The GeForce GTX 1060 is Nvidia’s third GPU based on 16nm Pascal architecture. It is very similar to the GTX 1070 that we reviewed at the end of May although it is less powerful. It is also considerably less expensive …
Today’s Crimson Software 16.7.2 beta hotfix driver performance analysis charts the performance of 26 games focusing on the RX 480 and the 290X compared with the Crimson 16.6.2 hotfix drivers which we recently tested for our RX 480 8GB launch …
Video Viewing Will Transition from Quantity to Quality There isn’t really a shortage of good/great video storytelling. It’s just hard to find in the morass! Take this summer: The severely challenged TV industry had its upfronts – that’s where TV …
VCs Only Invest in Winners, a Dozen at a Time I was recently told that I obviously don’t understand the big picture. It happened when I was discussing Apple’s latest earnings report where they made a helluva’ lot of money …
BTR has changed our review platform from Devil’s Canyon i7-4790K to Skylake i7-6700K, and we have already tested the brand new RX 480 on both platforms. Since we found almost no difference in performance between the Skylake platform and the …
Ads Count I like ads – that is, good ads. I really believe that good ads have the ability to persuade you to buy something. Put an hour of the top 100 video ads on TV … I’m there! I …
BTR would like to reward our community members who contribute so much to our site. We are continuing our series of contests by offering one new AAA PC title as July’s Grand Prize. For our second BTR contest, we are …
The AMD Polaris RX 480 arrived a week ago as a 4GB or 8GB 150W card on 14nm FinFET that more or less matched the GTX 970 OC/R9 390 performance for $199 or $239, depending on its vRAM capacity. We …
Getting the Message Out … Everything Changes But Clarity, Continuity With the dramatic growth of social media, instant news and the 140 plus-character message, some folks like to say citizen journalism has paved the way for the demise of professional …
BTR has changed our review platform from Devil’s Canyon i7-4790K to Skylake i7-6700K and we have had a chance to test the brand new RX 480 on both platforms. This is a very short evaluation as we will also be …
Coming Up Short – Perfecting the Fine Art of Failing Forward Driving around Silicon Valley, we pass buildings and catch ourselves naming companies and people who had visions of changing the industry but ultimately failed. But they didn’t really fail. …
The RX 480 has arrived for evaluation as an 8GB card. This is not the reference 4GB RX 480 with slightly slower vRAM that will sell for $199, but a more expensive $239 reference 8GB version. AMD has released its …