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FinalWire Announce v7.2 of AIDA64
We love a good benchmark here at eTeknix, which is no surprise, given that benchmarking hardware is the absolute core of our business! While many of you will be familiar with the likes of 3DMark for things like GPU testing, we’re big supporters of AIDA64, as it offers a pretty…
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Maxon Announces Cinebench 2024 With Many Performance Benchmarking Improvements
Cinebench is one of the go-to benchmarks primarily for CPU performance and today developers Maxon have announced the 2024 edition of the popular benchmarking tool. Introduction of Redshift & GPU Benchmarks Cinebench 2024 brings in the power of the Redshift Rendering Engine which unlike its predecessors using Cinema 4D’s standard…
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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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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 AotS Benchmark Leaks
Unless something very unusual happens, and given the state of the world over the last year, we certainly wouldn’t rule it out, the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 graphics card will officially be released on February 25th. With review sample holders reportedly only receiving their drivers within the last 24-hours, however,…
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Intel Core i5-11500 Appears on Geekbench
At some part in March (we still don’t know exactly when), Intel is expected to release their Rocket Lake-S processors formally. However, at the time of writing, it’s still more than a little unclear as to just how good (or bad – and yes, this is a possibility!) they’re going…
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AMD Ryzen 5900HX Tops PassMark Mobile CPU Leaderboard
If there is one particular market that AMD has always struggled to get a solid foothold in, it is undoubtedly laptop CPUs. Put simply, for years Intel has absolutely dominated this sector with AMD largely either not bothering or throwing out options that were simply just not competitive enough. –…
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Intel i5-11400 Rocket Lake-S Gets Spotted on Geekbench
By the end of March, Intel should officially release their brand new 11th-gen Rocket Lake-S processors. While they have been formally announced, however, Intel has been surprisingly quiet in terms of offering us any kind of firm performance figures. – Following a report via Videocardz, however, a Geekbench result has…
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Intel i7-11700K Beats Ryzen 5950X on Geekbench
Within the next 2-3 weeks, Intel is expected to formally confirm the launch of its brand new 11th-gen Rocket Lake-S processors, and, quite frankly, of the news that has leaked about them so far, I have to admit that I haven’t been overly optimistic about them. Don’t get me wrong,…
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Geekbench Shows 3060 Ti Nearly on Par with the AMD 6800
Following weeks of rumor and speculation, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will officially be launched tomorrow and, for those of you looking for a more budget-friendly mid-tier GPU, it certainly seems to have all the potential of at least being worth a look! Following an update to the Geekbench…
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3DMark Gets a New Look & Game Estimation Tool
3DMark is undoubtedly one of the best system benchmarking tools around. It is, for that reason, that we regularly and extensively utilize it within our own system, laptop, and graphics card testing. If there was a criticism to be made of it, however, it’s that the interface was starting to…
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3DMark Gets Updated with New Ray-Tracing Feature Test
The launch of AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards on November 18th will end NVIDIA’s monopoly on real-time raytracing. For the first time, gamers will have a choice of GPU vendors when buying a raytracing-capable graphics card. If you do, therefore, want a tool to see what those new…
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Comprehensive Intel 10900K vs AMD Ryzen Benchmarks Leak
In terms of Intel’s new Comet Lake-S platform, the official review NDA’s will break before the end of this month. As such, if you are anxious to learn just how good (or bad) this new series of CPUs are going to be, you don’t have much longer to go! It…
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More Intel 10900K Benchmarks Leak and they’re HOT HOT HOT!
Back at the start of the year, some of the first information for Intel’s Comet Lake-S platform leaked and, even then, I had some significant concerns about the new platform. Namely, that with speculation that the CPUs would require up to 300 watts of dedicated power, my first reaction was…
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UserBenchmark Gets Banned From 3 Huge Reddit Groups
Userbenchmark has for quite some time now been one of the most convenient benchmarking tools around. This is largely thanks to the wide range of components it can test, but mostly because it’s available for free. In a report via NoteBookCheck, however, it seems that user results collected from the…
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Nvidia 2080 ‘Super’ FFXV Benchmarks Leak
Officially speaking, the Nvidia 2080 ‘Super’ isn’t set to release for a few more days yet. As such, there is still a lot of media NDAs in place to stop people from announcing news (specifically on its performance) early. It seems, however, that somebody has accidentally(?) posted their Final Fantasy…
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