AMD FSR 3: everything you need to know

AMD FSR 3: everything you need to know

AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is growing up. The new FSR 3 feature promises to generate frames and multiply your performance, finally providing Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) tech with a challenge. The feature was announced nearly a year ago, but we’ve just seen the first games to support FSR 3 arrive. To bring … Read more

What is Display Stream Compression? A complete guide to DSC

What is Display Stream Compression? A complete guide to DSC

Display Stream Compression (DSC) is a compression algorithm that lets monitors and TVs display resolutions and refresh rates that they wouldn’t be otherwise capable of handling. It improves the capabilities of HDMI and DisplayPort cables, letting them too, serve displays that are higher resolution and refresh rate than they are natively capable of doing. DSC … Read more

Razer 27-inch QHD gaming monitor just got a big discount

Razer 27-inch QHD gaming monitor just got a big discount

Riley Young / Digital Trends Razer has a reputation for making some of the best gaming laptops and peripherals on the market and is often viewed as the high-end equivalent of the gaming market, in the same vein as Apple or Mercedes. What you may not know is that Razer also makes high-end gaming monitors, … Read more

Nvidia is cheating with its laptop GPUs, and we all win

Nvidia is cheating with its laptop GPUs, and we all win

Nvidia is a big, old cheater. And I couldn’t be more happy about it. Its latest RTX 40-series mobile GPUs are very powerful — especially if you jump up to the RTX 4090 in a machine like the Asus Strix Scar 17. But it’s the low-end options where Nvidia is really pushing ahead. That isn’t … Read more

AMD’s latest GPUs almost came with troubled 16-pin connector

AMD’s latest GPUs almost came with troubled 16-pin connector

We recently saw AMD unveiling two brand new desktop GPUs from its Radeon 7000 series. The new RX 7800 XT and the RX 7700 XT are based on the RDNA 3 architecture and are claimed to be optimized for the best 1440p gaming experience. Both the graphics cards also come with standard 8-pin PCIe power … Read more

Gamers are finally buying new GPUs again

Gamers are finally buying new GPUs again

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends In June, we reported on the clobbering GPUs had taken in sales, even with some of the best graphics cards becoming available. Now, things are finally starting to turn around, with the latest market report showing signs of growth over the last few months despite it being a traditionally weak … Read more

The success of AMD FSR 3 hinges on this one feature

The success of AMD FSR 3 hinges on this one feature

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD finally shared more details on its FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) this week, and it’s exactly what everyone was asking for. It supports frame generation, and it works across GPUs from AMD and Nvidia. The company is even releasing a driver-based version of its Fluid Motion Frames tech, … Read more

Modders just changed GPU overclocking forever

Modders just changed GPU overclocking forever

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Modders have released two new tools that could change GPU overclocking significantly. OMGVflash and NVflashk have effectively cracked a security feature on recent Nvidia GPUs, allowing extreme overclockers to flash new vBIOS files to graphics cards. About a decade ago, Nvidia locked down its GPUs. Graphics cards are governed by … Read more

What is DLSS 3: everything you need to know

What is DLSS 3: everything you need to know

Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) has been a staple of PC gaming for several years now, but DLSS 3 turns the tech on its head. It promises impossibly high frame rates in demanding games like Portal RTX by using AI to generate frames all on its own. It’s a simple concept, but DLSS 3 is … Read more

Best GPU deals: Get an RTX 3060 for under $300

Best GPU deals: Get an RTX 3060 for under $300

Graphics cards have really started to come down in price recently, which means now is an excellent time to capitalize on some great deals and upgrade your old card — or build a whole new rig. Because there are so many good GPU deals popping up online, we’ve tried to make your search a little … Read more