Content and news by Rob Williams

Sometimes, there’s nothing more satisfying than peace and quiet, but the realities of life often roadblock the desire to experience it. Fortunately, active noise-canceling headphones exist to help mend that issue, dramatically dampening the noise level in any environment. We’re taking a look at two fierce competitors here: Bose’s QuietComfort 35 II and Sony’s WH-1000XM3.

AMD has just posted the latest quarterly Radeon Pro Enterprise driver, aptly named 19.Q3. This is the third Enterprise release of the year, encapsulating all of the bug fixes since the previous version, ISV certification updates, and new features and functionality. AMD regularly fixes bugs with iterative releases, so it’s important to…..

Earlier this week, French tech site Cowcotland reported that AMD has discontinued its Radeon RX 5700 series reference graphics cards, a move that at this point would cause a lot of people to scratch their head. Well, we can confirm that this is true, but there are important nuances of the details…..

Qualcomm first announced its Snapdragon 8cx Always-on Windows PC platform back in December at its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, and at Computex some six months later, we were briefed on a lot more about what will make 8cx tick. At that event, we saw folks from UL on-hand to tout PCMark support,…..

We’ve taken a look at AMD’s latest Radeons and NVIDIA’s latest GeForces in gaming, so it’s time to turn our attention to creators. We’re pitting the RX 5700 series against NVIDIA’s RTX SUPER, with a spattering of other models added in for a fuller look at what the proviz performance picture looks like today.

The third card in NVIDIA’s new SUPER lineup has landed, becoming the new top-end offering of the bunch (but still sitting far enough behind the 2080 Ti). We’re taking a look at NVIDIA’s newest $699 graphics card offering across a range of games at three resolutions: 1080p, 1440p, and ultrawide.

It’s been a busy few months for the Blender Foundation, and at SIGGRAPH, the results of its hard work is being seen. Yesterday, we reported that NVIDIA and Blender have been working together the past few months to add RTX support to the open-source design suite. Currently, access to the feature requires…..

SIGGRAPH is like a treasure trove for ProViz announcements. In fact, if you use a piece of design software that’s overdue for an update, chances are an announcement will happen at SIGGRAPH. We’ve already talked about NVIDIA RTX support coming to both Blender and KeyShot, NVIDIA’s enabling of 30-bit color support in…..

The past few SIGGRAPH conferences have seen the launch of some new hardware from AMD and NVIDIA, with AMD’s Radeon Pro series having been announced there a few years ago, and both the Radeon Pro WX 8200 and NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX launched last year – which happened to come soon after our interview with ray…..

For Linux users and Destiny 2 fans alike, the launch of AMD’s latest-gen Ryzen CPUs has been anything but smooth. Thanks to a bug related to the hardware RDRAND instruction, systemd on some current Linux distros fails to run, while Destiny 2 refuses to open. Not long after the Ryzen 3000-series launch,…..

At last year’s SIGGRAPH, you couldn’t walk far into the halls without spotting some sort of support for NVIDIA’s RTX, which had only been announced at that show. Since then, a lot has happened, and for the better, with more and more software vendors opting their support. That even includes the gaming…..

We’ve had the hunch for a couple of weeks now that the Blender Foundation would have an NVIDIA RTX-related announcement at SIGGRAPH, and lo and behold, it’s just happened. For those equipped with an RTX card and a code compiler, you could jump into testing today. In a new blog post, Blender’s…..

There’s a lot of excitement flourishing through the CPU market right now. With its latest Ryzen 3000-series launch, AMD has built up a super-strong defense against the competition. As we found in our in-depth look at the 8-core 3700X and 12-core 3900X, the company is packing a lot of value into the…..

NVIDIA’s TITAN RTX means business – and a lot of it. This jack-of-all-trades graphics card caters to those with serious visual computing needs, whether it be designing and rendering 3D scenes, or poring over repositories of photos or other data with deep-learning work.

We’re beginning to get the impression that Corsair loves making surprise announcements, because yet again, the company has today caught many off-guard with a new purchase. This time, the company has acquired PC builder Origin PC, a company that used its ten years effectively to build itself as a premier brand, offering…..

With the long-awaited 2.80 release of Blender soon upon us, to say that there’s a lot of excitement revolving around the free and open-source design suite would be an understatement. In a post last week, we talked about Blender’s RC2 build, which was released a couple of days ago. We also talked…..

Qualcomm has been keeping busy this summer so far, having announced multiple SoCs that will target future smartphones. Perhaps most interesting to performance lovers is the new Snapdragon 855+, an iteration on the original 855 that sees clock boosts hit both the CPU and GPU, delivering better gaming performance overall, and perhaps…..

With Blender 2.8’s release right around the corner, excitement is high, and so too are the number of questions about “When’s the final going to drop?!” Well, it’s coming soon, but the Blender Foundation doesn’t want to be hasty and push something out that’s less than ideal, especially when it’d take only…..

A couple of weeks ago, Intel made a surprise announcement that it would be soon introducing integer scaling support in its graphics driver. The move came as a direct response of requests from the community, and most notably those discussed as part of the company’s recent AYA (ask you anything). Integer scaling…..

When AMD launched its Ryzen 2000-series processors last spring, the company knew that some folks would end up having trouble installing its latest and greatest chips in previous generation motherboards. To help, the company would send you a temporary CPU to get the EFI update job done, and then you’d be able…..