Content and news by Rob Williams

When Apple took the veil off of its latest iMac Pros earlier this year, it made no secrets about AMD taking on the graphics duties, with its RX Vega series. Apple has touted the use of these GPUs in its latest desktop workstation the same way AMD has: it’s all about high-end…..

Close to sixteen years ago, EVGA announced its first “ACS” (Asymmetric Cooling System) cooler for GeForce4 graphics cards. By today’s standards, the cooler was unbelievably simple, but at the time, it introduced the blower-style fan to increase cooling efficiency. One such card to utilize this cooler was the GeForce4 MX 440, an…..

If I had to guess, I’d say AMD really didn’t want to begin yet another year with its open source Vulkan driver still in hiding, so here we are: it’s finally happening. As Phoronix notes, AMD promised the world over two years ago that it would open source its Vulkan driver for…..

It hasn’t even been a week since NVIDIA released its TITAN V out-of-nowhere (at least the third time that’s been done with a TITAN card), but that doesn’t matter. Over at GamersNexus, the card hasn’t just been bought and benchmarked, it’s also been taken apart. NVIDIA’s not sampling this card, so all…..

Last month, Broadcom caused quite the reaction after it shot off an unsolicited offer to Qualcomm, flaunting a cheque that barely went beyond the company’s market cap. Most, including Qualcomm itself, thought that the offer was underwhelming, or perhaps even insulting. On the other side of the coin, an acquisition like this…..

In case it hasn’t been obvious enough, Qualcomm has been on a bit of a tear this year. Weeks ago, the company unveiled its much-anticipated Centriq 2400 series server processors – a launch that has to have Intel just a little bit worried. The company’s also had a big year in VR,…..

Four months have passed since the launch of Destiny 2, and since we haven’t seen a single quality patch from Bungie in all of that time, it’s safe to say that the game has some obvious issues. While the game acts as a great base, too many of Bungie’s actions are raising very important questions lately. Let’s look at those.

If you’re finding yourself to be feeling a little Guardian curious lately, you may be interested in knowing that Bungie has conjured up two plots to get you to buy its latest game. I am not sure when the sale began, or when it’s going to end, but currently, the game is…..

The current shopping madness revolves around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but if you’re in the market for a new high-end GPU, AMD wants to entice you to the RX Vega side with a couple of free games. If you’re outside of the DACH region or China, you’ll be gifted a copy…..

Futuremark has just updated its VRMark test suite with a rather significant addition: a DirectX 12 test. The new ‘Cyan Room’ complements the Orange Room (designed for hitting minimum hardware requirements of Vive/Rift), and Blue Room (forward-thinking, and thus very hardcore). You can run VRMark either on a monitor, or an HMD, and…..

The rendering world is soon to witness the end of an era, as NVIDIA has announced that it’s going to cease development of the mainstay renderer, Mental Ray. Based on a couple of conversations I’ve had with NVIDIA over the past couple of months, this news isn’t too surprising (it also helps…..

Following-up on our look at the synthetic performance of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Ti from a couple of weeks ago, this second diving-in will take care of the performance of real games. In this matchup, four GPUs have entered the ring, where four resolutions await their attempts to deliver high framerates.

After an entire week’s worth of anticipation, NVIDIA’s TITAN Xp Star Wars edition has landed. You could say that the TITAN Xp is a special graphics card already, but infuse some Light and Dark side flavor, and we get something special. We’re unboxing the Galactic Empire edition, suitable for only the most evil rulers.

After spending five years in development, Qualcomm has unveiled its Centriq 2400 server processor line, with chips built around ARM and ready to take on the biggest workloads. Qualcomm is laser-focused on the datacenter, and based on what we know now, it has huge potential to pave the way for a healthy share of the market.

Mere weeks after Destiny 2 hit the PC, NVIDIA’s releasing a new driver that dramatically improves the game’s performance. That’s a great thing for you, but an awful thing for me, as I spent many hours testing the game across 14 GPU configurations mere weeks ago. Isn’t the life of a tech…..

When rumors of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Ti first dropped, it felt like the collective internet had the same question: “Where does that fit in?” There’s a 640 CUDA core difference between the GTX 1070 and 1080, after all (which, for the record, is (somewhat) equivalent to a GTX 1050, which has…..

NVIDIA’s latest Pascal-based GeForce has just landed. It’s called the GTX 1070 Ti, and with its $449 price, it becomes NVIDIA’s latest weapon to combat AMD’s RX Vega (56, in particular). In this initial look, we’re taking a look at general performance across the entire current-gen GPU collection (equipped with the latest drivers!)

This may sound like one of the most obvious things on Nessus, but 60 FPS is a lot better than 30 FPS. I’ve ranted up and down over the years about console companies focusing way too much on 4K resolution rather than giving us better performance. When I bought the PlayStation 4…..

I’m starting to get the sneaking suspicion that AMD’s and NVIDIA’s driver engineers never sleep. Last week, both companies ushered in a new driver to tackle the latest releases, such as Destiny 2, and now, both are at it again, with both offering optimized drivers for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. On…..

Just a little over a week ago, AMD released its regular release Radeon Pro Crimson ReLive Edition driver in the form of 17.10. That release helped celebrate the launch of the Radeon Pro WX 9100, a card similar to the Frontier Edition in specs, but with tunings to make it a true…..