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Qualcomm Announces Latest Flagship Mobile Platform: Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
At the latest iteration of its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm has unveiled its ‘most advanced’ mobile platform: Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Last week, the company let it become known that it would be shaking up the Snapdragon brand, effectively freshening it up with improved logos, typography, and even the naming. Snapdragon…..
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 Ti With Super Fast GDDR6X Rumored To Release In January 2022
This past June, we saw NVIDIA expand its current-gen Ampere GeForce series from five to seven models, thanks to the release of some Ti variants – 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti. Another Ti model, which has been rumored for quite some time, is the 3090 Ti – what could become a new…..
Intel Details Its ‘Long-Term Retention Lab’, Which Currently Houses Nearly 3,000 Platforms
Here at Techgage, we retain a handful of modern platforms for our testing and retesting purposes. Our benchmarking never ends after a launch review, as we always want to track how performance can improve over time, and of course introduce new workloads as they arise. While our key focus is on performance,…..
One Ambitious Modder Sets Out To Improve GTA: The Trilogy Definitive Edition Low-res Textures
To say the launch of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition was rough would be a gross understatement. What started with huge hype from GTA‘s loyal fanbase ahead of the launch quickly turned sour – and it wasn’t for just one reason, but many. Some launch issues were so…..
Latest Proton Release Adds Support For DX11/DX12 NVIDIA DLSS Titles Under Linux
We first learned this past summer that NVIDIA’s DLSS (deep-learning super-scaling) would be coming to Linux, and since then, we’ve seen it officially deployed, but have limited use. That changes today, as the latest version of Proton (6.3-8) brings support for DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 titles. Cyberpunk 2077 is one game…..
Blender Shows Off Cycles X Rendering Performance Improvements
As we first talked about earlier this year, the forthcoming Blender 3.0 is going to introduce a completely overhauled Cycles render engine – dubbed Cycles X. As Cycles is the de facto choice for most Blender users, any impact to performance is going to be noticed, and thankfully, what we’re seeing with…..
Many Forza Horizon 5 Players Seemingly Getting Banned For Superfluous Reasons
It’s a fact of life that if there is an online game, there are going to be bans. Sometimes, it’s obvious why someone was banned, while other times, it’s seemingly impossible to know what happened. Naturally, there are always those who try to plead ignorance about their ban even though they know…..
New Online Tool Converts Saved Game Files To Formats Emulators Can Use
Game emulation isn’t just awesome, it could be considered important. With emulation capabilities, we can preserve gaming history, and not to mention dabble in nostalgia, or experience classics for the first time. On the PC, there exist roughly one billion emulators, and companies like Microsoft and Nintendo have used them to bring…..
DDR5 Seems Plentiful If You Want To Be Price Gouged
We’ve talked a lot about the painful topic of inflated hardware pricing the past year, spawned largely by overall hardware shortages that plague multiple industries. While we were pretty pumped after AMD and NVIDIA released their latest crop of GPUs last fall, it didn’t take long before we began to feel more…..
NZXT Releases ‘Foundation’ H510 Edition PC Focused On APU Gaming
Not long after NVIDIA released its Ampere-based GeForces last September, GPU supply issues were becoming evident. By the time AMD released its RDNA2-based Radeons a couple of months later, hopeful buyers were already settled on the fact that they’d be “impossible” to buy – at least if you weren’t willing to be…..
Qualcomm Ushers In A ‘New Era Of Snapdragon’ With Branding Overhaul
Ahead of the latest iteration of its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm has announced that it’s shaking up its Snapdragon branding to better push it forward. In a blog post by Qualcomm’s SVP and CMO Don McGuire, it’s highlighted that the Snapdragon brand has a legion of fans already, and it’s gaining…..
Qualcomm Releases Windows-based Snapdragon Developer Kit For $219 USD
Earlier this year, alongside the launch of its second-gen Snapdragon 7c SoC, Qualcomm announced that it would soon be releasing a Windows-focused development kit – and today, it’s here. Application developers who want to port their x86 applications to ARM but lack the hardware can jump on this development kit for $219…..
NVIDIA Talks DLSS 2.3, Open Sources NVIDIA Image Scaling & Releases ICAT Image Comparison Utility
With its newest GeForce GPU driver, 496.76, NVIDIA says it’s providing optimal performance for games like Battlefield 2042, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Hot Wheels Unleashed, Farming Simulator 22, Bright Memory: Infinite, and Myth of Empires – but that just scratches the surface on what NVIDIA wants to talk about today. At the forefront,…..
AMD Releases Beta Radeon Driver To Enable HIP Render Devices In Blender 3.0
As we covered a couple of weeks ago, Blender 3.0 is going to bring about lots of change, not just at launch, but throughout the life of the product (leading up to 4.0). One of the more major changes we’ll see in 3.0 is the replacement of Cycles with the new “Cycles…..
Intel Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Its First Processor: 4004
In November 1971, Intel launched the world’s first commercially available microprocessor, simply named 4004. At that time, the chip would have been considered a technical marvel. Created by engineer Federico Faggin (who also later created the Intel 8080), Stan Mazor, and Ted Hoff, this now-modest chip sported 2,250 transistors, boasted high speeds,…..
AMD Announces Milan-X EPYC With 3D V-Cache, Instinct MI200 Data Center GPU & Teases Zen 4
Since the launch of its first EPYC processors, it’s been clear that AMD had huge ambitions for the enterprise. Not only was the company offering CPUs with more cores than its competitors, the Zen architecture has continued to improve and make each of those cores more potent, and more effective in a…..
Intel Launches 12th-gen Desktop Processors, Overclocking Records Already Being Set
Intel has just kicked-off its 12th-gen Core series with three desktop models, along with an IGP-less version of each. Due to shipping delays, we’ve yet to benchmark the architecture formerly known as Alder Lake, but based on what we’re seeing around the web, first impressions are good. Even some reviewers who tend…..
Blender 3.0 Due Out In Early December, New Open Movie ‘Sprite Fright’ Released Today
As we’ve covered before, the next major release of Blender is going to bring us to version 3.0 – some 20 years after the release of 2.0. If you’ve been paying attention even just recently, you’ll know that minor version bumps in Blender don’t necessarily mean minor improvements. There are stark –…..
For One Game Dev, Linux Users Submit More Bug Reports Than Any Other
When you take a look at the state of Linux gaming as it was just a decade ago, and then look at it again today, the differences are almost staggering. More developers have jumped on board with native builds, while many others have ensured (or maybe not) that their titles run fine…..
Microsoft Releases Windows 11, Provides Installers So You Can Upgrade Today
Right on schedule, Microsoft has today released the latest major version of Windows: 11. This release comes just over three months after the original announcement, which makes Windows 11 one of the quickest releases we’ve seen, from announcement to launch. Unlike most Windows OSes, 11 is a significantly changed both under and…..
3DMark Update Adds Many Steam Goodies, And Is Ready For Windows 11
The folks at UL have released a simpler, but interesting update to 3DMark this week – one worthy of note if you’re a user of the Steam version. While 3DMark is a benchmark, not a game, UL wanted to add a full fleet of achievements that you can work towards earning, as…..
NVIDIA Announces DLSS Has Reached 100 Titles, Releases 472.12 GeForce Driver For Windows 10 And 11
You probably don’t need any proof that time flies way too fast, but here’s some anyway: NVIDIA’s latest-gen Ampere GeForce GPUs officially released over a year ago, and the company’s newfangled upscaling technology called DLSS? That came out just over three full years ago. A lot has happened in that time, including…..
AMD Releases 21.Q3 Radeon PRO Enterprise Driver, Enhances Remote & Viewport Boost Support
AMD has just released the latest iteration of its Radeon PRO Software for Enterprise, version 21.Q3. Highlights include performance improvements year-over-year, which the company claims is as high as 16% across multiple benchmark workloads. The latest driver also includes the usual optimization that improves stability and reliability. In the news release we…..
AMD’s Raise The Game Bundle Gives You Far Cry 6 And Resident Evil Village With System Purchase
AMD has just announced that it’s relaunched its “Raise the Game” bundle, and if you’ve been in the market for a new prebuilt system, you may find yourself lured in. With the purchase of any system – desktop or notebook – that features both a qualifying Ryzen CPU and Radeon GPU, gamers…..
Steam Deck Aims To Be Compatible With All Games, But Will Likely Fall A Bit Short
Ever since Valve announced its portable Steam Deck gaming device back in June, it’s enjoyed quite a bit of hype – even from those who don’t really see themselves needing one. To have a full-fledged PC in your hands, allowing you to game while on-the-go, is great – especially when the hardware…..