DirectStorage technology seems to make it pointless to buy expensive modern SSDs for a gaming PC for the foreseeable future. Tests of three drives of different generations showed that the difference between them in this mode becomes not very significant. Testing was conducted in the game Forspoken, which is the...
Another resolution-related Nvidia technology could soon be available to many, but not in games this time. Chrome 110 (110.0.5481.77) already introduces support for Nvidia RTX VSR (Video Super Resolution), which, like DLSS in games, upscales resolution through AI. In this case, we are talking about increasing the resolution in the...
In the statistics of the most popular video cards of the Steam service for January of this year, the GeForce RTX 4090 was first noted – and it immediately took 69th place. It would seem that this is not the most significant result, but everything is known in comparison: the...
Ayaneo has announced a new Air Plus laptop based on AMD R7 6800U, equipped with a 6-inch 1080p screen. The device is very similar to the Nintendo Switch OLED handheld console. The 6-inch Ayaneo Air Plus is almost the same size as the 7-inch Switch OLED. Ayaneo Air Plus is...
Microsoft has published a report on the results of the second quarter of fiscal year 2023. The company’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 billion, while net income fell 12% to $16.4 billion. This is far from Microsoft’s best quarter. These results are due to several reasons. First, there is a...
Opera Software has announced a fresh update for the branded game browser Opera GX. The popular short video service TikTok has been integrated into the sidebar of the browser. As planned by the developers, this will simplify the search for content. The company explained: We know that the majority of...
Intel may release another Arc graphics card in the near future. The unnamed model showed up in CompuBench. It is known that this model has 256 computing units, that is, 16 Xe cores. We have not seen such a configuration among desktop adapters before. Recall that the Arc A580 model,...
AMD has clearly decided to focus on gift games when promoting its processors and video cards. Starting today, customers who purchase the latest Ryzen 7000 CPUs will receive a copy of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Like Company of Heroes 3, which was given away in Japan with a Ryzen 5000,...
Processors and video cards of the new generation, among other things, stand out with very high frequencies even against the background of their predecessors, not to mention older solutions. The ComputerBase resource decided to check at what frequencies modern GPUs can really work, if not resorting to extreme overclocking. For...
Sony announced today that the PlayStation VR2, a virtual reality device developed for the PlayStation 5, will be officially released worldwide on February 22, 2023. The suggested retail price in the mainland China market is about $670. Includes PlayStation VR2 helmet, PlayStation VR2 Sense controller and stereo headset. The previously...
AMD released the Adrenalin 22.12.2 driver exclusively for RDNA 3 graphics cards about a week after the start of sales. As it turned out, it contains one very important improvement: the driver reduces the consumption of video cards both when playing video and in games. If the Radeon RX 7900...
The Nvidia GeForce 40 mobile accelerators, which debuted ten days ago, did not really impress with their parameters, but the characteristics on paper are one thing, and the real capabilities of the video card are quite another. Based on a quick test of the GeForce RTX 4080, Nvidia did a...
The official Game of Thrones NFT Collection sold out in just seven hours on the Nifty’s marketplace. This happened despite the fact that the collection is ridiculed on Twitter for the poor quality of the images, as some of the avatars have claw-like hands. The collection has also been compared...
Almost a month after the launch of the Radeon RX 7900 graphics cards, AMD has published a guide for game developers, which should allow the latter to better optimize their projects for the new architecture. The 600+ page document provides details on the RDNA 3 shader code execution model, memory...
AMD introduced the Ryzen 7950X3D, 7900X3D and 7800X3D processors with huge cache last week. Then all the characteristics were disclosed, but the company did not name the prices and the start date of sales. The date is already known. AMD’s official website data suggests that the new items will go...
A lot of interesting concepts were shown at CES 2023. One of them was the Brelyon Fusion monitor, which, strictly speaking, can replace a VR helmet in some cases. This monitor is notable for its appearance and huge size. The novelty is equipped with an OLED panel with a resolution...
