Items tagged with ashes of the singularity

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 21, 2021

Intel Arc Alchemist GPU Looks Strong In Leaked Benchmark But Let's Not Overreact

We are incredibly eager for Intel to launch its first modern discrete graphics card, if for no other reason than to put all these leaks and rumors to rest. That day will come, just not today. Instead, an alleged Arc Alchemist entry has been added to the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database, and at first glance... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 17, 2020

AMD Radeon RX 6800 Goes Crazy With Fresh AOTS Benchmarks Ahead Of Tomorrow's Launch

Yesterday I wrote about some leaked benchmark results at the Ashes of the Singularity (AOTS) database, purporting to be obtained from a Radeon RX 6800 XT. Now a day later, there are more RDNA 2 benchmarks to absorb, this time from the model that is one step below—the Radeon RX 6800 (non-XT), from the same AOTS... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Mon, Nov 16, 2020

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT AOTS Leaked Benchmarks Show Impressive Strength Of Big Navi

How fast exactly is AMD's Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, and how does it ultimately compare to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series? Official benchmark results and accompanying analysis will have to wait. In the meantime, we have a Radeon RX 6000 series unboxing you can check out, and some leaked benchmark results to... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sat, Feb 15, 2020

Intel Core i9-10980HK Beast Comet Lake-H Laptop Spied With GeForce RTX 2080 Super

Some powerful gaming laptops are on the horizon. AMD is promising big things from its Ryzen 4000 "Renoir" APUs, and Intel is prepping a lineup of Comet Lake silicon. As it pertains to the latter, a leaked benchmark entry highlights a laptop configuration with a 10th generation Intel Core i9-10980HK Comet Lake-H CPU... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sun, Oct 15, 2017

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Benchmarks Leaked From Ashes Of The Singularity Database

There have been lots of rumors surrounding NVIDIA's still-unannounced GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, most of which point to a launch happening later this month. Missing from all the chatter, however, has been any benchmarks. Well, that changes today. The first benchmarks (that we are aware of) of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti have... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sun, Apr 23, 2017

Nintendo Switch Doesn’t Need Third-Party Games To Succeed Says Ashes of the Singularity Dev

In the early going, the Nintendo Switch is the fastest selling game console in Nintendo's history. It racked up more sales during its first two days of availability than even the crazy-popular Wii did when it launched, and rocketed to over 900,000 units sold in North America along during its first month on the market... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Fri, Feb 24, 2017

AMD’s Radeon RX 580 On Display Via Leaked Ashes Of The Singularity Benchmarks

This is a big year for AMD. The company is releasing a brand new CPU architecture (Ryzen) on March 2 and is currently enjoying tremendous pre-release hype, then later this year it will introduce a new GPU architecture called Vega. AMD fans and the tech community at large are sitting on pins and needles to see how... Read more...

by Jason Evangelho - Mon, Aug 17, 2015

First DirectX 12 In-Game Benchmarks A Level Playing Field? Drama And Framerates Collide

Sometimes I wonder if we should cook up a TMZ-style column explicitly for reporting on all the drama that transpires between AMD and NVIDIA. Today we’ve witnessed one of the first shots fired from one of those camps, on what’s poised to be a very heated battleground over the next several years: DirectX 12. Over the... Read more...