Items tagged with graphics cards
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 21, 2025
It's been a long while since AMD truly challenged NVIDIA at the top end of the GPU market, and to be fair, it's a place where a relatively small number of gamers hang out. Be that as it may, rumor has that AMD's next-generation flagship...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 16, 2025
We may never truly know just how close NVIDIA came to actually releasing a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20GB of GDDR6X memory (versus the actual configuration that we reviewed), but there is new evidence to suggest it was at least a...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jun 10, 2025
If you read that headline and thought "Who, now?" then you're probably not a PC enthusiast or under the age of 30. If you instead thought "That's a name I haven't heard," then you clearly don't work in the medical imaging or digital...
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Zak Killian - Mon, May 05, 2025
Sparkle is a company that has been around since 1982, yet the vendor has only recently started selling products for the consumer PC market. Its most visible offerings are graphics cards, which it bases exclusively on Intel's Arc GPUs...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 12, 2025
I'm dating myself with this reference, but for anyone who gives a hoot, one thing I learned a long time ago from a cartoon owl is that it takes three licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Here's another sweet fact: you should be able to install and uninstall your graphics...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Mar 05, 2025
The great graphics card shortage of 2025 (yes, I'm officially dubbing it as such now, at least in reference to NVIDIA's newest generation GeForce RTX 50 series) is not only frustrating, it's also stalling growth in the PC GPU market...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 24, 2025
Have you ever tried remotely diagnosing and ultimately resolving a computer issue for a frantic friend or family member who's having an issue, or a litany of PC-related issues? It's no easy task. Now put yourself in the shoes of NVIDIA's...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 24, 2025
A user on Reddit has posted a GPU-Z screenshot that purportedly shows their GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card with fewer render operation pipelines (ROPs), or render output units if you prefer, than what are supposed to be...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 17, 2025
Frank Azor, a PC industry vet who co-founded Alienware before joining AMD as its Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions and Marketing five and a half years ago, is not shying away from rumors of there being a Radeon RX 9070 XT with 32GB of...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 04, 2025
It wouldn't be a new GPU launch without some chaos, and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series is keeping the tradition alive. Just weeks after hitting the market—if you can even call it that, given the ongoing stock shortages—multiple reports...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 30, 2025
Around this time last week, reports began to surface that the nifty quick release mechanism ASUS implements on many of its motherboards was causing physical damage to graphics cards. Called Q-Release Slim, it's intended to make removing...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 29, 2025
Intel's foray into the modern era of discrete GPUs has mostly focused on mid-range and entry-level solutions, a strategy it employed with its first generation Arc Alchemist architecture and, so far, again with its with second generation...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 14, 2025
At one point, NVIDIA may have considered releasing an RTX Titan Ada or GeForce RTX 4090 Ti graphics card based on its now-last generation Ada Lovelace architecture. Neither card ever materialized, of course, but the rumor persists and even...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 09, 2025
NVIDIA is promising some monster gains from its new flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090. That's especially true if taking advantage of a new DLSS implementation, DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, which is a whole topic in and of...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 01, 2025
Gamers and technology enthusiasts are not the only ones eagerly waiting for NVIDIA to unveil its next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series, so are some of its hardware partners. Adding to a growing number of leaks, iBuyPower, a popular builder...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 30, 2024
Intel earned itself some high praise for its Arc Battlemage B580 graphics card, which we dubbed a "mighty midrange gaming GPU" in our review. Not only is it relatively affordable at $249 (when you can find it in stock from a first-party...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 24, 2024
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is right around the corner and, as is typically the case, we're expecting a bevy of product announcements. That includes new generation GPU launches from both AMD and NVIDIA, after Intel beat both of...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 20, 2024
Psst, hey you. Yeah, you, the one with a big wad of cash and an aging graphics card in desperate need of being retired for something new. Are you planning to buy NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 flagship? That's great, but know what...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 18, 2024
The market for comparatively affordable GPUs is absolutely ravenous and proof of this is in the pudding. The pudding, in this case, is retailers selling out of their initial batches of Intel Arc B580 graphics cards in super-quick fashion...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Dec 09, 2024
Typically, graphics cards use PCI Express x16 slots. That's a PCIe slot configured with sixteen individual data lanes. These data lanes are physical connections, and that's why an "x16" slot is so long. There's nothing mandating that GPUs...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 04, 2024
Two things you can always count on when it comes to Indiana Jones are his iconic leather jacket and his trusty whip. Three things, if you add his fedora into the mix. It looks like all three will be included in Bethesda's upcoming Indiana...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Nov 28, 2024
Intel has been adamant that it plans to continue developing discrete GPUs after getting back in the game with Arc Alchemist, which at the time ended a long hiatus dating all the way back to Larrabee. The next big release is Battlemage, and...
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