RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 First Benchmarks

Here are the first benchmarks of the air cooled RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 courtesy of Tech of Tomorrow. RX Vega represents AMD’s return to the high end in graphics and it is also the largest change in …

Content Delivery

More, Better Content; More Screens… Now Comes Delivery Just recently enjoyed what has become one of my annual “gotta watch” activities–Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. It’s a great program because it shows that sharks really aren’t the mindless killing machines movies …

Introducing the EVGA SC17 1080 Gaming Notebook

The EVGA SC17 1080 G-SYNC Gaming Laptop has arrived. Featuring a 4K-ready IPS panel with NVIDIA G-SYNC technology, this high performance laptop was crafted from the ground up for hardcore gamers, performance enthusiasts, and overclockers alike. Breaking away from the …

A Gamer’s View of SIGGRAPH – AMD’s Event vs. NVIDIA’s Presentation

BTR attended SIGGRAPH last Sunday and Monday as media with a special focus on both AMD’s and NVIDIA’s events that were held at nearby venues. The highlight of the AMD Capsaicin Event at The NOVO was the release of the …

Choking Content Delivery

There are Still a Few Obstacles to Smooth, Beautiful OTT Viewing If you want to punish your kid today; you don’t ground them, don’t send them to their room, don’t take away their Big Wheel, don’t withhold their allowance. Nope, …

Satisfaction

Customers are Hard to Win, Harder to Keep Companies are running so fast today developing new (sometimes even great) technology that they often lose sight of most important part of the firm’s growth … the customer. But Intel’s Andy Grove …

Introducing the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti K|NGP|N

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is the most powerful desktop gaming GPU to date and EVGA has built upon its innovative cooling solutions and powerful overclocking designs with its GTX 1080 Ti SC2 and FTW3 graphics cards. Despite the overclocking …

New Game Ready GeForce 384.94 for LawBreakers includes ShadowPlay Highlights

NVIDIA has just released the new WHQL 384.94 Game Ready driver for Lawbreakers which will launch on August 8. Lawbreakers is the first title to support NVIDIA ShadowPlay Highlights. The latest driver has updates and optimizations for LawBreakers‘ official release, …

Cloudy

We’ll Spend Time in the Clouds, Even with the Storms Before the always-on, always-connected online world, folks would spend summer afternoons lying by a creek staring at the clouds and identifying them – planes, dragons, bunnies, snakes, hawks, and mermaids, …

HyperX Alloy Mechanical Gaming Keyboards Revealed

HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology Company, just introduced two new additions to its lineup of gaming keyboards used by eSports athletes worldwide – the HyperX Alloy Elite Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and HyperX Alloy FPS Pro Mechanical Gaming Keyboard. …

Tomorrow’s Customer

Your Future is in Gen Zers’ Hands Recently, I had one of those friendly discussions that never go anywhere – disagreeing about which set of market research projections is the most correct. This one was for VR (virtual reality) HMD …

VRWorks Enables “Ultra” in EVE: Valkyrie, Now Supported in Unreal Engine 4.16 and Unity 2017.1

This morning CCP Games released a large patch that enables Ultra graphics mode for EVE: Valkyrie. We are looking forward to benchmarking the performance of the new Ultra setting as it should enrich and enhance the graphics quality and increase …