Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is literally the most middling GPU of the past year, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On almost every gaming performance test I’ve run, the 3070 Ti delivered the median score in a field of RTX 3000 series and AMD Radeon RX 6000 series cards, more or less. Nvidia …
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If you’re persistent, patient and willing to shell out $1,199 when the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card ships on June 3, you may be able to pick one up before the well runs dry and before the eBay prices skyrocket. The company’s latest gaming GPU for 4K speedsters comes in right behind the flagship RTX 3090 in the line …
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Another season, another pair of graphics cards you won’t be able to find. This time, it’s the power couple Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti Nvidia announced at Computex 2021. The 3080 Ti will be available June 3 starting at $1,199, while the 3070 Ti ships on June 10, starting at $599. Don’t blink or you’ll miss them. …
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This year’s virtual Computex show — the normally mammoth trade show in Taiwan that’s gone virtual for 2021 due to the pandemic — kicked off with AMD CEO Lisa Su’s keynote address, and for once, a keynote made some real news. AMD’s long-anticipated mobile GPUs based on its RDNA 2 technology, the Radeon RX 6800M, 6700M and 6600M, debuted during her remarks. …
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The “Advantage” in this special model of the Asus ROG Strix G15 refers to AMD’s Advantage Design Framework, a new initiative in the spirit of Intel Evo and Nvidia Studio; in AMD’s words, “the result of a multiyear collaboration between AMD and its global PC partners to deliver the next generation of premium, high-performance gaming laptops.” The ROG Strix Advantage …
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On the eve of Computex, the normally mammoth trade show in Taiwan that’s gone virtual for 2021 due to the pandemic, Intel quietly rolled out a pair of faster processors for thin-and-light laptops and the 5G M.2 module for laptops, the Intel 5G Solution 5000. (Computex was canceled in 2020.) The 5G module, which went into testing in August, is intended …
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Every spring, around the same time as Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Acer holds its Next@Acer global press conference where it unveils its latest products for PC gaming and content creation, as well as stuff for everyone else who uses a computer. This year’s livestream took place Thursday, and the company served up the usual mix of a few notable products sprinkled among a …
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At its annual storage launchapalooza, Western Digital on Wednesday announced several new products in its gaming-focused WD Black line as well as a new brand, SanDisk Professional, which will house its G Technology drives, launching with several new products. Notably, for those of us dearly missing an updated model of the Lexar Professional Workflow HR1 card-reader hub, WD gifts us with a modern …
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Part of SteelSeries new Prime line of esports-targeted gaming accessories, which also launches with a new trio of mice, the $100 (£100, AU$120) Arctis Prime gaming headset definitely achieves one of the company’s design goals: “no bells and whistles that can get in the way.” Sporting the Arctis line’s design and invoking the revered “Arctis Pro sound signature,” the Prime is …
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At Google I/O this week, we got some major announcements, including more details on Android 12, Wear OS and watches and possibly Pixel phones. The company skipped I/O last year so there’s a lot to catch up on. The conference was entirely virtual this year and free for everyone, running from now through May 20. You can watch a replay of …
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