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Gamers Pick the Best Upscaler Blind — DLSS 4.5 Demolishes FSR 4.1, but AMD Still Has Something to Be Proud Of
Hardware and Technologies April 30, 2026, 10:19 AM
ComputerBase ran a public blind test where gamers compared image quality from AMD FSR 4.1 and NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 across seven games, with no idea which tech was which. NVIDIA confidently took six out of seven wins, but in one title AMD unexpectedly pulled ahead. -
206% Difference in Games: Hardware Unboxed Compares Eight Generations of Ryzen from 1800X to 9800X3D
Hardware and Technologies April 28, 2026, 05:10 PM
Almost ten years ago, AMD was teetering on the brink of extinction, and gamers didn’t take its processors seriously at all. Today, the gap between the very first eight-core Ryzen and the current flagship exceeds 200%. The folks over at the Hardware Unboxed YouTube channel tested eight generations of processors paired with a GeForce RTX 5090, showing just what it took—and in what leaps and bounds—to achieve that growth. -
Hardware and Technologies April 24, 2026, 06:08 PM
ASUS has released a beta BIOS for X870/X870E boards, and the changelog turned out to be way more interesting than just “stability improvements.” Tucked inside the firmware is support for EXPO 1.2, along with three new Chinese memory brands, server-grade modules, and an ultra-low latency mode. -
Hardware and Technologies April 23, 2026, 06:17 PM
Former FSR development head Colin Riley refused to directly answer why AMD still hasn’t released FSR 4 for Radeon RX 6000 and RX 7000 graphics cards that are capable of running the tech. Instead of words, he posted the famous GIF with the phrase “I prefer not to speak. If I speak, I am in big trouble.” -
Hardware and Technologies April 23, 2026, 04:46 PM
Dell has started selling the Alienware Area-51 desktop, for the first time equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor featuring two 3D V-Cache dies. Configurations are far from affordable, with the top-tier build crossing the $7,000 mark. -
PC Upgrades Are Getting More Expensive: CPUs Have Already Gone Up in Price, and It’s Going to Get Worse
Hardware and Technologies April 22, 2026, 06:01 PM
CPU prices have started to rise, and if supplier data is anything to go by, this is just the beginning. Over the past month, the price hikes have affected both regular CPUs for home PCs and server solutions, with the latter seeing noticeably steeper increases. The main reason is a sharp surge in demand from new AI systems, which are increasingly eating up manufacturing capacity that would otherwise go to the consumer market. -
Hardware and Technologies April 22, 2026, 12:24 PM
An updated list of the best graphics cards for April 2026 has been published. The lineup includes nine models from current and previous generations, split by price segment and use case. The biggest change compared to earlier versions of the ranking? The complete absence of GPUs with 8GB of VRAM. -
Hardware and Technologies April 21, 2026, 07:08 PM
The first independent tests of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition have surfaced. The flagship is priced at $900, but the results so far aren’t doing the new chip any favors — in games, it shows no meaningful lead over the standard Ryzen 9 9950X3D or the lower-tier Ryzen 7 9800X3D, with differences within 1–2%. In productivity tasks, the gains are just a few percent, while power consumption under load has spiked to nearly 300W. -
“Fake Frames” Are No Longer NVIDIA’s Exclusive Argument: AMD Is Prepping Its Own Take on Multi-Frame Generation
Hardware and Technologies April 21, 2026, 05:15 PM
As of today, Multi-Frame Generation tech is only available on Intel and NVIDIA graphics cards. Radeon owners have to make do with standard frame doubling via FSR Frame Generation. That situation could change in the coming months. A public version of the FidelityFX SDK 1.5 was found to include an interface that lets you pick the generation ratio. -
Hardware and Technologies April 21, 2026, 11:55 AM
A Valve developer proposed a method for compressing data in video memory that promises to make life easier for owners of old and budget graphics cards. An experiment on a 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT showed unexpected results: Alan Wake II indeed took off by nearly three times (from 14 to 41 fps), but the technology turned out to be picky – in half of the tested AAA titles, the frame rate gain was zero. -
Hardware and Technologies April 21, 2026, 11:05 AM
Hardware prices are still through the roof, so interest in older budget builds isn’t going away. YouTube creator tronger decided to see how a rig with an AMD Ryzen 5 2600, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB), and 16GB of DDR4-2400 RAM holds up in modern titles. During the test, they measured performance in 13 games, including demanding releases from 2024–2026. -
Hardware and Technologies April 21, 2026, 10:42 AM
Details about Project Helix—the next generation of the Xbox console—have surfaced online. If a source familiar with AMD’s plans is to be believed, Microsoft is abandoning custom graphics chips for the first time and will be putting a standard off-the-shelf GPU into its console. -
Hardware and Technologies April 20, 2026, 06:39 PM
Results from an unconventional graphics card comparison between the Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 5090 have surfaced online. The tests were run on an identical platform featuring a Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor and 64GB of DDR5-6000 RAM. The difference came down to the operating conditions: NVIDIA’s flagship ran at native 4K with DLAA anti-aliasing, while the AMD card used FSR 4.1 upscaling with active frame generation. -
The CPU Is 17 Years Old And It's Still Running Cyberpunk 2077: A 2009 PC Can Still Surprise You In Games
Hardware and Technologies April 20, 2026, 12:06 PM
Budget-Builds Official YouTube channel enthusiast tested a rig based on an Intel Core i7-860 processor and a 2GB Radeon RX 460. After cleaning, swapping the power supply, and installing Windows 11 IoT, the system was put through its paces in a bunch of games and delivered some pretty solid results. -
Hardware and Technologies April 17, 2026, 12:32 PM
Sapphire Radeon RX 9070 XT NITRO+ ray tracing benchmarks are out. Native 4K testing without upscalers shows that the frame rate drop varies, but on average across the games tested, enabling RT cuts performance by about a third. -
AMD Is Re-Releasing a 2022 Processor Again. Why Would the Company Bring Back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in 2026?
Hardware and Technologies April 16, 2026, 06:03 PM
The AM4 platform is about to turn ten years old, and it looks like AMD has decided to celebrate the occasion not with discounts on new AM5 motherboards, but by bringing a legend back from the dead. Promo materials for a re-release of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D have surfaced online. -
Hardware and Technologies April 16, 2026, 01:20 PM
The component market remains unstable, and that directly affects the final cost of a PC build. Under these conditions, some users are putting off buying modern processors. YouTube channel Budget-Builds Official grabbed a Ryzen 3 1200 (one of the cheapest options on the second-hand market), overclocked it to 3.8 GHz, and paired it with an RX 6700 XT to test it across two dozen games. -
Hardware and Technologies April 16, 2026, 11:27 AM
Just days before the official launch, benchmark results for AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor have surfaced in the HWBOT enthusiast database. Early numbers paint a mixed picture: peak performance is notably lower than what the standard Ryzen 9 9950X3D can deliver. -
Comparison of Nine X3D: Testing Reveals How Much Gaming Performance of X3D Series Processors Has Actually Increased
Hardware and Technologies April 13, 2026, 01:16 PM
Tech bloggers from Hardware Unboxed took the brand new GeForce RTX 5090 and ran three generations of AMD gaming processors through it, from Ryzen 5000X3D up to the latest 9000X3D. The results confirmed expectations, but with a couple of unexpected exceptions. The main takeaway might disappoint those who've already rushed to swap their 7800X3D for the new model. -
Hardware and Technologies April 9, 2026, 11:30 AM
A 2014 CPU, a 2017 GPU, bought on eBay for £45 as a "for parts or not working" lot. After cleaning off corrosion and messing around with the RAM, the system fired up and delivered a steady 60 fps in GTA V, nearly 240 fps in CS2, and even managed to run Cyberpunk 2077.
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