I had already written an article about the announcement of DLSS 2.0 at the end of March and Deep Learning. DLSS 2.0 has been very positive in all four games in which it is available. In contrast, the first implementation of Deep Learning Super Sampling weakened a little and rather shines with very mixed results. This then ranged from crisp to [...]
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After Mark Cerny's highly technical, but also somewhat boring PS5 deep dive ("So never, Sony! Why the PS5's GDC presentation was actually a covert disaster") left many questions unanswered, especially after the PlayStation 5 system architect revealed that Sony's next-generation console will have ariable clock speeds based on [...]
Half-Life Alyx can also be played without a VR headset, according to einger sources, and the mouse and keyboard controls also seem to work quite well. The founder of Valve News Network, Tyler McVicker, recently discovered that Half-Life Alyx can be played without an annoying VR headset thanks to some hidden commands. He also managed to activate [...]
The part has already irritated me, if only because of the size, which should have been called small. Well, the Corsair One is completely custom loop, but here I don't have the Frickelei with the watered graphics card. On a footprint of just under 19 x 19 cm and a height of just under 39 cm, the H1 from NZXT is quite compact. In addition, there [...]
Since the launch, I have used the game for various benchmarks and have also played quite a bit myself, also in order to reach a useful benchmark scene. But the dear time often never lets you play to the end and so Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order has remained like many others in the benchmark suite, but never gets to your own computer. After many [...]
Many colleagues, including my long-time friend Usman Pirzada of Wccftech, whose sources are usually quite valid, have long speculated (also together in chat) whether the next generation of consoles can now be taken as a real benchmark for the RDNA2 architecture that AMD will then launch as a Radeon graphics card, or not. And one of Usman's [...]
Nvidia today introduces DLSS 2.0, which will bring many interesting changes, significant quality and performance improvements. Even if we only had the verbal information and the corresponding slides available to us for today, the path that Nvidia has taken can be traced quite well. Tests must prove to what extent these very serious changes then [...]
Almost 12 years ago I once published a small craft project, which now happens to have fallen into my fingers while cleaning up. Funnily enough, the Gnaze still works, because I also ripped out the old PC. Only the batteries of the controller I had to replace, the rest still ran amazingly as then.
Does anyone remember Palit's GTX 1550 Ti KalmX? I still had this card in the test for Tom's hardware at the time and the conclusion was rather mixed, because the card did not manage to survive even without any housing ventilation. The new GTX 1650 KalmX from Palit , I can spoil it before, manages this feat quite, albeit only in the second [...]
AMD has long seen itself as a strong proponent of next-generation graphics API technologies with low overhead such as Microsoft DirectX 12, which, for example, is take games to a whole new level. Now AMD is also saying that it will partner with Microsoft to offer full support for DirectX 12 Ultimate in the upcoming AMD RDNA 2 gaming architecture [...]
Actually, Nvidia has a good laugh, because what Microsoft releases today as DXR 1.1 (DirectX Ray Tracing) makes at least this part the quasi-standard for PCs and consoles to the same extent. None of this is surprisingly new now, given that at the end of October last year you had a post called "Dev Preview of New DirectX 12 Features" on [...]
In order to get even more out of the assembled system, of course, one or the other clock screw was also turned. It has been important to me that no utopian values are presented, which may not be reproducible to the reader in the end. I am well aware that in some places it is guaranteed that a little more could be extracted. But nobody has won [...]
The rumours were already in full circulation last night and now it is official: The E3 2020 was cancelled due to the escalating health crisis caused by the coronavirus. The E3 organizers, the Entertainment Software Association, have issued a press release promising a refund to anyone who has already purchased tickets for the show, and that a kind [...]
After the choice of the platform and the components has been made in the first part, this part is now about the assembly of the system. This is not a perfect step-by-step guide with the claim of absolute completeness, but only a loose summary in the order in which I usually mount my systems. At this point, of course, I also refer to the first part [...]
Preface The dream of an arrow-fast gaming PC with dizzying frame rates at high resolutions with maximum detail remains unfulfillable for many readers. Graphics cards beyond the 1000€, CPUs and boards for several hundred euros – not everyone can or does not want to afford that. But does it necessarily have to be the nonplusultra to achieve a [...]
2K Games is now the next publisher to remove its entire range of games from GeForce NOW, the cloud streaming service introduced by NVIDIA last month after several years of beta. As usual, NVIDIA provided the news about the GeForce NOW forums. However, the community representative also said talks are underway with 2K Games to get the company back [...]
I took a guest article by Sascha Hochweber as an opportunity to ask our readers specifically about their own gaming behaviour and to include these surveys in the following articles. According to a recent survey of the only4gamers.de page, there were more than 2.5 billion active gamers worldwide in 2019. Although this also includes players on [...]
Today I just grab my Fractal shelf and build with Dirty an AMD gaming PC with the ryzen 7 3700X and a Sapphire Notro RX 5700XT Nitro+ on an MSI MEG X570 ACE. All this is cooled and supplied with components from Fractal – if so, then we do it as always also varietal. In addition, there are benchmarks, temperatures and the assessment of the [...]
Actually, I don't let myself be blinded by hyped "secret tips" and wait for the initial euphoria before I throw my money out the window for another mediocre or even disappointing game. With A Plague Tale: Innocence, however, I was attracted to the underlying setting from the very beginning. The fact that it was also available at the [...]
To understand the meaning of it all, you should read my article "Radeon RX 5600 XT with new BIOS and stable RAM without Flash! AMD Limits and Benchmark". Because there I describe very precisely how AMD with the new BIOS actually presses the entire overclocking margin of the card into the factory settings in order to be able to offer the [...]
I deliberately did not participate in the cross-media BIOS discussion of the last few days, because the speculations and data that have become public are actually only the tip of a bigger iceberg and the potential problem lies much deeper. Therefore I want to collect the facts here and now and also only after the launch, which give a quite complex [...]
Preface I published this article a little over 10 years ago and when I browsed the old content I also came across this entertaining treasure, which many certainly do not know anymore. Interestingly, for some time now, the contents of the German localization of Tom's hardware (tomshardware.de) in the so-called "Wayback Machine" are no [...]
Nvidia has announced PhysX 5.0 and will be available "pretty soon in 2020." According to the GeForce makers, this new version of the physics middleware SDK (which became available as open source about a year ago) introduces support for a 'Unified particle simulation framework'. Among the new features NVIDIA lists for PhysX 5.0 is [...]
New benchmark, new luck? I remember the good old days when Starcraft II and Replay were part of my benchmark inventory. Long, long it's been… The game itself was released a year ago, now it's available as a benchmark. Whether the sales figures are so low or you wanted to offer the community something good – I tend to be more [...]
