The board partners are currently tinkering with the BIOS Generation Tool to make the implementation of the feature, announced for late March / early April, as user-friendly as possible. And of course, such measures also accompany various rumors, one of which, however, can probably already be debunked. After all, the recently launched GeForce RTX [...]
And then there were three! After the Radeon RX 6900XT and RX 6800XT, the RX 6700XT is now supposed to delight gamers from 18.03.2021. But whether the MSRP starting at 479 Euros is really real and whether you'll be able to buy cards at all in the end remains to be seen. We'll wait and see…
Load spikes that can cause even nominally adequate power supplies to suddenly shut down are all the rage right now, especially since the launch of NVIDIA’s current Ampere generation. It is also undisputed that this leads to the creation of legends and, of course, the accessories industry. But is there any point at all in placing a capacitor [...]
With the GeForce RTX 3060 introduced today, NVIDIA is now rounding out the Ampere portfolio on the downside for now. Since there won’t be a Founders Edition, I’m testing an MSI RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio instead, which shouldn’t be a problem in terms of comparability due to NVIDIA’s very tight TDP limits. But more about that in [...]
Already on 03.03.2021 AMD wants to present the continuation of the current Radeon RX 6000 graphics card family with RDNA-2 architecture. Generally expected (but not yet officially confirmed), however, is the assumption of a Radeon RX 6700 XT, the possible reference design of which can be seen in AMD’s announcement. Whether there will be [...]
Darren McPhee, who we knew from earlier AMD times as “Director, Product Marketing and Content Strategy” (until 2015) and who then came from RTG via various detours to Intel to work there as “Director of Product Marketing, Discrete Graphics” until February 2021, has also returned to AMD. He will now join the team as [...]
You’ve seen a lot of things, even on YouTube. For example, a 500 watt power supply miraculously survives even a GeForce RTX 3080, while exactly this card even forced a 1300 watt Platinum behemoth to give up in the lab before the Ampere launch. Well, NVIDIA has meanwhile defused the boost and thus also the load changes, but that should still [...]
In the meantime, the rumors about the upcoming graphics cards from NVIDIA and AMD have also increased. While the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 on 25.02.202 is visibly close, the launch of the Radeon RX 6700 (XT) is rumored for 18.03.2021. I had already published some of the possible key data of the upcoming Radeon RX 6700 (XT) in November 2020 [...]
The mining industry, and it really is a billion-dollar market by now, is supposed to be fed with new (old?) GPUs to help equalize the current, very tight market situation. This is exactly the news that hit the press yesterday. But it also raises questions, because the whole thing doesn’t seem quite so simple. Not technically, either. But [...]
As a customer and connoisseur, one associates the Toxic with the most toxic and fastest variant of a graphics card series from Sapphire. There have been quite a few highly interesting graphics cards in history, which meanwhile already enjoy cult status and are true collector’s items. And then came Big Navi, 2021 and the Sapphire RX 6900XT [...]
Let’s put it this way: it would have actually surprised all of us if NVIDIA didn’t use this hotspot reading as well. The only thing is that the usable interface for common third-party software is somewhat sparsely documented. It is only a question of time that sooner or later we will succeed in uncovering this little [...]
If you own a good subwoofer, you have to be very brave now. The neighbour is indirectly informed and here in the laboratory not only the fingers sweat. Yes, there is still something coming and going up! What exactly, you will find out soon. But it’s gonna be badly toxic, that’s for sure. And for those who found the video too [...]
A proper water cooling makes sense for power losses over 300 watts and thus creates a real added value. With the Kryographics Next, Aqua Computer continues on its path of precisely crafted coolers and offers a GPU water block for NVIDIA’s current GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 refernce boards that even manages without thermal pads on the [...]
In the meantime, also in view of the 16 GB memory expansion of the new Radeon graphics cards, a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20 GB memory expansion was long rumored, although the first leaks had already spoken a different language in the summer of 2020, well before the actual launch. Because there was talk of a card with 11 GB or 12 GB memory [...]
If you are in urgent need of a new computer, you have to put up with the extreme prices on the one hand and the limited availability of the components on the other. It’s annoying, but it’s not likely to change anytime soon. Because you can’t always choose the time of an upgrade, or the conditions never really fit 100% anyway [...]
Anticipation is the best joy – at least that’s what they say. Even though Intel’s DG1 was designed and advertised as an entry-level card from the beginning, a minimum of features and functionality can of course be expected from such a midget. A lot of things scale up nicely as long as the test candidates are good to test. Through [...]
Intel recently unveiled one of its biggest chips, and our colleagues at wccftech.com have tapped various sources for more details. Although it was clear from the technical explanations at Intel’s Architecture Day what Intel is up to, the picture that now emerges is quite overwhelming. The colleagues show for the first time Intel’s 7nm [...]
After the already extensively tested reference cards of AMD’s RX 6000 series, the MSI RX 6800XT Gaming X Trio 16 GB has now found its way to my lab as another board partner card. The continued unavailability of all these graphics cards for the masses is actually embarrassing and all the more annoying because these products are really good [...]
After I already reported about the shortages of graphics cards, a rumor made the rounds that NVIDIA probably wants to revive the older Turing entry-level chips. These were running (and apparently are running again) in TSMC’s old 12nm node, which is supposed to have enough spare capacity to be cheap and responsive. Own surveys among the board [...]
Currently, everything is somehow scarce. It doesn’t matter whether it’s graphics cards, motherboards or simple “white goods” (like washing machines) including spare parts from the household appliance sector, in which there are usually more electronics than one would like. And often it fails also already at things, which one [...]
