…DirectStorage delivers up to 100GB of game assets as "extended memory" with guaranteed performance of up to 2.4GB/s. Microsoft claims to have optimized DirectStorage specifically for game asset delivery. The…
…As for performance gains, the company is claiming Adobe Photoshop will run "up to 40 percent faster" on Bay Trail. Again, for Clover Trail, this claim was irrelevant -- Photoshop on Clover Trail…
Last week, Principled Technologies, under contract from Intel, released a whitepaper that claimed to profile the performance of AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X and several Threadripper CPUs. Such documents are always assumed…
The idea of a portable PC gaming system that could handle a wide range of games and operating systems is an attractive one. But a recent Kickstarter that claims it can deliver…
…Razer claims that you can overclock the CPU core to 4.3GHz by enabling "High Performance Mode," but we're dubious of how well this will work in practice. In a mobile…
…AMD claims this can improve performance by up to 15 percent based on 1080p gaming results. The improvement in other applications is unknown. On the one hand, this is a tried-and…
For years, there have been persistent rumors that solutions like Denuvo have a negative impact on overall PC game performance. Denuvo has strongly pushed back on these claims, as have game publishers…
…With this in mind, the fact that 90 percent of gamers chose to trade up isn't surprising. RTX GPUs don't offer a performance improvement per dollar over their GTX counterparts…
…The VR demos and games I've seen have been amazing. I honestly think that VR could revolutionize gaming. But I can't recommend anyone pre-order an Oculus Rift or purchase…
…Chill targets a 40 FPS frame rate when there's not much going on in-game and a 60 FPS target otherwise, but how does performance shake out, and can Radeon Chill…