Recent content by tim.hotze

AMD is really becoming a "tale of two companies." On one hand, they've executed on their Zen/Ryzen roadmap like clockwork since 2017, and they were touting their performance/watt efficiency advantage over Intel at CES. On the other, their GPU releases look NOTHING like that chart: They never...

No, hard pass. You wouldn't have a warranty on a card mor likely to fail, and here's a NEW RX 580 for $190...

First, just to clarify, you ask what AMD processor you need - you don't need an AMD processor to use an AMD graphics card. You can keep your existing CPU and just change the graphics card (or vice versa). One thing to keep in mind is that the RX 580 and 590 only somewhat better than a 1050 Ti...

I want to believe that this is true, but I'm skeptical: I don't see how you keep 16 cores fed with 2 channels of DDR4 memory, even if its overclocked (and DDR5 remains an "on-paper" product, and will likely start out in severs), and since you need dedicated pins for memory access (and they're...

If this is based on a 12nm shrink of the 580, which itself is essentially a binned 480, it means that AMD will still be iterating off of a design that was available for sale in June 2016. You don't spend the money for the shrink for a "bridge" product that will be on shelves for a few months -...

I've said this before and I'll say it again: The real benefits of raytracing are going to come from games that are starting production NOW, not games that have a few ray tracing effects added later, the same way that during the 3D movie fad, movies shot in 3D were much better than converted...