Author: [email protected] (Dave James)
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I hope this new RTX 4080 leak is fake or we’re going to need a bigger PC
[ad_1] There is a picture posted on Twitter showing an alleged RTX 4080 graphics card (opens in new tab), which looks for all the world like it’s sporting the oversized shroud of the RTX 3090 Founders Edition (opens in new tab). That means it’s big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it…
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AMD predicts DDR5 could hit DDR4 pricing levels by mid-2023
[ad_1] Since launch, DDR5 has been an incredibly expensive part of the PC building puzzle, but AMD believes we could see pricing drop considerably compared with DDR4 into next year and “potentially cross over as we get into the middle of next year,” says David McAfee. AMD announced its new Ryzen 7000-series processors (opens in…
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AMD plans to support the new AM5 socket through 2025 and beyond
[ad_1] AMD has confirmed its commitment to the new AM5 CPU socket, promising to support the platform until at least 2025, and likely beyond. With the new AMD Ryzen 7000-series CPUs (opens in new tab) the red team is introducing its first new processor socket in six years, and the first LGA design, too. Yes,…
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Breaking down AMD’s claims for a 13% Zen 4 IPC increase
[ad_1] AMD has announced its new Ryzen 7000-series processors (opens in new tab) today, along with the news that the architecture is actually performing better than it initially expected. Back at the Computex reveal earlier in the year Zen 4 was given an 8 – 10% instructions per clock (IPC) increase (opens in new tab)…
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The best Amazon Prime Day graphics card deals
[ad_1] Amazon Prime Day graphics card deals are no longer a hopeless dream. They’re a very real reality. It’s a sign of the decline of the ethereum-based GPU mining boom, and the subsiding of the graphics card shortage and supply chain nightmare that has been the backdrop of PC gaming for the last couple of…
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This Prime Day Nvidia Shield deal makes me think I picked the wrong damned time to buy another one
[ad_1] For the PC gamer, this year’s Amazon Prime Day deals have been pretty stellar. There are even graphics card deals (opens in new tab), though given the relative pricing right now we’d probably still recommend you picked an AMD card over an Nvidia one (opens in new tab). Which is a bit of a…
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Today’s Prime Day graphics card prices mean you should be picking AMD over Nvidia
[ad_1] If you’re looking for a Prime Day graphics card deal (opens in new tab) then our advice is to pick from the pool of AMD Radeon GPUs on offer right now. That’s nothing to do with any bias on our part—we love all our children equally—but simply because it just makes more sense to…
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Prime Day GPU prices really are a sight for sore eyes. Look, an RX 6800 XT and RTX 3080 near MSRP
[ad_1] We’ve been waiting a long time for GPU prices to drop, and finally Amazon Prime Day means we’re actually seeing genuine Prime Day graphics card deals (opens in new tab). What a world, eh? And with the RX 6800 XT (opens in new tab) actually dropping down to the standard MSRP, this is one…
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The best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals
[ad_1] Amazon Prime Day deals 2022 The Prime Day PC gaming deals might just be some of the best we’ve seen in any sales event of the past two years. It’s not on just a few facets of the hobby, but you will find deals on everything that goes into a gaming PC or laptop.…
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Watch this AMD dev code FSR 2.0 into a game engine from scratch in under an hour
[ad_1] Since going open source, AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 tech has been hacked and modded into a host of different games (opens in new tab). But thanks to a Discord livestream that was uploaded to YouTube, we can get a peak behind the curtain at just how straightforward it is to add FSR 2.0…