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TweakTown GPU Test Bed 2022 Update: Ready For Next-Gen GPUs

TweakTown GPU Test Bed 2022 Update: Ready For Next-Gen GPUs

My GPU test rig gets some upgrades: ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme, Intel Core i9-12900K, Sabrent DDR5 RAM, and Sabrent 8TB SSD. | Jun 10, 2022 11:37 AM CDT

ASUS + MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Tested: GDDR6X at 24Gbps+ in ETH Mining

ASUS + MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Tested: GDDR6X at 24Gbps+ in ETH Mining

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is here and with its wicked-fast 21Gbps GDDR6X overclocked, it hits 120MH/s+ easily mining ETH. | Apr 14, 2022 9:10 AM CDT

MSI MEG Z490 Unify + Core i9-10900K: RTX 3080/3090 SUPRIM X Tested

MSI MEG Z490 Unify + Core i9-10900K: RTX 3080/3090 SUPRIM X Tested

MSI's GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X, RTX 3080 SUPRIM X graphics cards benchmarked on the Intel Core i9-10900K and MEG Z490 Unify. | Dec 16, 2020 7:10 AM CST

TweakTown GPU Test Bed Upgrade for 2021, But Then Zen 3 Was Announced

TweakTown GPU Test Bed Upgrade for 2021, But Then Zen 3 Was Announced

Our GPU test rig gets a big upgrade: moving to AMD Ryzen, PCIe 4.0, Sabrent PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, ASUS ROG X570 motherboard, more. | Oct 31, 2020 7:24 PM CDT

Neon Noir Benchmarked: Crytek's Ray Tracing Benchmark Tool Tested

Neon Noir Benchmarked: Crytek's Ray Tracing Benchmark Tool Tested

Can your PC handle CRYENGINE's ray tracing tech? Neon Noir benchmarks including the $2499 TITAN RTX are inside. | Jun 30, 2020 11:13 PM CDT

Half-Life: Alyx Buyers Guide: PC Hardware & VR Headset Recommendations

Half-Life: Alyx Buyers Guide: PC Hardware & VR Headset Recommendations

A handy guide on what you need and should buy to play Half-Life: Alyx when it releases on March 23 in VR only. | Mar 15, 2020 9:24 PM CDT

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Benchmarked: GeForce & Radeon Battle It Out

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Benchmarked: GeForce & Radeon Battle It Out

Wolfenstein: Youngblood gets churned through the benchmark grind with a slew of AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards. | Feb 28, 2020 1:27 AM CST

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Benchmarked: NVIDIA DLSS & Ray Tracing Tested

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Benchmarked: NVIDIA DLSS & Ray Tracing Tested

Wolfenstein: Youngblood now includes NVIDIA's DLSS and ray tracing, so we give it a benchmark run. | Feb 20, 2020 1:00 PM CST

Intel Xe: One GPU Architecture To Rule Them All

Intel Xe: One GPU Architecture To Rule Them All

Intel begins shipping out DG1 discrete graphics SDKs to developers and we have some official information to share. | Jan 9, 2020 11:00 AM CST

The Best Tech of the Decade

The Best Tech of the Decade

Technology has come a long way forward in the last 10 years, here's a round up of all of the best tech of the last decade. | Dec 29, 2019 9:24 PM CST

Metro Exodus Benchmarked: The New 'Can It Run Crysis'

Metro Exodus Benchmarked: The New 'Can It Run Crysis'

Metro Exodus is one of the best looking games of 2019 so far, and it truly punishes all of our graphics cards including the RTX 2080 Ti. | Feb 13, 2019 9:00 AM CST

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition Benchmarks... So Far

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition Benchmarks... So Far

We run the newly-released Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition benchmark through its paces. | Feb 5, 2018 10:00 AM CST

MiningSky 8-GPU Mining Rig V1 Review

MiningSky 8-GPU Mining Rig V1 Review

MiningSky's 8-GPU Mining Rig V1 is an amazingly simple cryptomining rig that kicks ass. | Dec 22, 2017 7:52 PM CST

Ryzen 3 vs. Core i3 benched on GTX 1060/1070 & RX Vega

Ryzen 3 vs. Core i3 benched on GTX 1060/1070 & RX Vega

AMD's Ryzen 3 1300X faces off against Intel's Core i3-7350K with the GeForce GTX 1060/1070 and Radeon RX Vega 56 GPUs. Battle, begin! | Sep 26, 2017 12:20 PM CDT

8K benched: RX Vega 64 vs. GTX 1080 Ti vs. TITAN Xp SLI

8K benched: RX Vega 64 vs. GTX 1080 Ti vs. TITAN Xp SLI

We're back with more 8K gaming benchmarks, with low/medium/high/ultra results in a few games. | Sep 19, 2017 12:24 PM CDT

Cryptocurrency mining deflates, used GPUs hit eBay

Cryptocurrency mining deflates, used GPUs hit eBay

Ethereum mining continues to deflate, with used GPUs hitting eBay already. | Jul 20, 2017 2:36 PM CDT

Ethereum Mining is Dead: Price Drops, Difficulty Booms

Ethereum Mining is Dead: Price Drops, Difficulty Booms

Ethereum price drops to a two-month low, while difficulty goes through the roof, hitting ALL miners overnight. | Jul 11, 2017 7:33 AM CDT

Anyone buying hardware to mine Ethereum is going to lose

Anyone buying hardware to mine Ethereum is going to lose

Know anyone who just spent thousands on hardware for Ethereum mining? Well... | Jul 8, 2017 1:35 PM CDT

Ethereum mining @ 1GH/s: 40 x GPUs = $5000+ per month

Ethereum mining @ 1GH/s: 40 x GPUs = $5000+ per month

What can 43 graphics cards make per month mining Ethereum? A pretty damn decent $5000 or more. | Jun 20, 2017 7:56 PM CDT

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Benchmarked: CPU & GPU War

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Benchmarked: CPU & GPU War

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is an incredibly fun, but it crushes your PC into dust. Here's some analysis. | May 24, 2017 4:05 PM CDT

GTX 980 Ti SLI vs. GTX 1080 Ti SLI on AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

GTX 980 Ti SLI vs. GTX 1080 Ti SLI on AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

Two GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cards in SLI against two GTX 980 Ti cards in SLI - all on AMD's 8C/16T monster Ryzen 7 1800X processor - FIGHT! | Apr 5, 2017 7:05 PM CDT

TweakTown's new GPU Benchmarking Rig (Updated for 2017)

TweakTown's new GPU Benchmarking Rig (Updated for 2017)

Our graphics card reviewing test bed needed updating, so we've upgraded to the Kaby Lake-based Core i7-7700K and more. | Apr 5, 2017 2:56 PM CDT

HBM2 Graphics RAM Isn't the Hero We Deserve... Yet

HBM2 Graphics RAM Isn't the Hero We Deserve... Yet

We chat about High Bandwidth Memory and how NVIDIA has shown that we don't need HBM2 graphics card RAM technology in the near future. | Aug 10, 2016 12:39 PM CDT

AMD Positioning Itself to Become a Commanding Force in Rendering

AMD Positioning Itself to Become a Commanding Force in Rendering

Rendering is big business, and AMD is making it easier and cheaper for everyone involved. Here's some of what we learnt at Siggraph. | Jul 24, 2016 8:24 PM CDT

Can AMD beat the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video card? Probably not.

Can AMD beat the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video card? Probably not.

With the reveal of the new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 video card, what can AMD do to beat them? We discuss the subject. | May 8, 2016 4:58 PM CDT

NVIDIA's reveal of Pascal teases the next-gen GeForce video cards

NVIDIA's reveal of Pascal teases the next-gen GeForce video cards

What's the next-generation of GeForce video cards from NVIDIA going to be like? The recent tease of Pascal at GTC 2016 could be an indicator. | Apr 16, 2016 4:41 AM CDT

Expectations from NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2016 Event

Expectations from NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2016 Event

NVIDIA kicked off its GPU Technology Conference today, but what should we expect from the event? Let's take a look. | Apr 5, 2016 3:13 AM CDT

Imagination has big plans for its Ray Tracing Wizard PowerVR GPU

Imagination has big plans for its Ray Tracing Wizard PowerVR GPU

Imagination Tech showed off its Ray Tracing Wizard GPU at GDC 2016. They have big plans with their new hybrid rendering tech. We discuss it here. | Mar 25, 2016 8:00 AM CDT

The Division PC Performance Analysis - AMD and NVIDIA go head to head

The Division PC Performance Analysis - AMD and NVIDIA go head to head

The Division is finally here, and we take a deep dive into just how well, or not well, it performs on a variety of hardware. | Mar 14, 2016 5:08 PM CDT

DX12 Benchmarked with the Fury X and Titan X working together

DX12 Benchmarked with the Fury X and Titan X working together

We test out the DX12-capable Ashes of the Singularity, mixing our AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce video cards together - whaaat?! | Mar 1, 2016 8:08 AM CST

DX12 Benched - Fury X CF vs. Titan X SLI in Ashes of the Singularity

DX12 Benched - Fury X CF vs. Titan X SLI in Ashes of the Singularity

How does the Fury X in Crossfire fare against Titan X cards in SLI in the new DX12 benchmark, Ashes of the Singularity? That's what we're here to find out. | Feb 29, 2016 8:20 AM CST

DX12 Benchmarked - Ashes of the Singularity with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs

DX12 Benchmarked - Ashes of the Singularity with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs

We benchmark the DX12-capable Ashes of the Singularity with AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce video cards, and man is it exciting. | Feb 24, 2016 12:00 PM CST

AMD Talks About its RTG Visual Technologies Roadmap for 2016

AMD Talks About its RTG Visual Technologies Roadmap for 2016

AMD talks DisplayPort 1.3, HDMI 2.0a, HDR and so much more during its RTG Technology Summit 2015 in Sonoma, California. | Dec 9, 2015 1:15 AM CST

2-way Radeon R9 Fury X vs. GeForce GTX Titan X at 11,520 x 2160

2-way Radeon R9 Fury X vs. GeForce GTX Titan X at 11,520 x 2160

We throw two AMD Radeon R9 Fury X and two NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X video cards into the ring at 11,520 x 2160 and let them fight to the death. | Oct 19, 2015 5:12 PM CDT

Star Wars Battlefront Open Beta GPU Performance Overview

Star Wars Battlefront Open Beta GPU Performance Overview

EA and DICE unleashed the open beta of Star Wars Battlefront. We tested all of our video cards at 1080p, 1440p, 4K, and 3440x1440 to see how it performs. | Oct 13, 2015 7:04 AM CDT

HBM to Revolutionize Video Cards, Starting with AMD's Radeon R9 390X

HBM to Revolutionize Video Cards, Starting with AMD's Radeon R9 390X

AMD is set to use High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in its upcoming Radeon R9 390X video card. Here's the rundown on this super-fast VRAM. | May 19, 2015 7:00 AM CDT

AMD's Future of Gaming: FreeSync, DirectX 12, LiquidVR, VR and more

AMD's Future of Gaming: FreeSync, DirectX 12, LiquidVR, VR and more

AMD outlines the future of gaming: FreeSync, DirectX 12, LiquidVR, VR gaming, Asynchronous Shaders and more. Good times! | Mar 30, 2015 11:00 PM CDT

Interview with AMD's Roy Taylor, response to NVIDIA's Maxwell GPUs

Interview with AMD's Roy Taylor, response to NVIDIA's Maxwell GPUs

NVIDIA launched its Maxwell GPUs last month, what does AMD have to say? We interview Roy Taylor, AMD's Corporate Vice President of Global Channel Sales. | Dec 2, 2014 8:43 AM CST

Exploring Sony Vegas Pro 13 Rendering with a VisionTek Radeon R9 290

Exploring Sony Vegas Pro 13 Rendering with a VisionTek Radeon R9 290

Sony's Vegas video editing software first introduced GPU assisted rendering in v10. Since then, there new processes that take advantage of your video card. | Jul 4, 2014 9:00 AM CDT

4K Showdown: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB vs. AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB

4K Showdown: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB vs. AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB

In today's 4K Showdown, we take a look at the single GPU kings from both AMD (Radeon R9 290X 4GB) and NVIDIA (GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB) in stunning 2160p. | Jun 3, 2014 8:00 AM CDT

AMD Mantle Radeon R9 290X CrossFire at 4K Preview - Is It All That It's Cracked Up To Be?

AMD Mantle Radeon R9 290X CrossFire at 4K Preview - Is It All That It's Cracked Up To Be?

AMD has kind of launched its Mantle API, so we tested it out on two AMD Radeon R9 290X video cards in CrossFire at 4K - come and see the results. | Feb 11, 2014 7:03 PM CST

Sleeping Dogs Benchmarked with AMD Eyefinity in Portrait at 3240x1920

Sleeping Dogs Benchmarked with AMD Eyefinity in Portrait at 3240x1920

Sleeping Dogs goes under the Eyefinity microscope once again, this time in Portrait - how does it perform at 3240x1920? Let's see. | May 15, 2013 12:02 PM CDT

NVIDIA's Strong-arm Tactics - How they treat GPU Partners and Media

NVIDIA's Strong-arm Tactics - How they treat GPU Partners and Media

We got an email from MSI earlier today saying that they could no longer support us with video card review samples. The reason? NVIDIA and its tactics. | Aug 17, 2012 9:45 AM CDT

Batman: Arkham City Performance Analysis

Batman: Arkham City Performance Analysis

We check out the latest Batman game, Batman: Arkham City and find out how it runs on a number of video cards. | Nov 25, 2011 7:48 PM CST

The $210 Video Card Showdown

The $210 Video Card Showdown

Sapphire HD 5830 1GB and MSI GTX 460 768MB Cyclone; both priced at $210 U.S. - Where should your money go? | Aug 2, 2010 10:52 AM CDT

The Best $500 NVIDIA PhysX Setup

The Best $500 NVIDIA PhysX Setup

$500 and a love for PhysX? - Which option is the better way to go; a single GTX 480, or a GTX 470 with a dedicated GTX 260 picked up second hand? | Jun 15, 2010 1:56 AM CDT

AMD gets back in the development game with OpenCL tools and drivers

AMD gets back in the development game with OpenCL tools and drivers

AMD is finally getting back in the game with the release of OpenCL tools and drivers. But are they too late to catch NVIDIA? | Dec 16, 2009 11:33 PM CST

Kingpin Cooling Single GPU Competition with LN2 by Deanzo

Kingpin Cooling Single GPU Competition with LN2 by Deanzo

Today we will have a glimpse into the world of competitive overclocking as Deanzo takes part in one of these events. | Nov 30, 2009 3:08 AM CST

AMD vs. NVIDIA - Are they even playing the same game?

AMD vs. NVIDIA - Are they even playing the same game?

We all have our favorites in the GPU and CPU world, but when we compare them do we know what we are looking at? | Nov 27, 2009 6:34 AM CST

Video Card Benchmarking - Goodbye Vista and XP, Hello Windows 7

Video Card Benchmarking - Goodbye Vista and XP, Hello Windows 7

We talk about our decision to move away from XP and Vista testing in our graphics card reviews and to use Windows 7 exclusively. | Nov 5, 2009 10:14 PM CST