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Microsoft’s new DirectX Raytracing technology just made an RTX 5080 look 221 times faster. In a demanding synthetic test, the card jumped from 1.4 FPS to 310 FPS once Clustered Geometry was switched on, while its acceleration structure memory use fell by 94.3 percent. The result comes from independent testing reported by Wccftech, and it…
AMD sells two flagship gaming CPUs that look almost identical on paper. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D has 16 cores, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has 12, and both carry the same 128MB of second-generation 3D V-Cache. The question is simple: does the cheaper chip give up anything where it matters, in games? The FPS Review put…
Intel’s next desktop CPUs may come with a temperature rule that PC builders need to know about before they plan a cooling setup. According to a new rumor, Nova Lake-S processors will cap their maximum core frequency at 5.1 GHz once temperatures climb past 90 degrees Celsius. The claim comes from leaker Jaykihn, who shared…
Laptop gamers just got a serious upgrade path. ASUS has launched the ROG XG Station 3, its first external GPU dock built around Thunderbolt 5, and it promises up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth for desktop graphics cards. That is twice the interface speed of the eGPU enclosures that came before it. Here is what…
October 2026 was a rough month for Intel on Amazon US. AMD sold more than four CPUs for every one Intel chip, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D kept its crown as the single best selling processor, and a platform that launched nearly a decade ago still grabbed 38 percent of the market. The numbers come from…
Intel’s best value graphics card may be living on borrowed time. A well known hardware leaker claims Intel might discontinue the Arc B580 to redirect its GPU chip supply toward higher margin AI and workstation products. If you own a B580, or you were thinking about buying one, here is the full picture: what the…
Cheap SSDs Will Have to Wait There is a new reason to stop holding out for SSD prices to fall. A new memory technology called High Bandwidth Flash, or HBF, could squeeze NAND wafer supply for years once it goes commercial, and that squeeze lands directly on the price of the SSD in your next…
Two motherboard names that ASRock has never announced have shown up in shipping paperwork, and they point to a chipset Intel has not announced either. The Z970 LiveMixer WiFi and the Z970 Pro-A WiFi appeared in Vietnam customs records covering printed circuit board shipments from late September 2026. The entries were identified in the NBD…
NVIDIA’s board partners are running out of time. According to a new report from The FPS Review, citing BenchLife via VideoCardz, the company still has not delivered the design kits partners need to build a 24GB version of the RTX 5080. With each passing week, a January 2027 launch looks harder to hit. If you…
The graphics card market has officially lost its mind. Every card in NVIDIA’s RTX 50 stack now sells far above its launch price, and the flagship has reached territory that would have sounded like a joke a year ago. Here is the full picture: what each card costs now, why prices exploded, whether relief is…