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FurMark 2 Released Just 16 Years After Original Benchmark
FurMark is a notorious benchmark, aptly named a “power virus” by some hardware manufacturers, it really is a hardware killer at times. It’s by far the most intensive stress test for a graphics card, but if you want to really stress those thermals and power draw limits, it’s really a…
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Nvidia 4060(?) Benchmark Leak Suggests Performance on Par with the 3070 Ti
With Nvidia having already released its upper to top-tier graphics cards, while they certainly impressed many in terms of their performance (not so much in terms of their price tags) I think the majority of consumers at this point are just wishing Team Green would hurry up and get their…
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AMD Release Radeon 7900 VS 6000 Benchmark Figures (But the Math is Problematic)
Despite the fact that brand new graphics cards are now (mostly) available at something vaguely representing their MSRP value, I still can’t help but feel that as a consumer desperately in need of a new upgrade, I still don’t have that many good options available. – Taking cost and performance…
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Benchmarks State the Intel i9-13900KF as the King of Raptor Lake Overclocking!
Modern processor design typically tends to err these days towards overclocking only really being an ultimately beneficial/required pursuit of the enthusiast-level user. Even I can confirm that I’ve not overclocked a CPU for probably well over 5 years now because I don’t really see the overall benefit of higher temperatures…
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Leaked Benchmarks Hint Nvidia 4090 Laptops May Beat 3090 Desktops!
The rumours of a potential 4090 mobile (laptop) graphics card have been on and off for the last six months. – Based on their CES 2023 showcase announcement, however, Nvidia finally confirmed that a 4090 GPU was indeed on the way as part of new laptop designs. With this in…
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Intel i9-13900KS Benchmarks Leak – Apparently Not Much Uplift on the 13900K
It’s well known, to the point of being practically confirmed, that Intel will announce the launch of its new flagship i9-13900KS processor at some point during CES 2023. Coming pre-binned out of the box with a guaranteed 6GHz clock speed across all (performance) cores, one of the biggest questions is…
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AMD Accused of Rushing 7900 XTX to Market As Users Report Wildly Differing Performance
When it comes to processors, it’s generally understood among the community that outside the remits of pre-binned samples, not all CPUs are created equally. For graphics cards though, this distinction is a little more benign with most designs tending to fairly solidly adhere to their specifications. – Following a growing…
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Leaked Intel Raptor Lake Non-K Benchmarks Suggest Big Leaps in Generational Uplift
It’s well speculated, almost to the point of being practically confirmed, that Intel will formally announce the launch of potentially all of the remaining SKUs from its Raptor Lake processor platform. In regards to what kind of performance we can expect from them though, so far Intel has been holding…
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Intel Core i5-13500 Benchmark Leak Shows 50% Performance Gain Over the i5-12500
Based on the most recent information, it appears that Intel will launch all of its remaining Raptor Lake processors at CES 2023 (January 5th-January 8th). With as many as sixteen models potentially being launched onto the market, this will clearly be a very busy and interesting time and especially so…
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Nvidia 40XX Mobile Performance Figures Leak – 20-30% Uplift on Nvidia 30XX?
Nvidia is expected to announce the launch of its initial 40XX-powered laptops at CES 2023 (January 5th-8th) with a likely release coming at some point in either February or March. – With this in mind, therefore, there clearly is the question as to how much performance uplift we can expect…
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Leaked Benchmarks Suggest the Nvidia 4080 Beats the 3090 Ti by Around 20%
With Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card officially released tomorrow, we have to concede that it’s been more than a little surprising that benchmark leaks have been rather thin on the ground. – We will, of course, be posting our full testing results later today (when the official embargo breaks),…
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Nvidia 4080 Benchmarks Leak Suggesting Circa 50% Uplift on the 3080!
With just over a week to go until the official release of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card (November 16th), I think it would be fair to say that we’re entering what is typically known as the peak ‘leak’ period. Samples are starting to arrive with both the media…
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Intel Core i5-13400 Benchmark Leak Suggests Questionable Performance
While Intel has officially released its initial ‘K’ series of 13th-gen Raptor Lake processors, there are still clearly many more models still yet to be announced. In fact, we already know from various prior leaks that the entire Raptor Lake desktop series will comprise of 22 models with a 99%…
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Nvidia 4080 12GB Benchmarks Show it Was Basically on Par With the 3090 Ti
Nvidia certainly raised more than a few eyebrows when they announced the launch of both a 16GB and 12GB variant of the 4080 graphics card last month. – Initially, it was met with a lot of interest, but when it was found that the differences between the GPUs went well…
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Benchmarks Claim Newly Revised Nvidia 3060 Ti GDDR6X Easily Beats the 3070!
Following Nvidia’s confirmation of its newly revised 3060 Ti graphics card (which now features a larger memory bus and GDDR6X memory), while this certainly sounds good in theory, it was still something of a moderate mystery as to how much better this improved hardware would actually make the GPU. Specifically,…
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