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Back in September, Ubisoft announced the PC system requirements for Watch Dogs: Legion on PC. Now that a new generation of RTX graphics cards have hit the market, those system requirements have been expanded to include hardware for ray-tracing effects.  As a reminder, here are the base specs for those …

Gigabyte has officially unveiled its Aorus GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards. Featuring MAX-Covered Cooling technology and powered by Nvidia Ampere architecture, the new Gigabyte Aorus RTX 30 series consists of four graphics cards.  The Aorus GeForce RTX 30 series consists of 4 graphics cards: the Aorus GeForce RTX 3090 Xtreme 24G, the Aorus …

For our fifth RTX 3080 review, we check out Palit's triple-fan GamingPro OC model

During today's Zen 3 and Ryzen 5000 presentation, AMD also briefly touched on the GPU side of things. While we'll have to wait until later this month for the full Radeon RX 6000 series GPU reveal, AMD did give us an early look at 4K performance on three modern games.  …

MSI has found itself wrapped in controversy this week, as allegations of the company scalping its own products for a higher price on eBay began doing the rounds. The accusation started off on Reddit, with someone linking a company called ‘Starlit Partner' to MSI. Starlit Partner recently sold several RTX …

Many enthusiasts are still waiting to get their hands on one of Nvidia's new RTX 30 series graphics cards but unfortunately, it doesn't look like the situation will be getting easier anytime soon. During a GTC Q&A session this week, Nvidia's CEO warned that demand will continue to outstrip supply for the rest of the year.

Nvidia has officially unveiled the RTX A series of graphics cards during GTC Digital 2020. Consisting of the RTX A6000 workstation graphics card and the RTX A40 data centre graphics card, the new RTX A series was designed to help professionals deal with emerging enterprise workloads, "from the desktop to the data centre". As it seems, the "Quadro" and "Tesla" naming has been dropped on the upcoming graphics cards.

AMD has trademarked a new technology named Infinity Cache. This technology is expected to feature in the upcoming RDNA 2 graphics cards that AMD is developing, compensating the “lack” of bandwidth by offering a faster cache memory for data that is more frequently accessed. As reported by @momomo_us, AMD has …

If you've been shopping around for an RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 over the last couple of weeks, you have likely been tempted by the cost-effective MSI Ventus 3X model. For those looking to take their GPU cooling to the next level, Alphacool has you covered with a new MSI …

EKWB has launched a vertical GPU mounting bracket that uses two mounting points on the motherboard and “thicker materials than other similar solutions”. Thanks to the “patent-pending technologies”, the EK-Loop vertical GPU holder is a unique vertical GPU mounting bracket that rises above the competition. Placing a graphics card vertically is an ongoing …

AMD announced and launched its latest Raise the Game bundle earlier this year, offering RX 5000 GPU buyers a free copy of Godfall and/or World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. This offer was initially due to end soon, but AMD has extended it, offering free games to GPU buyers through to early …

Over the last couple of weeks, Nvidia has faced plenty of criticism over lack of availability for new RTX 30 series graphics cards. Ahead of this month's RTX 3070 launch, Nvidia is taking that feedback on board, delaying retail availability so that more units can be made. 

A new rumour suggests that AMD will launch its first Ryzen 5000 processors on October 20th or 27th. A release date for the Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards has also been rumoured, sitting somewhere between November 15th and 20th.  As per Yuri Bubliy, the creator of CTR and DRAM Calculator …

It looks like the announcement of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is right around the corner. Gigabyte has added 4 new graphics card at Eurasian Economic Commission database using Nvidia's unannounced GeForce RTX 3060 Ti SKU.

It'll be TUF to beat this RTX 3080, no doubt about it

We regularly like to check in with KitGuru readers to see which way they are leaning when it comes to new big tech releases. Earlier this year, we ran a survey to see when you were most likely to shell out the money for an upgrade and the majority replied …

What sort of hardware do you need for 144FPS+ gaming? Luke investigates

Gigabyte was one of the manufacturers that used six SMD polymer capacitors (SP-CAPs) for its Eagle-series RTX 3080/3090 GPUs, with no multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). The company has now issued a statement about its capacitors and component choices...

New specifications of the next generation of AMD Navi GPUs and APUs have leaked, giving us a glimpse of what clock speeds we might expect from the final product. The stream processors and CU count of the Navi 23 have also leaked, alongside the first specifications of the Navi 31 GPU.

We are one month away from AMD's official unveiling for the next generation of Radeon graphics cards. So far, there have been very few leaks, but things are beginning to turn around. This week, a specification table showed up on Newegg's official blog, giving us an idea of what to …

Over the last week, there has been an increasing number of reports of instability for new RTX 3080 owners. In a driver update earlier today, Nvidia began to address “stability issues” with RTX 30 series GPUs but the issue could be a bit more in-depth, with some blaming the capacitors …

The latest Nvidia GeForce Game Ready driver has arrived, enabling support for the brand new NVIDIA Reflex feature, which is coming to major titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and its counterpart, Call of Duty: Warzone. This driver also preps GeForce GPU owners for the launch of Star Wars: …

Photos of the upcoming Quadro Ampere graphics card have surfaced, showing a new 8-pin PCI power connector and a slightly different blower cooler. A roadmap of the Quadro RTX graphics cards has also been leaked, suggesting their specifications and release dates. Moore’s Law Is Dead has published a new video where …

Vince “K|NGP|N” Lucido has just has set the new 3DMark Port Royal world record using the EVGA RTX 3090 “K|NGP|N” edition. The unreleased graphics card is cooled with a 360mm AIO cooler, but Vince used liquid nitrogen to achieve this world record. The EVGA RTX 3090 “K|NGP|N” had its power target reaching up to …

Just yesterday, we learned that specifications for upcoming Radeon Navi GPUs had leaked. Now, a new Linux OpenGL driver stack might have given us more information, including the codename for another unannounced AMD GPU.   AMD's Linux OpenGL driver stack (Mesa 20.03-devel) added support for a new GPU codenamed Dimgrey Cavefish. In …

MSI's RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio comes in at over £1500, but just how fast is it?

We put Gigabyte's RTX 3090 Eagle OC through its paces

Galax's internal roadmap showing multiple SKUs of the RTX 30 series has been leaked. Besides the RTX 30 series graphics cards that we know about, there were another 3 unannounced SKUs: the RTX 3080 with 20GB of VRAM, the RTX 3060, and an unnamed PG142 SKU. Galax's roadmap has been …

The RTX 3090 is set to launch in just a matter of hours and while you might expect it to be a bit easier to pick up at launch due to its high price tag, Nvidia has pre-warned that this likely won't be the case.

As the official announcement of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards comes closer, new leaks about the GPUs have been popping up on the Internet. The latest one reveals some key specifications of two GPUs, more specifically the ones codenamed Sienna Cichlid and Navy Flounder. The AMD …