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DirectStorage 1.1 Can Speed Game Loading by 40% Claims Microsoft
By Mark Tyson published
Does shifting 100s GB of game asset decompression to the GPU make sense? We will see with the introduction of DirectStorage 1.1 featuring GDeflate GPU Decompression.
Google Tests GFiber Speeds of Over 20 Gbps in Kansas
By Mark Tyson published
Google currently offers 1 and 2 Gbps fiber services, but is going to “dramatically expand our multi-gigabit tiers,” in the coming months.
Nvidia Issues Fix for Windows 11 22H2 Lag and Stuttering Bugs
By Mark Tyson published
A Beta update for the Nvidia GeForce Experience does the trick.
Windows 11 Users Complain of Nvidia GeForce Issues After 22H2 Feature Update
By Mark Tyson published
Nvidia is investigating the complaints of users across its forums, on Reddit, and on the Tom’s Hardware forums too. There are workaround but we hope a patch or hotfix is delivered ASAP.
AMD Genoa 96-Core CPU Towers Over Intel Sapphire Rapids 56-Core CPU In 2P System Benchmark
By Mark Tyson published
In the battle of the following gen 2P server systems, AMD leads, despite Cinebench R23 rendering maxing out at 125C/256T - leaving 64C/128T of untapped potential.
Windows 11 Encryption May Damage Data, Microsoft Says
By Mark Tyson published
VAES (vectorized AES) instructions used by apps like like BitLocker should accelerate disk data encryption. But Microsoft has recently had to patch a data damage flaw.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Easily Matches 3090 Ti Says Leaker
By Mark Tyson published
GPU performance might be current gen flagship matching, but the challenger’s memory quota and performance isn’t going to measure up.
Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing
By Mark Tyson published
Intel Mesa Vulkan driver fix required just one line of memory allocation code to be changed to yield a 100x speedup in ray tracing performance.
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