Wolfenstein: Youngblood is coming out in just one week's time, putting a twist on the usual Wolfenstein formula by focusing on co-op play. In Youngblood, you will play as either Jess or Soph Blazkowicz, the twin sisters of B.J Blazkowicz on a journey to Paris to find their missing father. …
Read More »Monster Hunter World is getting DLSS support today
Monster Hunter World is getting some big updates this year, particularly on the PC side of things. Not only have we had some graphical updates and the Witcher 3 crossover event, but DLSS support is also heading to the game soon ahead of the new Iceborne expansion launch. A few …
Read More »Cyberpunk 2077 will launch with RTX ray-tracing
Cyberpunk 2077 is on the way and it will be coming out much sooner than anticipated. The game already looks incredible based on the early footage we saw last year but it is going to look even better at launch, with real-time ray-tracing being added to the PC version. CD …
Read More »Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will have ray-tracing
Last week, Activision officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, a return to the series that propelled the franchise into the annual blockbuster it is today. Call of Duty titles often don’t get much credit for how good they look or how well they run but there will be plenty …
Read More »Computex 2019: Quake II and Wolfenstein: Youngblood get RTX support
To kick off Computex 2019, NVIDIA has had two big announcements so far. The first was the launch of the RTX Studio laptop initiative, aimed at bringing more workstation-grade laptops to market for creators. The second announcement is geared more towards the gaming audience, with two new games getting RTX …
Read More »Win an Alienware Area-51m gaming laptop w/ Core i9-9900K, 144hz IPS and RTX 2080!
Ever wanted to own a high-end gaming laptop? Today we would like to give KitGuru readers that opportunity. We are giving away a brand new Alienware Area-51m laptop, featuring an Intel Core i9-9900k processor and an Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU for blistering performance.
Read More »Nvidia RTX starts to see growth but revenue is still down compared to last year
Back in Q3 2018, Nvidia reported lower than expected results due to a weakened crypto-mining market and excess Pascal inventory taking longer to sell. Then for Q4 2018, Nvidia had to cut its earnings estimates due to weaker than forecasted sales in the gaming and datacentre markets. Now, we have …
Read More »Gigabyte’s latest Aero 15 and Aorus 15 laptops pack Intel 9th Gen CPUs and up to 240Hz displays
Earlier this week, Nvidia officially launched the GTX 1660Ti and GTX 1650 graphics chips for laptops. We've already seen several models sporting these new GPUs from the likes of MSI, ASUS and Acer. Now, GIGABYTE is joining the club with two new laptop launches, the AERO 15 Classic and the …
Read More »Acer refreshes Nitro 7 and Nitro 5 gaming laptops
So far today, we've seen plenty of announcements for the revamped, 2019 range of Acer Predator products, including a new monitor, a new desktop and two new Helios series laptops. Now, our attention is turning to the Acer Nitro series, which strikes a decent balance between price and performance. Today …
Read More »Nvidia’s latest driver adds ray-tracing support to GTX 10 and GTX 16 series graphics cards
At GDC last year, we saw multiple tech companies begin discussing the potential for bringing real-time ray-tracing to video games. Nvidia was the first to really begin pushing that boat with the launch of RTX graphics cards, featuring specific hardware to make ray-tracing faster and more efficient. From today onward, …
Read More »MSI Gaming Trio RTX 2080Ti and RTX 2080 get their own EKWB custom waterblocks
MSI makes some of the best aftermarket graphics cards around and the updated Trio air cooler design is a big part of that success. Still, sometimes you want the temperatures that only liquid cooling can truly provide. For those people, EKWB has announced today that it is releasing MSI Gaming …
Read More »Nvidia RTX 20-series price cuts swoop in
RTX 20 series pricing is looking better this week as price cuts swoop in at OCUK
Read More »Asus Zephyrus S GX701GX Review – The Incredible Vanishing Bezel
It's a very sleek laptop from ASUS ROG, packing RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics. Is it worth £3200?!
Read More »Shadow of the Tomb Raider – RTX and DLSS benchmarked!
Shadow of the Tomb Raider finally has RTX features - are they worth turning on?
Read More »8Pack OrionX2 – £33,000, the world’s most powerful PC!
The specification of 8Pack OrionX2 has evolved from the previous OrionX (base spec £25k, typical spec £30k) with the main system migrating from Intel X99 and ten CPU cores to Intel X299 with 18 cores and 36 threads. The secondary system moving from quad core Kaby Lake to 8 cores of i9-9900K.
Read More »RTX support finally makes its way to Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Back when Nvidia began showing off RTX and DLSS running in games for the first time, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the few big titles supporting the technology. Unfortunately, the last six months have gone by without any word on when the RTX patch would arrive. That …
Read More »Nvidia is unlocking DXR on non-RTX GPUs next month
Soon you'll be able to turn ray-tracing on with your non-RTX graphics card.
Read More »Crytek demos real-time raytracing in CRYENGINE
There has been a lot of talk surrounding real-time raytracing over the last year. Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD all announced plans to begin supporting the technology at GDC 2018. Now this year, Crytek is carving out its own piece of the pie, releasing a real-time raytracing demo for CRYENGINE. CRYENGINE …
Read More »Nvidia explores whether newer technologies have real-world impact on battle royale K/D ratios
With the boom in popularity of the battle royale genre drawing millions of users per day, there has been an increased focus on squeezing every last bit of performance out of hardware. Better components certainly offer more frames per second, but Nvidia wanted discern whether more frames truly translated to …
Read More »Nvidia: new driver, three more G-Sync compatible displays and new RTX game bundle
Nvidia has kicked off this week with three announcements. For starters, a new Game Ready driver is debuting today with optimisations for Apex Legends, we've received news that the list of ‘G-Sync compatible' displays is expanding to include more options and a new RTX GPU bundle is also on the …
Read More »Nvidia admits DLSS needs to be improved
When Nvidia first announced the RTX 20-series, ray-tracing was just one of the features being heavily pushed. The other was of course DLSS, which uses machine learning cores on the GPU to analyse in-game frames and provide better anti-aliasing compared to other methods. Unfortunately, DLSS performance has been giving questionable …
Read More »Nvidia’s latest driver update preps for Metro, Anthem, Crackdown 3 and Far Cry New Dawn
This is a very busy week for videogame releases. We've got Metro Exodus, Crackdown 3, Far Cry New Dawn and Anthem all coming out at once. Nvidia GPU users planning to jump in to one of these games this weekend will want to check out the latest driver update. Nvidia's …
Read More »Latest Battlefield V patch adds DLSS, Combined Arms and other tweaks
It has been just over one month since we first learned that DICE would be adding Nvidia's DLSS technology into Battlefield V. At first, we thought that the update would arrive at the same time as the RTX 2060 launch but that did not come to fruition. Fortunately, the DLSS …
Read More »Early adopters for RTX laptops will want to double check their version Windows
RTX laptops are finally hitting retail but early adopters will want to double check their version of Windows if they want to take advantage of ray-tracing.
Read More »Nvidia cuts Q4 earnings estimates due to ‘lower than expected’ Turing sales
Nvidia lowers Q4 financial expectations following "lower than expected" sales for high-end Turing graphics cards.
Read More »Nvidia’s latest driver update adds support for G-Sync on FreeSync and RTX 2060
RTX 2060, DLSS in Battlefield V and G-Sync compatibility on FreeSync displays are all new features headlining Nvidia's latest driver update.
Read More »CES 2019: Briony checks out the new Razer monitor, case, RTX Blade laptops and more
Razer has been keeping us very busy this week, with several big announcements coming out of CES this year. Today, Briony visits the Razer suite in Vegas to take a closer look at the new laptops, Razer's first gaming monitor, Razer's first PC case and more. Earlier in the week, …
Read More »CES 2019: Lenovo Legion expands to 240Hz monitors, RTX laptops and peripherals
Back when Nvidia announced that RTX graphics chips were coming to laptops, the company also boasted that more than 40 new laptops were already set to carry them. We've seen new models from Razer, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and more. Now today at CES, Lenovo announced that it is also jumping …
Read More »CES 2019: Gigabyte’s new RTX laptops, RTX 2060 GPUs and new AORUS gaming monitor
Today at CES, Leo swung by the Gigabyte suite to check out the all-new RTX 2060 range, new liquid cooled GPUs, RTX laptops and the brand new AORUS gaming monitor. First up, Gigabyte has three new RTX 2060 graphics cards coming up and an extra AORUS version to boot. The …
Read More »CES 2019: Leo talks $5K BFGD, RTX 2060 and RTX for laptops
Today at CES, Leo and Briony stopped by at the Nvidia suite to check out all of the latest hardware. That includes the new super-sized BFGD gaming displays due in February, the recently launched RTX 2060 and finally, RTX for laptops. We have already extensively covered all of the big …
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