Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 vs Intel Arc B580 Face Off: $249 graphics cards duke it out for budget gaming supremacy By Jeffrey Kampman published 25 November 25 We put the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 vs Intel Arc B580 through an eight-round face-off to declare a winner.
Saying goodbye to Nvidia's retired GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — we benchmark 2017's hottest graphics card against some modern GPUs as it rides into the sunset By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 25 October 25 We check in on Nvidia’s most famous graphics card ever as support ends.
Intrepid modder builds Frame Warp demo from Nvidia Reflex 2 binaries — tech remains mysteriously shelved despite greatly reducing latency By Jeffrey Kampman published 24 October 25 Nvidia's Reflex 2 tech has been showcased in the real world.
Nvidia's DGX Spark AI mini-PC goes up for sale October 15 — 1 petaFLOP developer platform was originally slated for May By Jeffrey Kampman published 14 October 25 Potent, pint-size platform also got a $1000 price hike between announcement and launch
Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture breaks cover — Panther Lake's 12 Xe Core iGPU promises 50+% better performance than Lunar Lake By Jeffrey Kampman published 9 October 25 Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture arrives on Panther Lake CPUs, and Intel has used it to build its largest, highest-performance integrated GPU yet.
Intel takes the wraps off Panther Lake — first 18A client processor brings the best of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake together in one package By Jeffrey Kampman published 9 October 25 Panther Lake brings the power efficiency and graphics performance of Lunar Lake and the platform flexibility of Arrow Lake all together on one SoC
We built a Prime Day PC for less than $850, and we didn't even have to use an 8GB GPU By Jeffrey Kampman, Stephen Warwick published 8 October 25 Deals We built an $850 budget gaming PC using parts on sale at Amazon during the Prime Day sale, and of course, some rivals.
We put together a great 1440p gaming PC completely built with parts on sale at Amazon's Prime Day sale By Stephen Warwick, Jeffrey Kampman published 7 October 25 Deals We built a $1,600 gaming PC capable of 1440p performance using parts only on sale during the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days event.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 review: a necessary update, not an exciting one By Jeffrey Kampman published 26 September 25 The GeForce RTX 5050 brings a much-needed performance boost to the low end of the graphics card market, but it faces intense competition at its $249 MSRP.
Nvidia's GeForce Now gets an RTX 5080 upgrade — Ultimate subscribers now get Blackwell benefits in the cloud By Jeffrey Kampman published 18 August 25 Nvidia is upgrading its GeForce Now service at Gamescom with new RTX 5080-powered instances for Ultimate subscribers, plus a range of other improvements.
I paired a cheap $125 PSU with a $3,000 RTX 5090 By Jeffrey Kampman published 15 August 25 The RTX 5090's 575W TGP is intimidating, but some cheap PSUs are still up to the task
MLPerf Client 1.0 AI benchmark released — new testing toolkit sports a GUI, covers more models and tasks, and supports more hardware acceleration paths By Jeffrey Kampman published 1 August 25 MLPerf Client 1.0 has just been released with some big improvements over the prior version 0.6 benchmarking tool.
Nvidia confirms end of Game Ready driver support for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs — affected products will get optimized drivers through October 2025 By Jeffrey Kampman published 31 July 25 End of the line for a wide range of iconic graphics cards
Input latency is the all-too-frequently missing piece of framegen-enhanced gaming performance analysis By Jeffrey Kampman published 18 July 25 Low input latency is key to a good framegen experience. Let's (try to) measure it.
Intel releases new tool to measure gaming image quality — AI tool measures impact of upscalers, frame gen, others; Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric now available on GitHub By Jeffrey Kampman published 16 July 25 Intel has just released its new Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric on GitHub, a new measure designed to capture the complex artifacts found in modern rendering techniques in computer graphics.
This $5000 Prime Day PC build is fit for Jensen Huang — the more you buy, the more you save By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 12 July 25 Deals With a discounted RTX 5090 and Ryzen 9 9950X3D, there's nothing this PC can't do.
The GeForce RTX 5090 just got an actual discount for Prime Day and is flying off the shelves — $2649 deal still live at B&H By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 10 July 25 RTX 5090s usually sell for around $3000, but a PNY card is still available at $2649
Sapphire's Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is the cheapest we've seen at $359 — just $10 shy of MSRP in the Prime Day sales By Jeffrey Kampman published 10 July 25 Deals Sapphire's Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is going for $359 at Amazon and Newegg alike.
Two great Gigabyte gaming monitors paint fast, crisp, and colorful pixels at all-time low prices — your choice of a 1440p 240Hz or a 4K 144Hz model By Jeffrey Kampman published 9 July 25 Deals Amazon has two stellar deals on fast Gigabyte gaming monitors for Prime Day 2025.
Two Nvidia GPUs fall below MSRP for Prime: Triple-fan RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 cards are the Best Prime Day graphics card deals yet By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 8 July 25 Premium Behold, a rarity.
$200 GPU face-off: Nvidia RTX 3050, AMD RX 6600, and Intel Arc A750 duke it out at the bottom of the barrel By Jeffrey Kampman published 20 June 25 If you can’t spend more than around $200 on a discrete GPU, you have three choices these days. We dug in to see if any of them are worth your hard-earned cash.
VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality — enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos By Jeffrey Kampman published 18 June 25 AI texture decompression promises better image quality, lower resource usage
Nintendo Switch 2 review: New internals are a major power-up By Jeffrey Kampman published 12 June 25 Update The Nintendo Switch 2's powerful internals deliver a major upgrade to the Switch formula, but there's still some room for improvement.
Self-destructing graphics cards: Why are power connectors melting, and what can you do about it? By Jeffrey Kampman published 4 June 25 12VHPWR and 12V-2x6 power connectors are still melting and taking graphics cards with them.
