Tag: hardware

Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM

Micron expects GDDR7 will…

RAM chip manufacturer Micron has recently been making some interesting claims about its next generation of ultra-fast memory for…
Chinese RAM hits 9000 MT/s and even matches the speed and latency of the memory in our western gaming PCs

Chinese RAM hits 9000…

On the one hand, given the global memory shortage and astronomical RAM prices, it’s hard to get excited about…
Elden Ring’s 1.12

Elden Ring’s 1.12.3 patch…

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree might be the dominant game of the moment, but while the DLC has…
There’s a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today’s GPUs

There’s a new ray…

If you want to test the ray tracing performance of a graphics card, you've got a few options. Most…
‘We have won the war on floppy disks!’ Japan finally declares independence from floppy media

‘We have won the…

Japan has now officially “won the war on floppy disks”, having finally scrapped the many regulations governing their use…
SteelSeries Arena 9 review

SteelSeries Arena 9 review

What happened to 5.1 surround systems? Once all the rage for top-end gaming setups, these days you're much more…
The 3DMark Port Royal world record has been beaten, and all it took was a $5,000+ liquid nitrogen-cooled RTX 5090

The 3DMark Port Royal…

In news only nerds like me will care about (which is pretty much my raison d’être at this point),…

The memory crisis led…

PC gaming has a problem: high prices for a key component, due to an unforeseen surge of interest. We’re…
The Quake shareware CD-ROM contained encrypted copies of every id Software game—and yes, it was cracked 39 days after release

The Quake shareware CD-ROM…

Remember CD-ROMs? Those were the days, ey? You had to put a spinning disc in the front of your…
The most popular RTX 40-series GPU on Steam is in a gaming laptop, not a graphics card

The most popular RTX…

The latest Steam hardware survey is here and there are some changes of note. Chief among them is the…