AMD unveils the RX 470, RX 460: Entry and lower-midrange gaming on a budget
…When AMD announced Polaris, it made a number of claims about delivering up to 2.8x improved performance-per-watt. The RX 480 was a huge leap over its predecessors, but its…
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Apple unveils Metal API for iOS 8, will shave off OpenGL overhead just like Mantle, DX12
…AMD has made similar claims for Mantle, and Nvidia believes DirectX 12 offers a similar advantage over DX11 . Crytek, Unity, Electronic Arts, and Epic Games have all announced support for Metal in…
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Review: Big Navi Battles the RTX 3080
…Smart Access Memory One feature we'll be testing today is Smart Access Memory, also known as the first time AMD has claimed any kind of ability to tune performance between CPU…
Nvidia's GTX 800M brings improved Kepler and Maxwell cores to mobile, new Battery Boost driver to double gaming battery life
We've previewed Nvidia's GTX 800M (Maxwell) performance before , but today the company is making the launch official. The new GTX 800 Mobile series will introduce Maxwell to the mobile gaming…
Cyberpunk Developer Hit with Ransomware Attack
The perpetrators claim to have swiped source code to the company's games, as well as embarrassing internal documents. All will be released unless CDPR pays up, which it says it isn…
Samsung announces new PCIe 3.0 SSD, breaking 2GBps performance barrier
…This slide, shown back in July, is actually outdated as far as performance is concerned, but accurately illustrates expected power consumption. Samsung claims it can drive 450MB/s of read performance and…
Intel, AMD detail new video technologies, cloud gaming, and upcoming GPUs
…This new approach will require game engines to specifically support it, but the shift towards mobile gaming and Haswell's improving GPU performance make it likely that developers will add support for…
Nvidia's GTX 660 Ti offers same Kepler performance, better price
…If you plan to play that game, the coupon is effectively a $60 discount. $239 is a great deal for a GPU that Nvidia claims delivers up to a 3.3x performance…
Samsung announces mass production of next-generation HBM2 memory
…Samsung is claiming that it has doubled bandwidth-per-watt efficiency compared with GDDR5, and that claim lines up well with what we've observed from comparing the power consumption of HBM…
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 845 With 4K HDR Video Capture
…The company also claims the Snapdragon 845 will be able to perform faster AI processing than the 835 , courtesy of its Hexagon DSP. This implies the DSP has been upgraded again, though…