Storage innovation has been at the forefront of PC and gaming console technology in recent years. With the introduction of fast storage technology like DirectStorage and an improved storage stack in Windows 11, PC is finally able to take full advantage modern storage devices.

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Back in 2020 when the next-gen consoles launched, there were many comparisons made between the PS5 and the Xbox Series X|S. From teraflops, to specs, to games, and so on. But one of the bigger discussion points that emerged after Sony's Road to PS5 presentation was the storage solution for each cons...

Last month, Microsoft released DirectStorage 1.1, which features support for GPU based asset decompression. The addition of GPU decompression is important, because it significantly reduces CPU overhead and acts as a bandwidth multiplier, allowing a greater amount of data to be transferred to the GPU...

It has been a couple of months since AMD's Ryzen 7000 series processors launched, and we've had some time to test the newest additions to our test system - the Ryzen 7 7700X, ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WiFi, and the Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32 GB kit with AMD EXPO.

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EA SPORTS F1 22 comes out on July 1 for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. In our continued coverage of the game, we take a look at the updated track layouts for Australia, Spain, and Abu Dhabi. These changes will be present in F1 22 in order to mirror their real world counterparts.

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Disclaimer: This is a work-in-progress build, and performance will be further improved ahead of launch.

F1 22 officially releases on July 1, but EA has been kind enough to give us access to a work-in-progress build prior to release to test the game. Today, we will take a look at the Miami Inter...

Microsoft DirectStorage has left the beta phase and is now officially available on Windows 11 and Windows 10 (Build 1909 and up.) To benchmark this new feature, we turn to the Sampler Feedback Streaming demo from Intel that we tested a while back here. Intel has added support for DirectStorage t...

Back in 2020, Microsoft announced that a crucial part of the Xbox Series X's Velocity Architecture - DirectStorage - would be coming to PC. Since then, Microsoft has been fairly quiet about about this feature, other than their announcement regarding a limited developer preview last summer. During th...

Sampler Feedback Streaming is a DirectX 12 Ultimate feature that was introduced a couple of years ago by Microsoft. Sampler Feedback Streaming allows for continuous and intelligent loading and eviction of small texture tiles, ensuring that only the textures that are required are displayed at their h...

Just ahead of CES 2022, Samsung Electronics has announced that HDR10+ Gaming standard will be supported on its new line of TVs and monitors. NVIDIA also says that their RTX 30 series, RTX 20 series, and GTX 10 series GPUs will all support this standard as well.

What is HDR10+?

HDR10+ was devel...

Earlier this year, when Microsoft revealed Windows 11, they stated that one of its biggest gaming features - DirectStorage - would also come to Windows 10, but that the feature would be better optimized on Windows 11 due to the new operating system's new storage stack. Back in October, Microsoft rel...

We are just a few days away from the official launch of Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, which will be available to consumers on November 4. Along with these new processors, ASUS will be releasing new motherboards. These new motherboards will be required to run Intel’s new CPUs, but they will also be pa...

When Microsoft announced that DirectStorage — the next gen storage feature for gaming — would come to Windows 10 (build 1909 and up), they stated that it would perform better on Windows 11 due to its new and improved storage stack. Until recently, Microsoft has provided no details on what that would...

2021 has been an interesting year for televisions. With LG holding the crown for best OLED, and best television in general, for the last 5 years, it was time for the competition to step up and challenge them for that top spot. Sony did just that with a very impressive lineup of OLED TVs.

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