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After much speculation, last week ASRock essentially confirmed its plans to enter the graphics card market with a not so cryptic teaser video. Now today, the company has officially announced its Phantom Gaming series of graphics cards, focussing on the Radeon RX 500 series. The RX 580 and RX 570 …

The Nvidia GeForce Partner Program controversy has been going on for a couple of weeks now and during that time, more information has come to light. We've been keeping an eye on things and had a chat with an inside source to bring out some updated coverage.

Over the course of the cryptocurrency boom, graphics card makers have pledged to try and aid gamers in the GPU shortage through various means. Nvidia has managed to make some effort towards this, replenishing some of its stock in the UK but it seems that the green team is still …

At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) earlier this week, we learned that Microsoft, Nvidia and AMD were all working on bringing Ray Tracing technology to the video game world. Now, the folks over at Epic Games have talked more about it during their ‘State of Unreal' panel, showcasing three videos …

After some lengthy delays, we may finally see the first 4K/144Hz, HDR and G-Sync monitors hit the market.

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) kicked off this week and we've already had a couple of major announcements. It looks like this year, DirectX 12 is back in the spotlight, with the likes of Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft all working to support Ray Tracing technology. This is a technique commonly …

A couple of weeks ago, rumours first began spreading, claiming that ASRock will be entering the graphics card market this year. This was particularly noteworthy at the time, as it is not every day that we see a new graphics card seller enter the market. Now, it appears that those …

It seems to be one step forward, two steps back in the world of graphics cards as users will apparently have to wait even longer to see Nvidia’s Turing GPUs. Originally pegged for a reveal this month in time for an August launch, Nvidia’s next gaming line of cards might …

We were given a break from the usual controversies surround graphics cards last week after a report surfaced surrounding Nvidia's new GeForce Partner Program. It seems that there is some concern behind the scenes about what this program represents and its potential for anti-consumerism, so today we are digging in and hoping to clear up some points of confusion.

It looks like the graphics card market will be getting a new contender this year. This week, reports emerged claiming that motherboard maker ASRock will begin selling graphics cards as soon as April, with a main focus on supplying AMD-based GPUs. ASRock has been around since 2002 and since then, …

For quite some time, EVGA has been regarded as one of the best graphics card sellers for those who care about warranties and return/upgrade policies. In a somewhat controversial move, the firm has now removed the ability to conduct a “Guest RMA,” to return a GPU, instead requiring users to …

Last year, Intel and AMD made its collaboration official, with plans to launch a new chip packing an Intel CPU and an RX Vega M GPU with HBM2 on board. At CES we got more details on specific specs for all five G-series processors and now this week, we have …

Final Fantasy XV is heading to PC officially next week but we've managed to get a quick look at performance ahead of time thanks to the release of a free playable demo. The game's initial benchmark release didn't turn out to be all that useful, but the demo version of …

Graphics card pricing is crazy right now, and apparently the trend won't be stopping any time soon.

Chances are, if you have $3000 or £2,700 to spend on a graphics card like the Nvidia Titan V, then you'll have a bit extra to invest in proper cooling. It has taken a little while to develop, but Titan V owners can now shift from the GPU's reference cooler …

Last year, the graphics industry had a major shakeup, with Raja Koduri switching to the blue team to take the reins on discrete GPU development for Intel. Since then, things have been somewhat quiet, but this week that changed with some discrete GPU prototype details making their way onto the web.

While Intel's integrated GPUs have never been a particularly strong option for PC gaming, it is an option that many still use to this date. In fact, Steam's hardware survey will often show Intel iGPUs among the most used. To help those users, Intel is introducing a new feature to …

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The graphics card rumour mill has been spinning back up recently, with reports claiming that Nvidia's next gaming graphics cards will be here in less than two months time under the name ‘Ampere'. However, a wrench was thrown into the works today thanks to the folks at Reuters, who claim …

Nvidia wasn’t shy of the success brought about by the current cryptocurrency boom during its earnings call on Friday, but it similarly hasn’t forgotten the huge problem it has been presenting gamers. The company has taken the time to reiterate previous statements, reassuring that gamers are still the number one …

At this point, Nvidia has surely reached the end of the Pascal life-cycle with no additional launches planned. While many of us were expecting Volta to feature in the next generation of GeForce graphics cards, a report back in November said otherwise, claiming that ‘Ampere' would be Nvidia's next generation …

Graphics cards have been harder to get over the last few months, in large part due to demand from cryptocurrency miners. Prices have gone through the roof and it looks like retailers want to cash in on the mining craze further, with Amazon and Newegg beginning to list graphics card …

This week, AMD has announced that it is teaming up with Valve to bring support for AMD's TrueAudio Next technology to Steam in an effort to improve audio in virtual reality content. By baking TrueAudio Next in with Steam Audio, virtual reality titles will get increased acoustic complexity and detail, …

Back in November, we heard that SUMCO, one of the largest silicon wafer producers in the world, was planning to increase prices by 20 percent this year, with another price increase planned in 2019. Now, it looks like other Silicon wafer manufacturers are joining in, with Taiwan's GlobalWafers confirming that …

Nvidia acknowledged the short supply of graphics cards last week, prompting retailers to step in and prioritise gamers over cryptocurrency miners. Now, AMD has addressed the issue, attempting to solve the problem entirely by ramping up the production of more units. The root of the short supply of GPUs surrounds …

AMD has filled Raja Koduri's shoes with two industry veterans, Mike Rayfield and David Wang, who will now lead the Radeon Technologies Group.

It took some time, but over the last few months we've seen custom RX Vega cards finally making their way out. On the Sapphire side, we've seen Nitro+ versions of the RX Vega 64 and 56. Now this week, Sapphire is expanding its lineup with the RX Vega 56 Pulse Edition, opting for a dual-fan custom cooler known as the Dual-X.

It’s no secret that now isn’t the best time to build a custom PC, with the prices of hardware going through the roof. Part of the problem is cryptocurrency miners, but now Nvidia has spoken out against retailers selling to digital miners, asking for gamers to be prioritised instead. The …

Hot in the heels of Samsung's 16-gigabit GDDR6 announcement last night, SK Hynix has also begun listing its own GDDR6 memory modules as ‘available'. We've known for a while that SK Hynix has been working on GDDR6 with a 2018 roll out date in mind, though these chips won't be …

Samsung is preparing for the next wave of graphics cards by kicking off mass production on the industry's first 16-Gigabit GDDR6 memory