Content and news by Rob Williams

Rumor has it that AMD has effectively ended focus on its highest-end consumer graphics card, Radeon VII. The card was first introduced in February, after a highly anticipated launch at CES. While targeted at gamers, it was clear from the get-go that it was even better for creators, with its super-strong compute…..

When NVIDIA introduced its GeForce Experience software in the spring of 2012, the company launched a platform which would house many neat graphics toys to come. That includes things like automatic configuration of your games, advanced recording of what’s on your screen, automatic driver downloads, and a really fun login system that…..

It’s been a very busy past week for the graphics card world, with NVIDIA launching its updated GeForce SUPER models last week, and AMD following-up this past Sunday with its Navi-based RX 5700. With days having passed since both sets of cards officially hit the market, we decided to make the rounds…..

How do AMD’s latest CPUs fare in workstation workloads? This article is going to investigate that, pitting the 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X against a wide-range of tests. Those include audio and video encoding, lots of rendering, photogrammetry, science, and for good measure: gaming.

Mid-range gamers who are overdue for an upgrade might want to pay attention to the latest options to just hit the market. Following NVIDIA’s launch of GeForce SUPER last week, AMD is now taking the veil off of its Navi-codenamed GPUs, based on the brand-new RNDA architecture. With three resolutions on tap, let’s explore the performance of the $349 RX 5700 and $399 RX 5700 XT.

AMD’s third-gen Ryzen processors have just landed, and to kick-start our coverage, we’re going to dive into a look at performance under Linux. Our initial experiences are a little hit-or-miss in some cases, but overall, AMD seems to have brought along some great improvement with these latest chips.

The first Turing GeForce cards released almost ten months ago, so it’s time for an upgrade – perhaps even a “SUPER” one? With a new title to hit the GeForce line, we’re getting just that with updated RTX 2060 and 2070s, and promises of an updated 2080 coming SUPER soon. Let’s see what the first new cards are made of.

We’re only days away from one of the biggest launches AMD has ever put together, involving both its Zen 2-based processors, and Navi-based Radeon graphics cards. That’s not to mention the updated AM4 platform with X570, which debuts things like PCIe 4.0 to gamers and creators. It’s without question an exciting time…..

With summer beginning to make itself known for many, the time is right to figure out how to spend those evenings chilling after a day of being out in the sun (right?). Naturally, Steam’s annual Summer Sale comes at just about the right time, because no matter your budget, you’re going to…..

As has been well publicized up to this point, AMD’s going to be launching both its Ryzen 3000-series processors and updated AM4 platform next week. With it is going to come the first opportunity for enthusiasts to jump on the next-generation of PCIe devices utilizing the 4.0 bus. As we explored in…..

In our post about NVIDIA’s GeForce SUPER cards earlier today, we mentioned that the GPU release season is starting to heat-up. We didn’t expect anything ProViz-wise to come out ahead of SIGGRAPH, but since NVIDIA decided to rain on Radeon’s parade today, it seems like AMD wanted to have the last word,…..

As many of us are settling into some beautiful weather, AMD and NVIDIA have decided to give us reason to stay indoors, with the release of some new graphics cards. AMD’s cards are coming next week, and in typical fashion, NVIDIA has decided to rain on Radeon’s well-publicized parade by launching its…..

Power outages are a constant threat in our lives, sometimes striking at the most inopportune moment. We actually encountered this yesterday night, while two PCs were in full benchmark mode, and another was busy compiling performance data. In our case, the outage was inconvenient, especially on the office PC that had a…..

There are few sales that could be called “legendary”, but Steam’s annual summer event may earn it. While Steam has many sales throughout the year, the summer version is the one where the entire store seems to experience discounts – and usually the best ones of the year. This year’s event is…..

It’s impossible to deny that it’s fun writing about high-end PC gear, but the truth is, the bottom of some product stacks hide some real treasures. Enter Corsair’s new HS35, a gaming headset that costs just $40, has an adjustable mic and ear cups, on-ear volume and mute control, and, if it…..

The market has no shortage of active noise-canceling headphones, but it can be argued that there is a lack of “great” ones. And, it’s true. It seems like every ANC solution has at least one obvious caveat, but fortunately, they’re all typically good at getting a decent job done in both audio…..

Over the weekend, there was a huge uproar in the Linux community aimed towards Canonical and its decision to pull support for 32-bit libraries. In our post, we mentioned that Canonical’s mind seemed made up, but sometimes, the unexpected happens. It certainly did in this case, as the Ubuntu developer has said…..

AMD has been keeping busy on the ProViz side of things over the past couple of years, even going as far as releasing its own ray tracing plugin for everyone’s consumption. In the three years ProRender has been available, AMD’s expanded its reach to 3ds Max, Maya, Blender, Cinema 4D, SolidWorks, Creo,…..

With so many products launching in the near future, and even more that are rumored to launch, we figured we’d take a few minutes to give an update on what we’ve been up to, and what we have in store for the near-future. The past couple of weeks have been dominated by both travel…..

The future of Linux gaming sure is going to be interesting, as Canonical has announced this week that it’s going to be scrapping 32-bit support with Ubuntu 19.10. This was something considered last year, and clearly, even after all of the debate about whether or not it should happen, Canonical feels it’s…..