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Intel Arc A380 Benchmarks Appear – Good at Synthetic, Awful at Gaming!
While not yet available to purchase in Western markets (let alone with any kind of release date), the Intel Arc A380 has been available to purchase in China now for, give or take, around a week. With the official media review embargo having officially now broken, however, following the publication…
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Samsung is Accused (Again) of Cheating With its Tech Benchmarks!
If a technology manufacturer provides you with benchmarking figures they conducted themselves, you should always take them with a grain of salt. – It’s not necessarily dishonest, but you know that if they’re choosing to use them for marketing, everything that could possibly be skewed in their favour probably has…
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Intel Arc A730M Laptop Benchmarked! – Falls Flat Against the Nvidia 3060M
Although we are still yet to see any sign of them on Western shores, the first Intel Arc graphics-powered laptops have officially been released in China. – It has, of course, been known for some time now that this was the region that would see their debut, and, by proxy,…
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AMD 6950XT Actually Beats the Nvidia 3090 Ti in Leaked Benchmarks!
Ever since the upcoming launch of the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT was confirmed, there were a number of sources who went as far as to claim that this new graphics card would be entirely capable of competing with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. – Now, admittedly, while this…
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AMD Radeon RX 6750XT Benchmark Leak Shows Minimal Gains Over the 6700 XT
On May 10th, AMD is expected to announce the general release of its newly revised Radeon 6000 graphics cards. With models including the 6650 XT, 6750 XT, and 6950 XT, a lot of the focus has unsurprisingly been placed on the latter (and presumably) new flagship model, following a report…
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Extensive AMD Ryzen 5800X3D Gaming Benchmarks Revealed!
Over the last week, we’ve been keeping a very close eye on ‘Xanxogaming‘ as they have been continually expanding upon their review of the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5800X3D. While we’ll freely admit that it’s a little unusual of us to reference another tech websites product review, given that they’re the…
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AMD Ryzen 5800X3D Gaming Benchmark Provides Far More Encouraging Scores!
Earlier this week, the first independently conducted benchmarks from the upcoming AMD Ryzen 5800X3D were posted online. As we said at the time of reporting on them though, they were not exactly great. And this isn’t just in regards to the results provided. – Why was this though? Well, because…
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Retail CPU Gets Tested!
With the AMD Ryzen 5800X3D set for release on April 20th, there is certainly a lot of anticipation surrounding this new processor and especially so given all the hype that’s been created around its new 3D v-cache technology. – In terms of exactly how good it’s going to be, however,…
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AMD Ryzen 5800X3D Appears on Geekbench With Less Than Enthusiastic Results!
With the Ryzen 5800X3D set for release on the 20th of April, it has been widely claimed (pretty much entirely by AMD) that this will represent the fastest gaming processor available on the market. Well, until Intel releases the i9-12900KS at least. – Following a report via Videocardz, however, the…
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Intel i9-12900KS Tested on Geekbench – Encouraging Gains on the i9-12900K!
Following the official announcement of their new upcoming ‘KS’ series of Alder Lake processors at CES 2022, Intel has yet to really reveal much more about them since. With the i9-12900KS looking likely to release at some point next month, however, all indications are suggesting that we should (at least…
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3DMark Firestrike Has a Brand New Record Holder – And it’s the AMD 6900 XT!
3DMark Firestrike is undoubtedly an excellent benchmarking tool. We regularly utilise it here at eTeknix for our various reviews and can attest to its excellent reliability and accurate registration of performance. For those of you familiar with it, therefore, you are more than likely aware of their ‘Hall of Fame’.…
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Overclocked Intel i9-12900KS Tested on Cinebench R23
As part of their CES 2022 product announcements, Intel confirmed the upcoming launch of (effectively) a new higher-performance tier of their Alder Lake-S processors. Dubbed the ‘KS’ series, these CPUs would come pre-binned guaranteeing that every single core would be capable of achieving the stated clock speed (under more traditional…
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Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050 3DMark Benchmarks Leak
With it being less than a week now until the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 officially arrives (January 27th), there is, as you might expect, plenty of interest and speculation as to how well this entry-level graphics card will perform and particularly so when compared to what’s already ‘available’ on the…
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Nvidia Bizarrely Confirms 3050 is Better than Older GPUs Even With Ray Tracing On
Following the announcement of the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card at CES 2022, it was pretty clear that Nvidia was aiming this as a successor (well, more accurately, replacement) for last-last-gen models such as the 1050, 1050 Ti, 1060, 1660, etc. – A entirely fair bit of marketing considering that…
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Intel Alc Alchemist Benchmark Leak Hints at 3070 Ti Level of Performance
Although we (somewhat annoyingly) didn’t get any news surrounding Intel’s upcoming dedicated desktop Arc Alchemist graphics cards at CES 2022, this, of course, didn’t mean to say that they were not still on the way. Based on recent rumours, however, it is understood now that development and ‘fine tuning’ is…
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