Tag Archives: Graphics

One of the more unexpected announcements at E3 this year was the return of Microsoft Flight Simulator, with a brand new version coming next year. The initial reveal trailer already showcased some impressive visuals but with testers now getting their hands on the pre-alpha version, we are starting to see …

In late 2017 and over 2018, Intel went on quite the hiring spree for its graphics division. Raja Koduri switched over from AMD to begin developing the Intel Xe discrete GPU architecture, while Chris Hook left AMD's marketing division to help Intel's GPU marketing. Now, there seems to have been …

Tile-based rendering isn't new to NVIDIA GPUs, but tile-based rendering in multi-GPU systems is another thing- and it looks like the building blocks are already secretly in place in Nvidia's drivers.

AMD has announced the RX 5500 series, available for both laptops and desktops, targeting 1080p gamers

If you are one of the unlucky GeForce GPU users to encounter some technical issues with Nvidia's latest Game Ready driver update, then you will want to check for another update as a hotfix was released yesterday. Nvidia recently released the Game Ready driver 436.48, containing day-one optimisations for Ghost Recon Breakpoint …

DirectX 12 was recently updated with Variable-Rate Shading (VRS), giving developers the ability to improve performance by reducing the level of details in parts of a frame where you are unlikely to notice an impact on image quality. Not many games have implemented this technology just yet but to see …

AMD has been making a habit of showing up at E3 for a few years now. Back in 2015, we saw Lisa Su arrive to launch the Radeon R9 Fury. One year later, AMD returned to the gaming-focused event to show off DOOM running on Ryzen, while also announcing the …

Intel has confirmed that former Nvidia technical marketing director and distinguished engineer, Tom Petersen, has joined the Intel Graphics team.

Intel's hiring spree continues as reports claim that Tom Petersen has departed NVIDIA to join Team Blue.

This month, Nvidia showcased one of the first proof-of-concept demos for the real-time creation of video game graphics. The new tech showcase focuses on a real-time driving simulation that covers a few city blocks, with AI generating in-game graphics based off of real-world footage.  The demo is purely focused on …

It is a game under a lot of controversy - but Melissa is a big fan, does she like it or is it as bad as some people are making out ?

It's been a long time coming, but the new generation of Nvidia GPUs is finally here

While Intel's integrated GPUs have never been a particularly strong option for PC gaming, it is an option that many still use to this date. In fact, Steam's hardware survey will often show Intel iGPUs among the most used. To help those users, Intel is introducing a new feature to …

Samsung is preparing for the next wave of graphics cards by kicking off mass production on the industry's first 16-Gigabit GDDR6 memory

The Aorus GTX 1080Ti Xtreme Edition 11G is £800 worth of high end graphics card while the Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 and Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming are two brand new motherboards ready for the launch of Intel 8th Generation CPUs with the Z370 chipset.

After many weeks of sifting through early/leaked information, the RX 500 series has officially landed and as we have known for a while, the new range is a Polaris refresh. Given that the chips under the hood are so similar, it looks like some are experimenting with flashing their older …

ASUS has slapped a triple-fan cooler and 115MHz overclock onto GTX 1080 Ti. Is this the best graphics card you can buy?

AMD is continuing to champion its new idea of ‘rebellion' in the PC space, with the upcoming debut of its Vega graphics architecture this Thursday at the CES 2017 show. To get us all even more hyped, it's released a new trailer which metaphorically and literally bangs the drum for …

Gaming on Macs has never been quite as easy as it has been on Windows systems. Part of that is a software issue, but it's also always been harder to get yourself a powerful graphics card at a decent price with Apple hardware. The Wolfe is looking to change that, …

AMD's latest 16.6.1 driver release has added support for a couple of new games, a new Crossfire profile for Dark Souls III and has improved performance and stability in a number of new releases. There's still a few issues with the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay, but it's being worked on …

AMD said last year with its big Crimson driver update and back-end restructuring, that its drivers would in future come more frequently and be better than ever before. It's looking to continue that practice now with the certified release of the 16.4.2 Crimson driver, bringing with it all of the …

Inno3D is one of the many manufacturers at CEBIT 2016 which has been showing off its virtual reality capable systems, with one in particular which it claims can power all sorts of VR experiences. That's not all though, it also debuted a new 3D printer, which uses spooled up plastic …

The PC Gamer Weekender event is taking place right now and some interesting news has managed to slip out of it. According to the demo of Hitman being shown at the event, the game will support DirectX 12 fully at launch, a slide also lists the benefits of going with …

Ubisoft has been attempting to boost its efforts on the PC over the last year or so, even going as far as to push PC versions of certain titles back to give developers extra time to ensure it is up to standard. This was the case with Far Cry: Primal, …

One of the more irritating trends that's emerged out of games being made for console and ported to PC, is that the graphics options can be extremely limited. That's not the case with the upcoming Tom Clancy's The Division though, as its list of tweakable settings in the graphics menu …

Apple is upping the pixels in its latest batch of iMac all-in-one computers, with all 27-inch models now coming equipped with a 5K (5,120 x 2,880) display and there is a new optional 4K (3840×2160) tier for the smaller 21.5-inch iMac. Apple first revealed its 5K iMac last year, initially …

Microsoft's Surface Book was one of the more surprising announcements of the Surface Pro 4 event held earlier this week, as right after Microsoft hailed its new two-in-one as the ultimate laptop replacement, it announced a ‘laptop' that could also operate as a tablet. Still, it's not just interesting because …

With the Star Wars Battlefront beta set to begin today, Nvidia has decided that gamers using its hardware to power their rigs could do with a little boost. So with the release of its latest WHQL certified driver, 358.50, it's come packing some improvements for Battlefront. If you thought that …

With the official launch of Windows 10 coming towards the end of this month, many different technology companies are updating their drivers and systems to have everything ready for the big switchover. That includes AMD, which has just released its new Catalyst GPU and APU drivers with full Windows 10 compatibility for …

Batman: Arkham Knight, the finale in the Rocksteady trilogy of Batman games launches in just a couple of hours. However, in the last week it seems that Warner Bros has had a bunch of last minute troubles, with the Collector's Edition of the game being cancelled entirely and the Limited …