UL Benchmarks' 3DMARK Wild Life benchmark spans from smartphones to notebooks

This utility supports Windows, Android and iOS

Published: 15th October 2020 | Source: UL Benchmarks | Author: Mark Campbell

UL Benchmarks' 3DMARK Wild Life benchmark spans from smartphones to notebooks

3DMARK Wild Life is the newest benchmarking utility from the folks over at UL Benchmarks, offering users a cross-platform graphics performance tool which can span from Windows-based notebook computers to tablets and smartphones using iOS and Android.

UL Benchmarks has designed 3DMARK Wilf Life to take advantage of the capabilities of
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Basemark reveals GPUScore, the first benchmark to bring Ray Tracing to Windows and Linux

Ray Tracing through DirectX 12 and Vulkan for Windows and Linux

Published: 15th October 2020 | Source: Videocardz | Author: Mark Campbell

Basemark reveals GPUScore, the first benchmark to bring Ray Tracing to Windows and Linux

Later this year, Basemark plans to launch a new GPU benchmarking utility called GPUScore, which will provide gamers with cross-platform benchmarking with support for Windows PC and Linux.

GPUScore will be comprised of three new benchmarks, Relic of Life, Sacret Path and Expedition. Relic of Life
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Intel

Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured - Socket 1700 planned post-Rocket Lake

Alder Lake will reportedly ship with DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 support

Published: 15th October 2020 | Source: Videocardz | Author: Mark Campbell

Intel Alder Lake-S CPU pictured - Socket 1700 planned post-Rocket Lake

Rumour has it that Intel plans to launch its first 10nm desktop processors in late 2021, arriving in the form of Alder Lake alongside a new desktop socket, LGA 1700.

Videocardz has managed to grab an image

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Corsair HS60 Haptic Headset Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 15th October 2020 | Source: Corsair | Price: | Author: Bryan Waters

Introduction

Corsair have released a lot of headsets in recent times with the large bulk of them being variations upon a theme, with the theme being robust design and good sound quality at an affordable price. The HS60 Haptic, as the name gives away, brings something new to the party.

Haptic feedback will be familiar to most of you from your touch screen mobile devices. It

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EVGA releases a 450W BIOS update for their RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra for extreme overclocking

50 watts of extra power for the RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra

Published: 15th October 2020 | Source: EVGA | Author: Mark Campbell

EVGA releases a 450W BIOS update for their RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra for extreme overclocking

EVGA has just released an optional BIOS update for RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra users, an update which increased the graphics card's power limit to 450 watts, representing a 50W increase over
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Ubisoft outs high PC system requirements for Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

SSD storage is recommended.

Published: 15th October 2020 | Source: Assassin's Creed Valhalla | Author: Mark Campbell

Ubisoft outs high PC system requirements for Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Today, Ubisoft has shown the industry exactly how PC system requirements should be announced, releasing clear resolution and framerate targets alongside a set of clear hardware recommendations.

On PC, Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be best played with SSD storage, enabling quicker loading times, faster fast travels and a gameplay experience that
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Patch 1.3.3 brings Nvidia's DLSS to Marvel's Avengers

Better performance on RTX series graphics cards

Published: 15th October 2020 | Source: Marvel's Avengers | Author: Mark Campbell

Patch 1.3.3 brings Nvidia's DLSS to Marvel's Avengers

Patch 1.3.3 has been released for Marvel's Avengers, bringing Nvidia's DLSS technology to the game, offering PC gamers higher performance levels than before on Nvidia's RTX series hardware.

Better still is the fact that Marvel's Avengers has become the first
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ASUS RTX 3080 OC Strix Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 14th October 2020 | Source: ASUS | Price: £869 | Author: Tom Logan

Introduction

Although there have been some isolated reports of issues with some of the early RTX 3080s it's still a supremely impressive card with plenty of performance at a very effective price point. When we first looked at it we were running on pre-launch drivers and many games hadn't yet patched themselves to fix what few compatibility issues there

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AMD reveals vulnerabilities in their Ryzen Master and Radeon Software

Both issues have been addressed with AMD's latest software releases

Published: 14th October 2020 | Source: AMD | Author: Mark Campbell

AMD reveals vulnerabilities in their Ryzen Master and Radeon Software

AMD has updated its product security webpage to highlight two new software vulnerabilities, which impact the company's Ryzen Master Software and Radeon Software driver stack.

Within AMD's Radeon Software, Cisco Talos uncovered a vulnerability (called Escape Handler) which allowed users to create a blue screen. Thankfully, this bug
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PCSpecialist Gladius R9 System Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Published: 14th October 2020 | Source: PCSpecialist | Price: £3599 | Author: Bryan Waters

Introduction

With the recent launch of the Nvidia Ampere graphics cards it was only a matter of time until the team at PCSpecialist put their considerable talents into a new flagship - or at least flagship without going insanely high budget - system. We've barely recovered from the might of their Intel Core i9-10900K and RTX 20

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