Intel showed off their first discrete graphics card solution at CES 2020, DG1, based on Intel’s Xe architecture during their official press conference. Intel DG1 was shown running Destiny 2 on an Intel Tiger Lake-powered laptop during the reveal. The good news is that Intel briefed a small number of sites behind closed doors about …more
NVIDIA SHIELD TV Gets Updated For 2019 The NVIDIA SHIELD TV streaming media player helped changed the living room in many homes around the world by offering home entertainment, gaming and AI capabilities all in a tiny affordable package. The original NVIDIA SHIELD TV was introduced in early 2015, got a minor update in 2017 …more
Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 5500 XT Reviewed AMD announced the Radeon RX 5500 graphics card series back in October and they are finally ready to hit the market. These cards have been highly anticipated for the entry-level gaming market as they harness and are built using 7nm process technology. The Radeon RX 5500 series was …more
The GeForce GTX SUPER Series Cards Arrive This morning NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and GTX 1650 SUPER graphics cards. The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is available today for $229, while the GTX 1650 SUPER will be available on Nov. 22, with pricing to be announced on that date. These two new ‘SUPER’ …more
RTX 2080 SUPER Brings More Cores and Speed The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER just launched moments ago and so has our embargo on the performance numbers for this new desktop graphics card model. The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is replacement for the original RTX 2080. The good news is that the RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition …more
Radeon RX 5700 XT Aims To Destroy The RTX SUPER The all new Radeon RX 5700 Series graphics cards based on AMD’s 7nm Navi GPUs are finally here to do battle against NVIDIA’s SUPER lineup of Turing RTX graphics cards. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 Series is comprised of the RX 5700 ($349), RX 5700 XT …more
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER The leaks ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 SUPER launch were pretty insane, but the embargo has been lifted and we can finally talk about the new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER models. For starters these two cards are priced at …more
A new build of the Intel Graphics Command Center was made public this morning. Intel has updated IGCC to version 1.100.1241.0 with several new features including: New display information page New system power configuration page New background themes: Ice lake, Gamer, Creator and Waves Improved display color calibration More games added to auto-detect and 1-click …more
At the Intel Odyssey event today at Computex 2019, the Intel Graphics team shared a handful of futuristic shroud concepts (think the year 2035!) created by the community. Many of you might remember that Intel showed of some fan shroud concepts shown at the first Intel Odyssey event and the designs of Cristiano Siqueira were a …more
The Intel Graphics Control Panel has been updated over the years, but it was due for a major update ahead of Intel entering the discrete GPU market. Intel went back to the drawing board and developed a new one from the ground up. Not a bad idea as the control panel hasn’t had a major …more
Looking at GDDR6 vs GDDR5 on the Geforce GTX-16 Series I haven’t looked at Ethereum Mining performance on desktop graphics cards in the better part of a year as the bubble burst and all the easy money appears to be gone. That doesn’t mean that mining is over as mining is a necessary component for …more
GeForce GTX 1660 Brings Turing Down To $219 The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Graphics Card series brings the latest NVIDIA Turing architecture down to the $219 price point for the very first time. The GeForce GTX 1660 uses the ‘TU116’ Turing GPU and has 1,408 CUDA cores with a 1,530 MHz base clock and a …more
Entry Level Doesn’t Mean Poor Performance Or Ugly The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC Black 6GB GDDR6 graphics card is the entry level GTX-16 series card from EVGA and is priced at $279.99. This card is ideal for those that aren’t interested in the real-time raytracing technology in the GeForce RTX series, but still want …more
The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Arrives With Turing NVIDIA Turing-based GeForce RTX graphics cards have amazing performance and are the first consumer cards on the market to have dedicated RT and Tensor cores to accelerate Ray Tracing and AI. The GeForce RTX series pricing starts with the RTX 2060 Founders Edition at $379 and tops out …more