Content and news by Rob Williams

The workstation PC market got a shot in the arm last fall when AMD launched its Ryzen Threadripper platform, offering a 16-core CPU for a reasonable price. That led many to ponder what should be in their next machine. Join us as we pit comparable AMD and Intel machines against each other in over twenty workstation scenarios.

Continuing our workstation performance analysis, we’re tossing our usual fleet of GPUs against eight separate tests, all made possible through SPECgpc’s SPECviewperf 13. With this testing, we can show current state of viewport performance in SolidWorks, CATIA, Maya, 3ds Max, Creo, and Siemens NX – as well as visualization tools for medical and energy.

Valve does the community a major solid by offering many statistics to us mere mortals to get an idea on what hardware people are running, and which games people are playing. Unfortunately, getting super-specific information is difficult, because there’s a lot that Valve would like to keep close to its chest. Fortunately…..

We test a lot of software to get a good gauge on workstation performance, but there’s always room for more – or at least possible replacements. In this article, we’re exploring performance of three applications readers encouraged us to test: Blender and Redshift for rendering, and MAGIX’s Vegas for video encoding.

The hottest phone of the summer might just be OnePlus’ latest flagship, the aptly named OnePlus 6. It deserves the top spot on that list for a number of reasons: it offers a lot of features for the price (including advanced slo-mo and 4K/60 video capture), and boasts the most eye-catching design the company has ever released.

It’s not entirely clear when they’re going to get here, but Intel is already revealing some information about its next mainstream processor series, rumored (and expected) to fall under the 9th-gen Core line. The sleuths at VideoCardz found a document sitting on Intel’s servers that reveals a number of 9000-series processors, with…..

It’s beginning to look like the end of price-gouged graphics cards is soon upon us, thanks in large part to the fact that the mining craze is dying down. That in turn is tied to the fact that there is a lot of stock left of Pascal-based GeForce GPUs, which isn’t exactly…..

A couple of weeks ago, I ranted about the latest iteration of Sony’s complete disregard to how important cross-play functionality is for gaming. At that time, it was Fortnite in the crosshair: even though it’s a cross-play title, PS4 gamers found themselves locked to that platform, whereas someone on any other platform…..

At Computex earlier this month, PC Gamer met up with famed overclocker Der8auer to talk about anything and everything related to PC performance, including of course, overclocking. He was asked whether or not the trend of higher-clocked parts meant anything for overclocking, and no… that doesn’t seem to be the case. Der8auer (aka:…..

With podcasts, I go through phases. There have been years when I haven’t listened to a single one, and others where I listen to them almost religiously. Lately, after a bit of a time without any podcasts in my life, I decided to start listening to some again – partially fueled by…..

In one of the simplest press releases sent to us by Corsair, the company today announced that it has acquired Munich-based Elgato Gaming, renowned maker of some of the most popular game recording hardware on the planet. Elgato is big in the streaming and eSports space, as is Corsair, so this seems…..

After its launch, it didn’t take long for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to become one of the most played games on the planet. Even today, as of the time of writing, the game has peaked at 1.4 million concurrent players today – twice as many as the #2, Dota 2. PUBG is clearly still…..

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang is no stranger to gifting powerful hardware to researchers, and this week continued his generosity by awarding twenty TITAN Vs to AI researchers at Salt Lake City’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference this week. If that sounds like an awfully specific event, it definitely is, but there are…..

The tech industry has had a very exciting past year, and in fact, I might even go as far to call it one of the most exciting years in tech – at least on the semiconductor front. Unfortunately for Intel, most of the excitement has been seen outside its walls, as the…..

When we met up with our friends at Noctua during Computex a couple of weeks ago, it impressed me a bit to see a couple of CPU coolers destined for Intel’s latest Xeon platform, based around the LGA3647 socket. Clearly, there’s some demand, because beyond these coolers, I saw the platform promoted…..

A thread over at reddit‘s r/PCGaming subreddit caught my eye yesterday, and given the fact it now has some 4,000 upvotes, it seems like I wasn’t the only one. Simply titled, “Don’t you hate when a game saves to My Documents or App Data instead of wherever you installed the game?”, some…..

Intel’s 50th birthday takes place next month (July 18), and leading up to it, the company has been celebrating by taking a look at its past. Recently, to commemorate the launch of the first x86-based processor, Intel released the Core i7-8086K, a 5GHz-clocked (Turbo) six-core chip that’s significantly faster than the original 8086…..

Sony has been a thorn in the side of cross-play realities for a little while, and the mega-popular Fortnite has this week reignited the issue in a big way. Believe it or not, people want to play with their friends online, regardless of the target platform those friends choose to stick to.…..

During last week’s Computex, the topic of EPYC came up in conversation more than once – not because it had anything to do with the event itself, but because speculation was running rampant about AMD’s potential growth. Everyone I chatted to acknowledged that no enterprise customer was going to take EPYC too…..

Oh, Oak Ridge. You’ve gone and done it again. Remember the supercomputer “TITAN” that debuted five years ago? Even as far as supercomputers go, that thing was super, but the way things go in technology, no piece of performance gear can hold the top spot for too long. In recent years, TITAN…..