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Dying Light Benchmarked: Graphics And CPU Performance
Most known for developing the Call of Juarez and Dead Island franchises, Techland is back this week to launch a new open world survival horror title for the PC (including Linux and SteamOS), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Dying Light takes place in an expansive urban environment where players navigate using freerunning ‘parkour’ mechanics while…
By Steven Walton Published January 31, 2015 -
Geforce GTX 960 Review: Sweet Spot’ GPU or Not?
Introduced last September, Nvidia’s Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 delivered twice the performance per watt of their Kepler equivalents on top of bringing support for Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 12 API as well as other new features such as Nvidia Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), Multi-Frame sampled AA (MFAA), and Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). Despite…
By Steven Walton Published January 25, 2015 -
Then And Now: Five Generations Of Radeon Graphics Compared
Last month we compared half a decade’s worth of DirectX 11-capable GeForce cards in the latest and greatest PC games to see where Nvidia has made the biggest performance leaps and which GPUs have aged the best. We had never compared so many GPU generations under the same conditions and the results were fascinating. So…
By Steven Walton Published January 19, 2015 -
Then And Now: Five Generations Of GeForce Graphics Compared
It may not seem like it, but we’ve been gaming on DirectX 11 graphics hardware for half a decade. The AMD Radeon HD 5870 arrived in September 2009, while Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 480 shipped six months later — a trivial delay considering there were so few DX11 games available at the time. The first game…
By Steven Walton Published December 22, 2014 -
Dragon Age: Inquisition Benchmarked: Graphics And CPU Performance
As a long time fan of the series, our mobile editor Tim jumped at the opportunity to preview Dragon Age: Inquisition ahead of release last month. As with Kotaku‘s impression of the final release, Tim concluded that the fantasy RPG’s third iteration is a must-play. Fortunately, that should be doable for most gamers with official…
By Steven Walton Published November 24, 2014 -
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AMD Radeon R9 285 Review: The New $250 Video Card To Beat
With the series having already exploded onto the market this year, a new Radeon 200 graphics card may not make for the most exciting headline, but this one is a little different than most other Radeon 200s considering it isn’t a rebadged HD7000. Codenamed “Tonga Pro”, the new Radeon R9 285 takes the latest technology…
By Steven Walton Published September 2, 2014 -
Watch Dogs Benchmarked: How Does Your PC Stack Up?
Set in an alternate reality techno-dystopian Chicago, Watch Dogs hit every gamer’s holiday wishlist after appearing at E3 2012. The open world hackfest wowed onlookers with its urban stealth action and its seemingly ‘next-gen’ graphics. Unfortunately, a month before its November 2013 release the game was delayed for another six months — the short-term blowout…
By Steven Walton Published May 27, 2014 -
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Review: A Dual-GPU Beast
We first caught wind of an upcoming dual-GPU Hawaii graphics card this time last month when AMD teased us with its top-secret “Two is Better Than One” campaign. Although AMD didn’t actually reveal anything, it was clearly planning a successor to the Radeon HD 7990, which is essentially two Tahiti dies on a single board,…
By Steven Walton Published April 8, 2014 -
Battle Of The $150 Video Cards: GeForce GTX 750 Ti Vs. Radeon R7 265
Marking the introduction of its Maxwell architecture, Nvidia has targeted AMD’s $150 Radeon R7 265 with the new GeForce GTX 750 Ti, a card that promises to be more than another rebadge. The GTX 750 Ti’s GM107 is meant to make Nvidia’s 28nm design process as efficient as possible by splitting Kepler’s 192-core streaming multiprocessor…
By Steven Walton Published February 18, 2014 -
Arkham Origins Benchmarked: How’s Your PC Handling The Batman?
With Warner Bros Games Montréal handling development, many fans were worried that Arkham Origins wouldn’t (couldn’t?) live up to its Rocksteady-produced predecessors. As is often the case with console-oriented releases, PC gamers were burdened with the extra concern of whether to expect a quality port. Although Origins has received its share of criticism, it doesn’t…
By Steven Walton Published October 29, 2013 -
The Gainward Nvidia GTX 760, Benchmarked And Reviewed
Nvidia has continued to roll out the GeForce 700 series this week with the GTX 760 — the generation’s first truly mainstream product, with pricing well under that of the GTX Titan, 780 and even the 770, which at $400 stillcosts more than the average gamer is willing to spend. In other words, the GTX…
By Steven Walton Published June 25, 2013 -
Intel Haswell Makes Its Debut: Core i7-4770K Review
Regular TechSpot readers will have no doubt spotted several mentions of Haswell on our front page this year. In the past few months we have covered everything from model names to performance and battery life claims. A key focus has been Haswell’s graphics, with rumors suggesting its performance is set to be 2 to 3…
By Steven Walton Published June 1, 2013 -
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GeForce GTX 770 Review: Adding Value to High-End GFX?
Having taken the covers off the GeForce GTX 780 a week ago, Nvidia is ready to release their next part in the GeForce 700 series. Giving us our first look at the GeForce GTX 770 is Gainward, with their special Phantom edition card featuring an upgraded cooling solution, factory overclocking, and 8-phase PWM. But let’s…
By Steven Walton Published May 30, 2013 -
Metro: Last Light PC Performance, Benchmarked
When the Metro 2033 was released in 2010 it contributed to raise the PC graphics bar making good use of the latest DirectX 11 rendering technologies such as depth of field and tessellation along with high resolution textures. Before that little was known about the developers of Metro. 4A Games was founded by Oles Shiskovtsov…
By Steven Walton Published May 23, 2013 -
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Review: The Titan Descendant
The GeForce GTX 680 was Nvidia’s first 28nm part featuring 1536 CUDA cores, 128 texture units and 32 ROP units. It’s remained since release Nvidia’s fastest single GPU graphics card of the series, second only to the dual-GPU GTX 690 which features a pair of GK104 GPUs. And so for the last 12+ months the…
By Steven Walton Published May 23, 2013 -
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The AMD Radeon 7990 Graphics Card, Benchmarked
The current generation AMD GPU series collectivelly known as “Southern Islands” were released over a year ago, with the beginning of its rollout in January 2012. Sixteen months later, the Radeon HD 7000 series is still very much relevant, as AMD continues to release new models under the same GPU family. The Radeon HD 7790…
By Steven Walton Published April 24, 2013 -
BioShock Infinite PC Performance, Benchmarked
Developed using a modified version of Unreal Engine 2.5 and enhanced with Havok Physics, we were blown away by the original BioShock when it launched back in September 2007. Our performance review at the time concluded that the title had “jaw-dropping visual effects” and that you’d need one of the finest graphics cards of the…
By Steven Walton Published April 2, 2013
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