Content and news by Rob Williams

Like all of the major smartphone makers, OnePlus has plans to release a 5G model at some point this year, but as much as companies like Qualcomm wish for the 4G to 5G transition to happen overnight, it’s going to take a while before even high-end devices offer the technology as standard. At…..

NVIDIA’s driver teams have been keeping busy in 2019 so far, what with a new Creative Ready branch, ray tracing support on Pascal, and G-SYNC support on FreeSync displays. That latter feature surprised a lot of people when NVIDIA announced it during CES, although with only twelve models initially gracing the support…..

It’s been an interesting week, to say the least. To kick it off, Qualcomm and Apple were going to meet in the courts, and figure out how to proceed in their litigious battle. For a while, both companies were at each other’s throats over patent violations, and as outsiders, it was difficult…..

It’s not often we receive a press release that makes us scratch our heads before opening, but when Cooler Master claimed to be releasing some square fans, we felt intrigued. OK… the actual fans are not square; rather, the casing is, giving it a clean aesthetic. Cooler Master is releasing three SKUs…..

Over the years, NCsoft has released some amazing MMORPG games. Most have since disappeared, while others have gone down the path of becoming pay-to-win nightmares. Sometimes, the games that disappeared did so quickly, like Auto Assault. Other games, like City of Heroes, had a long 8-year run before its publisher decided that it…..

Sony’s next-gen PlayStation console has been floating around the rumor mill for a while, but today, we finally get some juicy info straight from Sony’s mouth. It could be argued that the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro were minor upgrades to their original units, but the next-gen PlayStation is not…..

AMD’s desktop processors have long delivered a key feature the competition hasn’t: backwards compatibility. Even with AMD’s old chips that helped drag itself down in the CPU market, newer motherboards didn’t cut out support. Someone with one gen motherboard could probably upgrade to another chip a few generations later without any issue…..

A couple of nights ago, I decided to play an emulated NES game (Nintendo Entertainment System) on my phone before bed (with the soon-to-be-reviewed SteelSeries Stratus Duo), and I began to wonder what the differences between the rev0 and rev1 versions of the game I wanted to play were. Thinking that kind…..

Have you noticed that the CPU market has been really interesting lately? It’s true for desktop, and even truer for the enterprise. This is a market that has for a long time skewed itself towards Intel, making it unfathomably difficult to take a chunk out of. AMD’s first-gen EPYC platform brought some serious…..

Maxon surprised the ProViz world earlier this week when it announced its acquisition of Redshift. At the same time, Redshift fans the world over began to worry about what it could mean for their favorite renderer, and likewise, Cinema 4D fans wondered how Redshift integration could change in the future – or…..

Qualcomm’s all-day Snapdragon notebooks offer many compelling features for consumers, such as (really) long battery-life, LTE availability, and a full-fledged Windows desktop. Some notebook designs, such as Lenovo’s Yoga C630 WOS, also both look great and offer solid functionality (we’re still craving Thunderbolt, though). One of the biggest challenges Qualcomm has faced…..

Rendering complex scenes has long been done using the CPU, but many modern renderers have either introduced GPU support, or been built entirely around it. In the case of Arnold, it’s been CPU-bound for most of its life, with the first GPU-supported version having hit the streets just a couple of weeks ago. Join us as we take an initial performance look at the renderer, in both single and multi-GPU configurations.

We’ve focused a fair bit on Linux gaming over the course of Techgage‘s life, but in recent years, we’ve been so distracted with other things that we haven’t dived in to see where things truly stand today. It’s also partly to blame that some games I’ve personally been playing lately still need…..

We posted an initial look at OctaneRender 2019’s RTX performance last week, and based on the reaction so far, it seems like people are excited about what’s coming. In that post, we mentioned that 2019 would introduce AMD Radeon support through Vulkan, something that led to some questions around the web, and…..

Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors enter their second generation, so to complement that, the company has upgraded all models, and added some new SKUs for good measure. Complementing the launch is even more hardware and tech, including Intel’s DL Boost, Xeon D-1600 SoC, more Optane, and even some FPGA action.

It’s easy to love OTOY. The company not only produces one of the most feature-rich and capable renderers available, OctaneRender, it also develops a relevant benchmark around it, OctaneBench. We’ve been testing with OTOY’s benchmark for a while, most recently in our look at NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX 4000. With the upcoming OctaneRender…..

At PAX East, held in Boston once again, Gearbox Software managed to captivate both local and remote audiences alike with its announcement of Borderlands 3. For long-time fans of the Borderlands series, the anticipation of waiting for Gearbox co-founder and CEO Randy Pitchford to show off the trailer was nearly painful. But…..

You didn’t need 2020 vision to know that Autodesk was about to release some new software. 3ds Max 2019 released about this time last year, so without moving too far into the spring, Autodesk has decided to launch the first of its 2020 series of software. It comes in addition to AutoCAD…..

For many years, NVIDIA has offered “Game Ready” GeForce drivers to those who waste no time jumping on the newest PC titles. With day-one support, gamers can expect the best performance, and sometimes the enabling of special features, such as the screenshot tool Ansel. As an example, Battlefield V‘s launch was greeted by a…..

When NVIDIA announced its Quadro RTX series at last August’s SIGGRAPH conference, we were given many reasons to be intrigued. At the forefront, we have Tensor and RT cores, and not to mention a staggering 48GB framebuffer on the top dog, RTX 8000. Something else that stood out was that same card’s…..