Content and news by Rob Williams

For the past year, those looking to get explosive deep-learning and general GPU compute performance at their desk have seen NVIDIA’s DGX Station as an attractive choice, with 4 powerful Tesla V100s under-the-hood to deliver half a petaflop of deep-learning and artificial intelligence performance (and over 60 TFLOPs of single-precision). Enterprise customers would…..

It’s a given that NVIDIA will have a lot to talk about at its annual flagship GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, and this year’s event is no exception. We’re going to talk about some of the announcements separately, but to kick things off, I want to talk about the announcement…..

Chaos Group’s V-Ray renderer has become a de facto option over the years, both with its ADV CPU-bound and RT GPU-bound options. Soon, that latter option is going to get a whole lot better. In fact, that’s so much the case, that a name-change is in the cards: “V-Ray GPU”. It’s not…..

Qualcomm has taken advantage of the ongoing Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to usher in its next-generation VR development kit, starring the just-released Snapdragon 845 SoC. As always, Qualcomm’s goal with its VRDKs is to provide developers with the ideal setup for producing and experiencing VR content. The better the development…..

We posted just the other day about a series of videos Qualcomm produced to highlight the benefits of its Snapdragon-powered notebooks, and clearly, video is a great way to get the message across (surprised?!). To that end, AMD is very proud of its Radeon Overlay and WattMan tools, and has created two…..

It’s that time of year again – when a game developers conference directly precedes NVIDIA’s own technology conference. There’s never a question about a supposed battle between both GDC and GTC (well, aside from telling someone “GTC” and they thought you said “GDC”), as both events complement each other very well. That’s…..

As the first Snapdragon-powered “always on” notebooks begin to ship to customers, Qualcomm has decided to tackle some confusion that’s permeated through the market about Arm-based platforms, versus x86 ones. This isn’t about software compatibility (since these Snapdragon notebooks can run x86 applications just fine), but rather other benefits you may not…..

When the keyboard market experienced a deluge of mechs a handful of years ago, we began to wonder what vendors would do to set themselves apart. For some, optical switches have become a big part of their solution, offering super-low latencies and a satisfying feel. Bloody’s B975-LK RGB proves that there’s definitely some room left for differentiation in the market.

As we wait for something to become of the ousting of 13 vulnerabilities related to AMD’s Zen-based processors, a new in-depth interview helps bolster our belief that something isn’t quite right with CTS-Labs. The company couldn’t even be bothered to establish an address before taking on a microprocessor giant with insinuations of…..

When HTC announced its Vive Pro at CES a couple of months ago, VR fans had reason to be excited. It’s clear that current solutions are great, but they leave a lot to be desired, and the same could even be argued about the Vive Pro – it’s a big leap, but…..

Remember the time when security vulnerabilities were taken seriously? When those vulnerabilities weren’t given cute names and their own branding with logos? When companies were given more than 24 hours to react to accusations? Yesterday, a company unknown to anyone, CTS-Labs, came out of nowhere with a vulnerability website, AMDFlaws.com, and an…..

Following a frustrating few months of Qualcomm battling Broadcom in its attempt at a hostile takeover, none other than the President of the United States decided to step in like a playground hero and break things up. Officially, Broadcom’s pursuit of Qualcomm is over, seemingly entirely to do with concerns of national…..

If you’re in the market for a new professional monitor, then you’ve got some great timing. ASUS’ new ProArt PA32UC caters to professionals from top to bottom, and that includes with the price. This 4K monitor will set you back $1,999, but for those who take their image quality seriously, the best…..

Update May 2018: We can confirm that this trick works both with Windows 10 RS3 (build 16299) and RS4 (April Update, build 17134). I run a handful of Intel PCs in the lab, but only one gives me a nagging problem that’s driven me nuts for months. On an Intel X299-based platform, every…..

With both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 equipped with AMD graphics, it’s long been assumed that FreeSync support wouldn’t be an impossibility. After all, these consoles are more PC-like than ever, something Microsoft in particular has proven with its Xbox platform being integrated with Windows. Well, support is now official for…..

This isn’t the freshest news, but it’s important enough to revive. Earlier this week, it was discovered that Valve has not just one game in the works, but multiple. The problem? We only know about the first, and nothing about the rest. So, before you get your hopes up for an Episode…..

It feels like we’ve been talking about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon-enabled “all day” notebooks for quite some time, so I’m finding it hard to get through my head that the first products are finally almost out the door. That includes HP’s ENVY x2, which sells for $999, and is expected to ship by March…..

Since the launch of its original smartphone, OnePlus has managed to follow up again and again with solid iterations, both with the launch of a major new model, or an update to one. The 5T continues that record of quality updates, making this the latest $500 Android smartphone to beat.

Gaming has sure come a long way. It used to be that electricity was the biggest requirement for gaming, but nowadays, we have internet requirements to contend with, and of course sporadic updates that can ruin what was supposed to be your prime game time. And let’s not forget our peripherals that…..

Some accusations are being hurled at NVIDIA today for alleged anti-competitive practices revolving around its newly launched “GeForce Partner Program”. If you hadn’t heard of that yet, don’t feel bad, because this is the first time I’m hearing about it, too. Despite that, anyone who paid attention to NVIDIA’s blog last week…..