…..

Published on March 25, 2021
Autodesk 3ds Max 2022 Banner by Rashed Abdullah

AMD’s Radeon Pro 21.Q1 Enterprise Driver Delivers Overhauled UI

AMD has just released the first Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver of 2021, and as it happens, it packs a nice punch. After installing this new driver, Radeon Pro users will immediately notice that the entire Radeon Software interface has been overhauled, now aligning with the latest update that launched on…..

Published on March 24, 2021
AMD Radeon Pro W5700 - Angle

Intel To Launch Foundry Business, Team Up With IBM & Relaunch IDF

Months ago, Intel’s future seemed to be a bit murky. Previously downed competition returned to the fight in a big way, and other mainstay competitors have only grown stronger. Naturally, as we’ve seen with AMD’s recent adventures, any company that seems down-and-out still has the ability to strike back. The needed ingredient…..

Published on March 23, 2021
During recording of the “Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Futu

Qualcomm Rumored To Be Developing Nintendo Switch-like Gaming Device

Here’s a rumor we sure weren’t expecting. It’s being reported that Qualcomm is working on its own game console, one that wouldn’t be hugely different from Nintendo’s ultra-popular Switch. If Qualcomm were to pursue its own console, the Switch would be an obvious target, but there’s a lot that would need to…..

Published on March 23, 2021
Nintendo Switch

OnePlus Unveils 9 & 9 Pro: Brings 120Hz Displays, Ultra-fast Charging & Hasselblad Tuned Cameras

OnePlus has today launched its newest flagship, the not-so-surprisingly named OnePlus 9 Pro, as well as the OnePlus 9. Interestingly, it wasn’t only these phones that have been announced today, but also coming is the company’s first smart watch, simply named OnePlus Watch. If you’ve been paying any attention to the rumor…..

Published on March 23, 2021
OnePlus 9 Pro - Front and Back

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