Almost three years have passed since I did my original full hardware encoder showdown, and the field has changed drastically since then. NVIDIA brought out the Turing and Ampere architecture, AMD finally designed a useful GPU architecture, and even Intel is entering the market now. Finally no longer a Red vs Green battle, but a Red vs Green vs Blue - the full RGB experience! But also due to that, my data is now well beyond outdated, and its time to refresh. Unfortunately for me, sourcing hardware for testing purposes right now is near impossible at reasonable prices, so I...
“New World” is an Action RPG MMO developed by “Amazon Games Orange County”, “Relentless Studios” and “Cloud 9 Games” which is published by Amazon Games. It mixes various already existing game mechanics into one game, and added it’s own twists to it. Full Disclosure: I have gotten access to the Closed Beta for free, but am not part of their Creator Program. Neither have I been offered money or a sponsorship for writing a review about the game. Update: Fixed a number of typos that appeared. Also fixed an issue where i wrote four instead of five. Video: Visually pleasing,...
It’s been a day since the reveal of FidelityFX Super Resolution, and it appears to be a DLSS killer. But on closer inspection, it seems that AMD made a mistake in at least one of the examples, and forgot to show the FSR footage, instead only showing the native footage. Let’s go into the details on AMDs FidelityFX Super Resolution a bit. A mistake in the Presentation If you watched the AMD presentation only once, you would most likely not have spotted this – I’ve even had to watch it three times to spot it. There’s three demos in the...
Melted PCB Around the end of last week, my Alphacool waterblock decided that it was time to kill the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition it was placed on. That was the day I learned that burning PCB and plastic smells the same as coal - and that I should probably replace my smoke detectors since they didn't go off at all. That meant I needed a new GPU, and after a bit of search for actually available GPUs, I ended up going for the 3090 cards - nobody apparently has 3080s, only 3070s and 3090s. The card I ended...
