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It has been an epic end to the year as far as PC gaming is concerned. New graphics hardware has been unleashed en masse, giving enthusiasts plenty to get excited about. GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 got the party started in September, RTX 3070 arrived in October, Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT followed in November, and RTX 3060 Ti looked to have completed the circle in December.

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The deluge of cutting-edge hardware continues. Nvidia, who kicked off proceedings with the hugely impressive GeForce RTX 3080, has slowly but surely massaged the underlying Ampere architecture to suit other areas of the market. RTX 3090 blows your socks off at $1,499, RTX 3070 entices more users at $499, and the latest addition, RTX 3060 Ti, brings the goodness of Ampere to a wider audience starting at just $399.

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2020 has been a trying year in more ways than one, yet gaming enthusiasts can take solace in the relentless release schedule of cutting-edge hardware in recent months. It all started with Nvidia setting lofty new standards with hard-hitting Ampere GPUs, Microsoft and Sony have since introduced a wave of eagerly anticipated next-generation games consoles, and if all that wasn't enough, AMD is today chiming in with the Radeon RX 6000 Series.

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NVIDIA is keeping the pedal firmly to the enthusiast PC graphics metal by releasing the GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs to general acclaim. Powered by the all-new Ampere architecture, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 landed a few weeks back and set the benchmarks alight with never-before-seen performance.

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Gaming hardware is getting seriously interesting, wouldn't you say? NVIDIA has fired the first shots in the next-generation battle in the form of a new-and-improved Ampere architecture that raises the bar for PC gaming to hitherto undreamt heights.

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NVIDIA introduced the GeForce RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 graphics cards this month. The high-performance trio is based on the new Ampere architecture which is a successor to Turing powering the GeForce RTX 20-series available today.

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With next-generation games consoles scheduled to make their debut later this year, industry stalwart Microsoft has ratified a new standard of development APIs marketed as DirectX 12 Ultimate.

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With AMD's fortunes transformed, the chip giant continues to march forward with new releases that are shaking up both the CPU and GPU landscapes. In the graphics space, the Radeon assault has been led by the introduction of a new RDNA architecture that powers not only current PC graphics cards, but also next-generation consoles from the likes of Microsoft and Sony.

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Following on from the launch of Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 back in July, AMD is today extending the reach of its 7nm Navi GPUs with a mainstream offering dubbed the Radeon RX 5500 XT.

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Productised as the Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX 5700, the new duo target the mid-to-high-end segment and are primed for high-quality gaming at a lush 1440p resolution.

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NVIDIA's supremacy in the high-end graphics space is best demonstrated by the firm's ability to keep rival AMD at arm's length. Whenever Team Red decides to introduce a new GPU, Team Green tends to thwart any such effort with a superior release of its own.

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The RTX 2060 graphics card brings forward-looking features to a wider audience, which can only mean good things for game developers hoping to leverage new technologies for today's latest triple-A titles

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AMD has had a strong position in the premium mainstream graphics card market with the Radeon RX 480 (2016) and RX 580 (2017) GPUs. The duo uses what is known as the Polaris architecture to good effect, enabling high-quality PC gameplay at the popular FHD (1,920x1,080) and QHD (2,560x1,440) resolutions.

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NVIDIA has come to the premium PC graphics card party of 2018 heavily armed with its new architecture known as Turing. It is this silicon blueprint that powers the all-new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 that have been available for about a month now.

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It is no secret that NVIDIA is overhauling its high-end graphics solutions with the launch of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2080. Priced at £1,099 and £749, respectively, in Founders Edition guise, the hard-hitting duo are powered by a revolutionary Turing architecture that promises to change the way we think about PC gaming performance in the years ahead.

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Personal Computers (PCs) connect up to peripherals and displays through myriad of cabling. Some of those names and standards will be familiar to you, such as USB or HDMI, others may not, and these can include standards such as Thunderbolt and DisplayPort. The purpose of this TekSpek is to illuminate and educate users into the different types of cables and standards used in the PC ecosystem.

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AMD introduced the RX 500-series family of add-in graphics cards in April and May 2017. These cards are priced between £75 and &pounds;200 and therefore cover a large part of the mainstream graphics market. In this TekSpek we will take a closer look at the RX 560 GPU that retails from just &pounds;95.

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It has been a busy start to 2017 for chip giant AMD. Having shaken-up the CPU landscape with the launch of its Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors, the company is now turning its attention to graphics by refreshing its range of Radeon GPUs.

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AMD and NVIDIA totally dominate the market for discrete graphics cards - ones you plug into a motherboard for increased performance when playing games. The two companies are locked in a perennial battle for technology leadership at price points ranging from £40 through to £550. The previous two years has seen AMD eke out a small technology lead over its rival

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AMD introduced two new graphics cards for the enthusiast segment on December 15, 2010. Known as Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon HD 6950, this TekSpek examines the new architecture, dubbed Cayman, and then compares it with NVIDIA's Fermi core, which powers the recently released GeForce GTX 580 and GeForce GTX 570 cards.

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Modern desktop computers and notebooks comprise of a CPU, motherboard, graphics, storage, and, usually an optical drive. Computers have a number of ports and sockets that enable the user to plug-in various peripherals such as a printer, USB mouse, or, perhaps most importantly of all, an Internet connection.

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Have you ever felt like you've run out of space on your desktop? Do you ever get sick of 'alt-tabbing' between multiple windows just to try and find the program that you're looking for? Unfortunately, even high-resolution monitors don't always have enough space to let you get everything done. That's where multi-monitor systems come into play, and nothing makes that easier than AMD's Eyefinity.

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All personal computers (PCs) use some form of graphics to output the display on to a monitor or screen. Looking back over the last 15 years, there has seen significant development in what are termed 3D accelerators - dedicated graphics boards designed to render life-like images in real-time - and the market has been dominated by two companies: NVIDIA and ATI.

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ATI Technologies, now part of AMD, is one of the big three players with respect to manufacturing GPUs (graphics processing units). GPUs can either be integrated (on to a chipset) or discrete, which usually entails more higher performance and more power. GPUs are required to provide video output (2D) and, potentially, gaming (3D) performance for both desktop and mobile (notebook) environments.

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Keeping in tandem with technological developments, audio/video connectors continue to evolve at a steady pace. Today, the most common digital connector comes in the form of HDMI and we're here to tell you what it is, what it does, and why you might need it.

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Blu-ray Disc is now widely regarded as the physical successor to DVD, we take a closer look at what it is, what advantages it brings, and what it could mean to you.

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CUDA technology is the world’s only C language environment that enables programmers and developers to write software to solve complex computational problems in a fraction of the time by tapping into the many-core parallel processing power of GPUs.

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In computing terms, system buses are used to connect various components to the motherboard’s core logic and, often, to each other. Modern PCs run with a multitude of high-speed buses ranging from the interconnects between, say, the chipset and the CPU, graphics card, memory, and peripherals.

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Explaining how a modern GPU works in completeness would take a book. Or two. Per class of chip. Per vendor. They're extraordinarily complex pieces of engineering and production, and the end result contains more transistors than multiple modern x86 processors.

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You’d be right to think that it’s possible to carry out basic video editing on any modern PC running Windows XP - straight out of the box. XP includes the Windows Movie Maker video-editing program and, although it lacks frills, it does what it does quite well.

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NVIDIA’s GeForce 8-series graphics products, powered by G8x GPUs, sees it usher in the first truly radical architecture change since the Riva TNT, and that includes the jump to fully programmable shading in the GeForce FX. G8x GPUs implement a fully-threaded, fully-unified, fully-scalar shading architecture that’s targetted at Direct3D10, the 3D component of DirectX 10.

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A motherboard’s main job is to act as a conduit between the various hardware elements that make up a PC. It needs to be able to link the desired CPU(s), system memory, graphics card, hard drive(s), and add-in cards and enable them to work in harmony.

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This TekSpek explains why you’d want to overclock your graphics board, the risks in doing so and how you can go about doing it.

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If you’re the least bit interested in graphics cards, we’re sure that you’ve heard the terms SLI and CrossFire bandied about recently. Touted as a means of achieving maximum 3D performance by, effectively, using two or more graphics cards in tandem, multi-GPU technology is here to stay. With that in mind, let’s take a closer look SLI and CrossFire; the two competing multi-GPU solutions from NVIDIA and ATI Technologies, respectively.

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This TekSpek will assume you know the affects of applying a level of anti-aliasing (AA) on your 3D accelerator, be it via the driver control panel or via a control in your game. We assume you know the effect it has on image quality, so you can think about a before and after scenario. So this TekSpek isn’t about explaining what it does as such, although it will, it’s about explaining the how and why.

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Explaining how a modern GPU works in completeness would take a book. Or two. Per class of chip. Per vendor. They’re extraordinarily complex pieces of engineering and production, and the end result contains more transistors than multiple modern x86 processors.

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When looking to upgrade your PC, RAM is one of the first places to look. More RAM reduces the amount the page file is used, speeding up programs and allowing you to run more applications simultaneously

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Updating drivers can sometimes be a bit of a gamble. Will the drivers come with an installer? Will you need to uninstall the old drivers first? Many drivers these days do come with an installer, which simplifies the process dramatically.

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This TekSpek explains DirectX 10, which graphics cards support it, how they work and what the consumer’s choices are.

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Watercooling for the PC has been around for years in some form or another, for at least as long as Scan have been in business, with basic physics defining why you want to use it. That means for air cooling, to cope with increasing temperature in the heatsink you need to move the air across it faster. That is why thermostatically controlled fans in your PC will turn faster the hotter something gets.

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Whether the broadcasters are going HD or not, TV sets and projectors are arriving thick and fast which claim to support higher resolutions than regular telly. But HDTV is far from just one standard – it incorporates a couple of different resolutions, two different scanning modes, and a number of different frame rates. In this article, we present a guide to what all the terms actually mean.

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The purpose of this TekSpek is to define what HDTV is, how it will become pervasive in the not-too-distant future, and its relevance to you in 2006.

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There’s a lot more to High Definition than just having the ability to run your screen at the right resolution. With more than one type of connection available, and the thorny subject of signal encryption to contend with, just because your monitor and graphics are capable of 1,920 x 1,080 or better does not necessarily mean they will be able to display HDTV in all its glory.

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If you've used a computer for any duration of time you'll have come across the terms “kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte” and so on. Then there's “kilobit, megabit and gigabit” to add a bit of confusion and to top it all off you've maybe heard or read terms like “gibibyte” on occasion.

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