AMD has significantly improved the ray tracing performance of its Radeon graphics cards on Linux. The new drivers, which are based on the open-source Mesa RADV Vulkan, use “monolithic pipelining” to boost performance. This means that ray tracing calculations are now performed in a single step, instead of multiple steps. This [...]
AMD could launch a new Radeon RX 7600 XT series graphics card with more memory. The EEC filing suggests that AMD partners are already developing a new Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card, which could be available in 10 GB and 12 GB variants, above the already launched RX 7600. The original RX 7600 without XT comes with 8 GB of memory, but the new [...]
Starfield mod makes textures sharper when using upscalers Well-known modder doodlum has released a new mod for Starfield that makes the game look sharper. The mod, called Upscaling Fix, fixes a problem with the default implementation of upscaling in Starfield. The problem is that the default implementation does not properly set the negative mipmap [...]
During the review of the BeQuiet Shadow Base 800 FX, I simply felt the need to install a white graphics card. Since no adequate model could be found in the short term and I had a rough idea of what the whole story should look like, we did it ourselves without further ado. And even if this is not the holy grail of knowledge today, we can all [...]
There was a gap as big and deep as the Pacific Ocean between the Radeon RX 7900XT and the Radeon RX 7600, so the RX 7900 GRE was nothing more than a rarely found alibi card. AMD took its time with the Navi32, probably also for resource reasons, and now wants to push itself ahead of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 and the long-tested RTX 4060 Ti [...]
FSR 3 is still to come j, but NVIDIA continues to push forward with DLSS. Recently, NVIDIA announced that two games coming out later this month will support Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 3 technology to improve image quality. The first of these games is SYNCED, a cooperative third-person lootershooter developed by Tencent’s NExT [...]
Since today’s ‘big’ article is coming out around 1 PM, I’m quickly throwing in my two cents about Starfield so that your breakfast bread settles awkwardly in your stomach. Even if it might sound derogatory, here’s my subjective, final confirmation: Despite its ‘fresh’ space theme, Starfield harbors the [...]
During an interview with Club386, Scott Herkleman, who holds the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD’s Graphics Business Unit, provided insight into the initial plans being pursued at AMD. Those plans were to integrate the 12VHWPR connector into the design template of the RX-7800 and RX-7700 series of GPUs. However [...]
MaxSun recently introduced its Mega Gamer (MGG) series, making its debut a few months ago with the release of the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti SKUs. These graphics cards offer a unique design approach from MaxSun, a company known for its playful product names like “Terminator” and “McDonald’s.” One notable feature of this [...]
With the growing global demand for gaming, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are both actively seeking to establish themselves in the market for “Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR)” products. These products represent a specialized type of high-performance DRAM designed specifically to meet the needs of graphics processing. A recent report [...]
In a strategic partnership with the developers of the upcoming game “Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora” (Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft), scheduled for release on December 7, AMD has unveiled a specialized graphics card called RX 7900 XTX Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Limited Edition. The uniqueness of this particular model goes beyond its [...]
How do you upgrade the dead Gamescom? Right, with a hardware launch! AMD explicitly targets the “enthusiasts” among gamers with the Radeon RX 7800XT (499 USD) and RX 7700XT (449 USD) presented today and fills the remaining gap in the midfield of gaming graphics cards at the same time. Mit focuses on “1440p gaming”, i.e [...]
The preliminary announcement in the run-up to Gamescom hinted at the possibility of an upcoming ‘product unveiling’, without explicitly explaining the exact nature of AMD’s intended unveiling. In recent weeks, there has been increased speculation about possible updates within the Radeon RX 7000 series. Much of this speculation [...]
NVIDIA is gearing up for the release of RTX Remix, an innovative modding platform developed as part of the NVIDIA Omniverse. This platform is designed to give modders tools to create and share #RTXON mods for classic games. These mods will include upgraded materials, comprehensive ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA RTX IO, and NVIDIA Reflex [...]
As part of this year’s Gamescom 2023, NVIDIA has unveiled a number of upcoming updates aimed at the GeForce gaming community. A highlight among these announcements is the introduction of DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction, a feature that will be available for all GeForce RTX series GPUs starting with the RTX 20 series in the upcoming fall season [...]
Users now have the ability to experiment with the BIOS of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as if it were 2013 all over again. Over the past decade, NVIDIA had effectively curtailed the practice of modifying video BIOS by introducing strict BIOS signature checks. The introduction of the “Falcon” on-die security processor with the GeForce [...]
Continuous driver updates from Intel boost Arc GPU performance Intel’s graphics driver team has been releasing continuous updates for their discrete Arc GPUs since the launch of the Arc series. These updates, known as “Game On” drivers, not only optimize performance for new titles, but also achieve notable performance gains for [...]
NVIDIA rightfully dominates the scene in the AI discussion. their GPUs are ready to go and enjoy precedence among professionals and companies looking to enter the world of AI. However, just this week, both Intel and AMD tweaked their software stacks to deliver significant speed increases in the generative AI space. These updates resulted in [...]
AMD has announced that the release of Radeon™ GPU Detective (RGD) v1.0 is imminent. This tool is for post-mortem analysis of GPU crashes (sounds really exciting) and allows developers to retrieve and analyze AMD GPU crash dumps. The information generated assists in determining the cause of the crashes. They include page fault details, resource [...]
Unfortunately, Intel only provided us with the latest information late yesterday evening and I was still busy in the lab with the Radeon Pro W7600 at that time and fully booked this morning. Nevertheless, I took the time and summarized the most important things from the recording for you. Basically, it’s a really noteworthy driver update [...]
