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 [...]
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Category - GPUs
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 [...]
The second water block I tested was the Hydro Series XG7 RGB, a product from Corsair for NVIDIA’s large Ampere cards. Interestingly, the interest of most manufacturers in detailed tests is now rather restrained, because especially the comparison series of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has shown very clearly that RGB and bling-bling do not help [...]
The fact that graphics cards cause considerable load peaks I could already prove impressively 6 years ago for the first time – including all the resulting problems and measures for the power suppliers. In the meantime, a lot has been done, of course also in the interest of the end customers. And yet, there are always situations where a power [...]
My colleagues at wccftech.com have just published an exclusive leak regarding the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. The website has published the first images of a custom GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card coming from ASUS. To everyone’s surprise, they list the 12GB models as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra. Sure, there was something before and I [...]
New year, new luck! Due to various inquiries and great interest in the topic, I have put together a detailed UV guide for you here, since I had a small craft project pending anyway. The connection with the theory was a logical follow. In addition, as often requested, I explain the individual functions in the MPT (MorePowerTool) again explicitly [...]
Actually, Gigabyte has done almost everything right with the GTX 980 Ti Xtreme Gaming Waterforce, because the performance and the overclockability have impressed us - as well as other colleagues of international media, who could also get hold of a copy -...
After the already extensively tested reference cards of AMD’s RX 6000 series, the XFX RX 6800 XT Merc 319 16 GB has also found its way to my lab as a board partner card. The continued unavailability of all of these cards to the masses is all the more annoying because these products are really good and competitive graphics cards that deserved [...]
The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti comes later than expected Let’s start with the long awaited GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which has turned out to be more and more probable, but whose appearance should be further delayed. If I can believe my own sources, which refer to both NVIDIA and AMD, NVIDIA waited for the launch of the new RX 6000 series and then [...]
In fact, it’s both! After a few hours of playing time, the somewhat tough prologue including intermezzo and a few crashes (including patches), I am now a few nerves poorer and many experiences (as well as a game that is probably addictive) richer. If I had simply resisted the temptation to start right on the first day, I would probably have [...]
The new Big Navi cards are released and the 6800/6800 XT and the new one recently celebrated their debut. Our community member Gurdi couldn’t help but take a closer look at the AMD cards this time as well. That’s exactly why I let Gurdi continue writing, because it’s his user review, in which he invested a lot of time himself and [...]
With the Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Acryl GPX-A for the new RX 6900 XT, 6800 XT and 6800, AMD now also has the right coolers for the current Radeon cards to the side. Big Navi on Ice is not quite there yet, but at least the chip and the circuit board is a well cooled submarine, so it’s really nice under water. Such a water cooling system [...]
Somehow, despite a permanent lack of time, my fingers itched very badly during the current water cooling test. And because I just screwed the card onto a water block anyway, it just had to be done. With the MorePowerTool I raised the TGP from 255 watts to 320 watts, increased the power limit in the Wattman by another 15%, set the GPU clock to 2730 [...]
AMD still has one left, and that’s what we have today. They want to take the competitive Radeon RX 6800 XT 16 GB one step further and so Dr. Lisa Su pulled a last ace out of her sleeve some time ago and presented the Radeon RX 6900 XT first virtually and as a purely digital PowerPoint foil tiger. Now, when this card has finally materialized [...]
It appears that AMD and its major partners are already internally testing several RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6000M mobile GPUs, so that initial information about a discrete Navi23 and Navi24 chip for the laptop segment has been leaked. After first reports from Twitter insider and leaker Patrick Schur, AMD is working on several mobile SKUs based on the [...]
Even if one or the other might think, I’m taking some time off after all these launches – this is (unfortunately) not the case and there is more to do than ever before. However, much of this work has to be carried out in parallel and is usually bound to various NDAs with regard to the respective publication period. But I can still [...]
The new AMD Radeon Software Adrenaline driver is now available for download and for the first time also offers official support for the Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions. The 20.11.3 driver also now includes support for Immortals: Fenyx Rising, a new open world game (Ubisoft Quebec) The AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.11.3 driver also fixes a number [...]
With the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FE (Founders Edition) introduced today, NVIDIA shrinks the GA104, which we already know from the GeForce RTX 3070, even further. In terms of surface area, the chip is of course just as large or small, but also slightly trimmed. Still higher yield and thus a better availability, a similarly good efficiency as with the [...]
2020 was actually a first-class year for technological innovation, but it will probably also go down in history as the year of the ultimate frustration of discouraged consumers, when the target group will end up not being able to buy what has been on their wish list for a long time: graphics cards and processors, power supplies and last but not [...]