Content and news by Rob Williams

At its third-annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm detailed most of what we want to know about its upcoming Snapdragon 855 mobile platform. Get ready for improved CPU and GPU performance, greater gaming and media capabilities, next-gen artificial intelligence performance, new alluring camera features, and a lot more.

At its third annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, held in Maui for the second year in a row, Qualcomm ushered in the “next decade” of mobile wireless. You might have noticed that each “G” (eg: 3G, 4G) lasts about a decade, so with 5G about to land, the mobile landscape is about to…..

OnePlus’ latest flagship is here, and with it, a few changes also arrive. Gone is the audio jack, but new is the in-screen finger print reader – one that works well, and looks cool. The 6T also packs in Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon SoC, 6 or 8GB of memory, and 128 or 256GB of storage. It also ships with Android 9.0, helping to deliver a truly up-to-date smartphone right out-of-the-box.

There’s a lot to like about Intel’s Core i9-9900K that goes beyond adding 33% more cores over last year’s i7-8700K. The 9900K can peak at 5GHz, and barely throttles back when all eight cores are engaged. Add to that the introduction of solder TIM, a chip like the 9900K has been a long time coming, so let’s dive in.

Qualcomm is going to be hosting its third-annual Snapdragon Tech Summit next week in Maui, Hawaii, and the company wants to make sure that anyone wanting information out of the event will be able to get it. The company is going the extra mile with the streams this year, offering them for…..

Earlier this month, Valve released a SteamVR beta feature called Motion Smoothing. Its goal in life is to energize modest graphics cards to deliver a better gaming experience. When engaged, the feature locks the frame rate to 45 FPS on a 90Hz headset, making for a smoother experience overall, and one that…..

Eight-core processors are not a new thing, but eight-core processors that can reach a staggering 5GHz on a couple of threads are. How do those super-fast threads handle different scenarios in Linux? This article exists to figure that out, so join us as we see how Intel’s Core i9-9900K fares against eight other competitors.

AMD has long been aggressive on CPU pricing, but with Ryzen, the value was greatly enhanced for some pretty obvious reasons (namely, the Zen architecture). The boosts in architectural performance wasn’t enough for AMD, so it decided to cough up some better-than-normal CPU coolers to include in the box. You’ll commonly find…..

Black Friday is here, and that means that retail looks like a madhouse, and etail servers are being given a great stress. As we did yesterday, we pored the web over today to find some of the best deals. We’re talking deals that actually have some substantial savings, not a meager cut…..

Like always, 2018’s Black Friday has become “Black Week”, with deal upon deal being unleashed before the official day hits – and that’s ignoring that we have Cyber Monday soon after. We don’t usually do too many deals posts, but it’s probably best that we start: if you want to directly support…..

Final Fantasy XV‘s standalone Windows benchmark is an interesting beast. On one hand, it’s not a great benchmark. It has issues that should prevent people from even touching it, but, that only assumes that you are not simply looking to get an idea of what the game looks like. To test out…..

For PC gamers, performance offered on the current crop of game consoles leaves a bit to be desired. While there are many games that run at 60 FPS, that high frame rate comes at the expense of graphics fidelity. Then we have games like Destiny 2, which should be 60 FPS, but…..

You’re reading the title correctly: the original Half-Life released to PC exactly 20 years ago today. We’ve come a long way since then, and while the series seems to get absolutely no love from its creator anymore, it goes down as a true FPS classic, one that’s inspired many others to come…..

AMD’s latest Polaris-based gaming graphics card has arrived. It hits us in the form of the Radeon RX 590, a die-shrunk version of the RX 580 that enjoys a monstrous clock boost. While there isn’t a lot to be surprised about with this release, AMD proves that it hasn’t eased its aggressiveness, having augmented the launch with a killer game bundle.

At last week’s Next Horizon7 event, AMD talked a lot about upcoming hardware, but software was hardly an afterthought. Following the event, there were breakout sessions where press and analysts could learn more about the nitty-gritty – especially when it comes to Radeon Pro, ProRender, the multiple Radeon drivers in constant development,…..

The rollout of NVIDIA’s RTX features in gaming has lagged up to this point, thanks in large part to the fact that the DXR-supporting Windows 10 1809 build was pulled by Microsoft right after it released. That build was finally reinstated two days ago, so it sure didn’t take long for NVIDIA…..

AMD’s Radeon RX 590 has been rumored for quite a while, and with PowerColor having posted a page that reveals the release date to be November 15, it seems very likely that we’re soon to be greeted by the new Radeon. In its press release, PowerColor says the RX 590 offers a…..

NVIDIA has taken advantage of the ongoing Autodesk University in Las Vegas to launch its fourth Turing-based Quadro: the 8GB RTX 4000. This is a GPU many have been undoubtedly waiting for, as the 4000 series Quadros typically offer some of the best bang for the buck – and in this continued case,…..

When NVIDIA unveiled its GeForce Turing series, many began to wonder what its special RTX features meant for the competition. On the pro side, RTX allows designers to take advantage of things like accelerated ray tracing and deep-learning assisted denoising, and on the gaming side, it allows scaled-back real-time ray tracing in…..

As a fan of video game console emulation, I’m embarrassed to have missed the fact that there has been a fully working PlayStation 3 emulator for some time. It’s called RPCS3, and it doesn’t only support over 1,000 different titles, it’s also free and open-source. It’s even available for Linux (but no…..