We've just posted the GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition review , which now reigns — until next week's launch on the GeForce RTX 3090 — as the best graphics card for gaming and sits at the top of the GPU hierarchy . While your graphics card is usually the biggest considering when it comes to gaming performance, however, we also wanted to look at some of the best CPUs for gaming to see just how much performance you lose

GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition: Hail to the King!

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is here, claiming the top spot on our GPU benchmarks hierarchy , and ranking as the best graphics card currently available — provided you're after performance first, with price and power being lesser concerns. After months of waiting, we finally have independent benchmarks and testing data. Nvidia has thrown down the gauntlet, clearly challenging AMD's Big

Running a few GPU tests is one of the first things we do whenever we build a PC or upgrade one, perhaps with one of the best graphics cards . Not only is it a great way to find out just how much things have improved thanks to the upgrade, but it also lets you ensure you're getting the expected performance from your new hardware. Stress testing to check power, temperatures, and overall cooling on your PC is also important so that you don

Samsung's new PM9A1 PCIe 4.0 SSD (via IThome ) has surfaced briefly in China's online retailer Taobao. The PM9A1 is aimed at OEMs, so it probably won't take a position on our list of Best SSDs , but the drive will likely magically find its way to the retail market, like Samsung's former PM981 or PM981a.

The complete specifications for the PM9A1 are

Nvidia's been on a roll since 2018, with a number of games adding ray tracing support to use with the brand's best graphics cards . With a limited number of titles supporting the feature, however, the past two years have brought lackluster popularity for RTX. Now, Nvidia's promising " hundreds " of games in development with ray tracing, so things could change -- especially with Nvidia announcing today that Fortnite is getting Nvidia RTX support on September 1

During an online event today, Apple announced its latest silicon, the A14 Bionic. It's built on a 5nm processor and has six CPU cores , four GPU cores and a 16-core neural engine. The chip will debut in the new iPad Air, which will go on sale next month starting at $599.

The SoC has 11.8 billion transistors, which Apple said was quite the challenge, considering you're getting into measurements

If you were a fan of Lego Dimensions, you may have a few Lego Minifigures lying around. If you're not sure what to do with them, check out this fun Raspberry Pi project by maker Dennis Mellican for a little inspiration. Not one to waste a good opportunity, this maker decided to use his old Minifigures with a Raspberry Pi to create an interactive jukebox for his son.

A Lego Dimensions pad is wired to a Raspberry Pi. When a Minifigure is placed on

The Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 series is right around the corner, and while we’ve already written about how its lower-than-expected pricing is impacting older Nvidia GPUs , AMD cards don’t seem to be immune to price drops either. Take the MSI Radeon RX 5600 XT, which offers similar performance to the Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 and is now only $220 on Newegg (with promo code EMCDRGK36 and after