PC Gaming
Well, it’s finally here. We’ve been crossing our fingers for a long, long time waiting for AMD Strix Halo, and now the waiting’s over. As one of its many rabbit hat-pulls for CES 2025, AMD’s just announced the halo (ie, top) end of its Strix Point mobile processors, combining Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5…
Previous rumours have suggested that AMD’s new top-end RDNA 4 GPU will deliver RTX 4080-like raster performance. However, according to an official slide detailing the branding scheme for the new cards, it looks like the RTX 4070 Ti is the 40-series card it’s aiming to match. The RX 9070 XT has been expected to be…
CES 2025 is officially underway, and the first of our big GPU hitters has broken ranks. Sort of. AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics cards have long been anticipated, and now we’ve been given a preview of what to expect from the next-generation AMD GPUs. In a pre-briefing at least, as AMD didn’t actually show us anything…
AMD has confirmed that Valve will be using one of its new handheld gaming PC processors, the Ryzen Z2 Series, inside a future model of Steam Deck. During a CES 2025 call, an AMD spokesperson said: “You’ll see this [Z2 Series] coming to market from a number of partners, the Legion Go, the ROG Ally,…
AMD’s X3D chips have long been some of the best for gaming because they stack tons of 3D V-Cache either on top of or underneath the processor, and games absolutely love all that cache. We had the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D launch late last year, this being the current best CPU for gaming, and now,…
AMD isn’t pulling any punches in gaming laptops. The company’s latest plan announced over at CES 2025 is to take its beefiest 16-core/32-thread processor, whack loads more cache on the top, and run it at a laptop-friendly TDP of 54 W. It’s called the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. It comes with a max boost clock…
As part of the AMD announcement today at CES 2025, AMD has taken the lid off the latest version of its upscaling tech, FSR 4. Non-Nvidia GPU users have long lusted after an upscaler that can compete with DLSS, and according to AMD, there are significant improvements here that may do just that. The bad…
Intel has announced the final wave of updates aimed at its latest 200S Series processors and improving performance for these chips, which faced a rocky start and mixed results. Intel’s VP Client Computing Group and general technical spokesperson, Robert Hallock, has outlined what the second wave of updates (the first came back in November) for…
The Fantastic Four will take their place in Marvel Rivals on January 10, to fight for truth, justice, and extreme stretches against the diabolical duo of Doctor Doom and Dracula. Yes, I’m talking about that Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, who has a long-standing if relatively low-key history as a Marvel Comics villain. In season 1…
2007 shooter and part-time meme Crysis is the subject of an in-depth retrospective in the latest issue of PC Gamer magazine, in which Rick Lane sits down with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli to go over the game’s development. Coming off the back of Far Cry, the studio’s ambition for what its next game would deliver…