Author: Richard Leadbetter

[ad_1] The embargo lifts today on Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 and it’s a phenomenal achievement in graphics performance – as you might hope and expect from a $1600/£1650 GPU. The full Eurogamer review will follow as soon as possible but so much work in Digital Foundry has been poured into this project that we’ve only…

[ad_1] So, Stadia finally met its demise last week. After an unsuccessful launch with general apathy from the audience, there’s an argument that the platform was doomed right from the very beginning – despite Google itself investing a gigantic amount of cash into the hardware and various publishing deals. Perhaps the writing was on the…

[ad_1] Two key PC technologies started to emerge towards the end of 2018 – hardware-accelerated ray tracing and machine learning based super-sampling. Forming the basis of Nvidia’s brand change from GTX to RTX, the technologies have continued to be refined across the years. With the arrival of the new RTX 4000 graphics line, we have…

[ad_1] The fall-out from Nvidia’s RTX 4080/4090 reveal last week has been intense. We saw the reveal of the RTX 4090 – a phenomenally achievement in performance – backed by the debut of pioneering new technology like DLSS 3 frame generation, the remarkable RTX Remix and a new version of Cyberpunk 2077 that is to…

[ad_1] Earlier today, Nvidia finally revealed the new RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 video cards, based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. We’ve been hands-on with the RTX 4090 for the last few days and we’re hard at work on content focusing on the firm’s latest AI-based frame generation technology – DLSS 3. First impressions on…

[ad_1] It’s a shorter DF Direct blog this week – it’s supposed to be a public holiday – but our weekly show goes live on YouTube as normal and it’s a special one on two accounts. First of all, there’s well over two hours of discussion to wade through, covering the latest Sony State of…

[ad_1] Steam Deck may well be the most mainstream example of the handheld gaming PC, but Valve is certainly not the first company to give the concept a shot. Other manufacturers got there first and continue to innovate with intriguing products. The AyaNeo Air is the most exciting of those handhelds yet, in that it’s…

[ad_1] Having skipped a week with our usual, scheduled DF Direct show in favour of The Last of Us and Intel Arc specials, we have plenty of news and discussion to catch up with, starting with the news that a brand new PlayStation 5 revision is en route to our shores now, having already made…

[ad_1] This week’s DF Direct is somewhat different than the usual show – a while back, Intel approached us, asking to be featured on a future episode to talk about its Arc graphics line. At the same time, Intel Fellow Tom Petersen, having seen our extensive image quality comparisons in our FSR 2.0 God…

[ad_1] Welcome the latest edition of DF Direct Weekly – Digital Foundry’s regular show on the latest gaming and technology news. Perhaps not surprisingly, the lion’s share of our news discussion this week concerns the release of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC. We’ve discussed the various trials we had in delivering our coverage – not…