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Sidenote: Hot Boosts, ARC, and RTX 40 Cache

I have 3 small tech stories I wanted to talk about, but none of them felt like a post of their own (although I did start a… Read more “Sidenote: Hot Boosts, ARC, and RTX 40 Cache”

(Radeon RX 6500 XT teardown image is courtesy of TechPowerUp.) In the last few weeks, two major launches have defined the GPU space on the desktop PC… Read more “Sidenote: The Low-End Graphics Add-In Card Market Finally Got Current Gen Cards, And They Suck”

Last week, AMD made a big announcement at the Chinajoy festival – a new GPU. RDNA 2 continues its march down the product stack, moving from the… Read more “Sidenote: The AMD Radeon RX 6600XT And The Insanity of the GPU Market”

When I got into PC gaming, there was something really great, almost magical about the hobby. Sure, the high-end was up with $1,000 CPUs from Intel, exponentially… Read more “Sidenote: The GeForce RTX 3060, Radeon RX 6700 XT, and The Growing Midrange Gap”

Earlier this week, Nvidia, clearly tired of weeks of headlines about how the current supply shortages and cryptocurrency mining craze had made their Ampere-architecture GPUs near-impossible to… Read more “Sidenote: Nvidia’s Branching Product Paths of Geforce and CMP, and The Bad Precedent It Sets”

It was a Friday like any other in the COVID-19 world. At 12:32 PM PST, one of the technology inventory tracking Discords I follow went off. An… Read more “Sidenote: The Hilariously Simple and Dumbfounding Way In Which I Now Have a Geforce RTX 3080”

This last Tuesday, I had a mission. On Monday night, I took a sleep aid, passed out at 7 PM, and waited to awaken early on Tuesday… Read more “Sidenote: My Hilarious, Awful, But Amusing Experience Trying and Failing to Get a Radeon RX 6900 XT”

Upgrade fever has hit, and with black November/cyber week deals, I’ve managed to snag pretty much all of my system upgrade with 3 key exceptions – the… Read more “Sidenote: My New Gaming PC For Late (Hopefully) 2020 – The Parts, The Current Build, The Wait For An In-Stock CPU/GPU”

So with the actual reviews out of the way, now is a good time to jump into pure, unabashed speculation, rumormongering, and looking ahead to the future… Read more “Sidenote: The Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Review Roundup Part 2: The Future and Matching the Consoles”

AMD made a big promise at their October 28th Radeon RX 6000 series unveiling – roughly equal performance to the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3000 lineup at better… Read more “Sidenote: The Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Review Roundup Part 1: The Current State of Play”