As expected we will see a lot of information from various board partners regarding their upcoming Ampere-based RTX30-series cards. First out in my inbox is Inno3D. It has been a while since I reviewed a board from them but they are coming out with a whole range of cards from …
Read More »Nvidia DLSS 2.0 and the Nvidia RTX2060-Max Q
Introduction/How does it work? With all the focus that has been given to Raytracing on the RTX-cards there is actually an technology that I found much more interesting: Nvidia DLSS (Deep learning super sampling). The idea is that by using machine learning games that support DLSS are able to give …
Read More »ASUS STRIX RTX 2080 Ti White Edition – Is This The One Card To Rule Them All?!
Meet The Graphics Monster from ASUS. ASUS STRIX RTX 2080 Ti, is a monster both in size and performance! ASUS is no newcomer to the GPU game, and their ROG STRIX series of cards regularly lend themselves to extreme designs. The design or aesthetic is not the whole story, though, …
Read More »AMD’s 5600 XT Debacle – A Post Mortem of Arguably the Worst Launch in PC history.
The new RX 5600 XT launch went south very fast How did this happen, and why? In case the title did not strongly enough to allude to what this article will be, I will be addressing the way the RX 5600 XT was launched, the issues observed, and the impact …
Read More »Welcome the Radeon RX 5600 XT, Featuring the XFX RX 5600 XT Thicc II Pro
Welcome the new Radeon 5600 XT AMD unveils the “Ultimate 1080p” focused Navi AMD’s Radeon team once again has sprung another GPU upon us with the new RX 5600 XT, and this time it is destined to fill the gap between the previous RX 5500 XT and the RX 5700 …
Read More »Introducing the Radeon 5500XT with the Powercolor Red Dragon 5500XT 8GB
Introducing the new Radeon 5500 XT Welcome the mainstream 1080p focused Navi AMD’s Radeon team has been hard at work finessing the 5700 series of GPUs and pushing them to get the most out of the 7nm Navi that they can. Meanwhile, late December is normally not very busy with …
Read More »Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) – Is Nvidia RTX the “Way It’s Meant To Be Played”?
Call of Duty is back with a nostalgic new entry Can Call of Duty be the FPS that shines with RTX? Ever since the inception and announcement of RTX, Nvidia has hard a bumpy road getting it into the hands of gamers in a satisfying manner. The RTX launch title …
Read More »Nvidia Shakes Up Gamescom With Major Ray Traced Announcements Including Minecraft, CyberPunk and Many Others
Nvidia Drops Some Major Ray-Traced Teasers Pre-Gamescom Nvidia has made a spectacle at Gamecom 2018 with the announcement of the RTX Series, and now they are at it again. Gamescom has nary arrived and Nvidia is raising the gauntlet of ray-traced titles by including some major players not just in …
Read More »Nvidia Releases The Beast – Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Review
Introducing the new GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Meet The King of Super! Its been a few weeks since RTX 2060 and 2070 SUPER was unveiled. They brought with them some much-needed performance bumps and more importantly price reductions that will make these cards a lot more likely to find their …
Read More »Supercharging Turing? RTX Goes SUPER! – NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER & RTX 2060 SUPER Review
Introducing the new GeForce RTX SUPER Series RTX Goes SUPER! We all knew eventually Nvidia would have to make a big move with RTX, with all of the commotions around new RYZEN and Radeon Navi arriving soon. It is here and it’s the RTX SUPER series. But wait, let’s take …
Read More »MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming X Review – an Even Lower Cost Turing Option
MSI Introduces the Newest in Turing at $249.99 MSI has put into our hands today the new Turing powered GTX 1660 Gaming X. This is, of course, a continuation of the non-RTX enabled parts like you had seen recently in the other models listed below. The thing is this one …
Read More »MSI GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X – Turing Without The RTX.
MSI Brings The New GTX 1660 Ti to Life With Some Gaming X Style MSI has put into our hands today the new Turing powered GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X. Now, wait a minute, I thought the new cards were RTX? Well, that is true but this is the first …
Read More »MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming Z – MSI Brings The Heat For The Mini Turing.
MSI Took a GeForce RTX 2060 and Added Some Gaming Z Flair to it. MSI is no stranger to making custom cards and they have shown this with the Gaming Z series of cards. Today we have the RTX 2060 Gaming Z which may not seem like a very impressive …
Read More »Zotac RTX 2070 Mini – Zotac Puts RTX 2070 on an Even Smaller Form Factor and Smaller Price!
Zotac Shaved a Little Off The Already Dainty RTX 2070. One of the first aftermarket partner model 2070’s has rolled in. It is from our friends at Zotac, the RTX 2070 Mini. This model does not appear to be a Overclock model on the surface and might even be a …
Read More »Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition – Nvidia Unleashes RTX on The $350 Market
RTX Meets the Sweet Spot in Value. Better late than never right? That seems to be the mantra with recent GPU releases post RTX launch. This time I did not get a card in hand until the day of Embargo release and rather than rush it out I did my …
Read More »3DMark Port Royal: Real Time Ray Tracing Benchmark is Here! Every Capable GPU Tested
Finally We Have a Way to Gauge Real Time Ray Tracing Performance So, you want to see what your new RTX or ray tracing capable can do? Don’t have the time or skill to plot a run on the only real ray tracing title (Battlefield V) available as of now? …
Read More »Nvidia Announcement at CES 2019: RTX 2060, Adaptive Sync Support and So Much MORE!!!
Nvidia who is normally kicking off announcements and press conferences with talk of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, And autonomous driving threw the collective audience for a loop. They started the show with Nvidia’s Founder and CEO Jensen Huang “Usually at CES, I talk to you about Self Driving cars, and …
Read More »Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition Review – Turing at $599
Time to meet the more value-friendly RTX brethren. I know we are a bit late to the party with this one, and that’s ok. We had a testbench failure which required complete rebuild and retest to ensure continuity. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 is now on the bench! The Nvidia …
Read More »NVIDIA GeForce RTX IS HERE.. Introducing the GeForce RTX 2080 & RTX 2080 Ti – 4K 60 FPS or bust!
Introducing the new GeForce RTX At long last, we have the replacement to Pascal. I have really gone back and forth on how to open this as, Well the new Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti cards are something like I have never really dealt with before. I mean, yes, …
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