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Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC Review

Introduction Palit introduced its GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC graphics card today. The RTX 3060 is the most important “Ampere” graphics card for NVIDIA, from a volume standpoint, as the xx60 series tends to sell the most to the vast majority of gamers. At a starting price of $329, the RTX 3060 is designed to… Read more

RTX 3060 Listings Flood U.S. Retailers, With Prices Up to $629

Home News GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC 12G (Image credit: Gigabyte) Only a few hours are left before the GeForce RTX 3060 goes up for purchase at retailers around the world. Given Nvidia’s recent launch history, the mid-range Ampere graphics card’s stock might be equally limited so legit customers will likely have to fend off… Read more

Nvidia Estimates $100-$300 Million in Q4 Revenue from Miners

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Nvidia is raking in cash in the midst of ongoing graphics card shortages, but there isn’t a lot of good news for gamers on the near horizon. Nvidia released its Q4 and fiscal 2021 earnings today, notching an impressive record of $5 billion in quarterly revenue, up 61% over the… Read more

AMD Will Announce the Radeon RX 6700 XT On March 3

Home News Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Card (Image credit: AMD) AMD will reveal a new Radeon RX 6000 graphics card during Episode 3 of its “Where Gaming Begins” event on March 3 on 11 AM US Eastern. Although the chipmaker didn’t specify which model, it’s likely going to be the much-awaited Radeon RX 6700 XT…. Read more

RTX 3060 is Just 10% Faster Than Its Predecessor In Synthetic Tests

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) The RTX 3060 launch is almost upon us, but we won’t have to wait until tomorrow to see benchmarks. Videocardz.com today posted early numbers of how the 3060 runs in synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark and Unigine Superposition. The site attributes these tests to anonymous sources, and although synthetic benchmarks and… Read more

Gigabyte’s GeForce RTX 3060 Just Became The Fastest So Far

Home News Aorus GeForce RTX 3060 Elite 12G (Image credit: Gigabyte) The Gigabyte camp has added a new rendition of the GeForce RTX 3060 to its arsenal. Barring any subsequent models, the Aorus GeForce RTX 3060 Elite 12G (GV-N3060AORUS E-12GD) appears to carry the flagship tag of Gigabyte’s custom GeForce RTX 3060 models, and is… Read more

Nvidia made $5 billion during a GPU shortage and expects to do it again in Q1

Nvidia has shared its Q4 2021 earnings, and despite the company’s GPUs being in extremely low supply, it didn’t seem to hurt how much money the company made. In fact, it reported a record $5 billion in revenue, which is up 61 percent year-over-year. What’s more impressive is that Nvidia expects to make another $5… Read more

Gigabyte’s Aorus 15G is great at gaming, but not much else

As far as edgy gaming laptops go, this is a looker. Singularly focused but cool under pressure Gigabyte’s refreshed Aorus 15G for 2021 has a subtle, all-black design that takes a page from the company’s more svelte Aero lineup of creator-focused laptops. It’s a nice upgrade, but there aren’t many other changes from last year’s… Read more

AMD is announcing a new Radeon RX 6000 GPU in March

AMD has announced a new hardware event for next month, where the company plans to unveil the next GPU in its Radeon RX 6000 line of cards. The presentation will air on March 3rd at 8AM PT / 11AM ET. Like other GPUs in the RX 6000 series, this new model will use the RDNA… Read more

Pre-NDA Zotac RTX 3060 Torndown By Crypto-YouTuber

Home News (Image credit: @harukaze5719) Nvidia announced its RTX 3060 last month, later revealing that it was putting the brakes on Ethereum mining performance with this card. Simultaneously, Nvidia announced the professional ‘CMP’ mining GPUs. However, within all this, CryptoLeo, a Russian YouTuber that specializes in cryptocurrency, showed that the GPU was still profitable to… Read more

Alder Lake’s Big Cores Wallow at 3 GHz in New Benchmark

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) There has been a good number of Alder Lake benchmarks that have popped up on the radar. Yesterday’s Geekbench 5 submission (via Benchleaks), however, gives us a first peek into the hybrid processor’s big cores. Alder Lake-S will go down in Intel’s history as the first hybrid x86 desktop processor,… Read more

Gaming Performance Tested On ‘Worn Out’ RTX 2080 Ti Mining Card

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The potential to have reduced gaming performance from a used mining card has been a long-debated question. YouTube channel Testing Games posted a new video to look into the matter. Testing Games benchmarked a used RTX 2080 Ti that’s been mining hard for 1.5 years, compared to a fresh new… Read more

Will There Be a Desktop RTX 3060 6GB?

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) As tweeted by @Harukaze5719, Palit has added one more indication there may be additional (future) RTX 3060 variants. Palit filed listings for new RTX 3060 model names with the NRRA, and one model in particular showcases the RTX 3060 with 6GB of VRAM. Even before the official RTX 3060 announcement… Read more

TechTuber Benchmarks Core i7-11700 Qualifying Sample

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel’s 11th Gen Core CPUs might be weeks away from launch, but that hasn’t stopped a TechTuber from getting his hands on a qualifying sample of a Core i7-11700 to test. The Rocket Lake chip was put through a bunch of gaming, productivity, and synthetic benchmarks. Qualifying samples are the… Read more

Nvidia RTX 3060 Pricing Skyrockets Before Launch

Home News (Image credit: Coreteks) According to a report, what was supposed to be Nvidia’s most “value-oriented” RTX 30-series GPU to date has succumbed to severe price gouging before launch. Like all new Ampere and RDNA2 products, it appears the RTX 3060 will be nearly impossible to purchase near MSRP. News outlet Corteks has revealed… Read more