Radeon RX 6600 XT is available

Performance chart: GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: 9.72, Radeon RX 6700 XT: 6.55, Radeon RX 6600 XT: 5.39, Radeon RX 5700 XT: 5.17 And that’s not only the big surprise, it’s the best thing about the card. The price is supposed to be $379, but it is more expensive in the shops. Even the target price would be problematic, as the card is only a tiny bit faster than the old Radeon RX 5700 XT. But right now, just being in stock and not at $1000 goes a long way. Which is something the Radeon RX 6600 XT seems to achieve. But have…

If I had to build a PC during this crisis

/blog/upload/gpuprices.webp Think the supply crisis is annoying because you want to build a PC? I can relate, running a site about building a PC is also not a lot of fun right now. Ideally all of us would just wait until stock…

Radeon RX 6800 (XT): A competitive release, but not really better

Performance chart: GeForce RTX 3080: 9.15, Radeon RX 6800 XT: 8.43, Radeon RX 6800: 7.99, GeForce RTX 3070: 7.02, GeForce RTX 2070 Super: 5.14, Radeon RX 5700 XT: 4.47 Please do not get the wrong message from the title: AMD’s graphics card release today was a success. For the first time in years AMD’s top cards sit right next to Nvidia’s top cards. And this time t…

AMD takes the crown with Ryzen 5000

Performance chart: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X: 10.0, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X: 9.94, Intel Core i9-10900K: 9.42, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X: 9.41, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: 8.68, Intel Core i5-10600K: 8.58, AMD Ryzen 5 3600: 6.08 AMD’s new Zen 3 processors perfect their already strong Ryzen lineup. When before Intel could still claim to have the best single thread performance, that is no longer the case. Too strong are the n…

GeForce RTX 3070: The most attractive GPU you can not buy right now

/blog/upload/rtx_3070_nvidia.webp With the release of the 3070 it is done: Nvidia released all announced RTX 3000 cards. Cards with an excellent price - on paper - and with a higher performance than the old flagship, the RTX 2080 Ti…