I hope you didn’t just buy a new Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card. If you did, you might be somewhat peeved about the company releasing replacements for several models before the old ones have even celebrated their first birthday. The three new “Super” versions — the GeForce RTX 2080 Super, 2070 Super and 2060 Super …
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You can never have too many overlays — that’s got to be someone’s motto. At least Nvidia’s made one that seems pretty useful for trying to figure out why your $800 graphics card is more spud than speed demon. The company’s new FrameView utility could help answer some other questions too: Why cut scenes are rendering as if half the …
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Three years ago, high-end camera manufacturer Hasselblad launched the first mirrorless medium-format camera, the 50-megapixel X1D-50c. Since then, Fujifilm’s GFX series has come along with aggressive prices that have gotten as low as $4,000 compared to the X1D’s launch price of twice as much. For its follow-up model, the X1D II 50C, Hasselblad fine-tunes the X1D and brings it forth at …
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The future landscape of gaming platforms is starting to coalesce, and we’re getting a more solid vision of it from announcements made around the annual E3 gaming show. Google offered more of the details for its much-anticipated Stadia service in its pre-E3 press event — pricing, availability, speed requirements and launch games — while Microsoft gave us a glimpse of its …
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If you feel like stepping up to a more premium-feeling pen for your Windows 10 two-in-one or tablet to create or to annotate, Wacom’s ready for you. The Bamboo Ink Plus improves on its predecessor in several ways — it’s better designed overall — while still retaining its ability to connect to any Windows Ink-compatible device via either Wacom AES …
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AMD closed its Computex announcements with a “one last thing” reveal of a 12-core CPU, the Ryzen 7 3900X. Just a few weeks later at its E3 press conference, AMD one-last-thinged us again. This time it one-upped itself with a 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X desktop CPU slated to ship in September for $749. The company also delivered the promised pricing, specifications …
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Lesser-known web browser-developer Opera has tried to ease gamers’ pain points with its new Opera GX browser, announced today at the E3 gaming show. It looks and feels much different than the standard browser, with different customizations, but some of the changes go more than skin deep. For instance, in GX Control it lets you set hard or soft limits …
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Lenovo’s jumped on the Quadro RTX 5000 bandwagon, bringing the high-end processor into its ThinkPad P53 and P73 mobile workstations; the P53 especially benefits as it brings a new level of power down to the 15-inch class of laptops. The P53 is also getting an option for a 4K OLED touch display. The OLED panels are making their way into …
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Samsung’s CRG5 isn’t the first 240Hz 1080p monitor, the first G-Sync-compatible model or the first 27-inch curved, but it might be the first with all of those, with a VA panel instead of TN to boot. The $400 monitor debuted at this year’s E3 gaming show and is slated to ship in July. (Directly converted, its price is about £315 …
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Google Stadia on Thursday unveiled its pricing and some of the video games you can play on its all-new service set to launch in 2020. The company also offered up some guidelines as to the types of network speed requirements it has for various qualities of gameplay: 10Mbps for 720/60fps stereo, roughly 20Mbps for 1080/60fps HDR with 5.1 surround audio, and …
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