Intel has issued an official press release in which the company claimed that its new 8th generation desktop CPUs will be up to 25% faster than its 7th generation desktop CPUs in multi-threaded games. Intel used Microsoft’s Gears of War 4 as an example, in which the new Intel Core i7 8700K performed 25% faster than the Intel Core i7 7700K. Continue reading Intel’s 8th generation desktop CPUs to offer up to 25% performance boost in multi-threaded PC games
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Intel Core i7 8700K Benchmark Results Leaked
AMD has smashed their way back into the CPU market with the release of Ryzen and now we all sit waiting patiently for the response Intel will be giving in the form of Coffee Lake.
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AMD promises to improve IPC performance in future CPUs, talks about optimization in PC games
At this year’s PAX West, Joker got a chance to talk with AMD’s Don Woligroski who shared some interesting new information about the future CPUs of AMD, as well as the ongoing optimizations that AMD is trying to bring to PC games. Continue reading AMD promises to improve IPC performance in future CPUs, talks about optimization in PC games
Intel Introduces its 8th-gen CPUs
Intel has claimed that their new 8th-gen CPU’s will be a massive 40% faster.
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 performs almost identically to the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
And the moment of truth has come. I mean, we’ve had so many articles for the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition and we’ve been criticized for publishing articles about a non-gaming GPU. A lot of users claimed that the AMD Radeon RX Vega would be significantly faster than the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition as the latter was not a graphics card meant to run games. However, it appears that there was a reason behind all those articles. Continue reading AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 performs almost identically to the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
Intel Core i7 8700K reported to offer 11% faster single-thread & 51% faster multi-thread performance than the i7 7700K
Intel has hosted a training for retailers in China for its new upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs and according to some leaked slides, the high-end model – Intel Core i7 8700K – is 11% faster in single-thread and 51% faster in multi-thread operations than its predecessor, the Intel Core i7 7700K processor. These slides also confirmed the rumours that arose a few weeks ago, suggesting that the new Coffee Lake processors will feature more cores than their predecessors. Continue reading Intel Core i7 8700K reported to offer 11% faster single-thread & 51% faster multi-thread performance than the i7 7700K
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080 & GTX1080Ti – More Gaming Benchmarks
And the moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived. AMD has lifted the NDA for its two new graphics cards, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, and below you can find a lot of gaming benchmarks from different publications that got their hands on them. Continue reading AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080 & GTX1080Ti – More Gaming Benchmarks
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 – First gaming benchmarks leak online, performs similarly to the GTX1080
AMD will lift the embargo for its latest gaming variant graphics cards based on the Vega architecture in a few hours and it appears that the first gaming benchmarks for it have been leaked online. According to the benchmarks, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 comes close to the FE of GTX1080 but does not beat it in a bunch of them. Continue reading AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 – First gaming benchmarks leak online, performs similarly to the GTX1080
First 3DMark score for Intel’s new Coffee-Lake i7 8700K, faster than i7 7700K & AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
Intel will officially unveil its 8th generation “Coffee Lake” CPUs on August 21st and it appears that the first 3DMark score has surfaced. According to the physics test – which is a CPU-only test – Intel’s i7 8700K is faster than its predecessor, the Intel Core i7 7700K, as well as both of AMD’s Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 CPUs. Continue reading First 3DMark score for Intel’s new Coffee-Lake i7 8700K, faster than i7 7700K & AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
Dead Vega 64 GPU Found In AMD Radeon RX Vega Box
AMD is extremely close to releasing their new family of flagship graphics cards, but as expected coming up to the launch Radeon RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 images leaked online as well as a mystery dead GPU found inside the box.
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