Articles by Jarred Walton | Tom's Hardware

Jarred's love of computers dates back to the dark ages, when his dad brought home a DOS 2.3 PC and he left his C-64 behind. He eventually built his first custom PC in 1990 with a 286 12MHz, only to discover it was already woefully outdated when Wing Commander released a few months later. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.

Articles by: Jarred Walton

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT announcement slides and cards

AMD doubles the VRAM and boosts clocks with the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB — launching January 24 at $329

By Jarred Walton published 8 January 24

AMD announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB today, using Navi 33 with 16GB of memory, boosted clocks, and a higher TDP. It will launch on January 24, with a price of $329.

Steam survey suggests more people bought the RTX 4090 than the Steam Deck — along with millions of other RTX 40-series GPUs

By Matthew Connatser published 2 January 24

Valve's statistics often raise more questions than answers.

Testing GPUs with AMD FSR3 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora — 16 graphics cards and hundreds of benchmarks

By Jarred Walton published 22 December 23

AMD's FSR3 finally feels ready for prime time.

First look at a reference design of the fastest SSDs we're likely to see in 2024 — Phison’s E26 'Max14um' will hit 14 GB/s, and we'll test performance early next year

By Shane Downing published 22 December 23

SSDs that can top 14 GB/s will arrive in early 2024.

Stable Diffusion sample images, after generating 768x768 and using SwinIR_4X upscaling, followed by cropping

Stable Diffusion Benchmarks: 45 Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs Compared

By Jarred Walton published 15 December 23

We've tested all the modern graphics cards in Stable Diffusion, using the latest updates and optimizations, to show which GPUs are the fastest at AI and machine learning inference.

Intel Arc GPU Meteor Lake images and slides

Intel shows integrated Arc GPU for Meteor Lake is 10% faster than AMD Radeon 780M, across 33 games tested

By Jarred Walton published 14 December 23

Also 54% faster than previous gen Core i7-1370P's Iris Xe Graphics

AMD RX 7000-series' high idle power draw finally appears to be fixed with the latest 23.12.1 drivers (Updated)

By Jarred Walton published 6 December 23

We tested the five RX 7000-series GPUs with 23.11.1 and 23.12.1 drivers.

Nvidia 500 RTX and DLSS games and applications

Nvidia reaches an RTX milestone, with over 500 games and applications that use DLSS, ray tracing, and AI features

By Jarred Walton published 4 December 23

Plenty of the games are good, though there are also many obscure titles.

Nvidia RTX 4090 pricing is too damn high, while most other GPUs have held steady or declined in past 6 months — market analysis

By Jarred Walton published 2 December 23

Our study of graphics card pricing from June to present shows few wild swings.

Piles of RTX 4090 cards reportedly being hoarded for sale in China

Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could continue to drive prices up

By Jarred Walton published 29 November 23

Prices of Nvidia RTX 4090 cards have been shooting up lately, and there are photos reportedly showing piles of cards being purchased for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers and traders.

Upgrade your Steam Deck storage to 1TB for $45, or 2TB for $152

By Jarred Walton published 27 November 23

1TB and 2TB M.2 2230 SSDs that will work in the Steam Deck have some good deals going on right now for Cyber Monday.

20TB of server-class hard drive storage is available for an all-time low price of $269

By Jarred Walton published 24 November 23

The Seagate Exos X20 20TB hard drive has dropped to an all-time low of just $269 for Black Friday, which is about $100 less than the next closest 20TB drive.

I've looked at all the GPU prices this Black Friday, and most of the 'real' deals are on Intel Arc graphics cards

By Jarred Walton published 24 November 23

There are a few good AMD options as well; Nvidia, not so much.

This MSI RTX 4060 Ti costs just $329 - which actually makes it a good deal

By Jarred Walton published 22 November 23

The MSI RTX 4060 Ti 8GB Ventus 3X is now on sale for $329 after a $30 rebate, which is cheap enough to almost forgive the 8GB VRAM on a 128-bit interface.

You know what's NOT a Black Friday deal? RTX 4090 cards at $2,000 or more as prices soar on this 'banned in China' GPU

By Jarred Walton published 17 November 23

Pricing on the RTX 4090 continues to climb at a rapid pace.

Blender 4.0 promotional video screen capture

Blender 4.0 Released and Tested: New Features, More Demanding

By Jarred Walton published 16 November 23

Blender 4.0 released on November 14, 2023. We tested it on a collection of GPUs to see how performance has changed and found most graphics cards were slightly slower with the latest updates.

AMD Radeon Pro W7700 16GB Launches at $999

By Jarred Walton published 13 November 23

AMD announced the Radeon Pro W7700 16GB graphics card today, priced at $999. Powered by the Navi 32 GPU, it will target mainstream professional content creation along with AI workloads.

Nvidia Announces H200 GPU: 141GB of HBM3e and 4.8 TB/s Bandwidth

By Jarred Walton published 13 November 23

Powering the next generation of AI exascale supercomputers.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition

Nvidia RTX 4090 Subject to China Export Restrictions Starting November 17

By Jarred Walton published 2 November 23

The fastest gaming GPU will no longer be sold in China.

eBay Historical GPU Prices 2023: November 2023 Update

By Jarred Walton published 2 November 23

We track monthly prices of graphics cards sold on eBay. This update looks at pricing trends as we enter the holiday shopping season and Black Friday.

Testing Alan Wake 2: Full Path Tracing and Ray Reconstruction Will Punish Your GPU

By Jarred Walton published 27 October 23

The first game to launch with full ray tracing support.

Hypothetical GeForce RTX 4080 Super mockup (fake)

Nvidia RTX 4080 Super Could Replace RTX 4080

By Zhiye Liu published 23 October 23

Unverified sources claim that the GeForce RTX 4080 will likely be discontinued if/when the GeForce RTX 4080 Super launches. Other rumors point to more incoming Super models.