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

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 Rocksolid. The desktop version runs an AAA quality game-like workload as each scene has tens of thousands of individual draw calls …more

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 we wanted to wait for the first wave of patches to hit before we tested a big stack of desktop …more

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 just before the debut of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series cards are set to come out on November 18th. AMD’s …more

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 card is priced at $559.99 and comes with a large triple fan GPU cooler, RGB lighting and military-grade components. The …more

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 partners were going to bring to the table. There always seems to be room for improvement and the board partner …more