With the Radeon AI R9700, AMD presents a graphics card that is clearly aimed at users who require high computing power for games and productive workflows and at the same time increasingly rely on AI acceleration. For my test, I had a model from board partner ASRock at my disposal (Creator series), which was provided by PCGH partner Krotus. This [...]
Rumors about the release of the Intel Arc Battlemage BMG-G31 have been circulating for some time now, claiming that this new card will bring more performance and significantly more power and will be launched on the market as early as the fourth quarter of this year, but so far this has remained just a rumor. Now the graphics card appears to be [...]
In this article, I deliberately do not want to follow the common expectation of judging the performance of a thermal interface material based on individual Kelvin or supposed peak values. Such comparative figures often appear more precise than they actually are in a real system. The decisive factor is not the isolated thermal conductivity of a pad [...]
When a young company with an explicit history of US sanctions is oversubscribed over 4,000 times at its IPO, it is either pure speculation or a geopolitical wake-up call. In the case of Moore Threads, both are true. The Chinese GPU start-up, founded in 2020 and led by ex-Nvidia China boss James Zhang Jianzhong, not only triggered a capital market [...]
What was previously only possible with shunt mods and soldering work is now done by ASUS on the software side: The 800-watt XOC BIOS of the ROG Matrix RTX 5090, which costs around 4,000 US dollars, was successfully flashed on cards from Gigabyte, PNY, Palit and MSI. Result: Massive boost clocks, thermal escalation and potential collateral damage [...]
Asus’ 30th Anniversary Edition of the GeForce RTX 5090 is called ROG Matrix Platinum and deliberately plays in a league where price and purpose are no longer evaluated according to consumer logic. 4.099.90 is not a price peak, but an access control: those who pay it do not want “even faster” out of the box, but a tool that [...]
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 SUPER GPUs have reportedly been delayed to Q3 2026 as a direct result of the recent DRAM shortage. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 SUPER models have been reported to be delayed due to ongoing DRAM shortages, particularly in 3GB GDDR7 devices intended for the refresh lineup. Part of the rumors was even a possible [...]
When a manufacturer prepares to fundamentally rebuild its GPU architecture, it’s worth taking a closer look. This is exactly the case with AMD’s upcoming RDNA 5 generation (rumored to be “UDNA”), at least if the latest leaks and roadmap rumors are to be believed. After the tactical withdrawal from the direct high-end duel [...]
Welcome to the R.B.R.T.! We are a group of enthusiasts who love to optimize PC hardware. The focus of our work so far has been on software to improve the performance of AMD Radeon graphics cards. Our mission: to circumvent the artificial technical limitations of manufacturers Our responsibility: to ensure security and user-friendliness Our goal: [...]
It wasn’t long ago that the US company NVIDIA presented its Blackwell GPUs and launched them on the market. Preparations are now being made for the next NVIDIA architecture so that the launch can be as smooth as possible for Linux users. This is reported by Michael Larabel from Phoronix. The new architecture is called “Ruby” [...]
I have received an official statement from Cooler Master on the issue of the faulty 12V 2×6 cable, which clarifies some points and responds to the criticism of the original design. According to the email, Cooler Master explicitly acknowledges the problems with the previous angled connector design. Although this was developed to improve cable [...]
The trigger for today’s drama was actually harmless. A customer with a Cooler Master MWE Gold V2 ATX 3.1 1250 W power supply wanted to connect his ASUS RTX 5070 Ti OC. However, the enclosed 12V 2×6 plug hit the cooler because the socket on the graphics card is slightly offset. So the customer contacted support in the hope of finding an [...]
You know how it goes: A friend brings over a graphics card that looks as if it has been invited by lightning itself: An alleged Gigabyte “5070 Ti”, with a veritable hole in the PCB, coking, black surface. The chip still seems to be intact. And now the madness begins: tinkering, soldering, bypassing and manipulating as if it were a [...]
Whether you play it yourself or not, the Monster Hunter franchise has been inspiring a huge fan base around the globe for years. With Monster Hunter Wilds, Capcom has released the latest installment in the series, which got off to a somewhat bumpy start but still actively captivates tens of thousands of players to this day. To coincide with the [...]
The Intel Arc Pro B60 from Sparkle is in an exciting price range below 1,000 euros, in which several professional graphics cards are currently vying for the favor of demanding users. Its direct competitors include models such as the older NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada and RTX 2000 Ada or AMD’s Radeon Pro W7600 and W7700, which all cover similar price [...]
What takes a long time finally gets wet: After half a year of development, Sycom is presenting its self-developed, water-cooled GeForce RTX 5090 – a model that not only differs visually from the air-cooled standard, but also aims to set new standards in terms of cooling performance and design. The Japanese company has enlisted the support of [...]
With ROCm 7.0.2, AMD is once again taking its compute platform to a new level and expanding not only the hardware support, but also the functionality in the kernel and library stack. The most important step: The Radeon RX 9060 (non-XT) is officially included in the list of supported GPUs for the first time, further opening up AMD’s range of [...]
Old AMD graphics cards such as the RX 6800 XT or RX 6600 are currently experiencing an unexpected rebirth – and not because of a new driver update from AMD, but because of a curious mistake by the manufacturer itself. Specifically, it’s about FSR 4 (FidelityFX Super Resolution), AMD’s latest upscaling technology, which should [...]
The discussion about the 12V 2×6 plug and its thermally and electrically sensitive nature has now given rise to a new type of device that moves between pure measurement and active control. The aim of both approaches is to monitor or actively control the current distribution on the individual wires in order to avoid unbalanced loads and contact [...]
There are products that are not so much a response to a gap in the market, but rather the result of a collective failure that created the need in the first place. This is where the aqua computer AMPINEL comes into play, the ultimate solution to a problem that NVIDIA, together with the PCI SIG and its usual partners, initially created for itself in [...]
