To get a fuller picture, it’s increasingly apparent that you need to factor in a card’s frame latency, which looks at how quickly each frame is delivered. Regardless of how many frames a graphics card produces on average in 60 seconds, if it can’t deliver them all at roughly the same speed, you might see more brief jittery points with one GPU over another – something we’ve witnessed but didn’t fully understand....
These figures improve when gaming at 1920x1200. Here it was 8% slower than the HD 7950 and 5% slower than the GeForce GTX 580. Then when compared to the GeForce GTX 570 it was now 18% faster and 11% faster than the Radeon HD 6970. Moving on to the Radeon HD 7850, at 2560x1600 it was just 2% slower than the GeForce GTX 570 and 9% slower than the Radeon HD 6970....
The R9 290 averaged 50.6fps in MoH: Warfighter, 8% behind the R9 290X, 3% faster than the GTX 780 and a 25% jump on the GTX 770. The R9 290 slipped slightly in Warfighter’s frame time performance with results slower than the GTX 780. AMD’s latest offering was just 3% slower than the R9 290X in Hitman: Absolution, though its average of 36.8fps was 13% faster than the GTX 780 and 64% faster than the GTX 770....
Here we see just 2fps more from our overclock in Battlefield 4 at 2560x1600. The gains in Crysis 3 were minimal, just 1fps extra from the custom overclock. Finally, we received a 4fps gain in Tomb Raider, which wasn’t enough to beat the GeForce GTX 780 SLI configuration.
The Radeon RX 6900 XT doesn’t suffer from those issues, packing a single GPU with 5120 cores. However, that doesn’t mean it’s any better in terms of value. When compared to the 6800 XT we’re getting just 11% more cores and TMUs with the same 128 ROPs. The cores clock up to the same 2250 MHz and because the memory subsystem goes unchanged, we’re still looking at 16GB of GDDR6 16Gbps memory on a 256-bit wide memory bus for a peak bandwidth of 512GB/s....
When we reviewed these CPUs we checked them out in about a dozen games, comparing various memory and motherboard configurations to work out which offered the most value. In the end, they were very close to each other. The 13600K showed to have the advantage of stronger productivity performance, while the 7600X is more power efficient and is supported by a superior platform that should offer a significantly better upgrade path....
The Ryzen 9 7950X is AMD’s flagship and will cost $100 less than the 5950X, $700. It has 16 cores / 32 threads, 5.7 GHz boost, and 4.5 GHz base clocks. Those speeds, an increased cache capacity, and other IPC improvements culminate in what AMD says is a 29% single-core performance gain over the 5950X. So it shouldn’t be surprising to see it flying past the 5950X in the first leaked benchmarks....
The sudden boost in AMD’s market cap came from its $49 billion all-stock takeover of Xilinx on Monday, 15 months after the move was announced. The change in the companies’ stock prices added 40% extra to the deal; it was worth $35 billion back when first AMD revealed its intentions. The acquisition is one of the largest in tech history, sitting behind Dell paying $67 billion for EMC in 2015 and Microsoft’s recent purchase of Activision Blizzard for $68....
During the Radeon 7000 series graphics card reveal, AMD briefly mentioned FSR 3, the successor to its temporal resolution upscaling technique. Details are scarce, but the update will arrive in 2023. While the presentation showed plenty of games running with FSR 2, it only teased FSR 3 with an Unreal Engine 5 demo. The third generation of FSR could offer double the 4K frame rates of its predecessor using a feature called Fluid Motion Frames....
The security world still remembers (and dreads) the chaos unleashed by EternalBlue in 2017, when the vulnerability discovered (and stockpiled) by the National Security Agency (NSA) was exploited by the infamous WannaCry and NotPetya attacks (among many others) to hit digital infrastructures all over the world. Security researchers are now sounding a new alarm regarding another powerful vulnerability in town, one that could be even more dangerous than EternalBlue if left unpatched....
It’s been 15 months since Apple released the iPhone 4. This has left many iPhone, and would-be iPhone customers, anxious for what the company planned to bring next. As we learned recently, the iPhone 4S it is: same body, same screen, same construction, same look as the iPhone 4. To say that some people were disappointed with the 4S announcement would be an understatement. However, to be fair, beyond the identical exterior lies the hard work that Apple put forth on the inside....
Last fall, Arm debuted its Total Solutions for IoT, an effort to make the process of creating IoT devices easier. Part of the announcement that got somewhat lost in the noise was Arm Virtual Hardware. The basic idea behind it is to emulate the operation of a given chip in software, so that software developers can write applications without needing to have the physical chip present. Given the huge variety of potential chip options when it comes to creating IoT devices, this is significantly more important than first appears....
These Skylake-U processors are surprisingly similar to each other, and Intel even suggests the same $281 retail price. They are of course BGA 1356 parts, which means they are fixed directly to the PCB and therefore can’t be replaced. Both are dual-core parts that operate at 2.3GHz, feature a 3MB L3 cache and sport the lowly Intel HD Graphics 520 operating at between 300 - 1000MHz. They are also both 15W parts, the only difference being that the Core i5-6200U supports Turbo boost....
At just 1280x800 and medium quality settings in Metro: Last Light, the Vision HT 420D rendered just 11fps, by far the slowest system tested. Enabling dual-channel memory did improve performance by 45% but at 16fps the game is still far from playable. Lowering the graphic quality to low in Tomb Raider allowed the Vision HT 420D to average 30fps at 1280x800, which is borderline playable at this low resolution. Adding another memory module for dual-channel mode increased the frame rate by 29% to a more respectable 38....
Although the advanced menus and options are the same for both boards the Gaming K6 has been branded with a Fatal1ty themed BIOS while the Extreme4 is less red and more blue. In either case most of the fun will be had in the OC Tweaker menu though they are some useful things in the Advanced and Tool menus as well. Here’s a look at some of the menus and options found within the Asrock UEFI BIOS…...
At launch, the GeForce GTX 580 carries a suggested retail pricing of $499, while retailers are charging about $30 extra on average. We’re starting to see a few cards appear at list price, but most remain around $529. Meanwhile, the GTX 480 is going for around $449, making it only slightly cheaper than the GTX 580. On the other side of the fence, Radeon HD 5970 boards are not as abundant as they were a few months back, but you should still be able to grab one for anything between $630 and $700....
In my time with the Transformer Book, the battery tended to last several days with just casual web browsing, social media usage and a few YouTube videos here and there. When I actually sat down and used the device for an extended period of time, using apps such as Microsoft Word to compile articles, and downloading apps and games, I achieved around eight to ten hours of stamina from the internal battery, which is definitely a decent effort....
This is a noteworthy power saving except when you take into account that the Radeon HD 5570 was usually considerably slower than the GeForce 9600 GT in the games we tested. The operating temperatures were nothing out of the ordinary. Although the Radeon HD 5570 consumes a fraction of the power compared to the Radeon HD 5750, under load it ran a degree warmer likely due to the difference in the reference cooler designs....
As a result the Radeon HD 5670 should generate little noise and likely overclock very well, assuming the single slot cooler can keep it running at a reasonable temperature – we’ll look into that shortly. Compared to the Radeon HD 5770, which measures 21cm, the Radeon HD 5670 is just 17cm long. This is the same as the GeForce GT 240 and therefore should fit in any case that can support a mATX motherboard....
Under different circumstances AMD would have been pressured to show all its cards at once, adjusting prices according to external factors. This also contrasts with the agitated release of the Radeon HD 4000 series. You may recall how it took AMD several months to show mainstream cards following the release of the Radeon HD 4870 and 4850. And while we are now completing our first look at the Radeon HD 5770, the ultimate weapon in ATI’s arsenal still remains to be seen, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5870 X2 which we hope to show you shortly....
