Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - March 10, 2024

Nvidia reportedly retiring the GTX brand for good

AMD’s Next-Gen Zen 6 “Sound Wave” APUs Spotted

AMD’s RX 7700 XT drops in price substantially

Intel’s biggest unboxing video ever: ASML’s $380m High-NA lithography machine

Nvidia bans using translation layers (like ZLUDA) for CUDA software

AMD exec hints at AI-powered FSR upscaling

AMD’s cut-down AI chip for China is Still Too Powerful, says regulators

Noctua confirms it has ditched development on white fans and coolers

OpenAI’s new Sora videos include a rapping alien

EU’s Digital Markets Act takes effect, new rules for internet “gatekeepers”

Welcome to Hardware Unboxed

Ad Spot

GeForce GTX 1080Ti Revisit

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Hogwarts Legacy

The Last of Us Part I

Starfield

Alan Wake 2

Power Usage [Hitman 3]

Power Usage [Spider-Man]

1080p Average

1440p Average

Avatar [In-Game Footage]

Counter Strike 2 [In-Game Footage]

Helldivers 2 [In-Game Footage]

Horizon: Forbidden West [In-Game Footage]

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart [In-Game Footage]

Star Wars: Jedi Survivor [In-Game Footage]

Final Thoughts

SLIde Away: The Slow Death Of The GTX 690

Background: History of the GTX 690

Test System: Ryzen 5 5600G, 16GB DDR4-3600, GTX 690

The Good Times: perfect SLI scaling & performance

Cracks Start To Show: flaws in the architecture

Things Fall Apart: the death of SLI support

and that's just the games that worked

Context: the HD 7970 and GTX 980

Conclusion: Lessons from the GTX 690

Introduction

Power Consumption

Clock Speeds

Rasterisation Performance

Memory Issues

Specs

Test System Specs & Methodology

Testing Methodology

Memory Speed

Closing Thoughts

Intro

Preface

GP104 Die Configuration

Compute Performance

Cache & Memory Configuration

Power Characteristics & Cooling

Clock Speeds

Test Bench Overview

Benchmarks

Conclusions

Guinea Pig Cam

nVidia Geforce GTX 1650 GDDR5 vs. 2023

Background: History of the GTX 1650

Test System: Ryzen 5 5600X, 32GB DDR4-3600

Gaming Benchmarks

Benchmarks: Atomic Heart

Benchmarks: Hi-Fi Rush

Benchmarks: A Plague Tale: Requiem

Benchmarks: Forza Horizon 5

Benchmarks: Halo Infinite

Benchmarks: Spider-Man Remastered

Benchmarks: Uncharted 4

Benchmarks: God of War

Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077

Benchmarks: Witcher III Remastered

Benchmarks: Forspoken (Demo, version 1.04)

Benchmarks: Overwatch 2

Benchmarks: Fortnite

Benchmarks: Warzone 2.0

Benchmarks: Time Spy & Firestrike, Charts

Conclusion: Is the GTX 1650 GDDR5 still worth it in 2023?

Assassin's Creed Mirage

Cyberpunk 2077

COD Warzone 2.0

GTA 5

Hogwarts Legacy

Apex Legends

God of War

Red Dead Redemption 2

Valorant

Elden Ring

Fortnite

Forza Horizon 5

Spiderman

The Witcher 3

Counter Strike 2

Intro

GPU Specs

GTA 5

Battlefield 1

Destiny 2

Fortnite

ARK: Survival Evolved

Sea Of Thieves

ROBLOX... Because why not

Conclusion and Outro

GEFORCE GTX 10 SERIES

ULTIMATE GAMING EXPERIENCE

GTX 1080

AMAZING PERFORMANCE

INNOVATIVE GAMING TECHNOLOGIES

CINEMATIC 4K AND HDR EXPERIENCES

GAMING PERFECTED

What do the letters mean?

What is the difference between GTX and RTX?

What is Ray Tracing?

GTX 16 Series

Conclusion

Outro

atlas fallen

baldur's gate 3

elden ring

spider-man miles morales

apex legends

cyberpunk 2077

god of war

days gone

evil west

fortnite

hitman world of assassination

horizon zero dawn

microsoft flight simulator

pubg

dying light 2 stay human

atomic heart

ghostwire tokyo

csgo

spider-man remastered

red dead redemption 2

saints row

shadow warrior 3

sons of the forest

overwatch 2 - high