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They might just be skipping the high-end on Battlemage in favor of focusing on Celestial, but it really feels like they're exiting the discrete GPU market altogether - a short-sighted decision if that's the case. Intel GPUs have tremendous growth potential, but they'll never recognize that...

I'm just imagining having to explain to my girlfriend the reason I ended up with a Yeston 9700 XT is because it was the only 9700 XT in stock.

The reps from MSI must've been sweating at least a little.

Nice review! My thoughts: I appreciate the GPU Compute section and wonder if we might not see encoding (and possibly decoding) benchmarks in this section in the future. I like what's been done with the Performance per dollar section. It really highlights how important actual market pricing is...

This was a very informative article summarizing everything we know about the 9070 cards for now. Eagerly awaiting the reviews next week!

I take issue with the way TPU chooses its prices for the performance-per-dollar section of this review. The description of the methodology for obtaining market prices doesn't seem to match the actual price chosen for the charts. In particular, I don't think either the 5080 or the 5090 are...

A 32GB 9070XT doesn't excite me as much as something like an RDNA4 version of a 7900XTX.

Somehow the 7900 XTX looks more desirable to me today than it did 2 years ago.

"5K2K" refers to 21:9 monitors with 5120x2160 resolution, not 32:9 monitors with 5120x1440 resolution. "QHD UW1440p" is 3440x1440, so the press release is just saying that a 32:9 monitor will have more pixels than a 21:9 monitor with the same vertical resolution. Maybe the monitor's great -...

Happy holidays! TPU is one of the very few sites on which I've turned off my ad-blocker.

My biggest fear with Gelsinger's departure from Intel is that the new leadership is going to give up on Arc because they're too focused on short-term results.

With a joystick or thumb-stick you need to move your thumb to three discrete positions to do the common fighting game motion forward > down > down+forward. It can be error prone because you need to move the stick from forward to down without accidentally doing down-forward. With a hitbox like...

I don't like Settings because, like much of modern UI design, it reduces information density for the sake of looking nice. It makes things easier to process for the less experienced user at the expense of making things more difficult to execute for power users. Now there needs to be more...

I guess "lands in retail" now belongs in the same category as "announced", "launched", and "released", none of which are synonymous with "available to purchase".

All three of the dual 4Ks that are available/announced are marketed for gaming, but I feel like they're most useful for office productivity. After nearly two decades of software development using a triple monitor setup I gave the dual-monitor-equivalent ultrawides a shot and it's been a...