AMD’s Radeon VII has arrived! All hail the Radeon VII! But does it belong in our build chart?
The Radeon VII (Vega II) Graphics Card Launch
- The Falcon
- 8th Feb 2019
- Logical Increments Updates
Posts Tagged Under: GTX 1080 Ti
What on earth is RTX?!
- Chris Cunningham
- 3rd Dec 2018
- PC Hardware
So, although the graphics cards have been out for a while now (although still a little hard to get hold of), the games with RTX support haven’t really been there. So now that some games are coming out with shiny RTX options, we’re going to take a look at performance and ask what on earth RTX is actually used for!
New GPU Descriptions for November 2018
- The Falcon
- 6th Nov 2018
- Logical Increments Updates
The Witcher 3 1080p and 4K Benchmarks from TechPowerUp (source article linked below)
November 2017 was the last time we updated the GPU descriptions. We compared cards to the Titan XP, and had benchmarks for WoW and Witcher 3.
Now that it is November 2018, I have updated the base comparison GPU and the reference games.
The RTX 2070 Launch
- The Falcon
- 17th Oct 2018
- Logical Increments Updates
The RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti Launch (For Real This Time)
- The Falcon
- 20th Sep 2018
- Logical Increments Updates
After much teasing and waiting, the reviews for nVidia’s RTX cards are now available, which means we can finally properly evaluate how the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti stack up against the prior generation.
The End of the DDR3 Era
- The Falcon
- 12th Aug 2018
- Logical Increments Updates
I cannot claim that DDR3 was my first RAM-love; DDR2 has that honour. Or shame, if you prefer. But DDR3 has a special place in my heart, for it was the only RAM that was available when I built my PC. It was also the only RAM available when Orion and I built our office. For about a decade, it was the only RAM for normal users.
2018 Graphics Cards Pricing Update: Current Prices vs. Original Retail Price
- Chris Cunningham
- 24th Jan 2018
- PC Hardware
A little under 6 months ago, I wrote an article about the prices and stock shortage of graphics cards and the causes of that increase. Today, I take a look at what has been done by the manufacturers and retailers in this time, as well as what still needs to be done.
PC Building in 2017: Recapping a Record Year?
- Chris Cunningham
- 29th Dec 2017
- PC Hardware
What a year it has been for us builders! Many have been hailing this as one of the best years ever. But is that indicative of the overall hype that has been thrown around over the course of 2017? Read on as I look back on the year that was 2017, and evaluate how the biggest releases have stacked up against their hype.
AMD RX Vega 64 vs. GTX 1080 & GTX 1080 Ti
- fore1gn
- 31st Aug 2017
- PC Hardware Comparison
AMD’s RX Vega, the gaming version of AMD’s long-awaited high-end GPU architecture, finally saw its release this month. While RX Vega 56, the smaller brother of the full Vega GPU, offered great price-to-performance compared to NVIDIA’s price-equivalent GTX 1070, the story is different with RX Vega 64 when comparing it to its price-equivalent, the GTX 1080.
Building a PC with the GTX 1080 Ti
- Adam Van Gelder
- 14th Mar 2017
- PC Builds
NVIDIA has just released the GTX 1080 Ti, with the company claiming that their new card is up to 35% faster than the already beastly GTX 1080 in some instances. If you’re going for an all-out gaming PC, look no further.
We’ve crafted three different PC builds to take advantage of NVIDIA’s new powerhouse graphics card: One with an ATX Full tower, one with an ATX Mid Tower, and finally a small form factor build. The ATX builds are using AMD’s newly released Ryzen 7 1800X and 1700X chips to make well-rounded workstation builds, while the SFF build will be using an i7-7700K, still the best gaming CPU.
All the builds are targeted at 1440p or 4K gaming, which is where the lower single-threaded performance of the Ryzen CPUs is less of an issue. Click on the links to go directly to the product page.