SK hynix has developed new 4D NAND flash with a huge 238 layers, paving the way for rapid and capacious new SSDs, the company has announced. Unveiled on stage at Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, the new memory chip is described as the “world’s first 238-layer 512Gb TLC 4D NAND” and is expected to…
Last year, it was nearly impossible to find reasonable prices on the best graphics cards, never mind finding anything that would qualify as a “budget” or cheap option. The GeForce GTX 1650 Super and Radeon RX 6500 XT we’re looking at today basically weren’t available in 2021, despite the former having launched in late 2019…
AMD released a new blog post earlier this morning sharing further details surrounding the FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 (FSR 2.0) adoption rate by video game titles and game developers. According to AMD, 16 new titles will gain FSR 2.0 support soon, including big hitters such as Hitman 3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator. FSR 2.0 adoption…
Maker and game developer Kayden has created a pocket-sized gaming handheld using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico, and has housed it in one of the most interesting and green-friendly containers: an old Altoids tin. Kayden has appropriately dubbed his creation the mintyPico, and demonstrates not only the final product but also shared a…
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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30-series (Ampere) products are some of the best graphics cards on the market right now. However, they may get even faster according to the recent rumors of an Ampere refresh. It’s almost a given that Nvidia will give its Ampere graphics cards the same Super treatment as it did with Turing. Now,…
The Raspberry Pi Pico, and the RP2040 have been with us for some time now and we have seen typical boards with lots of GPIO pins, smaller boards with curated GPIO pins, and specialist boards which use the power of the RP2040 in an unusual form factor, for example Pimoroni’s Keybow 2040 and Adafruit’s Trinkey…
AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution (FSR) is a type of rendering technique that looks to boost framerates in games and enable quality high-resolution gaming. It’s also a rival to Nvidia’s DLSS, though the two differ quite a bit in how they function. FSR works by rendering frames at a lower resolution and then using an…
If you’re not the owner of one of the latest and greatest best graphics cards, don’t fret: AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution can still improve your frame rates and run nearly as efficiently as on modern hardware. According to CapFrameX on Twitter, Running FidelityFX Super Resolution in FP32 “backward compatibility mode” yields just a 7% cost…
Thanks to the modding community, MD’s FideliltyFX Super Resolution is now usable in SteamVR and Vulkan compatible games if you are willing to follow some steps and implement it manually. Due to the open-source nature of FSR, this has allowed gamers to effectively build an FSR “patch” for both SteamVR and Vulkan. The Vulkan modification…