The Medium gets a new update that completely destroys its in-game performance

Bloober Team has just released a new update for the Steam version of The Medium that completely destroys its in-game performance. Thanks to this latest update, the game is unable to take full advantage of high-end GPUs at lower resolutions. And while the game was running with 80fps in our benchmark scene, it’s now running with 50fps in the very same scene and with the same settings. Continue reading The Medium gets a new update that completely destroys its in-game performance

Here are some alleged specs and benchmarks of Nvidia’s rumored RTX 3080/Ti 20GB “Ampere” GPU

It appears that some gaming performance benchmark numbers and alleged specs of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080/RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB graphics card have leaked out. One Chinese content creator “Big hardware player” got access to an engineering sample of the GeForce RTX 3080 20GB GPU, and has posted his findings over at Bilibili, coming via @9550pro. Continue reading Here are some alleged specs and benchmarks of Nvidia’s rumored RTX 3080/Ti 20GB “Ampere” GPU

Latest Marvel’s Avengers PC Patch enables DRS with DLSS, improves stability

Crystal Dynamics and Nixxes have released a new patch for the PC version of Marvel’s Avengers. According to the release notes, the January 29th Update improves stability and performance, and resolves some reports of the DEVICE_HUNG crash. Continue reading Latest Marvel’s Avengers PC Patch enables DRS with DLSS, improves stability

The Medium – Ray Tracing & DLSS Benchmarks

After sharing our initial concerns about The Medium, we’ve decided to explore numerous environments so that we could find demanding areas that were not suffering from optimization issues. We also wanted to test the game’s retail/final version. As such, it’s time now to benchmark the game’s DLSS 2.0 and Ray Tracing effects.
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Some AMD RDNA2-based GPUs come with a power management feature, called ‘Duty Cycle Scaling/DCS’

According to a recent report coming via Phoronix, AMD’s RDNA2 GPUs have a power management feature dubbed as Duty Cycle Scaling (DCS), as discovered in a recent Linux patch. This feature aims to either temporarily boost performance or reduce the power consumption based on some GPU parameters. Continue reading Some AMD RDNA2-based GPUs come with a power management feature, called ‘Duty Cycle Scaling/DCS’

Intel’s flagship “Rocket Lake” Core i9-11900KF CPU can reach up to 98C at stock settings

At the recent CES 2021 event, Intel officially announced its 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake-S CPU series during the press briefing. Official announcement slides were leaked as well, which showed almost 14% IPC boost with this new CPU lineup. Continue reading Intel’s flagship “Rocket Lake” Core i9-11900KF CPU can reach up to 98C at stock settings