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Intel today announces the release of its 13th-gen Core desktop processors – built around the Raptor Lake microarchitecture – as well as its Z790 motherboard platform. To kick things off, the company is offering three base models with one each for Core i5, i7, and i9, as well as a variant of…..

We recently established that Intel’s Arc graphics cards perform well in many creative tasks, but have you wondered how combining the forces of two Arc GPUs might improve things? We’re finding that out here, with the help of Blender, LuxMark, BRAW, and others.

When NVIDIA announced its Ada Lovelace generation of GeForces last month, it kicked things off with the top-end RTX 4090 (our review here), and two models below it: RTX 4080 16GB, and RTX 4080 12GB. In name alone, those sub-RTX 4090 models seem identical aside from the memory density, but closer inspection…..

NVIDIA has just kicked-off its Ada Lovelace generation with a new flagship GPU: GeForce RTX 4090. Our first performance look will revolve around rendering, and once you see the results, you’ll understand why. Whereas Ampere itself brought huge rendering gains over Turing, Ada Lovelace does the same over Ampere.

We recently took an in-depth look at Intel’s low-end Arc A380 graphics card in creator workloads, and now, we’re able to add the top-end A750 and A770 models to the results. We found some notable highlights of Arc with our A380 look, and as it happens, Arc 7 has created even more.

Earlier this week, Intel announced that it would be launching its top-end Arc A770 graphics card on October 12, and today, the company reveals more about its plans, specs for the entire lineup, and how it’s sweetening the deal to make the Arc 7 look even more alluring. Some of the information…..

After what we’d consider a rather calm year for AMD’s Radeon PRO drivers, the company’s latest release highlights that its engineers have been hard at work putting polish on an important performance scenario: interacting with the viewport! A completely rearchitected OpenGL driver helped make it happen. It’s become standard fare that if…..

Ahead of the launch of the upcoming Intel Arc flagship, A770, we wanted to kick off our Arc creator coverage with an in-depth performance look at a wide-range of real-world scenarios – from encoding to rendering to photogrammetry. What does a $140 option from Intel grant you? We have many performance graphs that will show you.

For those who’ve been anticipating the full launch of Intel’s first-gen Arc desktop graphics cards, company CEO Pat Gelsinger had some good news to share at the ongoing Intel Innovation 2022 conference, held in San Jose. With what might be a testament to just how badly Intel wants this full launch to…..

Today is the day you get to learn a lot more about the performance factor of AMD’s latest-gen Ryzen CPUs, part of the Zen 4 family. If the schedule goes off without a hitch, you should be able to order one of the new chips tomorrow, along with the accompanying motherboards –…..

During his GTC keynote today, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang had lots to reveal about the company’s upcoming graphics architecture, and all of what we’ve heard sounds great. The rumor mill has suggested that this new architecture would be dubbed either Ada or Lovelace, and Jensen put an end to the guessing: it’s “Ada…..

In a surprise announcement with timing we’re sure is a huge coincidence considering NVIDIA is today going to reveal more about its future GPUs, AMD’s revealed that its RDNA3-based Radeon GPUs are set to launch on November 3. That’s less than 45 days away, and with NVIDIA likely to release its first…..

We expected this Friday to be pretty tame, but it’s anything but. In a new bombshell report by Gamers Nexus, it’s revealed that EVGA is withdrawing its NVIDIA partnership, and will thus stop producing and selling graphics cards after the current generation. Other vendors might have sold more graphics cards than EVGA…..

This week, Qualcomm has announced its latest generation Snapdragon 4 and 6 series, both representing “Gen 1” badging – just as the current-gen Snapdragon 7 and 8 do. Compared to their previous generation equivalents, both the 4 and 6 series sees production on a new fabrication process. The 6 series moves from…..

We’re not quite sure when NVIDIA is planning to launch its next-gen GeForce series, but it feels safe to assume it’s going to be rather soon – as in, in the months ahead. Or, it could be even sooner than we expect, given that the company has just posted a teaser on…..

Right on schedule, the latest long-term support release of Blender has landed. Version 3.3 becomes the third such LTS release to launch, guaranteeing continued bug fix support until the next LTS becomes available. The previous LTS release, 2.93, continues to have support until next summer. The next LTS release will likely represent…..

At an event held in Austin, Texas, AMD has just unveiled more details about its Ryzen 7000 series processors and AM5 platform, both set to launch to consumers on Sept 27. Some huge promises revolve around the product, including a 13% IPC boost, and hugely competitive performance in both creator and gaming workloads.

We’re taking a fresh look at viewport performance in popular design software with the help of SPECviewperf 2020. With 21 gaming and workstation GPUs in-hand, we’re testing not just the performance in Windows, but also Linux – which has made for some interesting comparisons.

As we covered last week, Intel has just launched its first desktop-bound Arc GPU, A380, in North America, with Newegg selling cards on both its American and Canadian storefronts. Perhaps not-so-surprisingly, the initial units that were made available disappeared fast, so both Newegg websites currently show the card on backorder. Something we’ve…..

Corsair has just launched a new gaming monitor, and hoo boy, is it a beauty. Catering to those who love ultrawide aspect ratios and a large display, Corsair’s new Xeneon Flex (45WQHD240) comes in at 45 inches, which is a huge increase in size compared to most monitors shipping with 3440×1440 resolution…..