If you’ve been working with the NVIDIA GeForce Experience app over the past year or so, you’ve found that a single click of a button can result in full-on optimization of game settings for your gaming rig. What NVIDIA is doing this week is updating the GeForce Experience to version 1.8, this thereby allowing the […]
Remember the allegation that Samsung cheats at benchmarks? Despite the manufacturer’s semi-denials, there’s growing evidence to suggest that not only Samsung, but also a number of other Android phone makers engage in some level of chicanery. Usually, it involves programming a device to temporarily ramp up its performance if it detects the launch of a benchmark test, regardless of the consequences for battery life or processor temperature. This results in a higher score on the artificial test, but one that is unrepresentative of what the device could actually achieve if it had to pace itself for a real-world task that lasted for a longer period of time — such as a 20-minute bout of gaming.
So far, so bad. However, a startup called GameBench reckons there’s another way. Its founders, who previously worked at chip companies like ARM and MediaTek, claim to have developed an “uncheatable” performance test that can be used to corroborate (or refute) the scores from traditional benchmarking apps, and which can help to rank Android phones and devices according to their true gaming capabilities. Although GameBench’s app is still in beta and likely won’t be released until the first quarter of next year, it has already collected scores for two devices, the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S 4. Ironically, as you’re about to see, Samsung may actually have less to fear from this cheat-free test than some of its rivals.
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Apple is said to have already seeded OS X 10.9.1 internally and it looks like the same update has begun arriving for registered developers. This one has been sent out as build number 13B27 and as one would expect, there has yet to be any timeline given in terms of a public push for 10.9.1. […]
You make pretty much anything you want with Lego, including a graphics card. And when Lego and computer parts collide, it’s like a double nerdgasm sandwich with cheese. It totally looks like the real thing. Genius work by Nick V.
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This week the folks at NVIDIA have revealed detailed information on their next biggest graphics card, the NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti. This graphics architecture was intially shown off at the NVIDIA The Way It’s Meant to be Played event in Montreal this October, here coming with full details and futher release information. This device is […]
The wonderful folks at The Art of the Title specialize in putting together compilation videos of, you guessed it, title sequences. They can be from movies
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Google’s Nexus 10 tablet will not get translucent navigation and notification bars with the Android 4.4.1 KitKat update, which lets the wallpaper go full-screen from top to bottom as it does in the Nexus 5. Developers can activate the bars with a one-step code tweak, but it will not be the default. The lack of […]
This morning NVIDIA sent out the newest version of the GeForce Experience, a software suite allowing users to optimize the settings of their games based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics processor they have running. This suite gained a major addition this week called ShadowPlay. ShadowPlay allows the user to add a high-powered screen video […]
It would appear that we’ll still be getting the full run-down on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti piecemeal as the company’s push today includes no more than a price and release date. Readied for the 7th of November, this graphics card is set to out-do the current high-performing GeForce GTX 780 in price. This […]
Though the AMD Radeon R9 290X was teased last month, details have not been shared in full until this morning. Along with the release of these details comes confirmation in full of the power of the device, along with the fact that AMD aims for this graphics card to be their headline unit, top to […]
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