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3DMark's implementation of asynchronous compute
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 "For today's GPUs? We'll need to keep watching and see how software evolves. Bulldozer was a clever architecture, too. Software didn't evolve in the way that AMD expected, making the redundancies they eliminated not as redundant as they expected. Unlike Bulldozer, asynchronous compute is being adopted, both on the PC and on the consoles. Again, we'll need to see statements from AMD, NVIDIA, and Futuremark before we can predict how current hardware will perform in future software, though."
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Radeon RX 480 Compatibility Mode Benchmarks in Crimson 16.7.1
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Overnight we took a closer look at the new Crimson 16.7.1 video card driver that AMD released as it contains a number of fixes and improvements for the Radeon RX 480 graphics card. These drives improve the Radeon RX 480 video cards power distribution by lowering the current drawn from the PCIe bus and increasing the power drawn by the 6-pin PCIe connector to the systems power supply. There is also a new UI toggle under the Global Settings in the Radeon Software app that allows you to reduce the total power of the card, but it comes off by default. We ran some benchmarks to see how the fixes impacted performance!
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Overwatch Benchmarked
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Overwatch is impressive looking yet runs well on a wide range of hardware. It scales down to work on low-end hardware but can also be cranked up to take advantage of high-end gear, especially at the 4K resolution. Coming from an impressive open beta that attracted 9.7 million players, Overwatch is poised to be hugely popular among PC gamers. Only one question remains: can your hardware handle it?
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Our New Tool For Measuring USB Power
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Have you ever wanted to geek-out a little and know how much power your smartphone and tablet are using through the USB interface? Over the years we’ve looked at a number of mobile devices and found that it has been tough to accurately know how much power they are pulling let alone in real-time! This is when we looked into the Basemark Power Assessment Tool, PAT, an easy to use universal power consumption measurement tool.
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Raspberry Pi 3 Benchmarks vs. Eight Other ARM Linux Boards
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On Friday my Raspberry Pi 3 arrived for benchmarking. For our
first benchmarks of this Cortex-A53 64-bit ARM $35 development board is
a comparison against eight other ARMv7 and ARMv8 development boards
running their official Linux distributions while carrying out a range of
benchmarks. Here are those raw performance results along with a
performance-per-dollar comparison for additional insight into this
low-cost ARM development board."
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Rise Of The Tomb Raider PC Game Benchmarks
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Lara Croft is back on the PC thanks to the highly anticipated release of Rise of the Tomb Raider. NVIDIA, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics teamed up for some internal testing and found that to get 60 FPS at 1920 x 1080 you'll need a GeForce GTX 970 with the high-detail graphics preset. That feels pretty extreme, so we wanted to take a look ourselves! Read on to see what our own benchmarking tells us on six different AMD Radeon R9 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 series video cards!
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Building Our Latest Z170 Test Bench
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Boxing week sales are just tailing off, and just getting underway is the Consumer Electronic Show 2016 from Las Vegas, Nevada (stay tuned for full coverage!). Throughout the holidays, some of you may have gotten brand new games to play, while others may have received some cash that is now burning a hole in their pocket. One recommendation we can make is obviously to upgrade your gaming rig. Today we are putting together and testing our latest Z170 test bench!
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Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 Delivers New Result
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"After a half-year of development, I'm ecstatic to announce
this morning the release of Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 (codenamed
"Hammerfest"). Phoronix Test Suite 6.0 is by far the most significant
release ever done of our open-source, cross-platform automated
benchmarking software and framework since the release of Phoronix Test
Suite 1.0 seven years ago."
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Redux Benchmarked, Performance Review
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Already one of the most iconic and atmospheric first-person shooters around, Metro has received some post-release polish that should present a greater challenge for today's GPUs. Metro Redux features improved versions of both Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, including completely remastered visuals.
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TECHSPOT The Crew Benchmarked: Graphics & CPU Performance
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While it may seem antiquated in this day and age of modern operating systems, the command line remains the most flexible and powerful way to perform tasks in Linux. In this follow up article to our command line series we go a bit deeper to discuss file metadata, permissions, timestamps, some new tools like tee, Vim, and more.
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GPU Charts 2015 - 1080p, 1440p, UHD - MSI GTX 980Ti Gaming 6G
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These garphics cards charts contain benchmark results of numerous recent graphics cards. We've tested the card with three different resolutions, where there are 1080p, 1440p and 2160p. Apart from that we also show live price tags for all models.
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3DMark API Overhead Feature Test
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"Futuremark's new 3DMark API Overhead Feature Test proves that something as fundamental as draw calls can be drastically improved upon with forward thinking and a large dose of effort. We saw improvements in API efficiency as high as 18-19x with the Radeon R9 290X when comparing DX12 and DX11 results and while we definitely won't see that same kind of outright gaming performance with the new API, it gives developers a completely new outlook on engine development and integration. Processor bottlenecks that users didn't even know existed can now be pushed aside to stretch the bounds of what games can accomplish. It might not turn the world on it's head day one, but I truly think that APIs like DX12 and Vulkan (what Mantle has become for Khronos) will alter gaming more than anyone previous thought."
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Ashes of the Singularity DirectX 12 vs DirectX 11 Benchmark
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Today we'll be looking at one of the very first DirectX 12 game benchmarks by using Stardock's real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity. Ashes of the Singularity was developed with Oxide’s Nitrous game engine and tells the story of an existential war waged on an unprecedented scale across the galaxy. The Ashes of the Singularity Benchmark was never designed as a synthetic stress test, but a real world test that was used internally to measure overall system performance.
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CPU Overclock, Video Card OC, Backup and Benchmark Tool
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New OC Software and free 3DMark06 and PCMark05 license keys ! We updated the overclocking software page on OCinside.de again with dozens of small tools to tune, benchmark and test the PC components. If you like to overclock, backup, or monitor your PC hardware or if you just like to check your components, this is the right place for you. There are useful older Shareware and Freeware tools, as well as the latest tweaking tools to change the CPU multiplier, voltage or FSB and to overclock current nVidia or AMD video cards in Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS X or even Windows 10.
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Benchmarking Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor On Linux
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"Yesterday Feral Games released Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
for Linux and Mac OS X. Since its release, I've been very busy working
to get some benchmark results produced for this AAA game that's out for
Linux one year after the Windows released. Included in these initial
results for Shadow of Mordor are benchmark results for a few modern
high-end graphics cards plus looking into the warning issued by Feral
about the lack of AMD support."
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