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
It does make a difference on low-end hardware.
I believe TechSpot does both an AMD and a Nvidia card if the CPU is on the low end. There are some driver and hardware differences that do affect framerates due to CPU overhead.
Just throwing that out there FWIW.
Any theories how a case review could become biased?
Graphics card reviews will continue using reference cards, no change here, as mentioned
Optics, my dear man. It's all about the optics.
As for a biased case review, see above comment on optics. It doesn't matter what you're reviewing as a tech site, if you've made a deal with a vendor who doesn't make cards for team red, there will be a level of suspicion. You can't avoid that.
And their test is older now, with the differences being seen with a 3070 vs 5700 XT in an R5 1600, 2600 and i3 10100. Still relevant for that hardware but there are new low end options with more power and it'd be nice to see if the restrictions are still as bad.
It basically depends on their future offerings and market share/relevance. PNY has nothing to do with it.
Good partnership.
I still remember when they stepped in to warranty BFG cards when BFG closed its doors.