AMD has finally released the long-awaited AMDVLK Vulkan driver for its Radeon GPU, which offers numerous optimizations for ray tracing and other improvements. This means that the long-awaited Q3 update is now available and AMD releases its own Radeon Vulkan drivers, while MESA Vulkan drivers continue to lead the way. AMD’s approach with the [...]
Released today, NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 is the latest iteration of NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology and brings a number of enhancements and new features to improve the ray tracing experience in games and applications. In doing so, NVIDIA has set ambitious goals to also increase adoption of the new technology. True to the [...]
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty raises the base game to a new level in all areas, say the publisher and NVIDIA. However, this is not the usual review today, but a kind of leak from the bubbling rumor mill. Of course, it remains to be seen whether all of this is true. We’ll have our own special on Ray Reconstruction this afternoon, for [...]
Nvidia’s next generation of graphics cards could use a chiplet GPU and a new architecture. Rumors about Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 5000 have been in the headlines for months. The latest rumors attribute a multi-chiplet module (“MCM”) to the successor of Ada Lovelace, as it is already used on some graphics cards from the current [...]
I accompanied the launch of the Radeon RX 7800XT and RX 7700XT in detail with four cards, but today we have a single test of the Sapphire RX 7700XT Pure 12GB. Compared to the cheaper RX 7700XT Pulse 12GB, this card has a bigger cooler and also a higher power limit. But the real difference lies in the color choice, because the Pure, in nice [...]
Bethesda has announced the first major update for Starfield. The update includes a number of new features and improvements that players have been asking for. One highlight is the support for DLSS. Another important feature is the FOV slider, which allows players to customize the angle of view in the game. This is especially important for players [...]
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 [...]
