Content and news by Rob Williams

At last August’s SIGGRAPH, it was hard to escape NVIDIA’s RTX. I remember talking to one of our contacts at NVIDIA about the number of renderers coming out in the future that would support RTX in some way, and I admit that I was a little gap-jawed when I was told that…..

NVIDIA’s Turing-infused Quadro RTX 4000 sets out to be a super-fast performer for its $900 price tag, but it also brings a couple of tricks. Those include some RTX special features, like Tensor and RT cores, which already come in addition to architectural enhancements that helps the card leap far ahead of the older P4000.

It’s hard to believe how fast these GeForce Turings are coming out at this point. This year has so far welcomed the RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti, and now, the GTX 1660 has popped up. Like its Ti bigger brother, the non-Ti retains a 6GB framebuffer, and proves itself to be a strong competitor against higher priced opponents.

As the datacenter market continues to increase in capability, we need to worry about a lot more than just the processors and memory. Interconnects are an integral ingredient here. As we learned just earlier, NVIDIA acquired networking giant Mellanox to ensure that it has its foot planted as firmly in the market…..

At last check, it looked as though Intel was going to win its bid to acquire networking giant Mellanox. This past weekend, though, the rumor mill was active with word that NVIDIA was instead the victor, and fortunately for the world watching, the company wasted no time in making its move official.…..

For many years, MAXON’s Cinebench has been a much-loved benchmark for generating super-quick (relatively) performance results for single- and multi-thread CPU tests, as well as an OpenGL GPU test. With Cinema 4D R20 having released at last summer’s SIGGRAPH, it became clearer than ever that the standalone Cinebench benchmark needed an update.…..

Blender’s upcoming 2.8 version represents one of the biggest shifts the software has ever seen, something its meager bump from version 2.79 hides well. To see where things stand today on the performance front, we’re using 30 GPUs to tackle the current beta with viewport testing, as well as Eevee and Cycles rendering.

Corsair has three new gaming mice that cater to three types of gamer, and those who like their mouse to cost $60 or less. The $50 Harpoon RGB looks to be a particularly good value with its inclusion of 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth wireless. We’re taking it for a good test drive, along with the M65 RGB Elite and Ironclaw RGB.

The folks over at UL have announced that a new iteration of PCMark 10 is coming, and will introduce two long-awaited tests: battery-life, and applications. On the battery-life side, this means that PCMark 10 will finally be able to fully replace PCMark 8 for those who were sticking to it for that…..

At CES, AMD pleased Ryzen mobile fans the world over when it announced that it would be handling GPU driver releases going forward. That fixes a rather annoying problem of users having to wait months for an official driver update to be provided by the notebook vendor – a genuinely pathetic problem…..

It’s hard to believe just how fast technology moves sometimes. At the end of January, we learned from Samsung that 1TB smartphones were coming, thanks to its new 16-layer 512Gb V-NAND. As we saw last week, the smartphone giant wasted no time putting that 1TB V-NAND into a phone, as the Galaxy…..

With each new Quick Charge iteration, Qualcomm promises that we’ll be waiting for even less time while our phones charge. But what about those folks who would love to take better advantage of wireless charging? It’s the new hotness, and yet Quick Charge hasn’t catered to it. Until now, of course. Qualcomm…..

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti becomes the fifth card based on Turing to be released, but unlike the RTX cards we’ve seen up to this point, the 1660 Ti foregoes Tensors and RT cores in favor of delivering a more competitively-priced product, and an all-around enticing competitor. Let’s see how it stacks up against NVIDIA’s own lineup, and AMD’s competition.

Corsair had a lot to show off at last month’s CES, but one of the products that was undeniably eye-catching was the new DOMINATOR Platinum RGB memory, featuring the company’s CAPELLIX LEDs. These LEDs are not only able to run brighter at equal power compared to current solutions, a lot more LEDs…..

Intel is the leader in desktop graphics thanks to the inclusion of an integrated graphics processor on most of its mainstream offerings. The discrete GPU side of things has been a little more tumultuous for the company, however. We were at IDF in 2009 when Larrabee was announced, a graphics card that…..

As it stands today, Arm dominates the mobile chip landscape. Its architectures are found in most of the world’s smartphones, with heavy-hitters Qualcomm using them in its Snapdragon processors, and Apple in its A-series. Given the permeation of Arm in mobile, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that mobile…..

Over the past year, Qualcomm and its partners have given us plenty of reasons why the upcoming 5G rollout is worth getting excited over. Many of the performance claims have been undoubtedly impressive. In effect, it seems like we’ll be getting more performance than we even “need”, which means there should be…..

This week, Rocket League gets bolstered cross-play capabilities by allowing friends on different platforms to team up. Being able to play against others on different platforms has existed for a while in RL, but with the ability to team up with friends on another platform, another major caveat of cross-play gaming gets…..

Those looking for a new five-bay NAS would do well to check out Synology’s newest DiskStation, the DS1019+. This new NAS replaces the DS1517+, and offers five bays as well as a quad-core CPU and 8GB 4GB of memory as standard. It also includes dual M.2 slots for super-fast SSD access, and…..

At the ongoing SOLIDWORKS World 2019, NVIDIA, along with a number of partners, rolled out a slew of Quadro RTX workstations. As you might expect, given the location, these workstations are perfectly suited for SolidWorks use, allowing users to edit inside of a fluid viewport in SW, and then render or animate…..