Nvidia Clears Up 8K DLSS Upscaling With GeForce RTX 3090

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During it's GeForce RTX 3090 announcement, Nvidia spent some time hyping up 8K gaming. What's it going to take to run 8K at reasonable frame rates? That's a huge can of worms, and besides one of the best graphics cards , there are a few other requirements. Nvidia provided additional details on 8K gaming and DLSS, which is what we're focused on here.

First, let's address the elephant in the

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Intel Core i9-10850K CPU Review: Cheaper, but Nearly Identical Gaming to 10900K

Our Verdict

The Core i9-10850K is the lower-cost alternative to the Core i9-10900K, but offers essentially the same performance in our gaming benchmarks.

For

  • Cheaper than Core i9-10900K, but with similar gaming performance
  • Strong in both single- and multi-threaded applications

Against

  • Power consumption
  • Thermal output and cooling requirements
  • PCIe 3.0 interface
  • Little overclocking headroom
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Report: AMD Taps MediaTek to Develop Custom Wi-Fi 6 and 5G Chips

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AMD is allegedly getting into bed with MediaTek, DigiTimes reported yesterday. The publication's sources claimed that the two parties are working on Wi-Fi 6 ASIC chips and will eventually transition to 5G modems. MediaTek has refused to comment on the matter, since it doesn't disclose information on clients or projects.

If DigiTimes' information is legit, AMD and MediaTek's collaboration will commence with the development of custom Wi-Fi 6 ASIC chips. The publication didn't


VirtualLink Is Dead: GeForce RTX 30-Series Skips the VR Connector, Website Gone

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Announced in mid-2018, the VirtualLink interface promised a single-cable connection for upcoming VR headsets. But the interface never really took off, and now it looks like it never will. This week it turned out that Nvidia decided not to support VirtualLink on its GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards . What's more, the VirtualLink Consortium’s website is now offline.

Single Cable and Strong Backing

The first-generation tethered VR headsets needed three cables


Raspberry Pi Powered Harry Potter Project Works Like Magic

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I'm sure a few of our readers have wondered what it's like to make something happen with the wave of a wand. Now they can know exactly what it's like with this Raspberry Pi -powered Harry Potter infrared wand project created by a maker known as Coleminer31. His original plan was to develop a treasure box for his sister who works as a first-grade teacher. By waving the wand, the treasure box would open for the students


GeForce RTX 3080 Promises 60+ FPS At 4K With Max Eye Candy And Ray Tracing

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Justin Walker, product manager for GeForce desktop graphics cards, shared some compelling information on the GeForce RTX 3080's performance yesterday in an Nvidia Reddit AMA .

The GeForce RTX 3080's attributes are nothing short of amazing, and we're sure the graphics card will likely earn a spot on our Best Graphics Cards for Gaming list. However, despite the substantial uplift in the number of CUDA cores, the GeForce RTX


RTX 3090, 3080, 3070 Founders Edition Cards Will Not Be Sold in Australia

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In a strange turn of events, Nvidia will not be selling their Founders Edition RTX 3000 series graphics cards in Australia. Nvidia has confirmed with an Australian news outlet Kotaku that their home brewed cards will not be coming to Australia at all for the entire duration of the Ampere generation. Nvidia has not given a reason as to why this is the case, but we've pinged the company for comment.

This is quite unusual, given you could purchase Founders Edition RTX 2


From Big Navi to Big Wheels? AMD Sells Bikes Now

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Nvidia just announced its GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards , and it's safe to say, the promises are impressive. Many people are curious how AMD will compete, but as it turns out, AMD isn't just pedaling towards its Big Navi RX 6000 launch – it's also getting into the bike market.

Okay, you might think we're only joking there, but AMD truly is selling bikes now as a new item in the

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Ray Tracing is Coming to The Witcher 3 On Xbox, PS5, PC: Free For Existing Owners

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If you've been following the gaming industry for a while, you'll know that people are generally happy with CD Projekt Red, even happily accepting the endless delays it is subjecting to Cyberpunk 2077. Just a few days ago the company showed off a new Ray Tracing Demo for that title , but it now looks like CP2077 isn't the only title from CD Project Red to get some RTX goodness.

Indeed, CD Projekt Red


Microsoft to Bring DirectStorage API to Windows in 2021: Speeding Up Gaming With NVMe SSDs

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Microsoft this week said that it would bring preview of its DirectStorage application programming interface that powers the company’s Xbox Velocity Architecture to Windows 10 developers in 2021. The API is designed to speed up game loading times and improve performance of games by eliminating storage API-related bottlenecks and reducing CPU involvement, but on a client PC it can do much more than that. Nvidia has also adopted the technology, branded Nvidia RTX IO, for its Ampere graphics cards .

Expensive

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