The former comes with all the bells and whistles for $300 while the latter costs an extra $40 to $50, and their performance is no mystery considering they are rebadged versions of 2012’s $400 AMD Radeon HD 7970 and $470 Nvidia GeForce GTX 680, respectively. When we tested those cards a couple of years ago, the 7970 GHz Edition was 7% faster at 1920x1200 and 11% faster at 2560x1600, while the standard 7970 matched the GTX 680’s performance....
Activision hasn’t yet unveiled this year’s Call of Duty game, which Infinity Ward is helming, but all signs indicate it’s a sequel to that studio’s previous game—the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot. Multiple sources told industry insider Tom Henderson that the game had entered alpha. Henderson says this is the earliest he’s heard of a Call of Duty game entering alpha. He doesn’t think it’s cause for concern, speaking positively of the footage he’d seen so far....
Ryzen has always had massive performance issues with Far Cry Primal and well nothing’s changed. Here we see overclocking and tweaking the memory timings did little to improve things and as a result the Core i5-8400 enjoys an easy win. Even once overclocked the 2600 was still 8% slower than the 8400 at 1440p when comparing frame time performance. For Honor is a mostly GPU bound title, especially without hardware configuration and as such the performance at 1440p and 1080p is much the same for all three configurations....
As good as AMD’s AM4 platform is, unless you’re already on it or are looking at budget builds, it makes no sense investing heavily on it at this point. You could argue the same is also true of Intel’s dead LGA 1700 platform that supports the 13th-gen Raptop Lake parts, but those CPUs are mighty powerful and offer strong productivity and gaming performance, making them worthy options for new system builders....
Samsung claims a write throughput of 220MB/s and we saw up to 260MB/s for the 128K test and 224MB/s for the 32K test. This placed the Samsung 470 Series 256GB within striking distance of the OCZ Vertex 2 40GB and Vertex 2 Pro 100GB SSDs, while topping the Crucial C300 256GB for the 32K and 128K tests.
The CES Innovation Award Honoree features a 4K (3,840 x 2,160 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio) matte display with a max 165Hz refresh rate and support for AMD FreeSync Premium Pro. Response time is rated at 1ms (GtG), and the 1,000,000:1 static contrast ratio is said to bring out even more subtle details. Samsung is also using its Neural Quantum Processor Ultra for upscaling content to 4K, which it claims is powered by data from 20 neural networks....
The SSD 850 Pro’s sequential read performance was the strongest we’ve recorded for a SATA SSD at 538MB/s. Enabling RAPID mode inflated the results showing a transfer rate of 7.2GB/s. Even the first run delivered well over 6GB/s and this is because synthetic benchmarks like CrystalDiskMark pre-cache all the benchmark files onto the target drive first. So essentially RAPID mode is measuring is RAM performance here. The sequential write performance is also very strong at 502MB/s, while RAPID mode offered an inflated 4....
When it isn’t busy battling ransomware gangs, lower-than-expected chip manufacturing yields, and blowback from fans for throttling the chipsets on Galaxy phones, Samsung is trying to delineate more quirky concepts for foldable phones. According to a patent uncovered by Let’s Go Digital, the tech giant envisions a new kind of foldable phone that would have a sideways wrap-around screen. The patent was filed in 2021 with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), and describes a device that is L-shaped when unfolded, with the top half of the screen protruding to the side....
The T3 shines when handling lots of small files such as in our ‘program’ file transfer test which moves 6104 small non-compressed files totalling 2.75GB. The T3’s download performance was 40% greater than the fastest thumb drives we’ve seen and almost four times faster than a conventional 2.5" hard drive. Moreover, the upload tests showed the T3 to be five times faster than the quickest thumb drive we’ve tested and 42% faster than the Kingston HyperX Max 64GB portable SSD....
When measuring the performance of different file sizes using Atto Disk Benchmark, the Evo drives started at 37MB/s for the 1K test, which was slightly more than the OCZ Vector and Intel SSD 520 Series yet much less than the Samsung SSD 840 Pro and SanDisk Extreme II. We saw similar performance trends for the 2K test as well, though the throughput for the Evo drives increased to 73MB/s. Moving up to 8K, the Evo models really started to slip behind, performing much slower than most of the other SSDs....
As we said back then, the Samsung SSD 850 Pro is the ’last hoorah’ for SATA 6Gb/s leaving virtually no room left to exploit out of the interface. But because SATA remains the mainstream interface and it won’t go away anytime soon, the logical step is to take that maxed out performance and make it cheaper. Samsung has achieved the feat with the 850 Evo. The SSD 850 Evo isn’t far behind its Pro counterpart and with up to a 28% savings per gigabyte, the Evo makes a lot of sense....
Despite weighing just 8.17lbs (3.71kg) and having a tiny 14L capacity, the RVZ01 was destined for big things with support for enthusiast gear including a dual-slot GPU that’s up to 13" (330mm) long, technically leaving enough room for the GeForce GTX Titan X. For our build we went with a more wallet-friendly GeForce GTX 760 and the results were still impressive. The RVZ01 wasn’t only practical for its hardware support but also because of its rather reasonable price of $100 – not bad for such a unique computer case....
There is no shortage of impractical ports of the 1993 classic first-person shooter Doom. Some have been somewhat sensible, like the developer that ported it to the low-spec Playdate handheld. Others have been absurd “just because I can” proofs of concept, like the version that runs on a single key display or an Ikea smart lamp. NotepadDoom falls into that latter category. A YouTuber named Sam “Samperson” Chiet somehow got Doom running inside of Microsoft Notepad — at 60 frames per second, no less....
Enter the Xperia Z1. New Snapdragon 800 SoC. New 20.7-megapixel Exmor RS camera. New aluminium body. In many respects, this is what Sony was aiming for with the original Xperia Z: a solid set of features to lure any smartphone buyer. It may be out a little later than your Galaxy S4 or HTC One, but there’s no doubting that the Z1 is a high-end handset to take Sony into 2014....
During my general usage of the Xperia Z2, I found that the battery life was very good, easily lasting a whole day with some juice still left in the tank at the end. Like past Sony smartphones, the Z2 is well suited to surfing the internet on Wi-Fi, but comparatively doesn’t fare so well with LTE networks in terms of battery life. This is something I’ve only really seen on Sony phones, so I assume it has something to do with their handling of networks on the software front, but it has its upsides and downsides....
Of the areas Sony has changed, there’s a nice lockscreen and a few okay homescreen widgets, but nothing really jumps out to me as being spectacular. The general design of Sony’s skin is okay, but as usual I would prefer the visually-pleasant stock Android over skinning for the sake of skinning. As is typical for devices that have received an OEM software makeover, the design of the skin doesn’t meld well with the remaining stock Android elements littered around apps such as Gmail....
The latest official drivers were used for all graphics cards, which saw Crossfire working under certain conditions, while SLI appears to be broken. For measuring frame rates we relied on Fraps, where we recorded a minute of gameplay from the first level. The Intel Core i7 920 processor was overclocked to 3.7GHz in an attempt to remove any CPU bottlenecks that could influence high-end graphics cards scores. Finally, we know that many of you will be interested in CPU scaling performance as well, and therefore we down-clocked the Core i7 920 to see what kind of impact this has on performance when using a Radeon HD 5870 graphics card with maximum in-game quality settings....
The centerpiece of Nintendo’s Black Friday sale is a bundle that includes a Nintendo Switch with neon blue and neon red Joy-Con controllers as well as a full game download code for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and a three-month Nintendo Switch Online individual membership for $299.99. That’s $70 off the standard MSRP. Note that if you want access to everything Nintendo Switch Online has to offer, you’ll need the premium expansion pack membership....
Finding the good in a failed product can be difficult at the time but in hindsight, it’s those same products that often serve as precursors to existing technology. In this article, we will be profiling nine such ideas that were conceived and brought to market well before their time. While some weren’t exactly failures, most were – and all are responsible for playing a role in current devices or services that make our lives more comfortable and enjoyable....
The basic goal of Radeon Anti-Lag is to reduce input lag while gaming. Input lag is the delay between when you make an input, like a mouse click or key press, and when the action takes place on your display. For fast-paced competitive games, especially shooters like CS Go, Overwatch or Fortnite, it’s key to have the lowest input lag possible so you can spot your enemies, target them with your weapon, and shoot them as quickly and smoothly as possible....
