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A Look At Radeon ProRender 2.0 GPU Rendering Performance

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:45:38 GMT

AMD's Radeon ProRender has come a long way since the last time we tested it, with the latest iteration adding ray tracing acceleration support for new RDNA2 Radeon graphics cards. For this article, we're going to focus on GPU rendering (with 21 GPUs), with CPU and heterogeneous rendering to be explored later.

Corsair Announces Three New Mid-tower Chassis: 5000D, 5000D Airflow & iCUE 5000X RGB

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:15:34 GMT

Corsair is one company we always look forward to meeting up with at CES, and often, there are usually so many new products being unveiled, that it’s easy to forget about some by the time we leave. This year’s CES is hugely different, as the first product announcement took until today to.....

Qualcomm Acquires Arm CPU Startup NUVIA For $1.4 Billion

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:09:28 GMT

While digital CES continues on, some companies have been working in the background to finalize the groundwork on some major moves. We already wrote of Intel’s rehiring of Pat Gelsinger, this time as CEO, and just as that happened, Qualcomm bolstered its defenses against the ever-increasing competition with an acquisition of startup.....

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors To Be Made Available To Consumers In March

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:50:53 GMT

Last summer, AMD followed-up on its third-gen Ryzen Threadripper releases with new “PRO” variants, catering to those who want a Threadripper platform that shares features with EPYC. At the time, the DIY crowd was a bit miffed, since AMD decided to keep the PRO variants exclusive to OEMs – most notably Lenovo......

Pat Gelsinger Returning To Intel To Assume CEO Role In February

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:10:41 GMT

Well, this CES is shaping up to be one of the most interesting ones we’ve seen in a while – and not just because it’s the first-ever to go all-digital. Hot on the heels of a bunch of Intel announcements coming out of the show, the company has now announced that Pat.....

NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 30-series Notebooks & RTX 3060 12GB Desktop Graphics Card

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 22:20:55 GMT

At the ongoing digital CES, NVIDIA announced a slew of new products and broadened support for some of its preexisting technologies. At the forefront of it all is the unveiling of new RTX 30-series notebooks, bringing Ampere to mobile. The perks of that should be obvious, especially to anyone who’s looked at.....

HyperX Launches New Headsets, Mice, Keyboard At CES 2021

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:25:16 GMT

As part of the all digital CES, HyperX announced a number of new gaming peripherals for gamers, on both PC and consoles. Being the big eSports brand that it is, all these devices have been battle hardened by pro-gamers and should be up to the challenge of the home gamer. First out.....

AMD Announces Ryzen 5000 Mobile Processors, Teases Third-gen EPYC ‘Milan’

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:00:41 GMT

As expected, AMD had quite a bit to talk about at this year’s CES, although not all of it was strictly consumer focused. The company spent a lot of its keynote talking to partners about how AMD’s products are used in their workflows, and what they’re capable of. To our surprise, both.....

Intel Previews Core i9-11900K, Can Combine With 500-series Motherboard For Extra PCIe Lanes

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:57:21 GMT

Intel had quite a bit to show off at this year’s CES, including the new Core H35-series of processors that will be fueling some ultraportable gaming notebooks – and are built with 10nm SuperFIN. What was also announced – or rather teased – were 11th-gen parts for desktop, specifically the direct successor.....

Intel Unveils Core H35-series Mobile Processors For Ultraportable Gaming Notebooks

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 21:58:26 GMT

CES isn’t always used as a launch platform for a mainline processor series, but Intel has taken advantage of 2021’s digital event to unleash a deluge of new models – largely focused on mobile. The releases include those revolving around the 11th-gen Core vPro and Evo vPro platforms targeting business, and 11th-gen.....

ASUS Releases ROG Rapture GT-AXE11000 Wi-Fi 6E Gaming Router

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:40:03 GMT

It’s certain that at any given CES, ASUS is going to have a huge portfolio to show off, covering a number of different markets and segments. One thing we’ve become accustomed to seeing shown off are the company’s latest routers, as ASUS has pretty much become a mainstay with wireless at this.....

NVIDIA’s RTX A6000 Tested In Deep-learning Workloads

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:45:20 GMT

This past fall, NVIDIA announced the latest top-end SKU for its workstation lineup: NVIDIA RTX A6000. Because NVIDIA’s been changing how some of its brand names are used, this card doesn’t carry the Quadro name, despite following in the same footsteps of previous-gen Quadros. Nonetheless, a name only matters so much; what’s.....

Qualcomm Brings 5G To Entry-level Devices With Snapdragon 480 5G

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 21:20:48 GMT

The year has only just begun, but that hasn’t slowed Qualcomm down any. The company today unveils its budget 5G-capable SoC, dubbed Snapdragon 480 5G. Qualcomm says that this release brings forth “series-defying” performance, and we admit it is nice to see 5G hitting lower-end devices, even if current cellular availability isn’t.....

NVIDIA Turing & Ampere CUDA & OptiX Rendering Performance

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:15:36 GMT

Ahead of 2021, we wanted to take one last look at rendering performance with the current range of NVIDIA GPUs and the renderers that target them. Those include some staples: Arnold, KeyShot, Octane, Redshift, and V-Ray, with a little Blender on the side. Many have also been tested with RTX on and off, so read on and see how well each one of these eleven GPUs fare.

Blender 2.91: Best CPUs & GPUs For Rendering & Viewport

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 22:20:59 GMT

With Blender 2.91 recently released, as well as a fresh crop of hardware from both AMD and NVIDIA, we're tackling performance from many different angles here. On tap is rendering with the CPU, GPU, and CPU+GPU, as well as viewport - with wireframe testing making a rare appearance for important reasons. Let's dig in.

Even Bigger Big Navi: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Gaming Review

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 19:45:00 GMT

AMD's top dog Radeon RX 6900 XT has landed, and we're taking a look at its performance across a variety of 1440p and 4K workloads - with and without DXR. With the 6900 XT, AMD is taking care of gamers who want a premium product and have no qualm splurging on it - so let's see how it fares against the competition.

Cyberpunk 2077’s Developer Promises Regular Bug & Performance Patches

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:00:26 GMT

With as much hype as Cyberpunk 2077 received leading up to its launch, it was inevitable that the game would endure relentless complaining around the web about everything minor. Unfortunately for CD Projekt, however, the game did actually launch in a poor state – a reality that’s forced us to postpone our.....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming At 1080p and 1440p, DXR On and Off

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 20:45:55 GMT

NVIDIA has just added a fourth model to its current-gen GeForce lineup, and following in the footsteps of the RTX 3070, the RTX 3060 Ti becomes the newest most affordable Ampere option ($399). We're going to be taking a look at NVIDIA's latest card across our usual fleet of games, including a few DXR ray traced games with and without DLSS.

Snapdragon Tech Summit: Snapdragon 888 Performance, AI & Camera Deep-dive

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:35:25 GMT

On day two of its annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, Qualcomm went into great detail about what makes its new Snapdragon 888 alluring. The new SoC offers huge performance improvements, as well as a fleet of new features from camera to gaming to bite into.

Snapdragon Tech Summit: 5G Momentum & Snapdragon 888 Reveal

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:45:26 GMT

Qualcomm had a lot to talk about on the first day of its latest Snapdragon Tech Summit. We've once again been given updates on 5G momentum, and gained the suspicion that availability is on the cusp of exploding. We were also introduced to the company's latest top-tier chip: Snapdragon 888.