Graphics cards were in short supply, so of course you look for ways and means to somehow import such a rarity yourself. If you always wanted to be different, because you don’t only want to consume the German market’s standard mush, you’ll also find it in Asia, e.g. with such a Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 3050 8GB tested today. Of [...]
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What actually happens when you forcefully and cunningly slow down a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, which swallows up to 500 watts in ultra HD, to 300 watts? With only 60% of the consumed power, the question arises how many percentage points of performance are lost when 40 percentage points less energy is needed. Where does it place its self in the end as [...]
The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti PCBs are NOT compatible with the AD102 “Ada”, I would like to preface this here. But how can one come to this hasty conclusion? After I wrote a news about the pin compatibility between the GA102 and the AD102, there was speculation if we are already seeing the next generation design on the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti [...]
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Is the 600 watts really the upper end or where are the tolerance ranges for exceeding the standards for a short bursts? And why does the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti suddenly show a completely different behavior under full load? I will answer exactly these questions today, because the review of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has (probably not only) made me [...]
Actually, everyone had already checked off the Ampere generation, but then came CES 2022 and Jensen with the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. One can really argue about the sense or nonsense of this card in the full version of the GA102 and the high-energy implementation, but it exists and would like to be tested and evaluated. And while we are at it, this [...]
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One or the other detail has already been leaked about Ada (Lovelace) and the upcoming graphics cards with the AD102 core and up to 600 watts TBP. Today, another interesting piece of the puzzle is surely added with the expected reference board, the planned coolers and the RAM configuration. I recently received a picture from my own Chinese sources [...]
Due to the great response to our article "On the hard BIOS-Tour: manual EEPROM flash of a GeForce RTX to bypass the lock with the hardware ID at NVflash", in which we were already able to clarify what Nvidia does not give us this time, our author lays again and even put himself in front of the camera! And it doesn't always have to [...]
Last year it was only in April, but this time the spring cleaning of AMD’s drivers is already in March. Six days before the GDC keynote, AMD is now releasing RSR, i.e. the Radeon Super Sampling based on Fidelity FX Super Sampling, to the gaming world today and it will be interesting to test this new implementation in practice soon. In [...]
Can Intel’s Xe Max, i.e. our dedicated DG1 card in the form of the GUNNIR Iris Xe MAX Index V2, actually do light workstation stuff? You don’t have to test Office application, for that it’s quite enough. But what about lighter work in the productive field, which can still be done quite well with AMD’s Radeon Pro W6400, for [...]
The new, final version 1.3.9 of the MorePowerTool offers, in addition to new functions, of course, again the thoroughly revised engine, which significantly simplifies the use of the tool. Even though the file size has increased somewhat as a result, the direct implementation of various libraries directly in the tool also offers many advantages [...]
So, finally the time has come and today I can show you detailed benchmarks with the GUNNIR Iris Xe MAX Index V2 – Intel’s DG1, which can offer a first taste of Intel’s ARC Alchemist series, which is based on the newer DG2 GPU family. However, this is not yet on the market, so this first freely available retail card of the DG1 has [...]
The fact, that the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with 16 GB memory expansion has now been cancelled without replacement, was already suspected and was also reported by many media. The reasons are likely to be the unstable and problematic GDDR6X with 2 GB size. Here, it can be assumed that Micron has made a technical mistake, because besides the instability [...]
I had discussed it last week and also thoroughly tested how the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING OC WATERFORCE WB can behave in the water cooling loop. The problems around the aluminum used and the rather rustic build quality including a holey anodizing were also and primarily based on the amount of complaints and hints received and a detailed [...]
Intel’s ARC Alchemist series, which is based on the DG2 GPU family, is of course not yet on the market, but the introduction of the DG1 as a retail card has certainly aroused desires. After all, the DG1 GPUs were initially only available for software developers(see our first review), but found their way finally also into the discrete DIY [...]
Due to a given occasion, I now even have to add a third part to my water cooling investigations. It will unfortunately show what happens when you combine (without knowing it) an aluminum cooler with copper components and I will specifically question why the result turns out so extreme, as in this case. Of course, you also have to differentiate the [...]
The new final version 1.3.8. of the MorePowerTool offers, in addition to new functions, of course a thoroughly revised engine, which significantly simplifies the use of the tool. Even though the file size has increased somewhat as a result, the direct implementation of various libraries directly in the tool also offers many advantages, which in [...]
Only 115 instead of 130 watts TBP: The GeForce RTX 3050 8GB will, that is for sure, come soon with two different GPUs, which definitely makes a difference for the end customer. Not only is the card now readily available, but the street price is also dropping more and more. This makes them quite interesting, but you will soon have to be careful [...]
