With our MoreClockTool (MCT) we want to logically round up the MorePowerTool (MPT) and the Red BIOS Editor (RBE) and replace the Wattman from AMD’s driver packages for simpler overclocking. Which also makes it clear that the MCT can only be used for newer AMD graphics cards. Even if our software seems rather manageable at first glance: all [...]
In keeping with Intel’s oneAPI and the possibility of actually being able to enable this option in games, I have another classic for you today. Whether Intel decides to handle the whole thing as open or closed source, however, will probably also depend on how Intel will continue with the graphics card division at all. I don’t want to [...]
SLI is discontinued, Crossfire is dead – so it is naturally easy for Intel to jump into this empty niche and look for a way forward. You see, my friend Rob Squires from TweakTown learned something very interesting yesterday at SIGGRAPH 2022. According to him, Intel is currently finalizing its oneAPi software for multi-GPU support as well. A [...]
The NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti FE was unfortunately quite rare as a sample at the launch and only made it into my well-stocked archive much later. But postponed is not canceled and since I didn’t see any sense in testing an even higher clocked (and energetically much more inflated) board partner card in my workstation at that time, exactly this part [...]
2010: Plenty of hot air for a quick death The following article contains parts of a classic from 12 years ago that was already believed to have been lost. Who remembers the Sahara PC and Tom’s menu from the younger ones? We already and the younger ones will be amazed that not so much has changed hard. Even then, graphics cards were glowing [...]
I will not presume to call the Alchemist project a failure, because time and the market alone will decide whether it succeeds or fails. It’s definitely not my place, and there’s no need to belittle the developers’ invested work based on just one tested product. However, more and more pieces of the puzzle are coming together to [...]
Are they coming, or aren’t they? And if so, when? Various media had again written or spoken about a delay, but Intel is said to have now internally decided on a narrower time frame. If they’re going to stick to the current timeframe, the range that’s being colocated to me now is between Aug. 05, 2022 and Sept. 29, 2022. This [...]
Everyone is currently shaking their heads over the rumored 600 watts (or more) power consumption for NVIDIA's upcoming flagship, but it's not that new. My HIS HD 6990 already managed 590 watts with the OC BIOS at the time and the three cards from 2012 presented today are also only just below 600 watts. And with two of the HIS HD 6990s, I [...]
New driver, new luck? I gave Intel’s Arc A380 with new beta drivers another go and also looked at the draw calls under DX11, DX12 and Vulkan. Old wine and maturing? Yep, but I’ll get to that in a minute. The test system used in the first article and the roughly equally fast cards from the last test are used, i.e. the Intel Arc A380 in [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is mostly machine translated from the original German, and the translation has not been edited or checked for errors in-depth. Thank you for understanding!
Finally, the time has come and I can finally offer you the detailed review of the Gunnir Arc A380 6GB Photon, which should provide interesting conclusions and also prospects for the larger models. Together with Computerbase, Golem and a user of 3DCenter, we publish the first German reviews of this card today at a self-arranged “launch [...]
For once, we’ll start the week with a news article as a description of the current state and a preview of what you can expect from tomorrow onwards, which has already robbed me of the whole weekend. The fact that there isn’t a full test article today is simply due to the amount of tests running in parallel and indirectly also due to [...]
Sapphire provides the new flagship 7970 Toxic GHz Edition with a full 6 GB of video memory and uses one of the new Tahiti XT2 chips, which is even clocked with 1.2 GHz thanks to “Lethal Boost”, as long as the card runs within the thermally intended limits. The then higher RAM clock of 1600 MHz also promises a rich gain, always provided [...]
When a graphics card “dies”, you really only have two options: species-appropriate scrapping or emergency admission in the “graphics card hospital”. I admit it, I had a harder time with the title than usual and actually there are two authors, Bernhard and me, because we both had the victim in our hands. But I’m more [...]
The radi(k)all fan of the current AMD graphics cards is an acoustic plague that is better fought where it originates, namely on the card itself. After a few minutes of testing with the cheeky original, all doubts as to whether the conversion would even be possible were quickly thrown overboard. Pain makes you brave, and in the end you will lean [...]
Today is Friday and thus for many also the last working day this week. Well, exceptions prove the rule, but since I’m working on a longer test, today I’ll just share a story from my three months older colleague Ronaldo Buassali, operator of TecLab and full-time Head of Latin America at Galaxy Microsystems Ltd (as well as passionate LN2 [...]
Nothing against leaks, because they satisfy everyone’s curiosity to a certain extent, on the contrary. As you know, I know that quite well myself. Much of this more current information also came from kopite7kimi and it was also the case that they seemed to contradict each other in sometimes rapid chronological succession. Now, you can of [...]
Who doesn’t know them, the multiple entries of the supposedly same graphics card and the annoying consequences of this registry collecting mania? Sometimes you don’t even consciously notice this and then wonder why a new graphics card of the same chip type suddenly runs unstable after a replacement. DDU is certainly a solution, but [...]
Why do you think there was no HD 7830, but the rather unloved HD 7790? We had reported in a news item back then that we came across a board during the test of a new Radeon HD 7850 in the rare singleslot design, which didn’t contain a normal Pitcairn chip with 1024 shader units, but a weaker engineering sample with only 768 shader units [...]
They do still exist, the graphics cards that also stand out optically and technically in equal measure. You can’t reinvent the wheel, but you can achieve one or two performance improvements via the tires. This realization probably also prompted Gigabyte to turn the cooling principle upside down in the truest sense of the word. With the new [...]
