NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080 With “Missing ROPs” Has Finally Been Tested; Up To 11% Performance Drop In Gaming Tests
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080s with "missing ROPs" have finally been tested, and gaming benchmarks report performance losses of more than 10% in some scenarios. NVIDIA's "Missing ROP" Fiasco Will Bring In a Slight Decrease In Gaming Performance; Specific Titles See A Larger Impact Well, Team Green's launch of the RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs has indeed been a messed-up one, and to add on, consumers started to report missing ROPs across all the released models,
ASUS BETA BIOS 1202 For AM5 Motherboards – Offers Optimizations For Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D, Also Adds AI Cache Boost
ASUS's latest BETA BIOS for its AM5 motherboards optimizes the performance of upcoming AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D & 9900X3D 3D V-Cache CPUs. ASUS BETA BIOS Rolled Out on AM5 Motherboards for Improved System Performance, Introduces AI Cache Boost Feature & Ready For AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D CPUs As we move closer to the launch of AMD Ryzen 9 9000X3D
Monster Hunter Wilds Reaches Steam’s Top 5 All-Time Peak, But User Reviews Are Only at 54%
Monster Hunter Wilds is off to an amazing start, at least in terms of Steam numbers. CAPCOM's latest entry in the monster hunting franchise has literally crushed the player concurrency peaks registered by the two previous (and already highly successful) entries, Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise, which stopped at 334K and 231K concurrent users, respectively. Monster Hunter Wilds has just reached 1.38 million concurrent users, over a million more than Monster Hunter World, which is enough to
AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 Series Witnesses Strong Demand From China; Initial Pre-Orders Show RX 9070 XT To Be The Popular Choice
AMD's RX 9070 series is witnessing strong demand from China, as the initial pre-order numbers are much higher compared to NVIDIA's recent GPU launches. AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GPUs Sees Pre-Orders Open Up In China "Exclusively" For Now; Demand Much Better Than NVIDIA Well, with the RDNA 4 GPU showcase, the consumer markets have indeed started to react positively to the release. Team Red's Radeon RX 9070 GPUs not only come
ASUS’ TUF Gaming A16 Enters The ‘Price To Performance’ Realm, As The RTX 4070 Gaming Laptop Is Now Exceptionally Affordable With Its $500 Discount On Amazon
More and more ASUS gaming laptops will eventually be flooded on Amazon sporting NVIDIA’s shiny new RTX 5000 GPUs, which is why Amazon has found the perfect opportunity to heavily discount the previous-generation machines to make them an attractive alternative for the masses. The TUF Gaming A16 is one example of how a pricey portable powerhouse can now turn into a daily driver for potentially hundreds, as it is now $500 more affordable with the latest listing. The TUF Gaming A16 can
New Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Mod Greatly Improves Global Illumination
Warhorse has promised official mod support for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 soon, but in the meantime, modders continue to find ways to improve the highly successful first-person open world role-playing game that just celebrated selling two million units in the first two weeks. Nexus user nimbul recently released a utility mod that loads configuration (CFG) variables correctly even after level loading. Without it, the game reverts to default variables. Thanks to this mod, Nexus user vktrfly worked on those variables to improve the global illumination quality in
AMD’s RX 9060 Series GPUs Will Be Released In Q2 2025; Ready To Compete With NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 GPU Lineup
AMD's mid-range RX 9060 GPUs are expected to go live somewhere in the second quarter of this year and are expected to compete with NVIDIA's 60-class RTX Blackwell GPUs. AMD's Mid-Range RX 9060 GPUs To Tackle NVIDIA's RTX 5060/RTX 5060 Ti; Expected To Be Within Sub-$400 Price Segment Team Red's first batch of RDNA 4 GPUs, the RX 907
Windows 11 Newest Update Will Change The Way CPU Utilization Is Calculated; Will Now Be Consistent With Third-Party Tools
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update will introduce a new way for Task Manager to calculate CPU utilization, which will be similar to third-party tools. Windows 11 Update Will Make CPU Monitoring Much More Effective With Task Manager, Potentially Avoiding The Need For Third-Party Apps It seems like Microsoft has acknowledged that the performance metrics displayed to users through Task Manager are quite incapable compared to what third-party tools offer. In light of this, they will pushed out a new update that will adopt a different
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Listed For $549 On Best BUY, Listing Reveals ASUS PRIME Edition GPU
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 looks ready to hit the market as one of its custom editions has already been listed on a retailer. ASUS's Custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB GDDR7 Listed on Best Buy for MSRP Ahead of Launch It may seem as a surprise to see the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 already being listed on a retailer. Since most RTX 50 series GPUs are already out of stock, seeing an upcoming RTX 50 series GPU and that too
iPhone 16e Teardown Shows Its 48MP Primary Camera Features Standard OIS, With The A18’s Small Logic Board Only Sporting A Graphite Film And Copper Tape To Transfer Heat
Apple kicked off the release of the iPhone 16e yesterday, which meant that it was only a matter of time before the $599 device would receive the teardown treatment. On closer inspection of the disassembly, a YouTuber finds that the handset employs standard OIS instead of the more advanced sensor-shift optical image stabilization present on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 15. Additionally, the A18 only has basic levels of graphite and copper cooling to help dissipate heat. Here are more details that you