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The A10-7800 averaged 117.8fps when encoding with HandBrake, which is roughly 2fps faster than the A8-7600 and just 5fps faster than the dual-core Pentium G3220. The A10-7800 was, 24% slower than the Core i3-4130, however. The A10-7800 turned in the same x264 HD Benchmark performance as the A8-7600. While the first pass result was average, the APUs performed very well in the second pass. The A10-7800 took 518 seconds to complete the Video Master Works work load, which was just three seconds faster than the A8-7600....

The Radeon HD 6870 averaged 31fps at 1920x1200 when testing with Just Cause 2, topping the Radeon HD 5850 and GeForce GTX 460 by 11%. However, it trailed the Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 470 by 6% and 9%. Mass Effect 2 We again relied on Fraps to test Mass Effect 2, recording 60 seconds of gameplay from the level “Lazarus Research Station”. Maximum in-game quality settings with 4xAA/16xAF were used....

Late in the year we wrapped things up with our feature “The Best Graphics Cards: Nvidia vs. AMD Current-Gen Comparison” which saw Nvidia take out the $100 - $150 price bracket with the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, while AMD claimed the $150 - $200 range with the Radeon HD 7850. As well-thought-out as the Radeon HD 7000 series was, we kind of hoped 2012 would mark the beginning and the end for the series, much as 2011 did for the previous generation....

Due to the limited time we’ve had with Vega 56 we have put all our focus and energy on gaming benchmarks, with over 20 games lined up. Later this week, when we receive our delayed Vega 64 sample, we’ll provide a more thorough review where we check for other GPU aspects such as overclocking, operating temperatures and power consumption. On the upside, we were well aware Vega was on its way and set for release on August 14, so the second we wrapped up Threadripper testing, we changed gears and began GPU testing....

The 9400F is the cheapest 9th generation Core i5 processor you can buy. For the past two months it’s been offered at the $150 price point which is roughly a 15% discount since launch. That also makes it 25% cheaper than the R5 3600, so budget-minded builders may be considering going Intel after all. Does it make sense? To answer that we’ll compare both CPUs in a range of games and applications....

Last week, a few early retailer listings for Gigabyte’s Aorus and Gaming series variants of the RX 6950 XT revealed some rather absurd prices for the upcoming refresh of AMD’s RDNA 2 flagship. While that isn’t a huge surprise given this is supposed to be a top-end GPU with the fastest GDDR6 available, the rest of the refreshed lineup may also carry high price tags. According to more recent listings (spotted by @momomo_us) at French retailer PC21....

The latest rumor comes from the Twitter account of regular and reliable hardware leaker Greymon55. They claim that the first lineup of Zen 4-powered CPUs will consist of the Ryzen 7950X, 7900X, 7800X, and 7600X, with the 7700X absent. That would be a next-gen replica of the Ryzen 5000 launch lineup from November 2020. The excitement around the Ryzen 7000 series increased last month when AMD confirmed that the chip it showed off at Computex running Ghostwire Tokyo at up to 5....

The first of the two SSDs, the AS2280F5 M.2 PCIe Gen5 x4 SSD, supports the latest NVMe 2.0 standard. It is backward compatible with PCIe Gen 4, but it will need connecting to a PCIe 5.0-compatible board to hit read speeds of 13,000 MB/s and write speeds of up to 12,000 MB/s—double what the PCIe 4.0 connection offers. Elsewhere, the drive features an aluminum heatsink and multiple protection technologies to ensure the correctness and stability of data....

With the EU law mandating all small chargeable electronics come equipped with the USB-C standard by 2024 virtually set in stone, attention has been on the company that will be impacted most: Apple. The subject was raised by The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern during a talk with Apple marketing lead Greg Joswiak and software VP Craig Federighi at the publication’s Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California. When asked if Apple would replace the Lightning port in the iPhone, Joswiak said, “obviously, we’ll have to comply; we have no choice....

The iPad is now on its fifth iteration and with it comes a new name, the iPad Air. True to the moniker, Apple’s latest full-size tablet has been put on a significant diet. It retains the same 9.7-inch display but with a bezel that is 43 percent thinner along with a 20 percent reduction in overall thickness. Measuring just 7.5mm thin, it’s actually a tiny bit thinner than the iPhone 5s and at a weight of 1 pound even, it’s the lightest full-size tablet currently in the market....

The draw distances on ultra are unlike anything we’ve seen before and the crazy part is that they can be increased much further if you have that kind of GPU power on tap. It’s impressive to watch a detailed landscape form in the distance and then remain consistent without random things popping in or out of view – something we’ve experienced when playing plenty of games, including Battlefield 3....

AMD Phenom II X6 Test System Specs - AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (3.30GHz) - x4 2GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 (CAS 8-8-8-20) - Asus Crosshair IV (AMD 890FX) - GeForce GTX 580 (1536MB) - OCZ ZX Series 1250w - Seagate 500GB 7200-RPM (Serial ATA300) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - Nvidia Forceware 270.61 Core i5 Test System Specs - Intel Core i5 750 (2.66GHz) - x4 2GB G....

The above screen shot shows the main menu which offers information such as UEFI version, CPU type/speed and various other specifications. The OC Tweaker menu is obviously where all the overclocking related settings are hidden and above you’ll see a great deal of voltage and frequency options. Fine-tuning the system memory with the Z87 Extreme11/ac is very easy and the board recognized and loaded all our XMP profiles correctly....

This also means that the GeForce GTX 580 is fetching up to $100 more than some GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards. With such a premium, we are expecting big things from the new arrival. As mentioned before, based on Fermi’s third-generation Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) architecture, the GeForce GTX 580 boasts 512 CUDA cores, which is more than twice the shader power of the GT200 core used by the GeForce GTX 280/285....

The 890GX still uses the HyperTransport 3.0 (5.2GT/s) to link the processor and north bridge together while memory support is determined by the processor. Multi-GPU technology is supported though it is limited to Crossfire and Radeon graphics cards. Furthermore when using Crossfire the chipset is limited to PCIe 2.0 x8 bandwidth. Also connected to the north bridge are six PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots as was the case with the 790GX....

In Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts, AMD’s latest budget card was only able to match the performance of the GeForce GT 240 with a lackluster 35fps at 1920x1200. This meant that the Radeon HD 5670 was 8% slower than the GeForce 9800 GT and 34% slower than the Radeon HD 4770.

Continuing with the successful rollout of its Radeon HD 5000 series, AMD is now moving to attack the sub-$200 market, and hopes to keep the momentum going with the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. Codenamed Juniper XT and Juniper LE, respectively, the first is said to cost just $160, while the lower-end 5750 will cost between $110 and $130 depending on memory configuration. We’ve been particularly interested in the ATI Radeon HD 5770, as last generation’s Radeon HD 4770 was one of our all-time favorite budget graphics cards....

Here we tested the ATI graphics cards with DX10.1 enabled, while Nvidia’s used DX10. At 1680x1050 the Radeon HD 5870 was the fastest card tested. However, as the resolution increased, the efficiency of SLI and Crossfire improved, allowing both the Radeon HD 4870 X2 and GeForce GTX 295 to overtake the Radeon HD 5870. That said, with an average of 53fps at 2560x1600, the Radeon HD 5870 was just 7% slower than the Radeon HD 4870 X2 and a significant 83% faster than the single-GPU 4870....

Using the Fury X we see that DX12 allows for a few more frames per second on average with the Core i7-6700K. However, the minimum frame rate was oddly 19% lower. Moving to the Core i5-6600K we find that again DX12 boosted the average frame rate by a small margin, yet this time we see an even larger 29% decrease when looking at the minimum frame rate. The situation worsens with the Core i3-6100T processor....