RTX

NVIDIA PCI-Express Resizable BAR Performance Test – 22 Games, 3 Resolutions, RTX 3090, 3080, 3070, 3060 Ti

Introduction Through its GeForce 465 driver update, NVIDIA formally introduced the PCI-Express Resizable BAR feature to its GeForce RTX 30-series “Ampere” graphics cards. This feature was invented by PCI-SIG, custodians of the PCI-Express bus, but only became relevant for the PC when AMD decided to re-brand it as “AMD Smart Access Memory” (which we separately… Read more

Nvidia Preps GeForce RTX 3050 & RTX 3050 Ti for Laptops

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Having launched high-end and performance-mainstream GeForce RTX 30-series graphics solutions for laptops, Nvidia now needs to complete the lineup with mainstream GPUs featuring the Ampere architecture. To serve this segment of the laptop market, Nvidia is preparing to launch its GeForce RTX 3050-series products, according to unofficial information reports Notebookcheck. As… Read more

MSI Summit E16 Flip Teases New Nvidia Graphics

Home News (Image credit: MSI) MSI today hosted a streaming even about a pair of new Summit-branded business 2-in-1s with 11th Gen Intel Core processors. There’s a 13-incher, the MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo, which is available today, as well as a larger Summit E16 Flip. The E13 Evo is available starting at $1,599, but… Read more

Nvidia’s Mining Limiter is Dead: Farm Uses 7 RTX 3060s

Home News GeForce RTX 3060 (Image credit: Quasar Zone) It’s true that nothing lasts forever, but Nvidia’s anti-mining limiter on the GeForce RTX 3060 didn’t last long at all. Cryptocurrency miners have circumvented the algorithm in a little over one month since the official announcement. Intentional or not, Nvidia played a huge role in helping… Read more

This Nvidia RTX 4090 video wins 2021’s best April Fools’ joke

April Fools’ Day jokes are usually lame and lack any real effort, but 20-year-old Kasper Andersen has risen to the occasion for 2021 to deliver Nvidia’s RTX 4090. The Danish hardware enthusiast loves to create homemade replicas of retro graphics cards, but his latest RTX 4090 project imagines a future where Nvidia’s card uses 1,000… Read more

New AMD Adrenalin Driver Adds Support For Dirt 5’s Ray Tracing Update

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Yesterday, AMD release a new Adrenalin driver to the public, version 21.3.2 with support for several new titles including Dirt 5, along with several bug fixes. Specifically, driver 21.3.2 adds support for Dirt 5‘s new DirectX Raytracing (DXR) update. Dirt 5 originally launched late last year, and CodeMasters worked with… Read more

Nvidia Adds Resizable BAR Support to All RTX 30 Series GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia just released a new Game Ready Driver, version 465.89, earlier this morning. This driver update comes with several new features, plus an assortment of bug fixes and more game support. The highlight of the new driver is the addition of Resizable BAR support on all desktop RTX 30 series… Read more

AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT Will Land With Just 32MB of Infinity Cache

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD (via Kepler_L2) released a new Linux patch that exposes the cache configuration for its Navi 21, Navi 22 and Navi 23 silicon. The last is rumored to power the chipmaker’s upcoming Radeon RX 6600 series (or maybe RX 6500 series). The description for the patch reads: “The L1 cache… Read more

XMG Announces Rocket Lake, RTX 3080-Equipped ‘Ultra 17’ Gaming Laptop

Home News (Image credit: XMG – Highend Gaming Laptops & Desktops) XMG today announced its first laptop equipped with Intel’s new Rocket Lake processors, interchangeable RTX 30 Series graphics, and a bevy of other features that are supposed to ease the pain enthusiasts have suffered because of the ongoing chip shortage. It’s called the Ultra… Read more

MSI Aegis RS 11th Review: A Potent Rocket Lake Pre-Built

Our Verdict The MSI Aegis RS 11th is a powerful gaming desktop with the latest parts from Intel and Nvidia and off-the-shelf components that allow for easy upgrades. For + Off the shelf parts + Powerful gaming performance + Decent pack-in peripherals Against – MSI Center software is clunky – Middling file transfer speeds It’s… Read more

Corsair RMx Series 850 W (2021) Review

Introduction We would like to thank Corsair for supplying the review sample. After almost three years in production, Corsair decided to update its popular RMx line. There are again five members with capacities ranging from 550 W to 1000 W. All are fully modular, and the OEM is still Channel Well Technology. Listed below are… Read more

Nvidia’s Resizable BAR frame rate boosts now available on all 30-series GPUs

Nvidia is launching Resizable BAR support today, a feature of PCI Express that can boost frame rates in certain games by up to 10 percent. Resizable BAR works by unlocking access to the full graphics frame buffer, instead of limiting it to 256MB block reads. This can improve frame rates in games, but it will… Read more

Intel’s 11th Gen Core i9 processor boosts Microsoft Flight Simulator by 20 percent

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I built a new gaming PC in September to play new games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cyberpunk 2077, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. I figured that picking Intel’s Core i9-10900K and Nvidia’s RTX 3090 would make this machine… Read more

Asus is riding a new wave of compact RTX 3060 cards with this bulky GPU

Unlike most GPUs in the RTX 3000 series, Nvidia’s RTX 3060 graphics cards can be relatively compact. The dual-fan EVGA RTX 3060 XC we reviewed measured just 201.8mm long, for example, making it easy to fit in most gaming cases. But if you want something even smaller, Asus has become the latest to announce a… Read more

GeForce RTX 3090 Gets 3% Performance Boost From Resizable BAR

Home News A user from the Chiphell forums has evaluated the impact of Resizable BAR on Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 3090. While the results aren’t phenomenal, the extra performance comes free of charge, so we welcome it with open arms. While Nvidia has pledged to bring Resizable BAR to its entire stack of Ampere graphics… Read more