TechEpiphany on YouTube (opens in new tab) recently tested AMD’s new Radeon 660M integrated graphics chip in God of War, featuring the new FSR 2.0 update. The iGPU may not be one of the best graphics cards, but the little 15W RDNA 2 chip managed to eke out playable frame rates at 1080P (1920 x…
God of War has been updated with FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0, making it the third game so far to use AMD’s new temporal upscaling technology, after Deathloop and Farming Simulator. This should give the Best Gaming GPUs a frame rate boost while retaining better image quality compared to what we saw with FSR 1.0 in…
AMD’s announcement of its AMD Software Preview Driver for May 2022 carried with it substantial performance claims for games built on the now-superseded DX 11 API. AMD’s claims of a 10% average performance increase across a suite of games deserve testing, especially considering the more substantial performance increases, which the company said could reach a…
With earnings season in full swing, Apple this afternoon posted its Q2 earnings report and the results are impressive all around. For the quarter ending in March, Apple posted $97.28 billion in revenue while earnings checked in at $1.52 per share. As a point of contrast, Apple during the same year-ago posted revenue of $89.6…
French research institutions CEA and C12 Quantum Electronics have announced a novel quantum computer design. One that can only describe as a waferscale engine… for quantum. In an approach to CMOS manufacturing techniques and backed by the CEA’s $5 billion annual funding, the companies aim to manufacture carbon nanotube-based qubits at scale – a 200…
Esperanto Technologies, a San Francisco startup company founded by Dave Ditzel, took the stage at this year’s HotChips 33 presentation to show off its latest processors. Codenamed ET-SoC-1, the company delivers one of the first kilocore designs to the masses. Kilocore processor design assumes that there are one thousand processor cores present. And Esperanto’s approach…
Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most controversial AAA releases of the modern era. The game was delayed multiple times and finally released with various bugs still in place. However, CD Projekt Red (CDPR), the developer behind the game, is slowly ironing out everything and with release 1.3 we are in for various fixes and…
Microsoft today announced the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132 is now available to Dev and Beta Channel participants. Alongside the new build that brings improvements and updates, the Redmond giant also teased the first set of updates for several apps that come included in the Windows 11 OS. For starters, the latest Windows…
Intel’s Itanium lineup of 64-bit processors was an attempt at making non-x86 designs that were meant for server and enterprise workloads. As of July 29th, Intel has shipped its last batch of Itanium processors to customers and thus ended the era of this processor family. Intel Itanium is a 64-bit processor family based on IA-64…
Mini LED backlights were once a premium reserved for professional monitors. With LEDs that are half the size of those of standard LED monitors, a Mini LED backlight can offer a greater number of dimming zones, offering greater contrast that’s just a step below OLED but without the risk of burn-in. The Samsung Odyssey Neo…