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Corsair is one company we always look forward to meeting up with at CES, and often, there are usually so many new products being unveiled, that it’s easy to forget about some by the time we leave. This year’s CES is hugely different, as the first product announcement took until today to…..

While digital CES continues on, some companies have been working in the background to finalize the groundwork on some major moves. We already wrote of Intel’s rehiring of Pat Gelsinger, this time as CEO, and just as that happened, Qualcomm bolstered its defenses against the ever-increasing competition with an acquisition of startup…..

Last summer, AMD followed-up on its third-gen Ryzen Threadripper releases with new “PRO” variants, catering to those who want a Threadripper platform that shares features with EPYC. At the time, the DIY crowd was a bit miffed, since AMD decided to keep the PRO variants exclusive to OEMs – most notably Lenovo.…..

Well, this CES is shaping up to be one of the most interesting ones we’ve seen in a while – and not just because it’s the first-ever to go all-digital. Hot on the heels of a bunch of Intel announcements coming out of the show, the company has now announced that Pat…..

At the ongoing digital CES, NVIDIA announced a slew of new products and broadened support for some of its preexisting technologies. At the forefront of it all is the unveiling of new RTX 30-series notebooks, bringing Ampere to mobile. The perks of that should be obvious, especially to anyone who’s looked at…..

As expected, AMD had quite a bit to talk about at this year’s CES, although not all of it was strictly consumer focused. The company spent a lot of its keynote talking to partners about how AMD’s products are used in their workflows, and what they’re capable of. To our surprise, both…..

Intel had quite a bit to show off at this year’s CES, including the new Core H35-series of processors that will be fueling some ultraportable gaming notebooks – and are built with 10nm SuperFIN. What was also announced – or rather teased – were 11th-gen parts for desktop, specifically the direct successor…..

CES isn’t always used as a launch platform for a mainline processor series, but Intel has taken advantage of 2021’s digital event to unleash a deluge of new models – largely focused on mobile. The releases include those revolving around the 11th-gen Core vPro and Evo vPro platforms targeting business, and 11th-gen…..

It’s certain that at any given CES, ASUS is going to have a huge portfolio to show off, covering a number of different markets and segments. One thing we’ve become accustomed to seeing shown off are the company’s latest routers, as ASUS has pretty much become a mainstay with wireless at this…..

This past fall, NVIDIA announced the latest top-end SKU for its workstation lineup: NVIDIA RTX A6000. Because NVIDIA’s been changing how some of its brand names are used, this card doesn’t carry the Quadro name, despite following in the same footsteps of previous-gen Quadros. Nonetheless, a name only matters so much; what’s…..

The year has only just begun, but that hasn’t slowed Qualcomm down any. The company today unveils its budget 5G-capable SoC, dubbed Snapdragon 480 5G. Qualcomm says that this release brings forth “series-defying” performance, and we admit it is nice to see 5G hitting lower-end devices, even if current cellular availability isn’t…..

Ahead of 2021, we wanted to take one last look at rendering performance with the current range of NVIDIA GPUs and the renderers that target them. Those include some staples: Arnold, KeyShot, Octane, Redshift, and V-Ray, with a little Blender on the side. Many have also been tested with RTX on and off, so read on and see how well each one of these eleven GPUs fare.

With Blender 2.91 recently released, as well as a fresh crop of hardware from both AMD and NVIDIA, we’re tackling performance from many different angles here. On tap is rendering with the CPU, GPU, and CPU+GPU, as well as viewport – with wireframe testing making a rare appearance for important reasons. Let’s dig in.

AMD’s top dog Radeon RX 6900 XT has landed, and we’re taking a look at its performance across a variety of 1440p and 4K workloads – with and without DXR. With the 6900 XT, AMD is taking care of gamers who want a premium product and have no qualm splurging on it – so let’s see how it fares against the competition.

With as much hype as Cyberpunk 2077 received leading up to its launch, it was inevitable that the game would endure relentless complaining around the web about everything minor. Unfortunately for CD Projekt, however, the game did actually launch in a poor state – a reality that’s forced us to postpone our…..

NVIDIA has just added a fourth model to its current-gen GeForce lineup, and following in the footsteps of the RTX 3070, the RTX 3060 Ti becomes the newest most affordable Ampere option ($399). We’re going to be taking a look at NVIDIA’s latest card across our usual fleet of games, including a few DXR ray traced games with and without DLSS.

On day two of its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm went into great detail about what makes its new Snapdragon 888 alluring. The new SoC offers huge performance improvements, as well as a fleet of new features from camera to gaming to bite into.

Qualcomm had a lot to talk about on the first day of its latest Snapdragon Tech Summit. We’ve once again been given updates on 5G momentum, and gained the suspicion that availability is on the cusp of exploding. We were also introduced to the company’s latest top-tier chip: Snapdragon 888.

With a collection of CPUs and GPUs, we’re exploring performance in the latest version of Blender, 2.90. As before, we’re going to take a look at rendering performance with both Cycles and Eevee, as well as hybrid and OptiX rendering. For good measure, we’ll also take a look at Material Preview viewport performance.

AMD’s first ‘Big Navi’ Radeon graphics cards have landed, and we have many performance results to share with you. With both the RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 in-hand, we’ve put AMD’s latest to the test at multiple resolutions in thirteen games – four of which revolve around ray tracing. Not to ruin anything, but you’ll probably be pretty happy with what AMD has delivered.