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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X are the new PC gaming kings, third-party benchmarks revealed

As you may already know AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3-based Vermeer desktop CPU lineup. According to AMD these CPUs will offer better single-thread performance in PC games. AMD has lifted the review embargo and here are the first third-party gaming benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X. Continue reading AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X are the new PC gaming kings, third-party benchmarks revealed

The developers of Life is Strange have six games in production

Dontnod Entertainment is slowly becoming the new Telltale Games in the adventure genre. Just like Telltale Games, most of Dontnod’s games are adventure, with a heavy focus on storytelling. Some may call these games “walking simulators”, but the truth is that a large majority of gamers really enjoy these kind of games.

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Activision significantly reduces the free disk-space requirements for COD: Black Ops Cold War

Last month, Activision revealed the official PC system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. According to those specs, PC gamers would need 175GB for installing the MP and SP modes, and 250GB for gaming in 4K/Ray Tracing. However, Treyarch has revised and significantly reduced these free hard-disk space requirements. Continue reading Activision significantly reduces the free disk-space requirements for COD: Black Ops Cold War

Rumor: Nvidia might release mid-range RTX 3060 and RTX 3050Ti AMPERE GPUs based on the ‘GA106 GPU’

Nvidia has already released its Ampere lineup of GPUs, and we have been hearing a lot of chatter on the web regarding the company’s plans to counter AMD’s upcoming RDNA 2 GPU lineup of cards. Many new SKUs were already rumored before, some also got cancelled, but some of the cards are still on the launch pipeline, sporting better specs than previous counterparts as well. Continue reading Rumor: Nvidia might release mid-range RTX 3060 and RTX 3050Ti AMPERE GPUs based on the ‘GA106 GPU’

Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU Benchmarked, up to 18% higher Single-Core performance than Core i9-10900K

Just few days ago, Intel officially revealed its upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on the Cypress Cove core architecture. Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices. Continue reading Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPU Benchmarked, up to 18% higher Single-Core performance than Core i9-10900K

AMD confirms RX 6000-series RDNA 2 ‘Big Navi’ GPU lineup will support Ray Tracing in existing titles

Just a few days ago AMD officially announced its RDNA 2-based flagship Big Navi graphics cards, the Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 6800XT and RX 6800, respectively. Even though the RDNA 2 Live event showcased benchmarks that favored the Radeon RX 6900 XT, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and Radeon RX 6800 over the competition, none of them included metrics related to ray tracing. Continue reading AMD confirms RX 6000-series RDNA 2 ‘Big Navi’ GPU lineup will support Ray Tracing in existing titles