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This month, the rumour mill has been fixated on next-gen graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD. While the rumoured Nvidia ‘AD102' and AMD's ‘Navi 31' are still far from release, reports claim that power draw will be much higher for these next-gen GPUs, possibly reaching as high as 500W.  The …

In the early hours of this morning, AMD officially announced the Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card and just as promised, a number of board partners have custom-cooled solutions ready to go. So far, we've had RX 6600 XT custom graphics card announcements from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire and PowerColor.  …

Just as expected, today AMD is expanding its Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, introducing the RX 6600 XT. Aimed at 1080p, high refresh-rate gaming, the RX 6600 XT packs all the features we've come to expect from RDNA 2, including support for DX12 Ultimate, Smart Access Memory and the latest FidelityFX enhancements. 

Earlier this week, RX 6600 XT rumours came to a head, with reports of an announcement taking place during this year's Chinajoy event. The event is still hours away, but it would seem that we've already got confirmation of the GPU through Gigabyte. The Gigabyte Aorus Spanish-language Twitter account tweeted …

During AMD's Q2 2021 earnings call, Dr. Lisa Su, the company's CEO, confirmed that the next-gen Zen 4 architecture and RDNA 3 graphics architecture are still 'on track', targeting a 2022 launch.

During this past weekend, multiple leaks and rumours surrounding the RDNA 3-based AMD Navi 31 GPU and Nvidia's AD102 GPU have emerged. The most surprising claim is the amount of Infinity Cache that AMD's next flagship GPU will pack, with reports claiming that it will ship with 512MB.  According to …

There have been numerous rumours regarding the launch of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics card. While previously an August 11th launch gained some traction, it seems that AMD may make the announcement earlier, with reports claiming that AMD will be announcing its next GPU at Chinajoy 2021.  According …

Given how the ongoing GPU shortage has affected the pricing and stock of all graphics cards, most retailers are not selling them at MSRP. However, it's still worth knowing a card's MSRP because it gives us an idea of how a graphics card will perform compared to its counterparts. As …

We are still far from getting the RTX 30 series successor, but rumours and leaks on Nvidia's upcoming graphics cards have started to emerge. From what we've gathered so far, it looks like the RTX 40 series will be based on the TSMC N5 node and will use the new Lovelace GPU architecture.

We’ve been hearing rumours about the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT for months now, but the first reports around pricing are starting to appear. Unfortunately for anyone considering buying one, it sounds like MSRP is going to be thrown out the window once again, with models of this GPU …

Three different PowerColor Radeon RX 6600 XT cards listings have been spotted at a New Zealand retailer, suggesting AMD might release the RX 6600 XT sooner rather than later. Currently, this GPU is rumoured to launch in August, although AMD has yet to announce anything officially.  Lately, there have been …

Over the last few days, EVGA RTX 3090 owners have ran in to trouble while trying to play the closed beta for Amazon's upcoming MMO, New World. A number of customers have had their graphics cards fail after playing the game, but it seems that EVGA is getting on top …

We check out Zotac's flagship RTX 3090 - the AMP Extreme Holo

Recent rumours indicated that AMD would launch the Radeon RX 6600 series of graphics cards in August, but other sources have contradicted this claim. According to another prominent leaker, AMD will be launching the Radeon RX 6600 between September and October, followed by the first Navi 24 GPUs at the …

Last night, Amazon Game Studios' long in-development MMO, New World, entered closed beta, granting early access to pre-order customers. Those with an EVGA RTX 3090 graphics card will want to be wary, as reports indicate that the game is bricking these graphics cards.  Over on the New World subreddit, Twitter …

For now, we are still unsure about AMD launching the Radeon RX 6600 XT on August 11th, but while we wait for confirmation, new photos and benchmark results for the card have appeared online.  Looking at the photos shared on Tieba Baidu (via VideoCardz), the card looks like a qualification …

We have been eagerly waiting for AMD to announce the Radeon RX 6600 series GPUs ever since the launch of the RX 6700 XT back in March. Until now, AMD hasn't yet shared an official release date for the mainstream series graphics cards, but a new rumour claims that they …

Since AMD announced it was working with Samsung to release a new SoC featuring RDNA 2 graphics, new leaks and rumours about this chip have started to ramp up. The latest is based on the structure diagram of the supposed Exynos 2200, which suggests the SoC will feature six Compute …

AMD has kept its word and has made FidelityFX Super Resolution an open-source technology. Moreover, the company also announced that both Unity and Unreal Engine 4 game engines now support FSR, and that games including Myst, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodhunt, Arcadegeddon, Necromunda Hired Gun, Edge of Eternity and Resident Evil …

Earlier this month, Rockstar Games announced that it would be bringing Nvidia's DLSS technology to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online on PC as part of an upcoming update. That update has now arrived, and it looks like RTX graphics card owners will be getting up to a …

Gigabyte Aorus Gaming Boxes are already available with RTX 3080 and 3090 GPUs, but now, Gigabyte is also introducing an RTX 3080 Ti model to its line-up. With the RTX 3080 Ti Gaming Box, Gigabyte now offers a Gaming Box for every card using the GA102 GPU. Like other Aorus …

MSI's Hydrogen series might be coming back, as seen on an EEC listing filed by the company. According to the listing, the new Hydrogen series will only feature one SKU, an RTX 3090 card, but MSI may launch more cards further down the line. Moreover, the listing also includes MSI's …

It looks like AMD's next graphics card launch is right around the corner. Multiple sources this week have claimed that the RX 6600 XT graphics card will release in August.  According to Coreteks and Moore's Law is Dead (via Videocardz), The Radeon RX 6600 XT will launch in August and …

About a year after Nvidia released the RTX 20 series, the company refresh the line-up with the RTX 20 Super variants. Based on this, Nvidia may do the same with the RTX 30 series, and according to a new rumour, that should happen early next year for the laptop GPUs. …

The graphics card pricing situation appears to be moving in the right direction. Last month, GPU prices were 81-91 percent above MSRP on average, but that number has been dropping. If GPU prices continue reducing at this rate, we might see some cards finally reach MSRP pricing. 

Nvidia might be preparing to launch a new DLSS mode called ‘Ultra Quality'. Listed as a placeholder in Unreal Engine 5's DLSS documentation, details about this setting are still scarce, but looking at the 1.30x factor of the AMD FSR's ‘Ultra Quality', the new DLSS mode may follow that example. …

As we learned recently, Samsung is currently building a new Exynos mobile processor with integrated RDNA 2 graphics in collaboration with AMD. The chip has yet to be officially unveiled, but a new 3DMark Wild Life benchmark has revealed high levels of performance, beating out any other phone on the market by a decent margin. 

Although it was announced alongside the already available AMD Radeon RX 6800M and RX 6600M, the RX 6700M hasn't released yet. A launch could be happening soon though, as the 3DMark benchmark database now includes results for the upcoming laptop GPU.  The benchmark results were shared by Twitter leaker, @ro_game. …

Intel has been teasing its Xe-HPG GPU architecture for a long time and now, it looks like the official launch could be happening soon as DG2 sample cards are now heading to board partners.  Raja Koduri has been teasing the upcoming Intel gaming GPUs for quite a while, but now …

New details on Intel's upcoming DG2 graphics cards have surfaced on the Geekbench database. Two upcoming Xe-HPG versions were found, one with 256 EUs paired with an Intel Alder Lake CPU and a 96 EU GPU with another Alder Lake 14-core processor.  It's not clearly stated that these are the …