Category - GPUs

Real-time design and simulation tools with RTX | Nvidia Omniverse release, Canvas and Studio updates

Nvidia’s Omniverse real-time design and simulation technology launches into public availability today. Behind the name is a portfolio of tools and plugins for various applications that use RTX to accelerate simulations and design processes. The Omniverse software suite is free and can be obtained by anyone for free from Nvidia. Additional [...]


Insights into ATX v3.0, ATX12VO v2.0 and PCIe 5.0 – When resource waste becomes the new standard | Investigative

The race for ever faster CPUs and above all GPUs is now producing such blossoms that even existing standards have to be softened or modified for the new energy waste offensive that soon every end consumer will have to save up for a portable nuclear power plant if they don’t want to be in debt with the energy supplier well into old age. To [...]


Core i9-12900KF and Ryzen 9 5950X vs. GeForce RTX 3090 and Radeon RX 6900XT Review – Big impact on power consumption and efficiency!

What actually happens when you let the two fastest CPUs compete with the GeForce RTX 3090 instead of the Radeon RX 6900XT? We noticed some amazing things and therefore we measured and cross-tested several times. The result is reproducible, but that does not make it any more comprehensible. But it at least explains why the power consumption [...]


AMD launches the Radeon RX 6600 without XT for the midrange – XFX RX 6600 SWFT 210 SPEEDSTER 8GB Review with small hurdles

With the Radeon RX 6600 released today, AMD rounds out the Navi portfolio even further down the line. Since there are once again no reference cards (AMD is following NVIDIA’s lead here with the GeForce RTX 3060), today’s launch article will thus once again use a board partner card. It will be exciting to see if the XFX RX 6600 SWFT 210 [...]


Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 power connector – Is NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 Ti* the dawn of a new era? | Exclusive

With up to three 8-pin connectors for current high-end graphics cards, the result is a cable-connector tangle that is slowly but surely reaching the limits of what is acceptable and sensible. The old 6+2 Molex connectors in this form are now technically simply obsolete. The 12-pin Microfit connector on NVIDIA’s Founders Edition was [...]