Nvidia GeForce Now to offer daily rates starting at $3.99 — plus RTX game updates, more AI, G-Sync and more at CES 2024 By Jarred Walton published 8 January 24 More RTX-enabled games, AI-powered NPCs, and livestreaming updates.
AMD doubles the VRAM and boosts clocks with the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB — launching January 24 at $329 By Jarred Walton published 8 January 24 AMD announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB today, using Navi 33 with 16GB of memory, boosted clocks, and a higher TDP. It will launch on January 24, with a price of $329.
Steam survey suggests more people bought the RTX 4090 than the Steam Deck — along with millions of other RTX 40-series GPUs By Matthew Connatser published 2 January 24 Valve's statistics often raise more questions than answers.
Testing GPUs with AMD FSR3 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — 16 graphics cards and hundreds of benchmarks By Jarred Walton published 22 December 23 AMD's FSR3 finally feels ready for prime time.
First look at a reference design of the fastest SSDs we're likely to see in 2024 — Phison’s E26 'Max14um' will hit 14 GB/s, and we'll test performance early next year By Shane Downing published 22 December 23 SSDs that can top 14 GB/s will arrive in early 2024.
Stable Diffusion Benchmarks: 45 Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs Compared By Jarred Walton published 15 December 23 We've tested all the modern graphics cards in Stable Diffusion, using the latest updates and optimizations, to show which GPUs are the fastest at AI and machine learning inference.
Intel shows integrated Arc GPU for Meteor Lake is 10% faster than AMD Radeon 780M, across 33 games tested By Jarred Walton published 14 December 23 Also 54% faster than previous gen Core i7-1370P's Iris Xe Graphics
AMD RX 7000-series' high idle power draw finally appears to be fixed with the latest 23.12.1 drivers (Updated) By Jarred Walton published 6 December 23 We tested the five RX 7000-series GPUs with 23.11.1 and 23.12.1 drivers.
Nvidia reaches an RTX milestone, with over 500 games and applications that use DLSS, ray tracing, and AI features By Jarred Walton published 4 December 23 Plenty of the games are good, though there are also many obscure titles.
Nvidia RTX 4090 pricing is too damn high, while most other GPUs have held steady or declined in past 6 months — market analysis By Jarred Walton published 2 December 23 Our study of graphics card pricing from June to present shows few wild swings.
Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could continue to drive prices up By Jarred Walton published 29 November 23 Prices of Nvidia RTX 4090 cards have been shooting up lately, and there are photos reportedly showing piles of cards being purchased for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers and traders.
Upgrade your Steam Deck storage to 1TB for $45, or 2TB for $152 By Jarred Walton published 27 November 23 1TB and 2TB M.2 2230 SSDs that will work in the Steam Deck have some good deals going on right now for Cyber Monday.
20TB of server-class hard drive storage is available for an all-time low price of $269 By Jarred Walton published 24 November 23 The Seagate Exos X20 20TB hard drive has dropped to an all-time low of just $269 for Black Friday, which is about $100 less than the next closest 20TB drive.
I've looked at all the GPU prices this Black Friday, and most of the 'real' deals are on Intel Arc graphics cards By Jarred Walton published 24 November 23 There are a few good AMD options as well; Nvidia, not so much.
This MSI RTX 4060 Ti costs just $329 - which actually makes it a good deal By Jarred Walton published 22 November 23 The MSI RTX 4060 Ti 8GB Ventus 3X is now on sale for $329 after a $30 rebate, which is cheap enough to almost forgive the 8GB VRAM on a 128-bit interface.
You know what's NOT a Black Friday deal? RTX 4090 cards at $2,000 or more as prices soar on this 'banned in China' GPU By Jarred Walton published 17 November 23 Pricing on the RTX 4090 continues to climb at a rapid pace.
Blender 4.0 Released and Tested: New Features, More Demanding By Jarred Walton published 16 November 23 Blender 4.0 released on November 14, 2023. We tested it on a collection of GPUs to see how performance has changed and found most graphics cards were slightly slower with the latest updates.
AMD Radeon Pro W7700 16GB Launches at $999 By Jarred Walton published 13 November 23 AMD announced the Radeon Pro W7700 16GB graphics card today, priced at $999. Powered by the Navi 32 GPU, it will target mainstream professional content creation along with AI workloads.
Nvidia Announces H200 GPU: 141GB of HBM3e and 4.8 TB/s Bandwidth By Jarred Walton published 13 November 23 Powering the next generation of AI exascale supercomputers.
Nvidia RTX 4090 Subject to China Export Restrictions Starting November 17 By Jarred Walton published 2 November 23 The fastest gaming GPU will no longer be sold in China.
eBay Historical GPU Prices 2023: November 2023 Update By Jarred Walton published 2 November 23 We track monthly prices of graphics cards sold on eBay. This update looks at pricing trends as we enter the holiday shopping season and Black Friday.
Testing Alan Wake 2: Full Path Tracing and Ray Reconstruction Will Punish Your GPU By Jarred Walton published 27 October 23 The first game to launch with full ray tracing support.
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Could Replace RTX 4080 By Zhiye Liu published 23 October 23 Unverified sources claim that the GeForce RTX 4080 will likely be discontinued if/when the GeForce RTX 4080 Super launches. Other rumors point to more incoming Super models.
Tested: Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up to 45% By Jarred Walton published 19 October 23 BitLocker software encryption slows performance. Here's how to fix it.
Nvidia Boosts AI Performance With TensorRT By Jarred Walton published 17 October 23 Up to 70% faster in Stable Diffusion
