iLive ISB380B Bluetooth Tailgate Speaker Portable Bluetooth speakers have been pretty popular this year and will likely be a hot holiday gift item now that the holiday shopping season is in full swing. Legit Reviews Continue reading “iLive ISB380B Bluetooth Tailgate Speaker Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 16, 2020 at 12:23am
WD_BLACK SN850 Take Performance To The Next Level The WD_BLACK SN750 NVMe SSD entered the market in January 2019 as one of the fastest PCIe Gen3 drives on the market and was targeted to gamers Continue reading “WD_BLACK SN850 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 13, 2020 at 10:43pm
PassMark PerformanceTest 10 Examined and Tested We’ve noticed PassMark PerformanceTest 10 results in the news quite a bit over the past month or so. Just before AMD’s Zen 3 processors came to market someone ran Continue reading “PassMark PerformanceTest 10 Run on 12 Graphics Cards”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 13, 2020 at 2:06am
First Look at Phison E18 – Successor of E16 Phison Electronics Corporation announced this week that their PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD controller was about ready to enter the market. The Phison E18 is Continue reading “Phison PS5018-E18 2TB Development SSD Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 11, 2020 at 11:31pm
Basemark GPU Benchmark Examined and Tested BasemarkGPU was introduced back in 2018 as a free multi-platform, multi-API 3D graphics benchmark. The benchmark was written in C++ and developed using their own in-house game engine called Continue reading “Basemark GPU Benchmark 1.2.1 Tested On 12 Graphics Cards”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 11, 2020 at 2:07am
Apple unleashes M1 With industry-leading performance, powerful features, and incredible efficiency, M1 is Apples first chip designed specifically for the Mac Cupertino, California Apple today announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever created Continue reading “Apple unleashes M1 – Apples first chip designed”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 10, 2020 at 6:57pm
Watch Dogs Legion came out at the end of October as the third installment in the open-world action-adventure game series by Ubisoft. The game has a built-in benchmark that we wanted to try out, but Continue reading “Watch Dogs: Legion PC Performance Benchmarked on 12 Graphics Cards”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 10, 2020 at 12:11am
Micron Ships Worlds First 176-Layer NAND, Delivering A Breakthrough in Flash Memory Performance and Density New 3D NAND boosts storage capability across mobile, automotive, client and data center applications BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 9, 2020 Micron Continue reading “Micron Ships Worlds First 176-Layer NAND Flash Memory”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 9, 2020 at 9:00pm
Phison Electronics Corporation just announced that their PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 SSD controller is ready to be unleashed and it has entered the market. The Phison E18 is their first fully native PCIe Gen 4.0 Continue reading “Phison PS5018-E18 (E18) PCIe 4.0 Controller Enters SSD Market”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 9, 2020 at 5:07pm
3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test Earlier this week the benchmark team over at UL introduced a new 3DMark feature test that measures pure ray-tracing performance. The release of the 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test comes Continue reading “3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test Benchmark Results”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 6, 2020 at 4:53pm
AMD Wants to Destroy Intel with Zen 3 The AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors come out today and promise best-in-class performance across pretty much any vertical that you can think of. AMD was able Continue reading “AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 5 5600X CPU Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 5, 2020 at 2:30pm
KIOXIA Introduces Industrys First PCIe 4.0 OCP NVMe Cloud Specification-Enabled SSD New XD6 Series E1.S Data Center NVMe SSD Optimized for Hyperscale, Open Compute Platform Applications SAN JOSE, Calif., November 3, 2020 KIOXIA America, Inc. Continue reading “KIOXIA Introduces First PCIe 4.0 OCP NVMe Cloud Specification-Enabled SSD”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 4, 2020 at 3:00pm
DHL Express just dropped off the brand new Huawei Mate 40 Pro smartphone after a 10,000 mile journey to get into our hands. The Mate 40 Pro is one of the four models that make Continue reading “Huawei Mate 40 Pro Quick Look Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 2, 2020 at 3:03am
ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 TUF Gaming Arrives Today we will be taking a look at the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card that is being sold under part number TUF-RTX3070-O8G-GAMING. This fully custom Continue reading “ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 OC Edition Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 31, 2020 at 4:34pm
MSI GeForce RTX 3070 GAMING X TRIO The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition delivered gamers a $499 graphics card that offered impressive generation-on-generation performance uplift, but we really wanted to see what the board Continue reading “MSI GeForce RTX 3070 GAMING X TRIO 8GB Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 29, 2020 at 9:58pm