If I can take my crappy 10-year-old Pentium with its no-name AIB, put in a 5g NIC for $55, and play 2020 FPS games, why would I ever buy a new PC or game card? This is a question many hardware game suppliers are asking themselves. Cloud gaming goes back to OnLive in 2003 and has progressed as bandwidth speeds … Read more
Just in time for the holidays—because that’s when this bubbled up, the KFConsole has arrived via the Coolermaster site. No, you didn’t know you needed a gaming machine to warm your chicken while you play, but now that it’s here… The word on the internet is that the KFConsole “is real.” As in a real promotion cooked up by KFC and … Read more
We’ve been tracking GPU and before that graphics controller shipments for decades, and we think we have a sense of their trends and seasonal behavior. Most recently, our Market Watch report for Q3 2020 reveals unusual buying patterns for graphics boards and we naturally wondered, what’s up? Look at the following chart that shows shipments for the past 15 … Read more
AMD gains in market share
The RTX 3060 Ti debuted at $399, and Nvidia claimed it to be 40% faster on average than its predecessor, the GeForce RTX 2060 Super. The RTX 3060 Ti Founder’s Edition is a tremendous addition to the GeForce RTX 30 Series, but we couldn’t match Nvidia’s performance claims in all cases. We came close in game-only FPS tests—35%. The new … Read more
Lots of performance and not too expensive
Nvidia reported record revenue for the third quarter ended 31 Oct 2020, of $4.7 billion, up 57 percent from $3 billion a year earlier, and up 22 percent from $3.9 billion in the previous quarter. The company’s Graphics business revenue was $2.8 billion, up 34% from last quarter and up 25% from last year. “Nvidia is firing on all cylinders, … Read more
AMD has announced its new line of Radeon boards based on the Navi 21 GPU architecture. We have heard rumors and hints from AMD about “Big”-Navi for over a year. Our first examination of the new AIB indicates it was worth the wait. AMD hasn’t been a contender in the high-end for a while. As a result, Nvidia has enjoyed … Read more
AMD was rightfully proud of its RDNA-based RX5000 series AIBs. They won awards, benchmarks, and quite a few customers. But that was April 2018, and the product line only spanned from low-end to midrange. Enter RDNA2, big Navi, RX6n00. Take a seat in the front row son, you ain’t seen nothing yet. AMD says the RDNA2 has a 30% higher … Read more
Unity went public mid-September 2020 with the ticker symbol “U”. Now, the company has new cash in its pockets and promises to keep. Unity is now on a building streak. The company introduced its shares at $52 and has raised at least $1.3 billion. That’s a promising debut for the game development company that has lags behind its flamboyant competitor Epic … Read more
We’re working remotely, playing remotely, and changing the computer landscape. Most digital gaming is an all or nothing proposition: you win, you lose and you blame your equipment. Now, some kinds of gaming are getting to be even more like real life. It’s still win and lose but people will be blaming some entity in the cloud instead of a … Read more
Alienware has always been a style leader. The company epitomized that with the revolutionary Area 51 chassis. There’s not much you can do with a monitor design-wise. A big flat panel on a stand is pretty hard to make sexy. Nonetheless, the company has carried through with its sense of design to create monitors with distinctive style and with features … Read more
