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There are some big game launches heading our way this month, which means its time for a GPU driver update. This week, Nvidia has launched its new 399.24 WHQL driver for GeForce graphics cards, bringing optimisations for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Assetto Corsa Competizione and the Call of Duty …

Late last year, we learned that Intel was making the bold decision to enter the discrete graphics card market. The ball got rolling with a slew of high-profile hires and now, the teasing has begun, with Intel aiming for a 2020 launch date. Yesterday, Intel finally began posting to its …

We’ve been discussing Monster Hunter World quite a bit this week, as those with early access have been quite vocal about their experience so far. We know that the game is very CPU intensive, and that crashes have been occurring. Fortunately, some of these issues should start to get resolved …

Samsung has reportedly been gearing up to follow in the footsteps of its rival, Apple, developing its own in-house GPU. It looks like the company is well under way with the first “entirely new design” in over a decade, bolstering its engineering team with former Nvidia and Intel alumnus Dr. …

AMD’s lineup of Polaris GPUs launched as great bang for buck components, but miners soon began snapping them up and driving prices higher. Now that the dust is starting to settle a bit, AMD is apparently looking to continue improving on Polaris, with a new series of ‘Polaris 30’ graphics …

As every PC gaming enthusiast will know, GPU prices have been completely inflated this year due to a resurgence in GPU mining. At this point though, things seem to be returning to normality, which seems to be having an effect on bottom lines, as Gigabyte has reportedly warned investors that …

PC security has been a hot button topic so far this year. There has been no shortage of cryptocurrency related cyber attacks, and Spectre/Meltdown dominated the news cycle for most of January. Now, Intel has a plan in place to make PCs more secure in the future, with a new …

Since January, a lot has happened in the VR space. HTC announced the VIVE Pro, featuring a 77% resolution bump, pricing was announced recently and pre-orders are already live, with the first headsets set to begin shipping in April. Now, HTC has published the recommended system requirements for this higher …

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 …

It's a small ITX rig with an 8700K and GTX 1080 Ti. Is it worth £2799?

It's a stunning rig from Chillblast, with impressive water-cooling. But is it worth £7500?!

It seems that AMD has benefitted quite a bit from cryptocurrency mining, which saw 3 million graphics cards worth around $776 million sold throughout 2017.

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.

Razer has a new Blade Pro - this time with a GTX 1060 and 1080p display. Is it worth £2099?

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 …

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 …

We’ve known for quite some time that Nvidia has the larger share of the GPU market, but now it’s letting everyone know just how much. Using the tailwind of “a record quarter wrapping up a record year,” CEO Jen-Hsun Huang didn’t shy from telling everyone that Nvidia is “10x bigger …

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 …

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 …

Earlier today, AMD officially updated its 2018 roadmap with new information on its second generation Ryzen CPUs, APUs and 400-series motherboards. However, CPUs weren’t the only focus of AMD’s pre-CES festivities, as a small update has also been made to AMD’s 2018 to 2020 GPU roadmap. Last year, AMD launched …

With AMD’s RX Vega now out and about, it is time to start looking towards the future. We’ve known for some time that Vega will be followed up by ‘Navi’ at some point between 2018 and 2020. Now, we know that progress is being made as AMD’s next-gen GPU has …

Core i7, GTX 1070, SSD, 17.3 inch screen - all for £1,399? Is this too good to be true?

Over the last year, we have seen plenty of price hikes in the tech world. A DRAM and NAND shortage has caused SSD and RAM prices to jump, but it looks like silicon prices are also set to rise over the next few years, which will have further reaching effects …

EA is gearing up to launch Need for Speed Payback later this year, so it is time for the publisher to begin showing off more of the game. Payback is currently being supported by Nvidia on the PC side of things, so the GPU maker has had first dibs on …

We have been hearing about DRAM and NAND prices going on the rise since late 2016, with the most recent update showing that prices won’t be settling down any time soon. Now, it looks like part shortages are also leaking in to the graphics card market, with a report this …

At its press conference in Taipei, AMD has announced that the RX Vega consumer GPU will launch at SIGGRAPH 2017 which starts on July 30th. Also confirmed was the summer 2017 launch date for Threadripper and the X399 high-end platform, with further details being given. Vega: AMD will launch the Frontier …

Reports of Intel's switch to the red team appear to have been greatly exaggerated...

Following on from the first RX Vega benchmark leak earlier this week, a Linux graphics driver patch has released, in which traces of the GPUs specs have been found. Cracking open the driver and scrolling through its many, many lines of code reveals the number of shader engines, compute units, …