Civilization VII is new fodder for lovers of the turn-based strategy genre. In our testing the game ran very well on virtually all graphics cards. In our performance review, we'll look at the game's graphics quality, VRAM consumption, and how it runs across a range of contemporary graphics cards.
Kingdom Come Deliverance II offers a fantastic RPG experience with impressive attention to details and lots of freedom and immersion. In our performance review, we'll look at the game's graphics quality, VRAM consumption, and how it runs across a range of contemporary graphics cards.
Spider-Man 2 has arrived for the PC Platform. Sony's newest port offers fantastic super hero gameplay, but is plagued by instability issues and crashes. Once you get it to run stable, performance is pretty decent though, and all the major technologies are supported. In our performance review, we'll look at the game's graphics quality, VRAM consumption, and how it runs across a range of contemporary graphics cards.
Vanguard is MSI's new addition to the company's GeForce RTX 50 product stack. It sits slightly below Suprim and offers a similar premium design with a strong cooler and factory OC. In our testing, the Vanguard's thermal solution is actually the strongest of the 10 RTX 5080 cards that we've tested so far.
The ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 Astral OC is the company's ultra-premium custom-design retailing at $1500, a shocking $500 increase over the NVIDIA MSRP, or +50%. In return you get a quad-slot, quad-fan cooling solution, a large factory OC and the best OC potential we've seen on a RTX 5080.
The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 Gaming OC comes with an improved triple-fan cooler and features a dual BIOS, so you can enable "quiet" mode. Gigabyte was also generous with the power limit, you can run at up to 450 W, which is the highest of all the cards tested today.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5080 Suprim SOC is the company's flagship custom design for this launch. It comes with a powerful cooling solution that's among the strongest in our testing. Noise levels are fantastic, whisper-quiet. This is the card you want if you're looking for a low-noise RTX 5080 experience.
The Palit GeForce RTX 5080 GameRock OC comes with impressive bling and a powerful cooling solution. Additionally, it includes a factory overclock that nets you an additional 5% in real-life FPS across our whole test suite. Cooling performance is also improved over the NVIDIA FE.
The Zotac GeForce RTX 5080 Amp Extreme Infinity comes with large RGB lighting elements to bling up your case. You also get a triple-fan cooling solution and a factory overclock. In our testing the gaming performance was the second best, right behind the $1500 ASUS Astral OC.
Colorful's GeForce RTX 5080 Vulcan OC is the company's flagship release with a high-quality all-metal cooler that rivals the build quality of the ASUS Astral. You also get tons of cooling potential and a factory overclock to 2685 MHz rated boost.
The Gainward GeForce RTX 5080 GS "Golden Sample" is a factory overclocking custom-design variant of the RTX 5080. It comes with RGB lighting support, vapor-chamber cooling, three fans and an OC to 2700 MHz rated boost.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is out now. Priced at $1000 it includes all the new GeForce RTX 50 features and offers good gaming performance. On the other hand, the gen-over-gen performance increase is smaller than expected, but NVIDIA didn't raise their pricing either.
The Galax GeForce RTX 5080 1-Click OC comes at no price increase over NVIDIA MSRP: it sells for $1000. That makes it an excellent alternative to the NVIDIA Founders Edition. You even get an improved cooling solution that runs quieter than NVIDIA's reference card.
The ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 Astral is the company's $2800 flagship RTX 5090 model. It comes with a massive quad-slot, quad-fan cooling solution that weighs over 3 kilograms! Thanks to the large factory overclock it can deliver additional performance and temperatures are very low.
The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim SOC is the best RTX 5090 custom design that we've tested. Thanks to its large cooling solution, paired with perfect fan settings, it's the quietest card available, much quieter than the Founders Edition. Thanks to the factory OC you also get some extra performance.
Thanks to its fully integrated watercooling solution, the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC can achieve excellent temperatures and lower noise levels than the Founders Edition. It's also highly overclocked, delivering additional performance out of the box.
The Palit GeForce RTX 5090 Game Rock is a custom-design variant of the RTX 5090 that's designed to offer better cooling performance than the FE, thanks to its quad-slot, triple-fan design. You also get adjustable RGB support with the ability to synchronize external lighting.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest graphics card ever released. It comes with a whopping 32 GB VRAM, and support for multi-frame generation, which achieves hundreds of FPS easily. We also managed to disassemble the card, and our review includes performance testing without upscaling or frame generation, too.
The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is the first high-end graphics card that makes use of a PCI-Express 5.0 bus interface. Are you in trouble when try to run it on PCIe 4.0? What about x8, like when an SSD is using up some bandwidth? We've also tested various PCI-Express 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 configs to get a feel for how FPS scales with bandwidth.
Unboxing the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 "Blackwell" is an experience like no other. This new flagship GPU arrives with sleek packaging that's eco-friendly: no plastic, no high-gloss paint. The card itself comes with a design that exudes power and makes you want to try out the next-gen features.
The new Intel Arc B570 "Battlemage" is one of the most affordable graphics cards on the market that can still handle 1080p at maximum details. ASRock's B570 Challenger OC is a factory-overclocked custom-design variant that comes with a dual slot cooler that still runs whisper-quiet.
Intel's Arc B570 "Battlemage" is out, and at $230 it's a highly attractive option for 1080p gamers on a budget. Sparkle's Guardian OC comes with a factory overclock and a great-looking dual-fan cooling solution that runs quietly.
In this article we cover everything NVIDIA revealed about the GeForce RTX 50 Series: the new graphics card models and their pricing, Blackwell architecture, DLSS 4 updates, Neural Rendering, Reflex 2 for faster headshots, improved AI performance and creator-focused tools.
The Klevv Genuine G560 is a PCI-Express 5.0 M.2 solid-state-drive that can reach transfer rates of over 14 GB/s. Unlike other drives it comes with a decent fanless heatsink preinstalled. In our testing we're not only looking at raw performance, but also thermals and throttling.
2025 will be busy with GPU launches, all three GPU vendors are expected to release new cards in the coming weeks and months. To prepare for this, we've upgraded our GPU Test System, with a new Ryzen X3D CPU and more. The list of games has changed substantially, too.
The Team Group AirFlow I SSD Cooler offers a powerful solution for managing the heat output of M.2 SSDs. It comes with a large cooling stack and two heatpipes. Testing in our review confirms that it is able to completely avoid throttling on the most powerful 14 GB/s Gen 5 drives.
Yesterday, Intel announced that they had root-caused the majority of Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 performance problems, and that OS updates are already available. We tested Windows 11 24H2 with the new patches, and also compare results with 23H2 and a new motherboard BIOS.
ASRock’s Arc B580 stands out with its impressive triple-slot, triple-fan cooling solution that achieves whisper-quiet noise levels. The stylish white design enhances its appearance, making it a perfect option for white builds using an affordable GPU.
The Sparkle Arc B580 Titan OC is a custom-design version of Intel's newest card. It comes with a triple-fan cooling solution that still fits into two slots. Data in our review confirms that the cooler is considerably improved over Intel's reference card, reaching much lower temperatures.
The next-generation Intel Arc graphics cards are here! The B580, powered by the Battlemage architecture, is priced at a highly competitive $250. Testing in our review confirms that Intel's new card outperforms both NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD's RX 7600, and it now supports frame generation as well.