In addition to the Radeon RX 9070, AMD launched their second RDNA 4 based GPU at the same time, the Radeon RX 9070 XT. The 9070 XT has 6 more RDNA 4 compute units, a higher boost clock, and a higher board power. The overclocked RX 9070 that AMD sent over was impressive. I’m excited today to take a look at the ASRock RX 9070 XT Steel Legend that they also sent over. The Steel Legend is available in white and black and are both ASRock’s stock-clocked options with their Taichi being their overclocked option. So I’m excited to see what the card is capable of, so let’s get to it.

For AMDs upcoming GPU launch there had been rumors for months but this past week AMD confirmed that they were launching both the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT. Both cards being their first RDNA 4 architecture cards. Today the performance embargo for both cards lifts and we can check out how they perform ahead of them hitting stores tomorrow. So let's dive in and find out how they compare to yesterday's announced RTX 5070 and more!

In addition to the Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition, I also received a second MSRP-priced RTX 5070. The second card was from Asus, their Prime RTX 5070. Like with the RTX 5070 Ti, at launch Asus has three different card designs in their lineup for the RTX 5070. They have the Prime RTX 5070, the TUF Gaming RTX 5070, and the Strix RTX 5070 with all three having stock clocked and overclocked models. Our Prime RTX 5070 is the stock-clocked model. We already saw how the RTX 5070 can perform but I’m excited to get a direct comparison on how a larger aftermarket cooler changes performance and compares to the Founders Edition. Well, no point in wasting any time, let’s get into it!

When Nvidia originally announced their new 50 Series of video cards, the RTX 5090 was their flagship but they did also announce three other GPUs as well. We have seen all of those except one and today the embargo lists on that last card, the RTX 5070. The RTX 5070 helps bring the 50 Series specific features like DLSS 4 a little farther down into the product stack. The 5070 is targeted at RTX 3070 owners which is still in the top 5 on Steam's hardware survey and is increasing now with 4.27% of Steam users using it. Because the RTX 5070 Ti didn’t have a Founders Edition, this is also the first 50 Series Founders Edition model with a much more compact size, and with that, I’m curious if it might be a great LAN right option. So let’s dive in and see what it is all about then put it to the test.

I took a look at the Asus Prime RTX 5070 Ti ahead of the new RTX 5070 Ti’s hitting stores. The Prime model that I took a look at is a stock-clocked card. Well, I was lucky enough to end up with a second Asus RTX 5070 Ti, Asus themselves sent over their TUF Gaming RTX 5070 Ti and this one is overclocked. Typically, especially anytime near a launch getting your hands on a stock-clocked “MSRP” card can be impossible. You are a lot more likely to get an overclocked card like this one so this will be a better look at what you might experience. I’m curious to see what sets the TUF Gaming model apart from the Prime and to put it to the test in our test suite, so let’s dive in.

This past January at CES Nvidia announced their new 50 Series of GPUs based on their Blackwell architecture. The flagship of the new lineup was their RTX 5090 but they did also announce a few of the models below it including the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070. I covered the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080 late in January but now we start to get into the other models with the RTX 5070 Ti embargo lifting today and RTX 5070 Ti’s hitting stores tomorrow. The RTX 5070 Ti isn’t available as a Founders Edition card, similarly to the RTX 4070 Ti so for those considering getting an RTX 5070 Ti, I have the Asus Prime RTX 5070 Ti on hand to check out its performance. So let’s dive in and see what it's all about.

Yesterday I took a look at Nvidia’s RTX 5080 Founders Edition and today both the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 hit stores. Along with the sale embargo, we can finally take a look at the overclocked aftermarket cards as well. MSI has a wide variety of RTX 5080 card designs, with 21 different SKUs. Some of those are different variations on product lines that we have seen MSI have in the past like the Shadow line, Gaming Trio, Ventus, and my favorite, the Suprim lineup. There were two new lines though with the Inspire line and the Vanguard line. MSI ended up sending over their RTX 5080 Vanguard SOC in the Launch Edition packaging so we get a chance to see what that new lineup is all about. Let’s dive in and see what features the card has, how it performs, and how it compares with the Founders Edition as well.  

Last week Nvidia lifted the curtain on the performance of their new flagship, the Blackwell-based RTX 5090 as well as giving people their first look at DLSS 4. Both Founders Edition and aftermarket versions of that card hit stores on Thursday, January 30^th. Also announced with the RTX 5090 was the RTX 5080, which will be hitting stores on the 30^th as well, and over the past week I have had the RTX 5080 Founders Edition in the office and have put it through our benchmark suite. Today we can take a closer look at the card design and then see how it performed in those tests. It has an MSRP that is half of the RTX 5090, will it still impress with its performance? Let’s find out!

This year’s CES had major announcements from all of the big names in the industry with Intel and AMD both announcing new motherboard chipsets and AMD also announcing their upcoming GPUs. Nvidia had a lot to announce as well. The biggest of those was their new 50 series of GPUs based on their Blackwell architecture. That included four GPUs which they planned to launch in January and February. They have the RTX 5090 which is their flagship, the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and the RTX 5070 all announced. They also announced Multi Frame Generation which along with the new Transformer based DLSS ray Reconstruction and Super Resolution models make DLSS 4 and Nvidia Reflex 2 as well. RTX Neural Shaders and Neural Faces were both announced as well. Today the performance benchmarks for the upcoming RTX 5090 lift and while I take a look at the new RTX 5090 Founders Edition we can also check out DLSS 4 alongside of seeing how the new flagship GPU performs. It’s a lot to cover, so let’s get to it!

It’s really easy to get excited with the higher-end video cards and get hung up in trying to keep up with others to have the flashiest or fastest PCs. But the reality is even in the latest Steam hardware survey that 58% of stem users are running a resolution of 1080p and another 8% of users running below that. With that in mind, there are a LOT of people who don’t need the latest and greatest but may still need an upgrade to keep up with current games at 1080p. Well, there are a few cards targeted at that market, the Radeon RX 6500 XT and Nvidia RTX 3050. Nvidia even leaned into this with a new 6GB model earlier this year. Well, today I’m going to check out both the Radeon RX 6500 XT 8GB and also compare it with the RTX 3050 6GB which is in the same budget price range, and see how they perform. Which would be a good pickup when doing a budget build, let’s find out.

AMD launched, well relaunched their RX 7900 GRE today and I already took a look at the Hellhound that AMD sent over but Sapphire did also send their PURE RX 7900 GRE. I was a huge fan of the PURE the last time so I’m excited to see if their latest version is going to live up to that hype. One thing is for sure though, the PURE branding seems like it would be a great fit with the GRE which is aiming to get top level 1440p and solid 4k performance while keeping costs down. Let’s check out what Sapphire’s latest PURE has to offer and find out how it compares to the competition before these hit stores tomorrow morning.

AMD’s GPU lineup started off with the RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX models on the high end and later they filled in things with the RX 7800 XT and cards below that. But the gap between the RX 7900 XT and RX 7800 XT is a large one, especially with Nvidia having competition there with cards like the RTX 4070 Ti and the recently introduced RTX 4070 SUPER. Funny enough AMD has had a card between the RX 7800 XT and the RX 7900 XT, they just didn’t have it in most markets but that is changing. Today they are introducing the RX 7900 GRE which is a slightly cut down version of the RX 7900 XT and XTX helping to bridge that gap. This is only available in aftermarket cards so to check it out AMD sent over a PowerColor Hellhound RX 7900 GRE so we could put the new GPU to the test. So let’s dive in.

With the launch of the RTX 4080 SUPER, I took a look at the Founders Edition to check out the performance of Nvidia’s new GPU. The Founders Edition cards however aren’t available from some retailers and you might find yourself looking at other options. Lucky for us Asus sent over their ROG Strix RTX 4080 SUPER to check out. I’ve had the chance to check out a few of their TUF cards recently and have been extremely impressed with them but I haven’t had any of their ROG cards in the office for a while now. Today I’m going to take a closer look at the ROG Strix RTX 4080 SUPER to check out what Asus is doing differently here then we can put the ROG Strix RTX 4080 SUPER through our test suite and see how it performs.

With Nvidia’s CES announcements, they announced three different GPUs all with the previously used SUPER designation. I took a look at the RTX 4070 SUPER as well as the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER but the crown jewel in all of this was of course the RTX 4080 SUPER. The RTX 4090 is still the flagship GPU from Nvidia nothing has changed there, but the RTX 4080 has always really been the gaming flagship with the RTX 4090 being there for people who want to show off and anyone who needs mind-blowing compute performance. So the introduction of the RTX 4080 SUPER was an exciting one especially with the new model coming in $200 less than the RTX 4080’s launch price which was a point of contention for a lot of people at its launch. So today I’m excited to dig in and see what sets the Nvidia RTX 4090 SUPER Founders Edition apart and see how it performs before we figure out how it fits in the ever-changing GPU market.

Last year when I took a look at the Sapphire Pulse RX 7600 I was impressed with Sapphire’s design which while not as small as the reference AMD design was still compact where most other aftermarket cards weren’t. That seems to be the same this time around with the launch of the RX 7600 XT and Sapphire sent over their new Pulse RX 7600 XT OC. It looks to have a similar compact design which should be a lot smaller than the XFX RX 7600 XT that I already took a look at, so I am excited to see if that is the case and find out how well it performs. The RX 7600 XT is targeted at 1080p performance and has doubled up on the VRAM of the original RX 7600 along with higher clock speeds. 1080p is still the most used resolution with 59% of Steam users using it, why spend even more for a high-end video card if you won’t be able to take advantage of the extra power? Today I’m going to find out if the Sapphire Pulse RX 7600 XT OC is the new sweet spot card, let’s dig in and find out!

At CES this year we saw announcements from both Nvidia and AMD for upcoming GPUs and CPUs from AMD as well. With CES out of the way, we are starting to see things warm up with launches last week and yesterday from Nvidia. Well, Nvidia isn’t the only one bringing things out and today AMD has their new Radeon RX 7600 XT which they announced at CES. Today I’m going to check out the new card which slides in above the RX 7600 which came out last May. This isn’t a high-end card like the 4070 Ti SUPER that I covered yesterday, but is a lot more realistic in pricing and performance for the average user so I’m excited to see how the 7600 XT performs and see how it fits in for pricing. To test it out XFX sent over their Qick319 RX 7600 XT Black we can see what they have going on as well!

Last week I took a look at the first of Nvidia’s new SUPER lineup, the RTX 4070 SUPER which improved on the original RTX 4070’s performance getting closer to the RTX 4070 Ti’s performance. Nvidia also announced the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and RTX 4080 SUPER cards at CES this year as well and today is the day that we can check out the  RTX 4070 Ti SUPER before it hits stores tomorrow. Is the new card worth the upgrade for those who didn’t upgrade with the 4000 Series launch, today I’ll find out how it performs and where the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER fits in today's market. We also get a chance to check out what ASUS is up to as our card is a TUF Gaming model, so let’s dive in!

Nvidia introduced a refreshed 2000 Series lineup back in 2019 with models having a SUPER designation at the end and here we are 5 years later and this year at CES they did that once again with their 4000 Series of cards, skipping the 3000 Series. Their CES press conference announced the new RTX 4080 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and the RTX 4070 SUPER. The last of which goes on sale tomorrow January 17^th but ahead of that we have the chance to take a look at the Nvidia Founders Edition of the RTX 4070 SUPER to see what it is all about so let’s dive in.

One of the interesting things about video cards is that while we only get a relatively small number of new GPUs each year, how models fit into the market and what is a good and bad buy is always changing. Prices go up and down and once you have new models out it changes things as well. Not to mention when you have previous generations of cards marked down as well. That doesn’t even figure in the used market which is its own monster. As reviewers, most of the cards we get in to test come in right around the launch so it is nice when later on I get a chance to revisit things. Gigabyte sent over their RX 7600 Gaming OC 8G and now that the 7700 XT and 7800 XT are out it should be interesting to see how it fits into the market, so today we are going to do just that after testing it and seeing how it compares to other RX 7600s that I’ve already tested.

To start the launch off I had the chance to check out the Sapphire RX 7700 XT Pulse which is their budget-focused card and a stock-clocked card. I also took a look at the overclocked XFX QICK 319 RX 7700 XT Black. Well, now I’ve got the Sapphire RX 7700 XT PURE which sits in between Sapphire’s Pulse and Nitro+ lineups. It is an overclocked card and it also improves on the Pulse with a third fan and a larger cooler but most exciting is this is a white color scheme card from Sapphire. They did bring out the RX 6950 XT PURE which was partially white but still had black fans. White cases and white builds have been popular for a long time now, it is exciting to see Sapphire finally jumping in with their own option. So I’m going to check out what the RX 7700 XT PURE is all about, put it to the test in our test suite, and then we can see how it fits in the market!