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With three articles on launch day, we can honestly say that Radeon VII’s launch has kept us busy. What’s been most exhausting, though, has been keeping track of details. I can’t remember the last time there was so much miscommunication surrounding a new GPU launch, and it seems like nothing is stopping…..

Just in time for SOLIDWORKS World in Dallas, Texas, AMD has released its latest Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver, which among many things improves performance in Dassault Systèmes’ flagship design suite. According to AMD, the 19.Q1 driver represents a 46% performance increase in SolidWorks, over last year’s 18.Q1 driver. Similarly, a…..

AMD’s Radeon VII might be the first 7nm gaming GPU, but the reality is, this Vega 20 chip is keen on tackling compute-intensive benchmarks, such as those from our workstation test suite. Having taken a look at gaming performance in another article, this one takes care of encoding, viewport, and rendering applications.

AMD’s competition has launched four current-gen GPUs since the fall, so its fans have understandably been anxious for a follow up to 2017’s RX Vega. With the new Radeon VII, AMD is responding. It’s the “world’s first 7nm gaming” GPU, and with 16GB of VRAM, it’s one that’s built for high detail at high resolution.

DRM is one of the worst plagues to hit ever hit consumer goods. To purchase a product and be locked out of it due to draconian DRM is, to me, inexcusable. It was BS when S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky had a five-time activation limit, and it was likewise BS when the much-hyped Spore…..

Last week, publisher Deep Silver made the interesting announcement that it would be moving Metro Exodus from Steam and other platforms to become an exclusive at Epic Games Store. For gamers, this move generally works out well because there is a cost savings of $10, but it of course comes at the…..

Performance regression issues in Windows on AMD’s top-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs haven’t gone unnoticed by those who own them, and six months after launch, the issues remain. Fortunately, there’s a new tool making the rounds that can help smooth out those regressions. We’re taking an initial look.

Following months of anticipation and uncertainty, Intel has today named interim CEO Bob Swan as the company’s new full-time CEO. The move isn’t going to change too much for Swan, but it finally adds some stability to the company to help it move forward more effectively, and efficiently. Admittedly, the fact that…..

For many, smartphones have largely replaced desktops and notebooks, because they can get everything they need to get done right on that little screen. If you’re someone who fits into that mold, your hunger for more storage likely never goes away. Currently, the top storage device you can get today is 512GB,…..

Intel’s new 28-core Xeon W-3175X is a beast of a processor. It’s a chip that’s meant for the most serious of workloads, and that means lots of memory would be helpful. Leave it to G.SKILL to give us an absolute lust-worthy memory kit on day 1, with its beautiful Trident Z Royal…..

At last summer’s Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel teased its 28-core Xeon W processor that would cater to enthusiasts instead of the server market. With as much time as we’ve been waiting for this chip to become a reality, no one could blame you if you thought it’d never see the light of…..

With its Ryzen Threadripper series, AMD wants you to “create with heavy metal”, but we all have different needs, and thus need different models to choose from. Having released both the 16- and 32-core Threadrippers last summer, the company recently followed-up with two more: 2920X, and 2970WX. Let’s put them to the test.

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote that Valve would be infusing Steam with some machine-learning. The goal is to improve the relevancy of the games you’re recommended, which is pretty important if you’re the type to browse stores to see what’s out there. Ultimately, Steam recently touted the many ways Steam…..

With the release of Far Cry 5 under a year ago, Corsair introduced an ability with its iCUE software to allow a game to instantly adjust RGB lighting depending on the situation in a game. In FC5, the main menu would light up a PC in red, white, and blue, a tie-in to…..

For as often as Intel talks about its RealSense camera technology, it hasn’t seemed to catch on as much as it probably should have by now. Initially, that was definitely due to cost, but over the years, costs have come down, and the tech has only gotten better. This week, the company…..

At CES, AMD laid the groundwork for what’s to launch throughout 2019, which at the forefront includes the third-generation Ryzen series, dubbed the 3000-series. That will be followed by EPYC 2, and both platforms will support the latest features users crave, as well as some new ones, such as PCIe 4.0 (which…..

Earlier this week, we reported on a leak which suggested NVIDIA could have a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti en route, despite how nonsensical the name seems to be, given what we’ve known of NVIDIA’s naming schemes up to this point. Nonetheless, the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark result seemed awfully convincing. Last…..

The solid-state drive market isn’t quite as intense as some others, but vendors have been doing well to eke as much performance out of their drives as possible, and also continue bringing high-end performance to more palatable price-points. With its newest SSD, Samsung proves that it’s serious about keeping on top, and…..

Hot on the heels of the launch of NVIDIA’s fourth Turing GeForce, RTX 2060, we’re seeing rumor of the company’s possible next GPU, and boy are things getting complicated. Before the new year, rumor hinted at the fact that a GTX 2050 would launch after the 2060. But perhaps it’d be called…..

At $349, NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 2060 becomes the most affordable in its lineup to provide Tensor and RT cores, and along with that, we also see some considerable performance boosts from generation to generation. Is that enough to justify its price tag? We’ll let the benchmarks speak for themselves.