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At this week’s GTC, Nvidia unveiled its much-anticipated “Ada Lovelace” RTX 40-series GPUs. The keynote included several headline-grabbing claims. One of those claims was an “up to 4X” uplift in RTX performance in some games compared with the RTX 3090 Ti. This is made possible by the company’s latest iteration of Deep Learning Super Sampling, aka DLSS. Now on its third ...

We’re one day away from the launch of Nvidia’s next-generation GPUs, and a new teaser has successfully raised an eyebrow or two. The company is trying to create a hype train leading up to the launch of its 40-series GPUs by dropping hints on Twitter. Previously it had only released a name — Project Beyond — but its latest teaser includes some numbers. Nobody ...

At GTC this morning Nvidia finally pulled the wraps off its much-anticipated Ada Lovelace architecture along with three GPUs based on it. Jensen unveiled the GeForce RTX 4090 GPU and two RTX 4080s based on different dies. This is a first for the company and something that’s sure to confuse gamers. One is allegedly based on the AD104 die, with the other using the even-smaller ...

Intel is on the cusp of launching its 13th Generation Raptor Lake CPUs. These chips are an evolution of its Alder Lake architecture, with more efficiency cores, higher clocks, and other mild upgrades—the sort of “tock” refinement of a technology we’ve seen in previous years. As the company prepares to launch, it’s begun training its sales staff with new talking points for Raptor Lake. ...

Gaming is an expensive hobby, particularly when you can’t even buy the latest consoles without paying a scalper double MSRP. The games themselves are getting more spendy, too. After several publishers have gotten on board with $70 AAA pricing, Ubisoft has admitted it’s planning to do the same, starting with the upcoming release of Skull & Bones.

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