Previous 700 series cards have been heavy hitters, with the GTX 770 packing about as much muscle as the GTX 680 for about $100 less. Assuming Nvidia doesn’t throw us a curve ball, we expect the GTX 760 to deliver performance comparable to that of the HD 7950 with a price tag that’s closer to HD 7870s – a situation that would invariably benefit anyone shopping for a mid-range GPU....
Here we see yet another closely contested battle between the new GeForce GTX 770 and the old Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. The overclocked Gainward GTX 770 Phantom averaged 42.8fps making it just 5% faster than the 7970 GHz Edition, but 14% faster than the GeForce GTX 680. The Gainward GTX 770 Phantom’s lead over the GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition was reduced when measuring frame time performance, as it was now just 7% and 1% faster respectively....
Since the original comparison we’ve received multiple driver and game updates as well as quite a few new games which we’ve added to the benchmark list. Of the 27 games we’ll be testing, just half a dozen of them were featured in last year’s battle. Last time the Radeon RX 570 was a mere 2% slower on average, so a very even fight. Currently the RX 570 costs ~$10 more than the 3GB version of the GTX 1060 – even though its reference cost is $170, while the GTX 1060 should be about $200....
We looked at the original Aero 15 last year and were pretty impressed with most aspects. The Aero 15X is not a massive departure from what we had before, but we there are hardware improvements and other changes that help refine the laptop. And Gigabyte is key to stress this isn’t just a gaming laptop, but a machine designed for productivity, and that shows with features like an X-Rite certified display....
The standoff continued in our WinRAR compression tests, which saw the G1.Sniper2 and Z68 Extreme4 deliver exactly the same performance. Gigabyte’s latest contender regained its marginal two-tenths-of-a-second lead in our Adobe Photoshop CS5 radial blur test.
Unsurprisingly, the Titan was the fastest single-GPU card tested with an average of 47.6fps in Far Cry 3 at the higher of our two resolutions, topping the GTX 680 by 51% and the HD 7970 GHz Edition by 37%, though it was still bested by dual HD 7870s, GTX 660 Tis and HD 7950 Boosts by 3%, 4% and 16%, respectively. Despite taking fourth place in our 2560x1600 fps testing, the Titan topped our frame latency chart with 24....
The display’s 5.2-inch size is just about perfect, providing a good mix of screen real estate and usability. The 5X is slightly larger than the 5.1-inch Galaxy S6 due to the larger display, and approximately the same size as the 5.2-inch Sony Xperia Z5, though noticeably larger than the 4.7-inch iPhone 6s. Typical users should find this size much more manageable than the Nexus 6P or Galaxy Note 5....
With specs like a quad-core processor and a 1280 x 800 pixel display, that seems possible and likely. From a hardware perspective, the Google Nexus 7 by Asus is not very different from existing Android tablets, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. It measures 198.5mm x 120mm x 10.45mm (7.8in x 4.7in x .4in) in size, weighs 340g (12.0oz), and features a 7-inch ~IPS display that is protected by scratch-resistant glass....
The “extension apocalypse” users and developers are awaiting has just been delayed. Google said the proposed migration from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3, initially planned for January 2023, will not take place at the beginning of the new year. Developers will have more time to adapt to the new standard, while Google seems willing to find some common ground for the limits imposed by V3 to ad blockers and other popular extensions for Chrome....
Our mild 9% overclock allowed for a shy 6% performance gain as the frame rate increased by just 2fps. This didn’t do a whole lot for the Radeon HD 6970 and still meant that it was much slower than the GeForce GTX 570 in this game. The Radeon HD 6970 only saw a 1fps performance gain when testing with Crysis 2. On Dirt 3 the Radeon HD 6970 enjoyed an extra 5fps for a 7% performance gain....
Cavill appeared on Josh Horowitz’ Happy Sad Confused podcast on October 26 to discuss his return as Superman, Enola Holmes 2, the next Witcher season, and more. He was also asked about his gaming habits. One might expect that a busy guy like Cavill struggles to find PC time, but when questioned about how long he spends in front of a monitor, he admitted it’s “a fair amount,” which “probably means ‘a lot’ for those who don’t game....
When testing with Left 4 Dead we see that at 2560x1600 the HIS Radeon HD 5850 is 15% faster than the GeForce GTX 285, while it is also 15% slower than the Radeon HD 5870. Furthermore, the older Radeon HD 4890 was 27% slower than the HIS Radeon HD 5850 at this extreme resolution. In Resident Evil 5 the Radeon HD 5850 again works out to be about 15% slower than the 5870....
Needless to say the HIS Radeon HD 5850 easily handled this mild overclock. We expect it to crack the 800MHz barrier once better software is available, but even so our limited overclock allowed for decent performance gains at different resolutions, as you can see from the graphs above.
To answer this question we have to talk a bit about how a GPU and display work together to send frames into your eyeballs, and how technologies like Vsync function. But the bottom line is, running games at extremely high frame rates, well above your monitor’s refresh rate, will lead to a more responsive game experience with lower perceived input latency. That’s the answer to the question for those that don’t want to wait until the end....
For that reason, booting to BIOS in Windows 11 is slightly different from previous versions such as Windows 7. If you are wondering how to go about it, here’s a short guide for you. But first things first… BIOS vs. UEFI: What’s the difference? Sometimes these two terms are used interchangeably, but BIOS slightly differs from UEFI, and in short it can be said UEFI is the evolution of what BIOS used to do....
The Envy x360 13 also provides us with a platform to see how Ryzen Mobile fares in a 13-inch form factor for the first time. When we initially reviewed Ryzen Mobile in the 15-inch Envy x360, it was good but we thought the real strength of this APU would be in ultra-compact notebooks pitted directly against Intel Kaby Lake Refresh systems without discrete graphics. After all, we know how disappointing Intel’s integrated graphics is, so to get an APU with a more powerful GPU in the exact same form factor is a very attractive proposition....
Our ProBook evaluation unit shipped with Intel’s Core i5-2410M, a 2.30 GHz Sandy Bridge processor that is capable of Turbo Boosting up to 2.90 GHz when needed. Much like the i5-2520M in the ThinkPad X1 we tested recently, this CPU features four processing threads and Intel HD 3000 Graphics with a max TDP of 35W. The system also packs 4GB of DDR3, a Hitachi 320GB hard drive spinning at 7200RPM, Broadcom 802....
Aside from the resolution, there’s not a whole lot to like about the One X9’s display. At 415 nits, peak brightness falls below the ideal 500 nits mark for a smartphone, and this is particularly disappointing considering this phone uses an LCD. Contrast and black levels are both average for an LCD, while viewing angles are below average. The worst aspect of this display is color performance. Sometimes I forgive poor color performance if the display uses a wider-than-sRGB gamut, as this merely increases top-end saturation, but this is not the case with the One X9’s display....
Gunnir’s dual-fan Arc A380 Photon 6GB OC packs Intel’s ACM-G11 GPU made on TSMC’s 6nm process node. As the name suggests, it packs three 15.5 Gbps 2GB GDDR6 memory modules and a 2,000 MHz base clock with a 2,450 MHz overclocked boost. While the memory is slower than the 16 Gbps reference specs, this OC model will likely have a higher boost clock than the standard A380. Other stats include eight Xe cores, each with up to 128 ALUs for a total of 1,024 ALUs, eight ray tracing units, and 4MB of L2 cache....
We have yet to see any Intel Arc GPUs outside of South Korea and China, despite the company’s initial promise that it would flood the market with a wide range of desktop and laptop models. However, judging by early benchmarks and the relatively slow driver development around Team Blue’s discrete GPUs, the company may have decided to take a slower approach to releasing them on the global market. Last month, Intel said its desktop Arc A-series graphics cards would be China-exclusive for a few months....
