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How to watch Ubisoft Forward

Ubisoft Forward is the publisher / developer’s livestreamed event where we’ll see updates to preexisting Ubisoft titles, as well as announcements of brand-new games. For E3 2021, Ubisoft is teasing the unveiling of its next Rainbow Six title, formerly known as Rainbow Six Quarantine (good move changing that name, Ubisoft). It also plans to show… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Review: More Bandwidth, More Power, More Money

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti continues the Ampere architecture rollout, which powers the GPUs behind many of the best graphics cards. Last week Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, a card that we felt increased the price too much relative to the next step down. RTX 3070… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review: more 4K for more of your wallet

Nvidia goes back to 4K for more than $1K Last year’s Nvidia RTX 3080 was the first GPU to make 4K gaming finally feasible. It was a card that delivered impressive performance at 4K, especially for its retail price of $699 — far less than the 2080 Ti cost a generation earlier. That was before… Read more

Watch Dogs Legion 60FPS update confirmed, PvP modes delayed

For a few months now, Watch Dogs Legion has been following a content roadmap for major updates throughout the year. Some of this planned content is now being juggled around, with some updates pushed back to a later date. We also have an official date for Watch Dogs Legion’s 60 frames per second mode on… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX 3050 Ti can deliver 60fps gameplay in more budget-friendly laptops

Nvidia’s RTX 30-series lineup of mobile graphics chips has two new members joining today: the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and 3050. They sit beneath the GeForce RTX 3060 in terms of specs and performance, with less video memory (4GB) and fewer dedicated Tensor AI and RT cores available to perform ray tracing and handle AI-enhanced… Read more

AMD vs Nvidia: Which GPUs Are Best for Ray Tracing?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The best graphics cards should let you play your favorite games with stunning visual effects, including life-like reflections and shadows. Sure, ray tracing may not radically improve the look of some games, but you should be the one to decide whether or not to enable it. Getting locked out… Read more

Ryzen 5000 Mobile RAM Guide: The Best RAM For AMD Ryzen Laptops

Home News AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile Memory Scaling (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Today we’ll dive in deep on the best memory settings for your Ryzen mobile laptop. Sequels don’t always live up to the originals, and that’s true even in the processor world. In AMD’s case, however, it’s the complete opposite. The Zen microarchitecture has… 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

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

Fnatic React+ Gaming Headset Review: Bargain Surround Sound With Premium Quality

Our Verdict With clear audio, a great microphone and an understated but attractive design, the Fnatic React+ is aimed at eSports gamers, but it’s a great all-around headset for media and working from home too. The bundled USB sound card adds great-sounding 7.1 virtual surround sound to PC gaming, and a 3.5mm jack means you… Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT review: Nvidia wins this round

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Unless AMD actually sells them for $479, of course AMD and Nvidia are pretending they live in a fantasy world, one where you can buy a state-of-the-art graphics card for under $700. Heck, a fantasy world where you can buy a new AMD GPU at all — though… Read more

Sony’s PlayStation 5 Digital Edition is in stock at Target

If you missed the restock for the $500 PS5 with a disc drive earlier this morning, Target has now restocked the PS5 Digital Edition, while supplies last. Looking at the product listing for the product, it appears Target is not shipping the item to your home address, but rather you have to choose in-store pickup…. Read more

GPU Test System Update March 2021

Introduction TechPowerUp is one of the most highly cited graphics card review sources on the web, and we strive to keep our testing methods, game selection, and, most importantly, test bench up to date. Today, I am pleased to announce our newest March 2021 VGA test system, which has one of many firsts for TechPowerUp…. Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Specs, Pricing, and Launch Date Revealed

Home News We now have official specs for the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, yet another poorly kept secret in the land of GPUs you can’t actually buy. We’ve been expecting Navi 22 to join the ranks of the best graphics cards and land somewhere near the RTX 3060 Ti in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy… Read more

AMD is bringing Smart Access Memory’s frame rate boosts to Ryzen 3000 processors

The bar has just been lowered (in a good way!) for Resizable BAR, the PCI-Express graphics feature that lets CPUs directly access a GPU’s onboard memory to improve gaming frame rates. That’s because AMD just announced it’s bringing the tech to its last-gen Ryzen 3000 series processors, not just the new Ryzen 5000 chips that… Read more