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Hot on the heels of AMD’s launch of its third-gen EPYC processors (our deep-dive here), Intel has just made it clear that more competition is coming – in the form of the third-gen Xeon Scalable series. The company has announced that it will be launching its new series on April 6, and…..

NVIDIA updated its three core driver releases this week (GeForce, Studio, Quadro) to 461.92, and bundled within is a bunch of optimization for cool new AI features that are found in various creative applications, such as from Adobe and Blackmagic Design. NVIDIA wants you to “work smarter, not harder”, and AI can…..

March has proven to be a pretty busy month for PC hardware, but so too has PC gaming. We found out last month that NVIDIA’s DLSS (deep-learning super-sampling) technology has become integrated with Unreal Engine via a new plugin, and since then, Crysis Remastered, The Fabled Woods, and even the System Shock…..

As mentioned in a previous post, AMD has had one seriously busy week so far. On Monday, the company launched third-gen EPYC (our performance look here), and yesterday, it unveiled three Zen 3-based chips targeting the Ryzen PRO mobile lineup. Today, the company continues its relentless launch attack with the Radeon RX…..

AMD has had an almost ridiculous amount of launches going on this week. It all started on Monday when the company unveiled its third-gen server-bound EPYC series, which we took an in-depth look at. Today, the company unveils its gaming-bound Radeon RX 6700 XT, while yesterday, the company announced its latest-generation Ryzen…..

Who could forget those infamous Apple ads which pit the PC (John Hodgman) against the Mac (Justin Long)? As hard as it might be to believe, those originally aired well over a decade ago, and since then, they’ve been referenced heavily, and have become known as really effective advertising. Well, now Intel…..

Intel has today unveiled its 11th-gen Core processor lineup, dubbed Rocket Lake-S. This latest crop of chips is built around the company’s 14nm Cypress Cove core architecture, and brings both Xe graphics and Deep Learning Boost to the desktop. Today’s announcement isn’t aligned with the review embargo, so our deep-dive look at…..

AMD has just launched its third generation EPYC server processor series, also known as Milan. This EPYC update brings AMD’s Zen 3 architecture to the data center, with its improved efficiency, faster performance, and bolstered security. With some of the new chips in-hand, we’re going to explore how AMD’s latest chips handle our most demanding workloads.

We’re taking a fresh look at workstation performance revolving (almost) entirely around the CPU. With many encoding and rendering tests in-hand, we’re exploring different performance angles with the help of our CPU collection which includes models ranging from six- to 64-cores. What matters more; core-count or clock speeds?

Blender’s latest version, 2.92, has just released, and as usual, we’re going to dig into its performance and see which CPUs and GPUs reign supreme. For something a bit different this go-around, we’re adding Linux results to our rendering and viewport tests, and not surprisingly, the results are interesting!

AMD has today unveiled the fourth model to become part of its RDNA2-based gaming Radeon series: RX 6700 XT. To date, the company has catered its new series exclusively to the high-end market, with the RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, and top-end RX 6900 XT coming before it. Before today, that meant…..

We learned in January that AMD was planning to make its Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors available directly to consumers in March, but we weren’t quite expecting the company to waste basically no time at all into the month before pulling the trigger. Starting today, Threadripper PRO processors and supporting sWRX8 motherboards will…..

The Blender Foundation has just released the latest stable version of its popular free and open-source design software. As we’ve come to expect with new Blender releases, there are quite a few additions and notable improvements to be found within the new 2.92. Perhaps the most intriguing new feature of the bunch…..

NVIDIA has today launched its fifth Ampere-based GeForce, the RTX 3060. This card is interesting in a number of ways, with one of the most notable being the fact that it includes 12GB of memory. For gamers and creators alike, that’s a lot of breathing room, although the saving grace of the…..

It feels safe to say that the present time has proven to be one of the worst periods for wanting to build a new PC. Ongoing CPU and GPU shortages are no surprise to anyone who’s recently tried to secure parts for a build, unless they managed to get really lucky. Even…..

It’s been a while since our last in-depth viewport performance look, so we’re going to get up to speed with the latest drivers and software. We’ve integrated SPEC’s latest SPECviewperf 2020 into our testing, and also include a little Blender – so let’s see how things fare with our seventeen gaming and workstation GPUs.

After an eventful week for NZXT, and its H1 small-form-factor chassis, the company has announced that it’s temporarily ceasing availability for the chassis through either its own website, and its BLD system builder service. This decision follows an interesting (to say the least) week that began with our friends at Gamers Nexus…..

It’s been well over a decade since NVIDIA began talking about using its graphics processors for major focuses other than just gaming, and ever since we first heard the term “GPGPU”, we’ve seen so much transpire in the industry. Today, truly jaw-dropping hardware is being offered, which is something we’ve gotten used…..

At CES earlier this month, NVIDIA announced its newest mobile GeForce GPUs, with huge focus being given not just to gaming, but also creator. The company has worked with many notebook vendors to cram these new RTX 30 series GPUs into their designs, and today, the first official driver to support them…..

AMD’s Radeon ProRender has come a long way since the last time we tested it, with the latest iteration adding ray tracing acceleration support for new RDNA2 Radeon graphics cards. For this article, we’re going to focus on GPU rendering (with 21 GPUs), with CPU and heterogeneous rendering to be explored later.