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 [...]
Graphic Cards
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Meanwhile, besides the already extensively tested reference cards of AMD’s RX-6000 series, there are also various board partner cards (not) for sale, of which two of these coveted specimens are already in the lab for at least one public test. The continued unavailability is all the more [...]
As far as the usual text lengths for shops and marketing material allow, AMD’s board partners (AIB) are obliged to use certain designations in the product labeling and for the first time use the addition “Gaming Graphics Card”. In addition, “with 16GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA™ [...]
Even though AMD has solved the determination of Tjunction (“hotspot temperature”) differently with the new Radeon graphics cards (Navi21) and measures and calculates much more widely, it is precisely this temperature that is the linchpin for telemetry. This in turn means that the [...]
Yeah, we did it again, and better this time. Especially since our forum member Gurdi probably won one of the main prizes in the silicone lottery, as his RX 6800 in reference design shows very impressively what can be done if you had a lucky hand with the order button. I can spoil it in advance [...]
Would you like a little more or a little less? The overclocking limit of the Radeon RX 6800 XT isn’t particularly large, so the cheaper RX 6800 already looks much more interesting. But you won’t be able to pull out any trees here either, because AMD is now following the example of [...]
MSI presents SUPRIM, a completely new model series above the Gaming-X and Gaming-Z series. Whereas up to now, individual Lightning models have been the top dog and icing on the cake of the fastest graphics cards, MSI wants to introduce SUPREME, a complete new product line for all faster graphics [...]
Without wanting to spoil everyone’s joy with a hasty spoiler in the first sentence: AMD is also back in GPUs. And how! Nevertheless, despite all the euphoria about the enormous performance boost, one must remain fair and consider the entire pixel cosmos: performance (rasterization, DXR [...]
I have already photographed the Radeon RX 68o0XT in part 1, now it’s the turn of the smaller sister, which might even be number one in demand. The price is hot, but still secret. So let’s unpack what aunt Lisa sent me as a second DLC, because it’s worth it again. And those who [...]
The tension is naturally at the stop, there is not much missing before the bullet snaps off. Today there is a first twitch, where I can give you some data and of course show you what I am already allowed to show in my own pictures: superficialities and the outfit on light metal, plastic and [...]
Currently, there are many patches, new BIOS versions and various minor teething troubles with selected motherboard and CPU configurations, for example regarding the maximum achievable fabric clock rate. Unfortunately, most people quickly forget about a problem that could disturb the new Holy [...]
Of course, you’ll be amazed if, for example, three supposedly identical cards from one manufacturer have completely different temperatures or fan speeds and this is then reflected very similarly in the reviews of colleagues, which are supposedly contradictory. No, it’s not that the [...]
Since the other two AMD CPUs have arrived and I was able to get a replacement CPU for the Ryzen 9 5900X (and buy it), I have revised the whole launch article and added the missing entries. This would give us the quartet of Ryzen 5 5600X, , Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 9 5950X now complete [...]
Need For Speed (NFS) looks back on 25 years of life and suffering, which couldn’t have been more varied. And since it is very trendy to simply revive old games at a reasonable price instead of creating something new, EA has also reached into the moth box a little bit. But instead of rehashing [...]
Currently I was able to test two of the new Ryzen CPUs with Zen3 core, which could not be more different. On the one hand, there is the Ryzen 9 5900X with 12 cores (24 threads) as the new, two-largest miracle product of the upper class, and on the other hand, there is the Ryzen 5 5600X with 6 cores [...]
The BIOS of a board partner card brings us new insights this time, especially since our MorePowerTool in the latest beta already knows how to handle the new Radeon cards. Thanks also to Patrick Schur for the newest BIOS, which allows us to find out which modes AMD has implemented in the Wattman and [...]
The idea of testing power supplies not only synthetically on the chroma, but simply once in the usual setting of a possible user, is actually not even that absurd, but usually fails because of the amount of test objects. And where do you get these power supplies after all? From the manufacturer [...]
Well, that sounds more dramatic than it might be, although… The devil is in the test setup as usual. The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio (OC), MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio (OC) and MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio (OC) are tested on two different high-end systems. Of course @stock [...]
For the launch of the board partner designs of the smaller ampere cards with the GA 104 I have today the MSI RTX 3070 Gaming X Trio 8GB at my disposal, which MSI also offers with a RRP of 559 Euro incl. VAT. prices. But what the trade will then really approve of will probably also depend on the [...]
I certainly hadn’t promised you too much – autumn (and winter) will be hot, even at the power outlet. The current presentation is finished and I have summarized the most important slides as a gallery for you. Since AMD unfortunately only provided some hand-picked media with material [...]
Oops, I did it again… Okay, I’m not blonde and I don’t jump around the universe like a ball lightning on ecstasy, but sometimes you wonder what’s being packed together in the individual factories. Good for those who have enough pad reserves. Shall we try again? Which means [...]