Today FinalWire released AIDA64 Version 5.70 that comes with new multi-threaded ray tracing benchmarks, which fully utilize the latest instruction set extensions (AVX, AVX2, FMA). The new floating point tests use more realistic workloads and Continue reading “AIDA64 v5.70 Released With AMD Zen Summit Ridge and Intel Kaby Lake CPU Support”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
While we were at the AMD’s Capsaicin event we missed the fact that AMD released 3DMark performance numbers in the footer of the press release for the AMD Radeon Pro Dro Dual-GPU graphics card. AMD Continue reading “AMD Radeon Pro Duo 3DMark Scores Show Insane Performance”. …more
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Have you ever liked the form factor of the Intel NUC mini-PC series, but felt like it didn’t have enough GPU performance for your needs? Back in January during CES 2016, Intel announced a high-performance Continue reading “Meet Intel NUC NUC6i7KYK – Skull Canyon Arrives With Thunderbolt 3”. …more
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2016 is lining up to be the year that flood of Virtual Reality games and peripheral comes to a home near you. Shortly after Oculus announced their launch date with a long-list of VR game Continue reading “Sony Announces the Global Launch of their PlayStation VR for $399 in October 2016”. …more
By Ken Brown •
We’ve waited nearly four years for the Oculus Rift to come to market and things are starting to ramp up for the VR headsets March 28th debut. Oculus confirmed this week at GDC 2016 the Continue reading “Oculus Rift Launch Game Titles Comfort Level Announced”. …more
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Oculus has confirmed with games will be available when the company launches its $599 Rift VR headset on March 28. There will be a total of 30 game titles including some that we have heard Continue reading “Oculus Confirms Rift Launch Line Up and Rating System”. …more
By Ken Brown •
Bethesda has released a trailer for Fallout 4s first add-on, Automatron. The DLC pack will cost $9.99 in North America or 7.99 in the United Kingdom. If you purchased the Fallout 4 season pass you Continue reading “Fallout 4 Automatron Trailer Released, First Game Add-on For Fallout 4”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
The folks over at BenchLife are saying that Intel’s 14nm Kaby Lake and 10nm Cannon Lake mobile processors are still on track since Cannon Lake was pushed further out in 2015. They back up the Continue reading “Intel Mobile Platform Roadmap Shows Kaby Lake & Cannon Lake Still Coming”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
AMD unveiled the Radeon Pro Duo 8GB video card last night and now that we’ve gotten some sleep we noticed something this morning that we didn’t catch last night. The new Radeon Pro Duo, the Continue reading “AMD Radeon Pro Duo Features New PCB Design”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
We were told that the Radeon Technologies Group would be naming future GPU architectures after stars and galaxies, but they never told us any of the code names beyond Polaris that is slated for release Continue reading “AMD GPU Roadmap Shows Till 2019 – Shows Vega and Navi GPU Architectures”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
The wait for the AMD Radeon Fury X2 graphics card is finally over! The card is officially called the AMD Radeon Pro Duo and will debut in Q2 2016 for a not so small sum Continue reading “AMD Radeon Pro Duo Video Card Coming For $1499”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
AMDs Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) Capsaicin Event starts in just two hours! We aren’t sure exactly what is going to be shown during the one hour press conference being held in San Francisco tonight as Continue reading “Watch AMD’s Capsaicin Event During GDC 2016 Live Tonight”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Toronto-based startup Sulon Technologies unveiled the Sulon Q headset, which gives you the full VR experience without needing to be tethered to your PC. The Sulon cuts the cords and provides a PC-based, fully tracked Continue reading “Sulon Q – VR Headset That Puts The Hardware On Your Head”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
DOOM is widely considered one of the most significant and influential titles in the video game industry, for having ushered in the popularity of the first-person shooter genre when it was released in 1993. The Continue reading “DOOM system requirements | Can I Run DOOM 2016”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Digitimes is reporting that worldwide desktop graphics card shipments dropped by roughly 20% YoY and that total shipments was under 30 million units for 2015. The declines impacted both AMD and NVIDIA, but it appears Continue reading “Graphics Card Shipments in 2015 Down Big, New GPU Architectures Could Save The Day”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •