Tag Archives: performance

Last night AMD revealed the final details for the 64-core Threadripper 3990X, including its release date and price tag...

After plenty of leaks and rumours over the last few weeks, today AMD officially announced the Radeon RX 5600 XT.

Just a few days ago, the potential specification of Intel’s 10th generation Core series desktop processors were leaked online and now an alleged internal Intel document appears to show the performance of the upcoming flagship ten-core Intel Core i9-10900K CPU...

After plenty of leaks and rumours, today AMD is officially launching its next Navi/RDNA based 7nm GPU- the RX 5500 XT. We've already had the chance to review two custom-cooled versions from Sapphire and ASRock respectively. Now, we also have details on UK availability and pricing.  In our own review, …

There has been a lot of next-gen console talk over the last few weeks, in large part thanks to leaks surrounding the PS5. Now, leaks on the Xbox side are starting to catch up. Last week, we heard that Microsoft is still planning to launch two consoles next year targeting …

Looking to get into custom loop cooling? The EKWB Classic RGB S360 kit could be worth buying

Rockstar has given us all a much needed status update, addressing the stuttering issue with RDR2...

Over the course of this year, we have seen a lot of flagship smartphones launching with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor at the centre. In December, the next generation Snapdragon 865 will be officially unveiled, although leaks have already given us an early look at specifications and performance.  Qualcomm will …

AMD teased us a while back with the announcement that the Ryzen 9 3950X and 3rd Gen Threadripper processors would be launching this month. Now, we have all of the final details, with the TR 3960X and TR 3970X being announced alongside the new TRX40 platform. We also have more …

Red Dead Redemption 2 has finally made its way to PC this week and while it is visually impressive, a lot of early players have run into bugs and issues at launch...

Intel officially announced its new line of Cascade Lake-X HEDT CPUs a few weeks ago, with SKUs all the way up to 18 cores and more competitive pricing to combat the growing popularity of Ryzen. The full launch is coming in November with reviews set to drop around the same …

Back at the start of July, NVIDIA officially launched the RTX SUPER series of graphics cards, bringing a decent improvement to the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070. Today, the RTX 2080 Super is officially launching and we have reviews, spec details and pricing/availability information.

3rd Gen Ryzen is officially here. The Zen 2 architecture has paved the way for 7nm, IPC improvements, higher core counts and more, all at sensible prices.

AMD's top-end Navi will reportedly cost $499 and edge out an RTX 2070

Nvidia's RTX 2060 has been announced, bringing the entry-level price of Turing down to £329.

It's a big day for Rockstar, the reviews are live and Red Dead Redemption 2 is out in the wild. By most accounts, the game is incredible but how does it perform on each of the different consoles? Thanks to extensive analysis from the folks at Digital Foundry, we have …

While the bulk of Nvidia's conference was focussed on ray-tracing performance, the company has now released the first set of standard benchmark results for the RTX 2080, showing off 4K performance in current titles.

We've known that Nvidia was planning a big push for real-time ray tracing in games since March when the first demos were shown off. This all came to fruition last night with the launch of the new RTX 20-series, which will support ray-tracing in several upcoming games. At Gamescom this …

Monster Hunter World isn't landing on PC for another week, but reviewers already have their hands on the game and have been discussing PC performance. At first, impressions seemed positive, but eventually word of heavy CPU usage began causing concern. Now, it seems that the amount of work the game …

As the release of Intel's 9th Gen CPUs grows closer, more leaks are coming our way. This latest leak comes in the form of a benchmark test, giving us a good idea of what to expect from Intel's upcoming Core i9-9900K. In a database entry on 3DMark, the Core i9-9900K …

Defiance 2050 is Trion World’s effort to rebuild 2013’s Defiance from the ground up, but how does it stack up against the original?

Since its launch in December, the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has struggled with performance issues. A short while ago, the folks at PUBG Corp began outlining its plan to fix things up, and last night, they took the first step. Patch 11 began rolling out for PUBG on …

Last year during Oculus Connect, the company took to the stage to announce its next virtual reality headset. It's called Oculus Go, costs $199 and aims to bring VR to the masses as an all-in-one solution, with no additional hardware required. We've known about this HMD for several months now, …

Earlier this year, AMD debuted its CPU roadmap for 2018, kicking off with two new Ryzen 2000-series APUs, followed by new Ryzen CPUs based on the Zen+ architecture. We've seen the APUs already, so now it is only a matter of time before the new CPUs hit the market. That …

This one comes from Ant Bird, who won an ASRock Fatal1ty H270 Performance motherboard from us.

It looks like government bodies are starting to take notice of the ‘planned obsolescence' allegations often levied at smartphone companies. This week, Italy's antitrust body confirmed that it has opened up an investigation into Apple and Samsung in an effort to determine whether or not these companies actively slow down …

Intel's fight against the Spectre and Meltdown bugs continues but with it, more issues are also beginning to arise. Last week, it was discovered that a recent firmware update was causing reboot issues with older Intel processors. Now Intel has confirmed that newer processors can also be affected, with Sandy …

Yesterday PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds received its Xbox One ‘Game Preview' launch just ahead of the PC's exit from Early Access. The console launch was set to be a big deal for Microsoft's machine, after all, PUBG has been the biggest game on PC all year long and opening it up to …

First performance results for the GTX 1070Ti spotted...

AMD finally unveiled the RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 a few days ago but official reviews won’t be going up for a little while longer. While reviewers won’t be able to share their findings, a source this week claiming to have an RX Vega 56 in hand has …