Posted on May 10, 2022 9:00 AM by Rob Williams
Earlier this year, we saw AMD plug some remaining gaps in its RDNA2-based Radeon lineup, with the help of the low-end RX 6500 XT and RX 6400. Today, with warm summer months approaching in much of the world, the company clearly wanted to feel a little refreshed, as we have three speed-bumped…..
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Posted on May 9, 2022 2:15 PM by Rob Williams
As we covered back in March, Intel’s first Arc-based graphics cards have arrived – but only in mobile form, so far. From the get-go, we knew that it’d take a bit of time for the first notebooks equipped with Arc to actually hit the market, and around mid-April, we began to see…..
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Posted on May 2, 2022 5:08 PM by Rob Williams
SCUF is no stranger to partnerships, but its latest is undoubtedly the most carbonated one it’s ever had. This latest team-up is with Coca-Cola, which today launches a new soda to market called Byte. The company’s pushing pixels hard with this one, going as far to call it “pixel flavored”. We’re not…..
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Posted on May 2, 2022 4:38 PM by Rob Williams
There have been some major acquisitions roaring through the gaming industry these past few years, and it appears that the onslaught of purchases isn’t going to stop until everyone is acquired. Today, it’s been announced that Embracer Group is going to lift Eidos Montreal, Square Enix Montreal, and Crystal Dynamics, off of…..
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Posted on May 2, 2022 3:55 PM by Rob Williams
Since the introduction of NVIDIA’s G-SYNC in late 2013, the benefits of improved frame syncing has become obvious – smooth gameplay without tearing is easy to like. Not too long after NVIDIA ushered G-SYNC in, AMD began pushing FreeSync, which itself graced many a monitor before long. Today, it’s not difficult to…..
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Posted on April 25, 2022 2:57 PM by Rob Williams
Maxon has just announced an update involving something we’ve been waiting years to hear: support for AMD’s Radeon GPUs is being added to the company’s popular Redshift rendering software. For almost the entirety of Redshift’s life, support has exclusively revolved around NVIDIA’s CUDA (and OptiX), with support for Apple’s Metal added just…..
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Posted on April 13, 2022 2:48 PM by Rob Williams
For a handful (no pun) of reasons, Valve’s Steam Deck is a seriously cool product. It enables quality gaming while on-the-go, and unlike many devices competing for the same consumer dollar, it provides a much more open platform that can allow users to get creative. Should they chose to, users could even…..
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Posted on April 12, 2022 1:16 PM by Rob Williams
Adobe has today rolled out a number of big updates to its Premiere Pro and After Effects tools, with collaboration being one of the major focal points. With Frame.io, Adobe is allowing multiple users to effectively work on the same video project, with the ability to instantly share captured video, comment on…..
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Posted on March 29, 2022 6:10 PM by Rob Williams
As we discovered in our look at Intel’s 12th-gen Core processors last fall, the company proved that it knew how to handle the renewed competition it was facing from AMD. Ultimately, the Alder Lake chips impressed us a lot more than we were expecting, and while the added ‘E’ (efficiency) cores left…..
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Posted on March 29, 2022 3:40 PM by Rob Williams
When NVIDIA launched its GeForce RTX 3090 in 2020, it was hard to imagine that the company would find a way to release an even higher-end SKU – even though we knew that some cores were being left on the table. Well, after enjoying a long stay in Rumormill, the RTX 3090…..
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Posted on March 23, 2022 3:55 PM by Rob Williams
SPEC has just released the latest iteration of its comprehensive 3ds Max benchmark, which covers a wide range of testing angles, and includes measurements for both the CPU and GPU. This update is the first we’ve seen since the 2015 launch, and while many of the tests remain identical, they’ve been updated…..
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Posted on March 23, 2022 3:00 PM by Rob Williams
At its ongoing GTC, NVIDIA’s revealed many new products and technologies revolving around AI and deep-learning, such as the flagship AI GPU, H100, built around the Hopper architecture. While AI’s dominated the show, it’s not been the only focus. NVIDIA has also catered to creators in multiple ways, including a launch of…..
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Posted on March 21, 2022 4:20 PM by Rob Williams
It’s been almost exactly a year since AMD launched its third-gen EPYC “Milan” processors, and today, the company is adding four new SKUs to the list, all of which revolve around the company’s new 3D V-Cache. As with the desktop-bound Ryzen 5800X3D we talked about last week, these new EPYC “Milan-X” chips…..
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Posted on March 17, 2022 9:00 AM by Rob Williams
AMD adds new functionality and optimizations to its Radeon graphics driver as time goes on, but every once in a while, the company likes to wrap a bundle of updates together, and unleash them all at once. The new Adrenalin Edition 22.3.1 driver is one such release, bringing a number of improvements…..
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Posted on March 16, 2022 3:33 PM by Rob Williams
With the sort of hype that Elden Ring enjoyed leading up to its launch, it felt like the title was being built-up to be so good, that it could become one of the best games ever. Well, we’ve seen time and time again, that the more hype a game has, the greater…..
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Posted on March 15, 2022 5:20 PM by Rob Williams
First announced at CES in January, AMD’s planning to shake-up its Ryzen CPU lineup with a new model that bundles in the company’s new 3D V-Cache solution – one that uses vertically-stacked cache to provide lots of it. This chip is called the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, and compared to the regular 5800X,…..
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Posted on March 9, 2022 2:40 PM by Rob Williams
Right on schedule, the Blender Foundation has released the latest major version of its popular design suite, Blender 3.1. As you’ve come to expect from Blender, there are many notable updates in this new release, but one of the biggest focal points is performance. If you love your processes to be faster…..
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Posted on March 8, 2022 4:00 PM by Rob Williams
During a launch event held earlier today, Apple announced a refreshed iPhone SE, green color options for its iPhone 13, and two new entrants to its “Studio” series: the Mac Studio desktop workstation, and a 27-inch 5K Studio Display complete with 12 megapixel webcam that will probably put all other built-in webcam…..
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Posted on March 8, 2022 1:40 PM by Rob Williams
Since the pandemic has done a great job of skewing our perception of time, have you realized that it’s been nearly two full years since the launch of enthusiast/workstation grade processors? The previous launch came with AMD’s first-gen Threadripper PRO, built around its Zen 2 architecture. Intel’s most recent Core X-series processors…..
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Posted on February 17, 2022 2:23 PM by Rob Williams
Micron has issued some surprising news this week: it’s sticking a knife into one of the most iconic gaming memory brands on the planet: Crucial Ballistix. In some ways, this really does feel like a significant end to an era, as the Ballistix brand became well-established a couple of decades ago, quickly…..
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Posted on January 31, 2022 2:32 PM by Rob Williams
When Microsoft announced its plans to acquire Activision two weeks ago, it seemed like everyone and their dog began to wonder who Sony would try to acquire to help pad its own portfolio. It goes without saying, as much as Activision is loathed for its internal conduct, it’s loved for its many…..
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Posted on January 5, 2022 7:30 PM by Rob Williams
This year’s CES has proven fruitful so far where product announcements are concerned, and naturally, Intel has had a big hand in that. This CES comes just two months after Intel launched its 12th-gen Core processors, so it was largely expected that we’d see the company fill some gaps in the lineup.…..
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Posted on January 4, 2022 4:20 PM by Rob Williams
At CES 2022, NVIDIA’s Jeff Fisher kicked off the company’s annual keynote by highlighting the fact that gaming is unbelievably strong – which shouldn’t surprise anyone reading this. There were days in the past where some thought the days of PC gaming (or gaming in general) were numbered, but today’s market proves…..
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Posted on January 4, 2022 2:05 PM by Rob Williams
The latest CES has just kicked-off, and many companies have wasted no time in unveiling their latest wares, with an absolute deluge of announcements filling our inboxes today. This isn’t an ordinary CES in terms of how many people will show up in-person, but where products are concerned? There’s a lot to…..
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Posted on December 7, 2021 6:53 PM by Rob Williams
Here at Techgage, we spend quite a bit of our time testing desktop hardware in creative workloads, but don’t cover notebooks quite as often as we’d like. Well, despite notebooks being completely portable, today’s mobile hardware is so powerful, that designing while on-the-go isn’t the dream that it once was. This week,…..
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