Hardware

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AMD has released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin drivers. Version 20.12.1 WHQL comes with support for the new Radeon RX 6900 XT. The drivers also come with optimization for “Cyberpunk 2077.” Among the issues fixed with the release include a bug that caused lower than expected clock speeds in certain games, a synchronization issue with HP Reverb G2 VR HMD with RX 6800 series, display corruption issues with Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege in hybrid graphics scenarios; an issue with CrossFire, and Performance Metrics Overlay.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.12.1 WHQL drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

AMD has released its most powerful graphics card, the Radeon RX 6900 XT. This card graphics card is based on the Navi 21 graphics processor. This new model costs 999 USD and will be limited to reference design at launch. We have gathered a number of reviews for you to browse through. Click on the links below to find out more about the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Graphics Card.

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• HOT HARDWARE
• ETEKNIX
• HEXUS
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• TOM’S HARDWARE
• WCCTECH

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• EK Unveils EVGA RTX 3080/3090 FTW3 Water Blocks
• GIGABYTE Announces the AORUS H1 Gaming Headset
• HyperX and Acer Collaborate on Orion Gaming Desktops
• DeepCool Launches its MATREXX 40 Micro-ATX Case
• EK Water Blocks Launches MSI RTX 30-series SUPRIM and Gaming Trio Water Blocks
• EK Offers Full Refund for Loop Connect Software
• AMD Releases the Radeon RX 6900 XT Graphics Card
• BIOSTAR Unveils the All New Radeon RX 6900 XT Graphics Card
• ASUS Announces GeForce RTX 3060 Ti KO, Dual Mini, Dual, TUF Gaming, and ROG Strix Series
• Mushkin Announces 8TB M.2 SSD: ALPHA Series
• MSI Announces its Radeon RX 6900 XT Series Graphics Cards
• PowerColor Announces Radeon RX 6900 XT Graphics Card
• ID Cooling Reveals New Family of Mega Coolers for AMD, Intel CPUs
• ASRock Announces the Radeon RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming D 16G OC Graphics Card
• Alphacool Launches its ES and SL-15 PWM Cooling Fans
• XPG Launches DEFENDER PRO Mid-Tower Chassis
• ASUS Unveils First Custom Radeon RX 6900 XT: Big, TUF, Factory Overclocked

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NVIDIA has released the latest version of its GeForce Game Ready drivers. Version 457.51 WHQL adds support for the new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card which goes on sale today. It also addresses a handful issues. To begin with, a BSOD noticed on machines with “Ampere” GPUs, when waking the machine from sleep, has been fixed. A bug seen with FreeStyle or Ansel launching and closing on “Star Wars: Squadrons” causing the feature to stop working on supported games, has been fixed. A BSOD seen when playing or browsing videos on the Google Chrome web-browser has been fixed. Lastly, display corruption noticed on the Lenovo Y740 notebook when waking up from sleep, has been fixed.

You can download the GeForce 457.51 WHQL drivers via GeForce.com.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• BIOSTAR Rolls Out B550M-Silver Motherboard
• Razer Announces Hammerhead True Wireless Pro Earbuds
• Sharkoon Announces Light² S Lightweight Gaming Mouse
• Phanteks Announces Evolv Shift 2 and Shift 2 Air mITX Chassis
• ADATA XPG Levante 360 AIO Cooler Revealed
• MSI Gaming Desktops with NVIDIA Ampere Graphics Hit the Shelves
• Alphacool Announces Eisblock Water Blocks for EVGA RTX 30-series FTW3 Graphics Cards
• Antec Announces the P10 Flux PC Case
• Lexar Announces New NQ100 2.5″ SATA III SSD
• PowerColor Announces Radeon RX 6800 FIGHTER Graphics Card
• ASUS Launches GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO with a Blower-type Cooler
• GAINWARD Announces GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Phoenix GS and Ghost OC
• Palit Releases GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GamingPro and Dual Series
• HyperX Releases the Cloud Revolver Headset with 7.1 Surround
• Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme Thermal Grease has Thermal Conductivity of 14.2 W/mk
• ASUS Announces GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Series Graphics Cards Including KO Edition

NVIDIA has released its new RTX 3060 Ti graphics card. The review embargo has been lifted, and we have gathered together a number of reviews on the Founders Edition and on various Custom cards from different manufactures. Here’s a bit from NVIDIA:

Priced at just $399, built on the world’s most powerful PC gaming platform and featuring ray tracing and AI-powered DLSS, the RTX 3060 Ti is faster than the previous generation GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, priced at $699, and delivers blistering 1080p and 1440p gameplay.

Check out the reviews via the links listed below.

NVIDIA RTX 3090 Founders Edition Reviews:

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• EUROGAMER
• HOT HARDWARE
• LEGIT REVIEWS

NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Custom Card Reviews:

• TECHPOWERUP! - ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti STRIX OC
• GURU3D - GIGABYTE RTX 3060 TI GAMING OC PRO
• TECHPOWERUP! - Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GamingPro OC
• GURU3D - MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti TRIO X
• TECHPOWERUP! - ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge

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AMD late Monday released the latest version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition. Version 20.11.3 beta adds support for Vulkan Ray Tracing Extensions. Khronos had recently finalized the Vulkan RT specification. Additionally, the drivers add optimization for Immortals: Fenyx Rising. The drivers also address a fairly long list of issues. For starters, it addresses lower performance observed for the RX 6800 series GPUs on Watch Dogs Legion and DiRT 5; and low performance noticed for the RX 5000 and older GPUs on Godfall. Some character models facing display corruption in Crysis Remastered on RX 6800 series has been fixed. Intermittent game crashes with Troy: A Total War Saga, and WoW Shadowlands have been fixed.

A bug that caused WoW Shadowlands to fail to launch on Windows 7 machines with DirectX 12 renderer selected, has been fixed. Some intermittent game crashes seen in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with DXR enabled on RX 6800 series, have been fixed. Doom Eternal with HDR enabled disabling HDR on Windows 10, has been fixed. Certain issues found with Adobe Illustrator and AIDA 64 have been fixed. Some display corruption issues with RDR2 using RX 6800 series at 1080p, has been fixed.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.11.3 drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.

Check out these latest hardware announcements for today from around the web. Also included are some hardware news bits, and on some days, a few rumors tossed in for good measure. Click on the links below to read the official press release, visit the products web page, or to an independent news source.

• NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Graphics Card
• Introducing the EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming Cards
• Inno3D Announces iChill GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Series Graphics Cards
• COLORFUL Launches GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Series Graphics Cards
• MSI Unveils NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Series Graphics Cards
• ZOTAC Announces its GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Graphics Card Series
• GIGABYTE Launches GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Series Graphics Cards
• PNY Announces its GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Series Graphics Cards
• GeIL Announces the Availability of ORION RGB Gaming Memory
• Sharkoon Launches the TG5 RGB Silent PCGH Edition Case
• TEAMGROUP is Taking the Global Lead in the New DDR5 Generation
• EK Launches First Magnitude-Based Multiblock Made for Z490 Aorus Xtreme Motherboard
• ASRock Launches X570 and B550 Taichi Razer Edition Motherboards
• NZXT Scrambles to Fix a Safety Issue with the H1 Case
• Lian Li Launches ST120 Fans and ARGB Cable Kit
• Alphacool Announces a Pair of New AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series Products
• GELID Announces AMBER5, 5-channel ARGB Controller with Remote
• PowerColor Launches its RX 6800 (XT) Red Devil and Red Dragon GPUs

With the launch of the new AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series graphics cards, we have gathered a number of reviews on the RX 6800 and 6800 XT. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 graphics card, powered by AMD RDNA™ 2 architecture, featuring 60 powerful enhanced Compute Units, 128 MB of all new AMD Infinity Cache and up to 16GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory, is engineered to deliver ultra-high frame rates and serious 4K resolution gaming. Click on the links below for reviews on these two new Nvidia fighters.

• GURU 3D - AMD Radeon RX 6800
• GURU3D - AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
• HOT HARDWARE – AMD Radeon RX 6800 & RX 6800 XT
• LEGIT REVIEWS - AMD Radeon RX 6800 & RX 6800 XT
• PC PERSPECTIVE - AMD Radeon RX 6800 & RX 6800 XT
• TECHPOWERUP! - AMD Radeon RX 6800
• TECHPOWERUP! - AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
• TOM’S HARDWARE - AMD Radeon RX 6800 & RX 6800 XT
• ETEKNIX - AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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Hot on the heels of its massive Radeon RX 6800 series graphics card launch, AMD released the Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.11.2 WHQL drivers. These drivers add support for the newly launched Radeon RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 graphics cards. It also adds optimization of “World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.” The Vulkan ICD is expanded with a new extension, “VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate.”

AMD also fixed a handful new bugs. To begin, hitching or stuttering caused by Radeon Instant Replay during fullscreen video playback has been fixed. Certain RX 500 series graphics cards not remembering fan settings after sleep has been fixed. With multiple multiple high refresh rate Radeon FreeSync displays connected to certain RX 500 series graphics cards, glitching was being noticed, which has been fixed. A case of stuttering when disabling performance metrics overlay in-game has also been fixed. Performance issues RX 5700 series cards were noticing with “Xuan-Yuan Sword VII” have been fixed. Mouse corruption in “Serious Sam 4,” when changing graphics options in Vulkan API mode, has been fixed.

The Radeon Software Adrenalin 20.11.2 WHQL drivers are available online at the AMD driver download page.