Friday, November 3rd 2023
TechPowerUp Selects PNY as Graphics Card Provider for Review Test Systems
TechPowerUp is proud to announce a partnership with PNY, in which PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX graphics cards will power the hardware review test benches featured throughout the site. With a rich history as a key graphics vendor for professionals, PNY has established a longstanding partnership with NVIDIA, serving as a provider of high-end graphics cards and datacenter GPUs. They are also providing memory solutions for professional photographers and creators. More recently the company specialized into gaming graphics with its XLR8 GeForce graphics card series. Over the past two generations, the company has taken product design and development for these cards completely in-house, ensuring that gamers receive top-quality products.
The latest generation of PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards have been extensively tested by TechPowerUp, showcasing exceptional noise levels, low cooler temperatures, ample overclocking potential, efficient power management, and outstanding overall performance. We were so impressed by our first PNY RTX 40-series graphics cards, especially their fan-tuning and thermals, that we decided to incorporate PNY graphics cards as the baseline for our review test beds across the site. Our partnership with PNY will see various models of PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX graphics cards form the VGA component of the test benches, across our review test setups for CPUs, motherboards, cases, memory, SSDs, CPU coolers, and more. However, it's important to note that for graphics card reviews, the baseline values continue to be obtained from reference design graphics cards.
Update 19:31 UTC: Just to clarify, this will not affect our review scoring in any way. We will continue to test AMD-based graphics cards, we will test GPUs from other manufacturers, and we will review every product in the same exact same way like we've done in the past 20 years. We simply needed a bunch of graphics cards for the test systems listed, and PNY was willing to provide them.
The latest generation of PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards have been extensively tested by TechPowerUp, showcasing exceptional noise levels, low cooler temperatures, ample overclocking potential, efficient power management, and outstanding overall performance. We were so impressed by our first PNY RTX 40-series graphics cards, especially their fan-tuning and thermals, that we decided to incorporate PNY graphics cards as the baseline for our review test beds across the site. Our partnership with PNY will see various models of PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX graphics cards form the VGA component of the test benches, across our review test setups for CPUs, motherboards, cases, memory, SSDs, CPU coolers, and more. However, it's important to note that for graphics card reviews, the baseline values continue to be obtained from reference design graphics cards.
87 Comments on TechPowerUp Selects PNY as Graphics Card Provider for Review Test Systems
But does it matter when you match a 3070 with a 2600/10100 because a 5700 XT which is usually slower when not CPU-bound is now faster in 2600/10100-limited situations thanks to driver overhead. These are GPUs you'd consider at that price point and is the relevant data if you're making a choice about max FPS with these CPUs.
This is making me sad. I'm happy that someone was willing to provide GPUs for test systems, very good ones actually, not some junk, win-win for everyone, and people keep coming up with conspiracy theories.
I personally am excited that PNY was willing to provide these, so TPU can keep making the amazing reviews that it does!
Great news anyway, and the cards look yummy, black and yummy
last card I bought from them (around 2002) burnt up right after the warranty expired… left me salty for a long time. LOL
Anyway I hope not too many people actually care about whiners online. I'd consider it a badge of honor if I did some reasonable testing and a decent amount of fanboys got pissed, especially if they came from all camps. Because then it meant something to them.
In other news, I just wanted to thank your great country for exporting so many foods to the USA, I had some pepperjack cheese pretzel bites imported from Germany the other day, got them at Aldi's, my oh my they were nice indeed. There is also a chocolate I have been importing from Germany called Madagascar White Vanilla, it makes my heart sing, it uses real cocoa beans and real vanilla extract from Madagascar, you can definitely tell the difference over the fake stuff.
Anyways, I will see myself out now :laugh:
Something has to be used, it should be consistent and ideally, repeatable by a third person on identical hardware using listed settings and part's.
As a pro tester in a different field this is normal, the reviews always have listed, branded parts etc.
I could with cash(for parts) copy tpus testing, even OS setup tbf.
PNY is a good brand, glad they stepped up to help out. Had a GTX 770 of theirs, good card.
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