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RPR 2.2: A Current Look At Radeon ProRender Rendering Performance

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:40:46 +0200

With the latest release of AMD's Radeon ProRender, great features such as RPR Interactive viewport and Arm-based Mac support have been added, but while AMD hasn't made it a point to call specific attention to it, we've found that performance has experienced some noticeable polish. Let's dig in, and see where half a year of RPR updates has landed us.

Budget RDNA2: A Review Of AMD’s $199 Radeon RX 6500 XT

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:45:19 +0200

AMD becomes the first major GPU vendor to release a new model in 2022, and it comes to us in the form of a new lower-end part: Radeon RX 6500 XT. This latest Radeon slots into the $199 price-point, but while it's a more modest part, there's still quite a bit to talk about. Let's dig in and see how it performs against AMD's and NVIDIA's current-gen lower-end cards.

Intel Launches Dozens Of 12th-Gen Core Desktop & Mobile CPUs At CES 2022

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 02:30:02 +0200

This year’s CES has proven fruitful so far where product announcements are concerned, and naturally, Intel has had a big hand in that. This CES comes just two months after Intel launched its 12th-gen Core processors, so it was largely expected that we’d see the company fill some gaps in the lineup......

NVIDIA Announces New GPUs & Max-Q 4th-gen At CES 2022

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 23:20:14 +0200

At CES 2022, NVIDIA’s Jeff Fisher kicked off the company’s annual keynote by highlighting the fact that gaming is unbelievably strong – which shouldn’t surprise anyone reading this. There were days in the past where some thought the days of PC gaming (or gaming in general) were numbered, but today’s market proves.....

AMD Bolsters Its Radeon GPU Lineup For Both Desktop And Mobile At CES 2022

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:05:07 +0200

The latest CES has just kicked-off, and many companies have wasted no time in unveiling their latest wares, with an absolute deluge of announcements filling our inboxes today. This isn’t an ordinary CES in terms of how many people will show up in-person, but where products are concerned? There’s a lot to.....

ASUS Launches ProArt Studiobook 16-inch Notebooks For Mobile Creators

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 01:53:18 +0200

Here at Techgage, we spend quite a bit of our time testing desktop hardware in creative workloads, but don’t cover notebooks quite as often as we’d like. Well, despite notebooks being completely portable, today’s mobile hardware is so powerful, that designing while on-the-go isn’t the dream that it once was. This week,.....

Blender 3.0 – How Fast Are GPUs in Cycles X, EEVEE & Viewport?

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 19:45:51 +0200

Blender has just released its latest major update, pushing the software to new 3.0 versioning. As always, we've dug into the latest update to take a look at it from a performance perspective. Join us as we throw all of the current-gen GPUs from GeForce and Radeon at Cycles X, EEVEE, and the viewport.

Qualcomm Announces Latest Flagship Mobile Platform: Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:20:21 +0200

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.....

Intel 12th-gen Core i9-12900K & i5-12600K Workstation Performance Review

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:45:42 +0200

Intel's 12th-gen Core architecture represents a huge shift from previous designs, with 'performance' cores being teamed up with 'efficient' cores in launch models. For our first performance deep-dive, we're going to put the i5-12600K and i9-12900K up against many encoding, rendering, and system benchmarks.

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 Ti With Super Fast GDDR6X Rumored To Release In January 2022

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:09:21 +0200

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

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:29:20 +0200

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

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 22:15:51 +0200

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

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 23:05:18 +0200

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

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:15:19 +0200

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

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:15:41 +0200

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

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:51:57 +0200

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

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:15:04 +0200

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.....

RDNA2 For Workstation: AMD Radeon Pro W6600 & W6800 Review

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 21:15:15 +0200

AMD has so far released two Radeon Pro models built around its RDNA2 architecture - W6600 and W6800 - and compared to the previous-gen, there's a lot of improvement. In addition to faster performance in general, we see additions like hardware RT, as well as support for resizable BAR and variable rate shading. Let's see how both cards fare in our gauntlet of tests.

NZXT Releases ‘Foundation’ H510 Edition PC Focused On APU Gaming

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:33:15 +0200

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

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:53:57 +0200

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.....