Author: Richard Leadbetter

In something of a surprise launch, AMD has made its RX 7900 GRE available as a full retail product in order to tackle the challenge represented by Nvidia’s successful RTX 4070 Super. Previously available in the Chinese region and selectively to the OEM market elsewhere, the idea is very straightforward. Similar to the well-received RX…

What if AMD produced a desktop graphics card that effectively mirrored console GPU specifications? Would such a product guarantee console-level performance in the PC space, or is it the case that there are already console-equivalent GPUs currently available that already do the job – and if so, how much do they cost? It’s been known…

In this week’s DF Direct Weekly, the Digital Foundry Team shares their thoughts on the Xbox business update podcast and attempts to fathom strategy from the PlayStation team in the wake of some ominous announcements that resulted in a 10 percentage point dip in Sony’s share price. The bottom line looks stark and very straightforward:…

In this week’s DF Direct Weekly, we spend some quality time with Helldivers 2, get to grips with the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo and say a lot of positive things about the upcoming Penny’s Big Breakaway – but discussion is dominated by the big Microsoft story. Just what’s going on with its multi-platform…

We have reached the end of Nvidia’s phased roll-out of new RTX 40-series cards, released under the ‘Super’ moniker – and what have we learned? Essentially, it’s a value play at the top and bottom of the new stack, with the RTX 4070 Ti Super landing a touch awkwardly in the middle. The RTX 4070…

This week’s DF Direct Weekly – perhaps inevitably – kicks off with extended discussion on the Palworld phenomenon, while much time is spent mulling over the Horizon Forbidden West PC features trailer Sony ‘dropped’ last week. However, what caught my eye in putting this piece together was our discussion on input lag in the…

Nvidia’s Super refresh line of updated RTX 40-series graphics cards continues with the launch of the RTX 4070 Ti Super – an ungainly-named arrival that seeks to replace the non-Super counterpart, offering a range of upgrades: more memory bandwidth, more CUDA cores and 16GB of framebuffer memory – for the same money. On paper, the…

It’s been just over a year now since Microsoft delivered its first Developer Direct – and back in the day I called it the “best games show we’ve seen in years”. After its latest episode, I stand by those words and more than that, I also believe it’s the perfect way to debut a…

Whether it’s via FPS Boost or bespoke software upgrades, backwards compatibility on the current-gen consoles delivered an unexpected delight – the ability to liberate older console games from their 30fps limits, running them at 60 frames per second or even higher. FPS Boost did the business for Xbox Series consoles on an impressive range…

So, what did you get up to on the holiday break? I was intending to spend a bit of time catching up on my horribly late slate of projects, but I ended up going down yet another rabbit hole – and this one’s quite intriguing. Cyberpunk 2077 on PC ships with a range of…