Dan Mateescu

Dan Mateescu

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Dan Mateescu is a PC enthusiast whose love for PC gaming started in the early 1990s. Since then, he has been on a long PC gaming journey on which he has acquired a great deal of knowledge. In 2021, he started a YouTube channel called 'Compusemble' where he benchmarks various hardware in the latest games, performs side-by-side visual comparisons, and tests tech demos of cutting-edge graphics technologies. He is a regular features contributor to Tom's Hardware and Tom's Hardware Premium, focusing on GPU testing. Outside of PC gaming, Dan enjoys sports, spending time outdoors, and watching football on Sundays.

Articles by: Dan Mateescu

GPU SafeguardPlus

Testing GPU Safeguard+ on the MSI MPG Ai1600TS PSU – solution aims to tame melting 16-pin connectors

By Dan Mateescu published

Here's one way of solving Nvidia's melting power connectors.

Advanced Shader Delivery

We tested Advanced Shader Delivery on the RX 9070 XT in six games — up to 95% improvement in load times and 33 percent faster 1% Low FPS

By Dan Mateescu published

Downloaded shaders are a game changer.

Testing RTX Mega Geometry

Testing Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry tech — VRAM-reducing tech a leap forward for path-traced rendering

By Dan Mateescu published

Reducing VRAM and eliminating visual artifacts? What's not to like?

RTX 5080 and RTX 3080 Founder's Edition on a desk.

We tested supercharging the RTX 5090 in PhysX games using an RTX 5060 as a secondary GPU — SLI may be dead, but how much can dual GPUs boost performance in classic PhysX titles?

By Dan Mateescu published

We're testing the impact of using a dedicated secondary RTX 5060 GPU to boost the performance of an RTX 5090 in a few classic Batman Arkham titles that support 32-bit PhysX.

RTX Neural Texture Compression

Benchmarking Nvidia's RTX Neural Texture Compression tech that can reduce VRAM usage by over 80%

By Dan Mateescu published

We put RTX Neural Texture Compression to the test with multiple GPUs and on a laptop.

A GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card

Testing DirectStorage with GPU decompression — do Blackwell GPUs have the upper hand?

By Dan Mateescu published

Premium We tested DirectStorage with GPU decompression on Blackwell GPUs to see if they perform better than prior generations.

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