Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark II DX12 Testing Stardock and Oxide Games released the Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark I in the Fall of 2015 and we ran some tests with the first non-synthetic Direcxt12 benchmark test and found some very interesting results. Ashes of the Singularity uses the Nitrous Engine that is capable of using many CPU cores, so …more
XFX Radeon R9 Fury – Budget Fiji? What happens when you take the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X video card with the Fiji GPU and disable 512 or 12.5% of the stream processors? You end up with the lower cost AMD Radeon R9 Fury video card that should still perform well on most game titles …more
EVGA GeForce GTX 970 Hybrid Gaming 4GB – 04G-P4-1976 It’s hard to believe that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 is still a viable cutting edge graphics card today as it first debuted along with the GeForce GTX 980 in September 2014! Over the past 1.5 years the GeForce GTX 970 has become a very popular card …more
Rise Of The Tomb Raider Benchmarked on NVIDIA and AMD Video Cards Lara Croft is back on the PC thanks to the highly anticipated release of Rise of the Tomb Raider. The latest game title is yet another reboot for the 20-year-old Tomb Raider franchise with new puzzles, locations and breath taking graphics. The 2013 Tomb Raider …more
Is AMD’s Radeon R9 390 Black Edition Video Card Enough For Gaming and VR? It has been a long time since we’ve looked at any AMD Radeon R9 390 video card here on Legit Reviews. Steve’s article way back in June 2015 on the Sapphire Nitro R9 390 8GB video card was the first and only review …more
Meet Radeon R9 Nano – The Newest $499 Video Card Around When the AMD Radeon R9 Nano graphics card received a price cut yesterday we were excited about it as the third card based on AMD’s Flagship Fiji GPU core was frankly overpriced and AMD was hoping that people were willing to pay a premium to …more
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Roundup It’s hard to believe that the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB video card came out ago six months to the week, however, the card is still dominating on the performance front and more time than not it outperforms AMD’s flagship Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB video card. …more
Last week, AMD hosted the very first Radeon Technology Group (RTG) summit in Sonoma, California to highlight the new groups plans for the future of discrete graphics. Much of what we were shown is still under embargo, but we are able to discuss where the group is headed with regards to visual technologies today. AMD usually doesn’t like …more
Sapphire Radeon R9 380X Nitro OC 4GB Video Card Review AMD launched this week what is likely their last desktop graphics card of 2015, the AMD Radeon R9 380X. AMD is hopeful that this card at the $229 price point (£185 inc. VAT for our readers in the UK) will be just what gamers will be …more
ASUS Radeon R9 390X STRIX 8GB Video Card Today we have the pleasure of looking at another AMD Radeon R9 390X 8GB video card that is sold under the part number STRIX-R9390X-DC3OC-8GD5-GAMING. This is the flagship Radeon R9 390X by ASUS as they also offer another model with lower clock speeds along with a different PCB design …more
EVGA GeForce GTX 960 Super SuperClocked 4GB Review The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has been a popular video card since it was released on January 22, 2015 as comes in at the rather affordable $199 price point. If you want to step up to the next card in the GeForce product stack, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, you are …more
AMD Radeon R9 Nano – Best Mini-ITX Card Ever? AMD today released the tiny six inch long Radeon R9 Nano into the market. The AMD Radeon R9 Nano is a very interesting graphics card since it features a fully enabled AMD Fiji XT GPU that has a core clock of up to 1000 MHz and a …more
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