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GeForce RTX 3090 Goes Down Memory Lane With Blower Design

Home News Emtek GeForce RTX 3090 Blower Edition (Image credit: Naver Corp.) South Korean vendor Emtek (via harukaze5719) has taken a bit of old-school inspiration for its latest rendition of Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 3090. The graphics card, titled GeForce RTX 3090 Blower Edition, respectfully pays homage to the blower design. The GeForce RTX 3090… Read more

Chinese Miners Using RTX 30-Series Laptops for Mining Power

Home News (Image credit: Weibo) Over this past week, Ethereum has skyrocketed to nearly $1700 in value (at the time of writing), making Ethereum very profitable to mine once again. But due to the shortage in graphics card supplies right now, desperate Chinese miners are apparently turning to RTX 30 series laptops as a new… Read more

Radeon RX 6700 Could Feature Less VRAM than Radeon RX 6600XT

Home News (Image credit: AMD) A potential leak from the EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) shows that Asrock has filed information pertaining to the currently unannounced Radeon RX 6600XT and an RX 6700 (vanilla). The info suggests Asrock’s RX 6600XT’s might feature 12GB of VRAM, and 8GB of VRAM for the RX 6700 variant. Beware that… Read more

Nvidia Will Require Laptop Vendors to Provide RTX 30-series Specs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia will now require that companies selling laptops with the latest RTX 30-series graphics cards list total graphics power and clock speeds, the GPU maker told The Verge. Previously, the company had told Tom’s Hardware that “We strongly encourage OEMs” to list this data. Most companies, including Dell, Asus, MSI… Read more

Asus RTX 3070 TUF Gaming OC Review: Quietly Competent

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Today we’re looking at our first custom 3070 card, the Asus GeForce RTX 3070 TUF Gaming OC. Like all the other recent GPUs, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 continues to be highly sought after — by gamers and miners alike. Originally revealed with a $500 base price, with performance relatively… Read more

Nvidia is requiring laptop makers to be more transparent about RTX 30-series specs

Nvidia is now requiring, not just encouraging, companies selling laptops with its new RTX 30-series graphics chips to be more transparent about the kind of power people can expect. Nvidia tells The Verge these companies will have to disclose specific clock speed stats and total graphics power on online product pages — all of which… Read more

Check Out the Funky PCB On EVGA’s GeForce RTX 3090 Kingpin GPU

Home News (Image credit: EVGA) Designed for extreme overclocking, EVGA’s Kingpin edition graphics cards are arguably among the most complex and impressive pieces of hardware available today. Unfortunately, these cards are only sold to EVGA’s Elite Members, and reviews of KPE products are rare, so very few people get to see these boards up close, making… Read more

Nvidia Celebrates One Year of GeForce Now With Impressive Stats

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia has just celebrated GeForce Now’s One year anniversary with a blog post showcasing its achievements over its lifetime. Nvidia says that GeForce Now has a population of over 6 million members, over 175 million hours of streamed gameplay, 100 million hours of multiplayer gameplay, and 16 million hours of… Read more

Asus Publishes List of Mobile RTX 3000 Configs

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Responding to an inquiry from Dutch hardware site Tweakers, Asus has recently made public a detailed list of its different laptops for 2021, which GPUs they will use and what the clock speeds and TGPs are for each. That’s big news, since even though CES 2021 left us knowing… Read more

Multiple RTX 3060 Mobile TDP Configurations Tested

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Performance for Nvidia’s RTX 3060 mobile has been difficult to understand, with the 3060 (as well as RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 mobile) being capable of running in a range of power configurations depending on the laptop model. Now we have some actual data on how much faster or slower… Read more

PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Dragon Review

Introduction Today’s review is of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Dragon graphics card. The Red Dragon brand by PowerColor strikes a balance between the enthusiast-focused Red Devil brand and the vanilla reference-design, and the new Fighter series. Competition in this segment comes from the likes of the Sapphire Pulse and ASUS TUF Gaming. The… Read more

Alienware m17 R4 Gaming Laptop Review: Can’t Get Much Faster

Our Verdict A speed demon that prioritizes raw performance, the Alienware m17 R4 puts plenty of pop into a sleek but bulky chassis. For Unrivaled performance Snappy keyboard Attractive design At present, RTX 3080 is the fastest laptop graphics card around, but not all RTX 3080-powered laptops are created equal. Many vendors use Nvidia’s Max-Q… Read more

Nvidia’s Ampere GPUs Steam Ahead to 1 Percent Bogus Market Share

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Valve has just updated its Steam Hardware Survey with results from January 2021. If you believe the numbers for videocards, Nvidia’s RTX 30-series GPUs now account for over 1% of the total gaming market on Steam. These are some of the best graphics cards, but demand is so high… Read more

Galax Launches Record-Chasing RTX 3090 HOF GPUs

Home News Galax GeForce RTX 3090 HOF Limited Edition (Image credit: Galax) Galax has launched the brand’s much-coveted GeForce RTX 3090 HOF graphics cards, which will arrive in six different variants. The HOF, HOF Premium and HOF Limited Edition are available globally, while the HOF Extreme, HOF Extreme Limited Edition and HOF OC Lab Edition… Read more

Die Shots of Nvidia’s Mid-Range GA106 Ampere Core Exposed

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Videocardz posted leaked die-shots for GA106, Nvidia’s mid-range Ampere GPU. Right now, variants of the GA106 core are responsible for powering mobile and desktop versions of the upcoming RTX 3060 12GB, which looks to join the best graphics cards later this month. As with all leaked data, take everything with… Read more