Hopefully in a few days time the graphics card market is going to get a bit of a shake up. AMD are launching the first of their Navi based cards, and in retaliation Intel are updating their RTX lineup with Super variants. With the Nvidia RTX Super cards it looks like some of the older…
Nvidia is determined to cover every option possible in the GPU market in an attempt to keep AMD at bay. There are currently five RTX models available and three GTX models for this Turing generation. Nvidia is now expanding that choice to include an additional three options with a new Super moniker, and I…
I have recently been on a mission to set up an affordable gaming PC that can be located in my living room and act as an all in one gaming and media PC. While I would like a high-end rig using one of the RTX based cards, I can’t quite justify its expense, nor would…
Following my Gigabyte GTX 1650 review, I have also been trying out the Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 with the aim to build an affordable gaming PC that can sit in the living room, which is also a capable media PC with Plex server and hardware transcoding. Following a recent eBay 15% off voucher, I impulse…
I have recently been wanting to build an affordable gaming PC that can sit in the living room, which is also a capable media PC with Plex server and hardware transcoding. Following a recent eBay 15% off voucher, I impulse bought the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1650 Windforce OC 4G, which is about the bottom rung…
With the 7nm fabrication process, AMD has been able to double their core count on the mainstream Ryzen line-up using the AM4 socket. With the announcement of the Ryzen 9 3950X, the current 2950X Threadripper looks redundant. So it will probably come as no surprise that the new Threadripper chips will continue the trend of massively…
The final specification of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT have been leaked with a large increase in base and boost clocks from the generation before. The new 7nm fabrication process will allow AMD to push things further with less heat and these clocks are a great start for Navi. The RX 5700 XT uses…
The AMD keynote at Computex was mainly focussed on the new 3rd generation Ryzen CPUs, but the company did tease us with their up and coming Radeon RX 5700 series which will be based on Navi. The first Navi cards will be the Radeon RX 5700 series, which are launching in July and on an…
This is very much a rumour, so take it with a pinch of salt, there is growing speculation that the new AMD Radeon Navi 10 cards may launch at E3 2019 which starts on the 11th of June. This is part of a rumour that AMD’s Navi graphics architecture will be discussed at Computex 2019…
Images of a new AMD-made PCB have been revealed online which appears to be of the new Navi based GPU which is expected to launch in July. There is not a great deal of information to take from it, but every little bit fuels the excitement. The PCB will likely be a reference design which…
Yesterday Nvidia officially launched the GTX 1650 for both desktops and laptops, as well as announcing that the GTX 1660 Ti is coming to laptops too. The launch coincided with Intel’s new 9th Gen Core laptop CPU launch and apparently over 80 new laptop models featuring GTX 1660 Ti or GTX 1650 will begin rolling…
The GeForce GTX 1650 has been rumoured for a while now, including its laptop equivalent parts, and we have known they are arriving soon. It is now believed that the desktop parts will be launched on the 23rd of April. Similar to the models sitting about it, this will feature Nvidia’s Tu117 silicon which has…