Reviews

MTTL

AMD vs. everything Nvidia—1,424 tests

The RX 9070 XTX compared to Nvidia’s 5000 series and more.

MTTL

AIBs undergo rigorous assessment in JPR MTTL testing

JPR’s roundup: 7 AIBs, 26 games, 2 resolutions, 600 results.

5070

Nvidia’s midrange RTX 5070 AIB tested

Pretty good board didn’t do well on PMark.

Lenovo IdeaPad

Intel powers the new Lenovo IdeaPad

The Ultra 9 285H brings great value, surprising performance.

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Nvidia RTX 5080, the replacement for RTX 3080 Ti

It’s also better than the RTX 4080 Super.

Games supported

Nvidia DLSS 4 introduces Blackwell GPU

Transformers, multi-frame generation, and ray reconstruction.

B570 and B580

Intel’s B570 shows excellent scaling

Lower-cost Xe GPU Intel Arc B series.

B580 AIB

Intel Arc B580 and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D—great performance for a few dollars

A DIYer’s economic dream machine for under $1,000.

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Dissecting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

Deep-dive review of this long-awaited game.

Ryzen 7

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has arrived and is impressive

We ran the Ryzen 7 9800X3D through a series of benchmarks.

Mobile workstations

The mobile workstation market broad, varied… and booming

HP’s core ZBook line illustrates the advantages and trade-offs across the mobile workstation spectrum.

Lenovo Aura Yoga 7

Lunar Lake is a dramatically different CPU than Meteor Lake

We tested against Qualcomm.