We’ve had our sample of the AMD Radeon RX 480 since launch day. With the issues around blowing PCIe ports and the promise of drivers to resolve this, we hung back a little and completed our full suite of benchmarks with the later driver, the Crimson 16.7.2 driver. We didn’t have two cards, so the chances of blowing our test motherboards ports are slim, the main difference was the promised performance increases.
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NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture has come roaring out of the gate this summer starting with the GeForce GTX 1080 and following up with the GTX 1070. Built around their current flagship GP104 GPU, both cards have set new records for performance...
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We all see the numerous high end GPU reviews and builds, but how do the other half live, the ITX crowd? Either by choice or by necessity, they want something small and powerful, and Sapphire may have just helped those in need.
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New features & improvements of AIDA64 v5.75 AVX2 and FMA accelerated 64-bit benchmarks for Intel Kaby Lake and Broadwell-E/EN/EP/EX CPUs Microsoft Windows 10 Redstone RS1 Insider Preview support Improved support for AMD Zen Summit Ridge CPU AquaStream Ultimate and NZXT...
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We are not sure the dust has settled around the latest Nvidia Pascal GPU architecture launch, not even the AMD's new R9 480 graphics card has managed to steal the stage entirely. We remember the original GeForce 256 which replaced the Riva TNT2 and basically started the graphics world you know today. It introduced phrases such as transform and lighting to gaming and advertisements. We loved the Riva TNT2 and Riva 128, Matrox, S3, the Voodoo 3DFX range, Rendition and giving Nvidia a run for its money over the past 17 years, ATI.
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The embargo has been lifted, we review the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founders edition. The 8 GB based spawn of something evil is based in all new Pascal architecture and 16 nm FinFET has arrived. It’s impressive, it’s silent and...
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Overclockers UK and HTC have officially joined together to bring Virtual Reality to life. ViveTM, the virtual reality system by HTC which uses 360 degree room-scale technology is now available for pre-order through the Vive website at the price of...
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When it comes to game releases some people always get an early look, but on PC these are often not representative of the actual release, especially when it comes to performance. Right now there are conflicting stories regarding Rise of...
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FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 5.30 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 5.30 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for corporate IT technicians and...
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With the PC graphics world in a fizz about the new AMD Radeon Fury X and our sample being lost in the world shortage, we have turned our attention to one of its main rivals, the Nvidia GTX 980 Ti. Nvidia are not sin free when it comes to shortages at launch, we wrote on our old site of the global shortage on the launch of the GTX 680, and wondered why you would launch something that is not going to be available?
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But let’s say hello our new friend, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti with an introductory photo. Look below, expensive technology, but impressive, very impressive. Before we fire up this article a small advice, grab a cup of coffee as this...
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The GM200 GPU used in the GeForce GTX 980 Ti ships with 22 SM units and is composed of 2816 CUDA Cores, while 176 texture units are available for texture processing. Compared to the GeForce GTX 980, this is 38%...
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This purported Titan X would see a hybrid AIO cooler that would allow for some serious overclocking of the GM200-powered Titan X, and see those performance numbers jump up even more. We could see NVIDIA or AIBs increase the Core...
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This product has a massive 12 GB frame buffer, compared to the GeForce GTX 980 a third more shader processors accumulating up-to 3072 of them sitting in a GPU that has a whopping 8 Billion transistors (that’s 5 Billion on...
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Well kinda, over at the GDC there was a quickie graphics card announcement. The GeForce GTX TITAN-X will be based on Maxwell but with a massive transistor count. It would have a 12GB frame buffer, 3072 Shader processors and 8...
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