Posted on December 27, 2018 10:27 AM by Rob Williams
The lead-up to CES is always an interesting one, because it’s inevitable that some good stuff from the event is going to leak, and NVIDIA’s been receiving a good chunk of that “love” this year. Yesterday, we reported on new leaks that suggest a GeForce RTX 2060 could be launching soon (potentially…..
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Posted on December 26, 2018 2:47 PM by Rob Williams
It’s been rumored for a while that NVIDIA has plans to launch its fourth Turing card as the RTX 2060, and all hints point to a launch taking place in the weeks ahead. If other rumors also prove true, we could be seeing another GeForce soon after – that one dubbed GTX 2050 or 1150.…..
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Posted on December 24, 2018 7:22 PM by Nate Williams
When Microsoft introduced its Xbox Play Anywhere feature a couple of years ago, did you expect that it’d lead to a proper Halo releasing to the PC? Sure, the PC has had Halo before, but that was ages ago, and the result wasn’t great. Halo Infinite isn’t going to suffer the same…..
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Posted on December 24, 2018 10:26 AM by Rob Williams
It might be hyperbole, but to me, it seems like the gaming industry is dealing with a rough patch right now. Don’t get me wrong – it’s stronger than ever. Games like Fortnite prove that. But look at how quickly the industry at large transitioned itself to begin crafting money-grubbing titles that…..
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Posted on December 19, 2018 7:33 PM by Rob Williams
At a special event held last week in Los Angeles, NVIDIA and RED jointly announced that some CUDA-accelerated goodies are coming soon – set to become available at the end of Q1 2019. The goal of this venture is to use NVIDIA’s graphics cards to dramatically improve real-time 8K editing workloads. 8K isn’t quite…..
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Posted on December 19, 2018 12:05 PM by Rob Williams
Earlier, I wrote a post about a bizarre Windows 10 install issue on MSI’s X399 MEG CREATION, and as much as I would have loved for that to be the only issue I’ve been dealing with, that’s not the case. At the time the Windows 10 October Update released, it refused to…..
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Posted on December 19, 2018 11:19 AM by Rob Williams
Note: This bug also affects Windows 10 1903 (May 2019 Update). I understand how dumb that title must look. How could installing Windows to one motherboard be any different from installing it to another? Well, as it turns out, MSI’s X399 MEG CREATION motherboard can throw off someone’s Windows 10 October Update install…..
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Posted on December 18, 2018 3:00 PM by Jamie Fletcher
The global standards developer, JEDEC, responsible for the creation and updating of various microelectronics standards used in the tech industry, has announced the publication of its JESD235 High Bandwidth Memory DRAM standard. HBM is the high-performance alternative to GDDRX type memory used extensively by GPU manufacturers, and this latest update standardised the…..
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Posted on December 17, 2018 3:36 PM by Rob Williams
The next generation of consoles from both Microsoft and Sony are going to be undoubtedly interesting, and as expected, the number of leaks has been bordering on ridiculous. Of course, we’re not sure what sounds that plausible, but a new set of leaks does seem possible, given the aggressiveness we’ve seen from…..
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Posted on December 13, 2018 9:01 AM by Jamie Fletcher
AMD has started to get into a habit of releasing large feature updates to its software package at the end of each year, and this year is no different. Adrenalin 2019 introduces many new features that have been frequent requests from users, as well as some interesting extras along the way. These…..
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Posted on December 4, 2018 4:00 PM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on December 4, 2018 9:54 AM by Jamie Fletcher
With some more news after the TITAN RTX launch, NVIDIA has decided to release its physics modeling SDK, PhysX, under an open source BSD license, released on GitHub. This isn’t just the CPU engine, but also the GPU acceleration aspect as well. NVIDIA’s reasoning for this relates to its push for AI,…..
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Posted on December 3, 2018 11:16 PM by Jamie Fletcher
Dubbed the ‘T-Rex’ by NVIDIA, the TITAN RTX is the latest in the ray tracing focused RTX graphics cards to be announced. As is expected of a TITAN card, it’s a rather hefty GPU. Most of the performance specifications relate to its compute and ray tracing performance, rather than gaming, but needless…..
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Posted on November 28, 2018 12:00 PM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 28, 2018 10:52 AM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 27, 2018 4:20 PM by Robert Tanner
In a possible foreshadowing of things to come, Samsung is today introducing the 860 QVO SATA SSD series, in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities. These drives are intended to hit ultra-low price points and do double-duty as long-term data storage drives while offering many of the advantages of modern flash drives. Samsung…..
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Posted on November 24, 2018 4:06 PM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 23, 2018 10:19 AM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 22, 2018 4:04 PM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 22, 2018 11:15 AM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 21, 2018 11:35 AM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 19, 2018 12:45 PM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 15, 2018 9:03 AM by Rob Williams
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,…..
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Posted on November 14, 2018 2:35 PM by Rob Williams
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…..
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Posted on November 13, 2018 4:20 PM by Rob Williams
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…..
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