performance

Dirt 4 Real Gameplay Video Card Performance Review - Let’s find out how well the new game Dirt 4 performs across seven GPUs. We put a heavy focus on MSAA performance, CMAA performance and EQAA performance across every GPU to find which is more efficient at AA at high resolutions.

Competition is a great thing, but you have to ask yourself, "How do you speed up an application by 300%?" Thank you AMD. I am sure that new Radeon Pro cards had nothing to do with this. Our latest driver — available today — delivers 3x more performance in applications like Maya to help you...

Nathan "Numchuck" Kirsch of Legit Reviews fame has an article up today addressing some of the questions that are on Miners' minds. The first and foremost being, "Did I just drop a huge amount of money on a Radeon based video card for no reason?" I know I unloaded two of the RX 480 cards that I...

In AMD's latest Community Update titled "Let's Talk DRAM!" they tease some interesting updates coming up in AGESA v1.0.0.6. These updates add 26 new RAM parameters largely targeted towards improving the stability of overclocked RAM, and may allow for speeds as high as DDR4-4000, which is a...

Spitballing Vega GPU Performance This is an interesting article over at Tech Report that is "speculating" on AMD's new Vega GPU and its performance. Now keep in mind that Scott Wasson, the owner of Tech Report, works for AMD. So if I am going to jump on the rumor train with any site, it is...

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DX12 versus DX11 Gaming Performance Video Card Review - We play latest games with DX12 support and find out which is faster, DX12 or DX11? We use the latest drivers from NVIDIA and AMD to find any advantages in this GPU focused review. We’ll get to the bottom of the question, "Should I be...

NVIDIA GeForce 378.78 Performance Driver Follow-Up - We will take the new NVIDIA GeForce 378.78 performance driver and add it to our NVIDIA Video Card Driver Performance Review graphs to see if this driver has improved performance. NVIDIA has made some very bold claims lately, so let's see if...

Intel Allegedly Playing Dirty To Undercut AMD’s Ryzen The editors-in-chief of two of America’s top PC hardware and technology publications have confirmed to Wccftech that they have indeed been approached by Intel regarding upcoming Ryzen reviews. Although both said that it was business as...

AMD Ryzen CPUs Support 3600MHz DDR4 Memory http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-cpus-support-ddr4-memory-speeds-3600mhz/ AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Processor Blows Away Intel’s $1000 Core i7-5960X & goes toe to toe with Intel’s $1000 Core i7 6900k Cinebench 15 scores The Core i7 5960X scores around 1318 cb...

Ryzen 1800X @ 3.6GHz With Turbo Disabled – Outperforms Intel’s 8-Cores In 6/8 Tests CPU Benchmarks The tests include integer math, floating point performance, prime numbers, encryption, compression, sorting, SSE performance and physics. The AMD Ryzen 7 1800X outperformed every other CPU in 6...

Phoronix has an article up today comparing gaming performance between Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 and 1080 GPU's. It seems like not so long ago we were hearing from Valve, that they anticipated their Source engine based games to, in many cases, perform better under...

Fallout 4 High Resolution Texture Pack Review - Bethesda has released its official High Resolution Texture Pack DLC for Fallout 4. We will look at performance impact, VRAM capacity usage levels, and compare image quality to see if this High Resolution Texture Pack might be worthy of your...

AMD's second fastest processor 1700X is showing some really impressive performance in Passmark benchmark. It's single thread performance which is crucial, was faster than both Intel's 5960x & 6800k and was only 3% slower than the 6900k. Again keep in mind this is the 1700x, not the 1800x which...

Hi everyone, I'm a new guy here and found these forums after a Google search on my issue. As you can tell from the title it's a VM performance issue on my ESXi server. Background Fortunate to have access to a data center via my employer as I work for an ISP. We are allowed our own 1u servers...

Watch Dogs 2 Video Card Performance Review Part 2 - In Part 2 of our Watch Dogs 2 Video Card Performance Review we go in-depth on WD2 graphics settings and the performance impact of those. We will test the High Resolution Texture Pack, shadow techniques, Ambient Occlusion, the Extra Details...

Gears of War 4 DX12 Performance Review - We take Gears of War 4, a new Windows 10 only game supporting DX12 natively and compare performance with seven video cards. We will find out which one provides the best experience at 4K, 1440p, and 1080p resolutions, and see how these compare to each...

The following statements were made by Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, during today's earning call concerning Polaris GPUs and VR. I think she is spot on with her comments about Polaris GPUs in DirectX 12 and Vulcan titles. Our reviews have shown how strong Polaris can be in these two very narrow...

I recently bought two infiniband adapters. Forums sugest it is cabable for 32GbE for about the price of a10GbE adapter. Maybe someone here can help me: I have two Windows 10 Machines with two MHQH19B-XTR 40 Gbit Adapters and a QSFP cable in between. The Vlan manager is opensm. The connection...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Sword Master VR - Do you want to fight the Black Knight in a sword fight? There is not exactly a "Black Knight" in Sword Master VR, but you can certainly get that feeling. In fact, you can fight him and a couple of his friends at the same time if you are up to...

I haven't played this game too much, but before the latest patch I was able to run SS at max in game (2.0) and get decent performance. Now, the game has all sorts of problems. -If SS is enabled in the Steam config, the game doesn't even run right. Massive stutter and everything looks tiny...

AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance: Google's Tilt Brush - We are changing gears a bit with our VR Performance coverage and looking at an application that is not as GPU-intensive as those we have looked at in the recent past. Google's Tilt Brush is a virtual reality application that makes use of...

So... I decided today was a good day to just sit back and optimize my computer finally... Made sure everything was clean, 100%, checked wires, etc... Ran all the optimization I could on Samsung Magician... even used the Over Provisioning setting (10%) with RAPID enabled and OS Optimized...

I am sure there will be some that are like "umm, yeah you always do a clean reinstall with a new card... " But just to save anyone some time if they are seeing 'meh' fps with their 980 ti in The Division... I got a new Strix 980 Ti this week, and my "old" GTX 970 is being mailed to a friend...

Hitman 2016 Performance Video Card Review - Hitman (2016) supports the new DirectX 12 API. We will take this game and find out if DX12 is faster than DX11 and what it may offer in this game and if it allows a better gameplay experience. We will also compare Himan performance between several...

Which one is good and has a better performance and memory? I've already ask my friends and others but I'm still confuse which one is better. Recommendations/comments are well appreciated.

Hello guys! I want to setup some really performance focused gaming PC. Cash is not an issue – just want it to work better. First of all, it must be AMD GPU. Yep, I know that probably SLI 980Ti would be a better (and easier) choice, but still – AMD needed. Gaming PC with 3 (full HD/WQHD) or...