NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Video Card Roundup The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 series is without a doubt the the best selling desktop graphics card right now and the introduction of the GeForce GTX 950 last month at the $149 price point will only help solidify the sales dominance of the series. NVIDIA’s GM206 ‘Maxwell’ GPU with …more
MSI Radeon R7 370 Gaming 2GB Graphics Card The AMD Pitcairn GPU was first released in March 2012 with the Radeon HD 7870 and 7850 graphics card. Since debuting back in 2012 it was again used on the AMD Radeon R7 270X and 270 and it appears to have been repurposed for the AMD Radeon R7 370 video card that came …more
The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X and Fury video cards got the attention of the gaming community when they were released in June 2015 as the new Fiji GPU and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) was very intriguing to the community. It was tough to find any Fury cards in-stock at Amazon or Newegg following their release, …more
AMD Radeon HD 6950 versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 I actually don’t like the MOBA abbreviation because it describes too little of a class of overwhelmingly complex games. I have had a bit of a head start dealing with that complexity having played DotA longer than the MOBA abbreviation and even the company that forced …more
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Review NVIDIA today launched their latest mainstream graphics card, the GeForce GTX 950, which features a suggested retail price of $159 and uses the GM206 Maxwell GPU. That GPU might sound familiar to those that keep up with the graphics card market as it is the same exact GPU that …more
Ashes of the Singularity DirectX 12 vs DirectX 11 Gaming Today we’ll be looking at one of the very first DirectX 12 game benchmarks by using Stardock’s real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity. Ashes of the Singularity was developed with Oxide’s Nitrous game engine and tells the story of an existential war waged on an unprecedented scale across …more
Codemasters Dirt Rally Gaming Performance Benchmarked Colin McRae Rally and Dirt has been a popular racing franchise for Codemasters since 1998. Since it first came out, there have been over 10 different versions of the racing game for Windows. It has been close to 3 years since we got our first glimpse of Dirt Rally, development …more
ASUS MG279Q 27-inch WQHD IPS FreeSync Gaming Monitor The ASUS MG279Q WGHD gaming monitor is the latest monitor in ASUS’ ever growing line of gaming-gear and has been one of the most highly anticipated displays for the summer of 2015. This display features a 27-inch In-Plane Switching (IPS) panel with a 2560 x 1440-pixel resolution (WQHD) and a 144Hz refresh …more
AMD Unleashes The Radeon R9 Fury X Video Card When the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X video card that is powered by the Fiji GPU was revealed to the world in June 2015 we were promised by AMD that the less powerful, but more affordable AMD Radeon R9 Fury video card would be coming. Reviewing the …more
Batman Arkham Knight Gaming Performance Benchmarked After two highly successful Batman games, the Rocksteady Studio’s Batman Arkham saga comes to an end with Batman Arkham Knight. Released on June 23, 2015 Arkham Knight uses the popular Unreal Engine 3. In Arkham Knight, Batman faces his biggest challenge, the Arkham Knight, a mysterious villain who wants to kill Batman. The …more
PowerColor PCS+ AXR9 390X 8GB Video Card Last week, AMD brought ‘new’ Radeon R9 300 series video cards to market that are essentially updates of the Radeon R9 200 series cards to ensure gamers have the performance they need be it for online gaming or in eSports competitors. The AMD Radeon R9 390X might not be the fastest card …more
AMD Unleashes The Radeon R9 Fury X Video Card The AMD Radeon R9 Fury X features the brand new AMD Fiji GPU and is the first graphics card to hit the market with High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) technology. We’ve been talking about this card so much in recent weeks it really feels weird to be writing …more
Sapphire Nitro 380 and 390 Video Cards Review AMD decided to do a refresh of their graphics chips, rather than a complete overhaul. This has been widely publicized for sometime now that there is little to no difference in performance between the previous generation GPU and the “new” generation. So, what is Sapphire doing with …more
This week AMD announced nine new graphics cards during E3 2015. At the top of the product stack you have four entirely brand new cards that are using the Fiji GPU for the very first time. The performance of any card running the new Fiji GPU is still under NDA until the AMD Radeon R9 …more