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MediaTek gets some serious graphics

Helio X30 to get PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPU At MWC, MediaTek announced it has selected Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPU for its new flagship SoC, the MediaTek Helio X30 processor. The 10-core ARM CPU ...

AMD has a winner with Ryzen

Great scores in all categories AMD provided us with a flashy new PC from Cyberpower PC built around the new Ryzen CPU. As everyone knows, AMD is betting big on this latest processor line, which ...

AI in the edge

Nvidia explains why AI at the edge matters The Edge of the Cloud is a historical novel written for children or young adults by K. M. Peyton and published in 1969. It was the second ...

Gamers buying lots of games and hardware

eSports may be helping influence their purchases According to research from M2 Research, and The Open Gaming Alliance (OGA), gamers bought $32 billion in PC games in 2016 year and over $37 billion in 2020—that’s ...

Nvidia announces GTX 1080 Ti

35% faster than GTX 1080 and 40% more expensive at $699 At GDC Nvidia reduced the price of its former flagship AIB the GTX 1080, by $100 bringing it down to $500. The announcement was ...

VR Performance Evaluation

Nvidia expands frame capture analysis tool for VR testing At the Game Developers Conference last week, Nvidia released a new frame capture analysis tool (FCAT) for virtual reality. Nvidia points out that traditional performance measurement ...

Silicon Studio prepares to deliver game engine

Silicon Studio is a middleware developer based in Japan and has been developing tools to game developers including: Yebis, an optical effects product for lighting effects. Mizuchi, a realtime rendering engine. Motion Portrait, automated 3D ...

Reality and headsets, Khronos thinks it’s all the same

We disagree, all headsets are not the same; but OpenXR is critical to enabling compatibility with processors We have always applauded and supported Khronos’ efforts to end fragmentation and establish a stable API environment, and ...

Epic’s Unreal update

Over the past year, the message from the game engine companies has been that game engines can do a lot more than just make games and the message from GDC has been that games can ...

Unity at GDC

Getting Cinematic The game engine biz is growing. All it has taken is a whole lot of perseverance, constant work, and creative thinking. At their GDC keynote, Unity CEO John Riccitiello told the audience “your ...

Everything in its own time

And that time seems to be now for 3D Sometimes it seems that what happens in the game community stays within the game community. And sometimes that’s a very very good thing. But for generations ...

Ryzen in the oven

Naples arrives to serve AMD’s new CPU is finally here and getting “complicated” reviews. It’s not blowing Intel out of the water, but the company is delivering a very capable, low cost CPU that will ...