Category: Graphics

Arc A580’s “Power Saving Mode” doesn’t bring only benefits

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

One of the negatives of Intel Arc graphics cards is their high idle power consumption. Competing solutions from a similar class are, in short, significantly less power hungry. To some extent, the consumption of Arc graphics cards can also be reduced in a very simple way. However, the latter also brings unwanted side effects that are not convenient in common practice and the whole thing is likely to be discarded because of them. Read more “Arc A580’s “Power Saving Mode” doesn’t bring only benefits” »

Best price/gaming performance ratio? Sparkle Arc A580 Orc

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

AMD and Nvidia let the cheap graphics card segment “deteriorate” so much that Intel took advantage of it quite elegantly. The latest Arc A580 in the Sparkle (Orc) design has a lot of imperfections that you might not get over, but at the same time it has settled into the top spot when it comes to price/performance ratio in gaming. With this primacy, it profiles itself as one of the leading adepts into low-budget builds. Read more “Best price/gaming performance ratio? Sparkle Arc A580 Orc” »

The new card you won’t hear – Asus RTX 4080 Super Noctua

Graphics, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Asus and Noctua managed to launch the latest joint graphics card earlier than ever this time. The Asus RTX 4080 Super Noctua Edition is being released alongside the other models. Noctua has apparently already optimized its cooler to satisfaction on the older variant, the RTX 4080, and the situation on the RTX 4080 Super hasn’t changed enough to require design intervention. Everything is ready for production. Read more “The new card you won’t hear – Asus RTX 4080 Super Noctua” »

Aorus RTX 4080 Super Master 16G: A problem for the RX 7900 XTX

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

The new RTX 4080 in the Super variant attacks the competing Radeon (RX 7900 XTX) fiercely in every way. Their advance is not only due to faster GPUs (versus the non-Super RTX 4080), but also for higher memory bandwidth. Of all the GeForces built on Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture, the latter is the highest on the RTX 4080 Super. On top of that, the RTX 4080 Super in the tested Aorus Master 16G variant is a truly extreme graphics card. Read more “Aorus RTX 4080 Super Master 16G: A problem for the RX 7900 XTX” »

RTX Video HDR: Nvidia’s AI gives ordinary web videos HDR look

Graphics, News, Technology | | Jan Olšan

Last year, Nvidia introduced a feature called RTX Video Super Resolution, which uses the GPU to upscale and enhance web video with a DLSS 1.0-like filter utilising an artificial intelligence (though you can use this upscaler in VLC Media Player as well). This technology has now been extended to RTX Video HDR, which is again an AI filter that recreates (simulates) an HDR component for an ordinary video, adding high dynamic range visuals. Read more “RTX Video HDR: Nvidia’s AI gives ordinary web videos HDR look” »

Sapphire RX 7600 XT Pulse or the cheapest 16 GB graphics card

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

Higher GPU clock speeds and double the memory. These are the parameters that characterize the Radeon RX 7600 XT compared to the non-XT model (RX 7600). At the same time, it is a very affordable solution attractive for users prioritizing large video memory, even with a relatively weaker GPU (it doesn’t matter that much…). In our tests, we’ll break down how Sapphire’s design – the RX 7600 XT Pulse – fares in games and beyond. Read more “Sapphire RX 7600 XT Pulse or the cheapest 16 GB graphics card” »

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super by Asus: 9 cards, 3 different designs

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Covering the graphics cards coming out now as the GeForce RTX 4000 “Super” refresh, we’ve looked at a card directly by Nvidia, an MSI card, and we’ll look at Gigabyte one soon. We’ll miss on Asus as the third major manufacturer, so instead we’ll take a look at the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super versions that this brand will be offering. There’s quite a lot of them, including some using the BTF backside board power supply instead of a 16pin. Read more “GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super by Asus: 9 cards, 3 different designs” »

MSI officially about RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X faults

Analysis, Graphics, News | | Ľubomír Samák

MSI has released a statement saying that the RTX 4070 Ti Ventus 3X graphics cards did indeed come out with an untweaked BIOS that prevents this graphics card from achieving its maximum performance. However, there seems to be a fix already that could solve everything. Still… let’s revisit this topic and try to sort through the possible technical reasons that cause the significant fluctuation in the performance of the cheapest three-fan MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super. Read more “MSI officially about RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X faults” »

MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X: Big cooler w/o a markup

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

The biggest hardware changes compared to non-Super cards concern the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super. What’s different is the GPU, the amount of GDDR6X memory or the width of the memory bus. We have the RTX 4070 Ti Super in one of the cheapest non-reference designs, the Ventus 3X, for analysis and it will be about “reputation repair” as well. MSI has tarnished it a bit in this line of graphics cards in the past, but now it’s a very attractive solution. Read more “MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X: Big cooler w/o a markup” »

RTX Video Super Resolution alternative: FSR for YouTube and VLC

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last year Nvidia came out with RTX Video Super Resolution, a video upscaling and postprocessing technology for usage in web browsers and later also in VLC Media Player. It looks like something similar will be available also for AMD GPUs, but while Nvidia’s approach is the equivalent of DLSS 1.0 applied to video content, Radeon’s upscaling will probably be based on FSR 1.0, so it could be usable by other vendor GPUs, like FSR. Read more “RTX Video Super Resolution alternative: FSR for YouTube and VLC” »

RTX 4070 Super FE gigatest: RX 7800 XT challenged at its own game

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

The cheapest of the new GeForce RTX 4000 Super graphics cards – the RTX 4070 Super – has the biggest increase in SM blocks compared to the non-Super variants (i.e. to the RTX 4070), yet the price, at least on paper, doesn’t increase too much. The price-performance ratio is thus very attractive and attacks the competing Radeon (RX 7800 XT) even if you disregard the typical Nvidia “premium” stuff, such as significantly faster ray tracing, DLSS 3 or CUDA. Read more “RTX 4070 Super FE gigatest: RX 7800 XT challenged at its own game” »

Fluid Motion Frames now also for Radeon iGPUs, leaves preview

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last year AMD released FSR 3 frame generation, of which a simplified version that doesn’t use game vector data is also usable globally on the GPU driver level as the AMD Fluid Motion Frames feature. It can be used in all sorts of games that lack their own FSR 3 (or Nvidia’s DLSS 3) support. This technology will soon make its way from beta to standard drivers, and it now even works on integrated GPUs, including gaming handhelds. Read more “Fluid Motion Frames now also for Radeon iGPUs, leaves preview” »

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super GPUs: Boost in price/performance

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

The GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs run their second year on the market. And like the previous two generations, they’ll get a shake-up for this second year with new models. Nvidia has once again turned to the label used during the Turing generation and will release three new gaming cards this month: the GeForce RTX 4070 Super, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super and GeForce RTX 4080 Super. And they should improve the bang-for-buck ratio by quite a bit. Read more “Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super GPUs: Boost in price/performance” »

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super cards: Full specs are known

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

35W versions of Intel’s Raptor Lake processors weren’t the only thing about which we got leaked information over the holidays. We now also know the complete specs of the refresh SKUs of Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace gaming GPUs, the GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics cards. It looks like they could improve the price-performance ratio quite nicely, assuming Nvidia doesn’t make them too expensive, that is. Read more “Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super cards: Full specs are known” »

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is real, launching this month

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

When AMD released the Radeon RX 7600 as the cheapest RDNA 3 model, it was the only card without the “XT” designation. It uses fully enabled Navi 33 die configuration thoughs, so it invited the interpretation that a Radeon RX 7600 XT might not even exist. But as it turns out, such graphics card is indeed coming to market. There is also talk of other additions to the Radeon RX 7000 series, but it’s a muddier story with those. Read more “AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is real, launching this month” »

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