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Dune: Awakening Gets May 20th Release Date – Benchmarking Tool Available Now
Funcom has just revealed the release date for their upcoming title Dune: Awakening. The great news is that we won’t have to wait too much longer, with the gaming hitting PC on May 20th. What’s more, there’s even a new trailer for you to check out, which you can see…
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Performance – 40 Graphics Cards Tested!
Kingdom Come: Deliverance made a name for itself with its deep historical accuracy, punishingly realistic combat, and an open world that felt truly alive. Now, after years of anticipation, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is finally here, promising an even more immersive medieval experience. As with any major new release, we’ve…
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We Benchmarked 35 GPUs in Black Myth Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong is one of the most highly anticipated game launches of the year, and with the launch set for the 20th August, the developer has made a bold move to release a benchmark tool ahead of time so that potential players can see if their system is up…
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Chaos V-Ray 6.1 Benchmark Now Available
We love a good benchmark tool here at eTeknix, and we certainly do run a lot of them every day! Now with the latest update to Chaos’ V-Ray, we have yet another one we can deploy, but then again, so can you! That’s right, Chaos V-Ray 6.1 has just been…
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Furmark 2 Launches and Stresses Your GPU Even Harder
If you’re not aware of Furmark, it’s effectively a tool that stresses your GPU to its absolute limits. It’s a useful tool to just see exactly what happens when your GPU is put under an unrealistic load and how its cooler fares, it also transforms your GPU into a space…
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Chipzilla in Hot Water For Cheating on Benchmarks
You may or may not know that SPEC CPU 2017 is a popular benchmark used for high-end servers and data centres, and I guess either way, it doesn’t matter if you do or not. However, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation or “SPEC” is designed to provide an honest and fair…
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Nvidia LDAT & PCAT – What Are They?
We’ve been in the benchmarking business for well over a decade now, and even before that, we’ve been building, overclocking, and testing our own hardware for even longer too. As PC gamers and content creators, we’re always looking to ensure we get the best performance from our hardware. It doesn’t…
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AMD 5600X to 5800X3D – I Upgraded So You (Maybe) Don’t Have To!
I will officially be middle-aged by the end of this week. Yes, I’m turning 40! – In fairness, given that I went bald at 24 and have had very little interest in music since 1989, I suspect that I’ve been middle-aged (at heart at least) for quite some time now.…
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FurMark 2 Released Just 16 Years After Original Benchmark
FurMark is a notorious benchmark, aptly named a “power virus” by some hardware manufacturers, it really is a hardware killer at times. It’s by far the most intensive stress test for a graphics card, but if you want to really stress those thermals and power draw limits, it’s really a…
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Nvidia 4060(?) Benchmark Leak Suggests Performance on Par with the 3070 Ti
With Nvidia having already released its upper to top-tier graphics cards, while they certainly impressed many in terms of their performance (not so much in terms of their price tags) I think the majority of consumers at this point are just wishing Team Green would hurry up and get their…
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AMD Release Radeon 7900 VS 6000 Benchmark Figures (But the Math is Problematic)
Despite the fact that brand new graphics cards are now (mostly) available at something vaguely representing their MSRP value, I still can’t help but feel that as a consumer desperately in need of a new upgrade, I still don’t have that many good options available. – Taking cost and performance…
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Benchmarks State the Intel i9-13900KF as the King of Raptor Lake Overclocking!
Modern processor design typically tends to err these days towards overclocking only really being an ultimately beneficial/required pursuit of the enthusiast-level user. Even I can confirm that I’ve not overclocked a CPU for probably well over 5 years now because I don’t really see the overall benefit of higher temperatures…
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Leaked Benchmarks Hint Nvidia 4090 Laptops May Beat 3090 Desktops!
The rumours of a potential 4090 mobile (laptop) graphics card have been on and off for the last six months. – Based on their CES 2023 showcase announcement, however, Nvidia finally confirmed that a 4090 GPU was indeed on the way as part of new laptop designs. With this in…
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Intel i9-13900KS Benchmarks Leak – Apparently Not Much Uplift on the 13900K
It’s well known, to the point of being practically confirmed, that Intel will announce the launch of its new flagship i9-13900KS processor at some point during CES 2023. Coming pre-binned out of the box with a guaranteed 6GHz clock speed across all (performance) cores, one of the biggest questions is…
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AMD Accused of Rushing 7900 XTX to Market As Users Report Wildly Differing Performance
When it comes to processors, it’s generally understood among the community that outside the remits of pre-binned samples, not all CPUs are created equally. For graphics cards though, this distinction is a little more benign with most designs tending to fairly solidly adhere to their specifications. – Following a growing…
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