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AMD’s RX 6950XT, 6750XT, and 6650XT GPUs are now on sale for $399 and up

Enlarge / Three new, yet largely familiar, GPUs are now available from AMD. (credit: AMD) Starting today, AMD and a number of GPU makers will begin rolling out three new graphics cards in the Radeon 6000-series lineup. These new products add a “50” suffix to existing model numbers, and if you’ve followed AMD over the past […]

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Nvidia RTX 3050 review: For an overpriced 1080p GPU, this could’ve been worse

EVGA’s entry-level Nvidia RTX 3050, priced at $249. [credit: EVGA / Nvidia ] Until something changes, we will assume the worst about the supply-and-demand curves of the current graphics card market. The most pessimistic sign of things to come, sadly, comes from GPU manufacturers themselves, as both Nvidia and AMD have begun pricing new products […]

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RX 6600 GPU review: Not likely to jolt AMD’s paltry Steam survey numbers

A variety of RX 6600 models as made by various GPU manufacturers, since AMD isn’t making a “reference” model this time around. This is the model Ars received for review purposes from Sapphire. [credit: AMD ] AMD’s latest lower-end graphics card, the RX 6600, is its sixth RDNA 2 offering in the past 12 months—a fact […]

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Nvidia will add anti-mining flags to the rest of its RTX 3000 GPU series

Enlarge / Coming soon: Nearly identical versions of these GPUs, only with “LTR” logos—and new measures to reduce their mining hash rates. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000-branded graphics cards are receiving an update off the factory lines starting this month: hardware-level flags meant to slow down the mining of the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum. […]

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Nvidia adds official “RTX Voice” noise cancellation to non-RTX cards

Enlarge / Look how much smoother those lines get! (credit: Nvidia) Last year, Nvidia released RTX Voice, a pretty good GPU-driven noise-cancellation technology that could be hacked to run on non-RTX graphics cards. Since then, it turns out that Nvidia has quietly and officially unlocked this noise-cancelling capability on lower-powered GTX-level graphics cards as well. […]

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Nvidia RTX 3060 review: A fine $329 GPU, but ho-hum among the 3000 series

Enlarge / The EVGA RTX 3060, as posed in front of some sort of high-tech honeycomb array. (credit: EVGA / Nvidia) The past year of graphics card reviews has been an exercise in dramatic asterisks, and for good reason. Nvidia and AMD have seen fit to ensure members of the press have access to new […]

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Nvidia RTX 3070 Inspection: The 499 1440p Pictures card to Conquer… for Today

Speaking about the RTX 3070, Nvidia’s newest $499 GPU launch Thursday, October 29, is catchy concerning the time of the review embargo. As of now, the RTX 3070 is your greatest GPU inside this price industry by a huge margin. Back in 24 hours, this may alter –maybe radically. Ahead of AMD’s large October 28 […]