AMD’s next GPU already has two big problems

AMD’s next GPU already has two big problems

Table of Contents Table of Contents A picture of what’s coming Always battling context Moving backward We’re about to enter a new era of GPUs, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel duking it out for slots among the best graphics cards. But this time around, things are different. Team Red, which has traditionally served as a … Read more

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth proves, once again, that 8GB GPUs are on their way out

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth proves, once again, that 8GB GPUs are on their way out

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is headed to PC in a few short weeks, and ahead of the release, Square Enix has released the PC requirements for the game. There are a couple of interesting specs, but one stands out in particular. Even some of the best graphics cards, particularly those packing 8GB of VRAM, might struggle … Read more

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle proves Nvidia wrong about 8GB GPUs

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle proves Nvidia wrong about 8GB GPUs

Nvidia was wrong, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is proof of that. Despite being a game that’s sponsored by Nvidia due to its use of full ray tracing — which is said to arrive on December 9 — multiple of Nvidia’s best graphics cards struggle to maintain a playable frame rate in the game, … Read more

Intel Arc B580 vs. Nvidia RTX 4060: a one-sided showdown

Intel Arc B580 vs. Nvidia RTX 4060: a one-sided showdown

Table of Contents Table of Contents Specs and pricing Gaming performance Ray tracing performance DLSS and XeSS One-sided win Intel is back with one of the best graphics cards you can buy — the Arc B580. As you can read in my Intel Arc B580 review, it’s a graphics card that has no business being … Read more

A PC ‘recession’ could make hardware way more expensive, says researcher

A PC ‘recession’ could make hardware way more expensive, says researcher

Get ready to spend big if you plan on scoring one of the best graphics cards or best processors. According to Jon Peddie Research, the PC market could be headed for a “recession” due to proposed tariffs on several countries, which are said to go into effect shortly after Donald Trump becomes president on January … Read more

Brace yourself for PC hardware to get insanely expensive next year

Brace yourself for PC hardware to get insanely expensive next year

None of us like higher prices, but that’s exactly what we could be in for next year. I’m going to be analyzing the impact of Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on the price of PC hardware in the future, using not only some estimates that are available now, but also the historical context of tariffs during … Read more

Nvidia CEO in 1997: ‘We need to kill Intel’

Nvidia CEO in 1997: ‘We need to kill Intel’

Those headline above includes strong words from the maker of the best graphics cards you can buy, and they have extra significance considering where Nvidia sits today in relation to Intel. But in 1997, things were a bit different. The quote comes from the upcoming book The Nvidia Way, written by columnist Tae Kim, and was … Read more

This fps-doubling app is now even better than DLSS 3

This fps-doubling app is now even better than DLSS 3

Lossless Scaling is a $7 Steam app that’s flipped the idea of frame generation on its head this year. Similar to tools like Nvidia’s DLSS 3 and AMD’s FSR 3, Lossless Scaling offers frame generation. However, it works with any game, and with any graphics card, and it can triple or quadruple your frame rate … Read more