The Radeon VII fails to beat the GeForce RTX 2080

/blog/upload/radeonviibenchmark_tiny.png As welcome as some healthy competition on the gpu market would be, sadly the newly launched Radeon VII is not the card to challenge Nvidia at the high end. It is a loud and expensive 300W card with 16GB very fast HBM2 VRAM that still gets beaten by the RTX 2080: Please check the comparison page to see exactly which benchmarks were used for this rating. There is a silver lining: AMD almost rea…

Reaching the high end: Nvidia's new RTX 2060 vs Vega 64 & Co

/blog/upload/rtx2060benchmark_tiny.png The GeForce RTX 2060 is a good release, beating its low expectations. It was rumored that the 2060 might be a slightly bigger jump compared to its next bigger GTX variant, the 1070, than the RTX 207…

AMD's latest GPU: Radeon RX 590 vs GTX 1070, RX 580 and GTX 1060

/blog/upload/RX590benchmark_tiny.png Given the naming scheme of AMD’s prior series with their R9 290 and R9 390 the release of a new Radeon graphics card with the 90 suffix had to happen at some point. Still, given that AMD already mov…

AMD's cheaper Threadripper 2: 2970WX & 2920X vs Intel i9-7980XE and the best consumer processors

/blog/upload/meta_gaming_2970WX_tiny.png AMD’s second release of Threadripper 2 processors always looked promising. The earlier Threadripper 2990WX and 2950X worked well as high core count processors, but were on the more extreme end of pr…

Intel's new 9000 series: i9-9900K, i7-9700K and i5-9600K vs i7-8700K and Ryzen 7 2700X

/blog/upload/meta_gaming_9000_tiny.png Intel’s new processors were announced as the fastest gaming processors, and to be also quite fast in other application workloads. Coffee Lake Refresh includes three processors: The i9-9900K, with…