Nitro+ Radeon RX 6700 XT Gets Tested The AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT reference card delivers solid performance, but many enthusiasts and gamers like custom cards from the board partners. If a reference card registers as boring in your brain, the Sapphire Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro+ should be anything but that. Sapphire went fully …more
Radeon RX 6700 XT 12GB w/ NAVI 22 Tomorrow, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card will be released with prices starting at $479. Some listings for the cards have already shown up online and the starting bid on eBay is $959 for the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT Eagle. It looks like we …more
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 launched to much fanfare as they were able to decrease cryptocurrency mining performance. At $329 MSRP it was supposed to be a card for gamers that Ethereum miners wouldn’t buy by the truck load. NVIDIA even touted that this was “not just a driver thing” to the tech press. The hash …more
MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Models Come To Market The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card launched yesterday and today we wanted to show you the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X TRIO. This custom card arrived shortly before launch and is what we would consider a premium part for the 3060 series. MSI currently offers …more
GeForce RTX 3060 Arrives in 2021 at $329 The discrete graphics card market is pretty much wiped out right now as gamers and cryptocurrency miners are buying up every single card they can get their hands on. We personally know gamers that have been trying to buy graphics cards for months with no luck. Many …more
Overclocking The Radeon RX 6800 At $579 the AMD Radeon RX 6800 graphics card is the lowest priced Big Navi card on the market today. We’ve had a number of people ask how it overclocks and that is something we didn’t touch on in the launch article. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT is priced …more
AMD’s Smart Access Memory Now Works On Intel Twas the night before Christmas, when ASUS quietly released new BIOS versions for Intel’s 400-series chipset motherboards that added Re-Size BAR support! AMD’s Smart Access Memory (SAM) is based on Resizable BAR (Base Address Register) as that is the secret sauce on how they enhance GPU performance. Enabling this …more
Radeon RX 6900 XT – The Fastest Video Card AMD Has Ever Made We’ve waited for AMD to bring a high-end graphics cards for years and now AMD has launched three Radeon RX 6000 Series cards based on ‘Big Navi’ GPUs built using the RDNA2 architecture over the past month. Last month, AMD showed that …more
TUF Gaming Geforce RTX 3060 Ti OC Edition The custom NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060 Ti cards from board partners go on sale tomorrow (12/02/2020) and we wanted to show you one of the new ASUS models that will be available. ASUS actually has five new 3060 Ti models coming to market under the ROG Strix, …more
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Delivers The Goods for $399 We knew the launch of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition was inevitable as the internet has been flooded with photos and benchmarks from the card for the past month. NVIDIA doesn’t talk about unannounced products, but thankfully that all changes today as the …more
XFX Speedster MERC319 Radeon RX 6800 XT The custom AMD Radeon XT 6800 XT graphics cards launched this week and the very first card to be delivered is the XFX Speedster MERC319 Radeon RX 6800XT. We found that the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT was no joke in our launch article, but we’ve been told …more
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series Cards Hit The Market AMD has officially launched their Radeon RX 6000 Series based on ‘Big Navi’ GPUs built using the RDNA2 architecture. These cards were designed to challenge the high-end enthusiast cards from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has held the performance crown for discrete graphics cards for a number of years …more
First Look at Big Navi with Radeon RX 6800 Series We are just days away from the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics card coming to market on November 18th and we finally can share a little bit more about the upcoming cards! For starters, we have them in our possession and we are allowed to …more
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 PassMark on the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor and uploaded the results to their online database. That made news …more