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Intel Launches Its 28-core Xeon W-3175X HEDT Processor

Posted on January 30, 2019 10:39 AM by Rob Williams

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…..

Deep Silver Moves Metro Exodus From Steam To Epic Games Store, Saves Gamers $10

Posted on January 28, 2019 4:11 PM by Rob Williams
Metro Exodus

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…..

Corsair Will Light Up The Division 2 With iCUE Integration

Posted on January 25, 2019 11:54 AM by Rob Williams
Tom Clancy's The Division 2

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…..

Intel Announces $199 RealSense Camera For Use With Drones, Robots, AR/VR

Posted on January 24, 2019 10:43 AM by Rob Williams
The Intel RealSense Tracking Camera T265 is a new class of stand

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…..

12-core Ryzen Desktop CPU Appears In Benchmark Database

Posted on January 24, 2019 10:08 AM by Rob Williams
AMD Second-gen Ryzen 7 Box

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…..

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Rumored To Launch On February 15

Posted on January 24, 2019 9:31 AM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA GTX Turing Private Event

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…..

Samsung Releases 970 EVO Plus 96-Layer V-NAND NVMe SSD

Posted on January 22, 2019 9:00 PM by Rob Williams
Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 2TB NVMe SSD

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…..

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Benchmark Result Leaks

Posted on January 21, 2019 10:21 AM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti - Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark

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…..

NVIDIA’s Support Of FreeSync Seems Well Received So Far

Posted on January 19, 2019 6:45 PM by Rob Williams
NVIDIA Control Panel G-SYNC on FreeSync

Following years of gamer outcry, NVIDIA finally released a GeForce driver earlier this week that opens up support for VESA’s Adaptive-Sync, used by every AMD FreeSync monitor. From the get-go, the company was clear that it didn’t think most FreeSync monitors fit the bill, and proved it by certifying only 12 of…..

What Can We Expect From PCIe 4.0 And 5.0 Bandwidth?

Posted on January 18, 2019 11:15 AM by Jamie Fletcher and Rob Williams
Intel SSD DC P4600 Series

At last week’s CES, AMD announced that it would become the first company to support PCIe 4.0, with either its enterprise-bound EPYC or desktop-oriented Ryzen platforms. But what does PCIe 4.0 actually mean, and how would it impact you? Well, the truth is, we already have so much PCIe bandwidth available with…..

Agisoft’s Popular PhotoScan Photogrammetry Tool Renamed “Metashape”

Posted on January 18, 2019 10:00 AM by Rob Williams
Agisoft Metashape Thumbnail

Without too much fanfare, Agisoft released the latest iteration of its popular photogrammetry tool in recent weeks, effectively kicking off the next era of the company’s software. Since 2010, this software has been known as PhotoScan, but as of a couple of weeks ago, the transition to “Metashape” took place. Until last…..

As We Wait For PCIe 4.0 Products, The PCIe 5.0 Standard Gets Ratified

Posted on January 17, 2019 12:51 PM by Rob Williams
PCI-SIG PCIe Bandwidth Trend

It’s been over seven years since we entered the PCIe 3.0 generation, so isn’t it about time for an upgrade? At CES last week, AMD announced that its next processors would be supporting PCIe 4.0, which would once again double our available bandwidth per lane. So, 2019 should be the year 4.0…..

CD Projekt’s DRM-Free Games Provider GOG.com Turns 10 Next Month

Posted on January 17, 2019 11:47 AM by Rob Williams
Good Old Games Original Splash Page

There are a number of things that can make me feel like time is flying by just a bit too quickly, and realizing that GOG is about to turn 10 is one of those things. I remember being so excited at the launch of the classic game-focused service, that I wrote about…..

Deep-learning Used To Enhance Zelda: Twilight Princess For NVIDIA SHIELD (In China)

Posted on January 17, 2019 11:13 AM by Rob Williams
Zelda Twilight Princess - After Deep-learning Texture Upgrade

Deep-learning can be used for myriad things, and has the potential to improve products and solutions in all industries. Relevant to the Techgage audience, deep-learning has allowed NVIDIA to accelerate AI denoising in its OptiX engine, while on the gaming side, it’s begun to enable super-sampling quality at a lower performance cost,…..

NVIDIA Releases GeForce Driver Supporting FreeSync-Compatible Displays

Posted on January 15, 2019 5:18 PM by Rob Williams

At last week’s CES, NVIDIA impressed many by announcing that it was going to begin supporting Adaptive-Sync monitors, complementing the G-SYNC support it’s offered since 2013. During meetings, the company was clear that many monitors sold as FreeSync fail to live up to the green team’s high standards, but whether or not…..

Autodesk Releases Maya 2019, Introduces Cached Playback To Improve Animation Workflow

Posted on January 15, 2019 4:15 PM by Rob Williams
Autodesk Maya Logo

Autodesk has today released Maya 2019, the latest iteration of its popular modeling and animation software. Included within are major improvements to performance, bolstered animation tools, and updates to Arnold renderer and Viewpoint 2.0, to name just a few things. Admittedly, the numbering scheme in Maya’s name is a little misleading, because…..

Cooler Master’s CES 2019 Peripheral Roundup, Including Wireless Mice and Keyboards

Posted on January 15, 2019 3:32 PM by Greg King
Cooler Master SK621 Bluetooth Compact Keyboard

With CES 2019 starting tomorrow, the announcements are coming in droves.  One that caught our eye was Cooler Master.  Introducing a range of products, from headsets to new keyboard models and mice, Cooler Master has placed a focus on wireless peripherals at this years CES. The first announcement was the MH670, a…..

Steam To Use Machine-Learning To Improve Store Search Results

Posted on January 15, 2019 12:25 PM by Rob Williams
Steam Client - January 2019

For some Steam fans, a quality update to the desktop client seems to be taking ages. Last year, we got our first real proof that change was coming with an update that overhauled the Steam Chat client, something that didn’t just bring a fresh coat of paint, but improved the mechanics under-the-hood.…..

Rocket League Now Allows Cross-play Between PlayStation, Xbox, Switch & PC

Posted on January 14, 2019 7:31 PM by Rob Williams
Rocket League

It’s beginning to feel like we’re entering a truly cross-play generation. For most of 2018, fans rallied against Sony for being a thorn in the side of the industry where cross-play was concerned. Games that should have offered cross-play support, didn’t, despite the fact that one of the first shining examples of…..

AMD’s Radeon VII GPU Will Not Support Uncapped Double-Precision (FP64)

Posted on January 13, 2019 9:15 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Radeon VII 7nm Graphics Card Thumb

There’s a lot about AMD’s soon-to-launch Radeon VII graphics card that’s intriguing. Announced at CES last week, this monstrous GPU bundles 3840 Stream cores along with 16GB of HBM2 memory that delivers 1TB/s of bandwidth. Based on VII’s specs, it’s easy to assume that the card is a repurposed 7nm Radeon Instinct…..

HyperX’s 2019 Lineup Includes Spacial Audio Tracking Headset, Full-featured Mic, And More

Posted on January 10, 2019 2:16 PM by Jamie Fletcher
HyperX QuadCast Microphone Feature

Audio seemed to have a great deal more focus this year at CES than in years past, with HyperX surprising us with some of its new products. While we saw the usual assortment of new peripherals, there is in fact still some interesting aural tech going on. The first thing that grabs your…..

Elgato Unveils Its Own Studio Lights, Mobile Streaming Support, And SDK For Streamdeck

Posted on January 9, 2019 10:10 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Elgato Stream Deck

On show at Corsair’s press event was an appearance by new acquisition, Elgato, maker of the numerous streaming and capture decks, as well as the more recent Stream Deck. Streaming has grown increasingly popular, with some making it their full-time job. However, there are numerous technical obstacles along the way that Elgato…..

Corsair Announces New Mice Including Slipstream Wireless Technology And Turns RGB To 11

Posted on January 8, 2019 12:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless

At CES 2019, Corsair showed off some its latest projects. Up first were three new mice to be released over the coming year, including a new wireless series that we’re going to see spread out into its own series. Slipstream took a fair bit of focus as it’s a project that Corsair…..

Qualcomm Shows Off Its C-V2X Automotive Solutions & SoCs At CES 2019

Posted on January 7, 2019 6:51 PM by Rob Williams
Qualcomm Future Vehicle Info and Entertainment Systems

You may not think of a car as being an “electronic”, but at the past few CESes, the automotive industry has been well represented. Even companies like Qualcomm have made a big impression on the market, and at this CES the company announced its third-generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit SoC – or rather,…..

AMD Announces Ryzen 3000 Processor Series For Ultrathin Notebooks

Posted on January 6, 2019 3:00 PM by Rob Williams
AMD Ryzen 3000 Mobile Processor Series

Leading up to CES, there were almost too many AMD leaks to even keep track of. I remember seeing mention of Ryzen 3000 series about a month ago, but the unlikeliness of a follow-up that quickly was so unbelievable that even AMD’s most ardent hopefuls weren’t naive enough to believe it was…..

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