Intel took an “arrow to the knee” with its Arrow Lake-S processors. The Core Ultra 200S chips perform worse than their predecessors in gaming workloads. As a result, AMD’s Ryzen X3D offerings have become the go-to for PC gamers. Of course, Intel isn’t giving up, and its next-gen Nova Lake-S family looks like a formidable …| Hardware Times
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Intel’s next-gen Nova Lake-S CPU die has allegedly taped out. In other words, the first fabricated dies have arrived from the fab for testing and quality control. The interesting part is that the tape-out comes from TSMC’s 2nm-class manufacturing, making Nova Lake-S the second “Core Ultra” desktop lineup using third-party capacity. Increased Reliance on TSMC; …| Hardware Times
NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 5060 in late May with the same 8 GB buffer as its predecessor. The Blackwell budget GPU was panned by gamers and reviewers for its lacklustre performance (versus the RTX 4060 and the 4060 Ti). Despite that, the RTX 5060, particularly the laptop variant, has emerged as the bestselling GPU …| Hardware Times
Multi-Frame Generation is the main reason for the existence of the GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. They offer minimal gen-over-gen rasterization gains, while ray-tracing performance is mostly unchanged. Multi-frame generation is a game-changer in path-traced titles like Cyberpunk 2077, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Dune: Awakening. However, the increased VRAM usage often …| Hardware Times
Doom: The Dark Ages is the latest PC game to support path-tracing. The recent patch added path-traced global illumination, reflections, and ray-traced shadows. Of course, you need a beefy graphics card, upscaling, and frame generation for an enjoyable experience. Here’s how path-traced Doom: The Dark Ages performs across popular RTX GPUs. Doom: The Dark Ages …| Hardware Times
