Jarred Walton

Jarred Walton

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 He eventually built his first custom PC in 1990 with a 286 12MHz, only to discover it was already woefully outdated when Wing Commander released a few months later.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

RTX 5070, RX 9070 XT, Arc B580

Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2025

By Jarred Walton, Jeffrey Kampman last updated

We've benchmarked all the latest GPUs to find the best graphics cards for gaming. These graphics cards offer the best performance at their price and resolution, from 1080p to 4K.

Best Steam Deck SSDs cover

The best SSD for the Steam Deck in 2025: Fast NVMe drives for gaming on the go

By Shane Downing, Jarred Walton last updated

Our tests show the best SSDs for games on the Steam Deck.

Best PS5 SSDs

The Best PS5 SSDs in 2025: Speedy NVMe storage for your console

By Jarred Walton, Paul Alcorn last updated

Our tests show the best PS5 SSDs to buy.

Best SSDs: Reviewed and Benchmarked

Best SSDs 2025: From blazing-fast M.2 NVMe down to budget SATA

By Jarred Walton, Paul Alcorn last updated

We recommend the best SSDs for every need and budget based on our extensive lab tests.

HDD Benchmarks Hierarchy

HDD Benchmarks Hierarchy 2025: Here's all the hard disks we've tested over the past couple of years ranked by performance.

By Jarred Walton last updated

Price per TB is another factor to consider.

TH Innovation Awards 2025

Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2025: Surprise and Delight

By Avram Piltch published

These are the most innovative products of the last year.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: Blackwell GB206 takes on Ada AD106

By Jarred Walton published

Thankfully, Nvidia doesn't seem to be pushing the 5060 Ti 8GB cards very hard.

Gigabyte RTX 5090 plus Z890 motherboard bundle at Newegg

Newegg has RTX 5090 bundles starting at $3,139 — the fastest GPU paired with a lackluster Z890 motherboard

By Jarred Walton published

5090 with Arrow Lake, a platform known for weak gaming performance [smdh].

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

Nvidia RTX 5070 vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB — less VRAM but much better performance

By Jarred Walton published

At current prices, the 5070 makes far more sense than the 5060 Ti 16GB.

GPU Benchmarks and Performance Hierarchy

The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2025: Ten years of graphics card hardware tested and ranked

By Jarred Walton published

We've run hundreds of GPU benchmarks on Nvidia, AMD, and Intel graphics cards and ranked them in our comprehensive hierarchy, with over 80 GPUs tested.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB card photos

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: More VRAM and a price 'paper cut' could make for a compelling GPU

By Jarred Walton published

Retail availability and pricing will be critical factors.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 presentation

Nvidia announces GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060, starting at $379 and $299 — reviews coming tomorrow, April 16

By Jarred Walton published

The 5060 Ti will have 16GB and 8GB options, while the 5060 only gets 8GB.

Three used graphics cards for a potential upgrade

Should you buy a used graphics card?

By Jarred Walton published

GPU prices have shot up again, pushing many toward the used card market.

SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy Picker Image

SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy 2025: We've tested over 100 different SSDs over the past few years, and here's how they stack up.

By Jarred Walton published

For our SSD benchmarks hierarchy, we've tested over a hundred different SSDs and ranked them in order of performance, grouped by capacity.

PNY CS2150 2TB SSD

PNY CS2150 2TB SSD review: More 'budget' PCIe 5.0 SSD goodness

By Shane Downing published

The PNY CS2150 follows in the footsteps of the Corsair MP700 Elite, bringing more PCIe 5.0 performance with excellent power efficiency to the “budget” SSD market.

Cracked road

Nvidia's 50-series laptop launch looks bumpy: slipping ship dates, game crashes, and delayed review units

By Andrew E. Freedman published

Nvidia's RTX 50-series "Blackwell" GPU launch for laptops has been rocky, with delays and driver issues.

RTX 5070, RX 9070 XT, Arc B580

These are the best GPU 'deals' based on real-world scalper pricing and our FPS per dollar test results

By Jarred Walton last updated

The current GPU landscape is a veritable wasteland, filled with scalpers and scam sellers.

Kioxia LC9 123TB SSD

Kioxia shows off new 122.88 TB SSD — PCIe 5.0 LC9 packs a whole lot of QLC NAND

By Jarred Walton published

61 TB and 30 TB models are also available.

Blackwell RTX Pro

Nvidia Blackwell RTX Pro with up to 96GB of VRAM — even more demand for the limited supply of GPUs

By Jarred Walton published

GB202, GB203, and GB205 are coming to professional and data center GPUs. (Updated with full specs.)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 up close: Blackwell RTX Workstation, Max-Q Workstation, and Server variants shown

By Jarred Walton published

300W to 600W GPU, depending on the model.

Nvidia Rubin Ultra with NVL576 Kyber racks and infrastructure

Nvidia shows off Rubin Ultra with 600,000-Watt Kyber racks and infrastructure, coming in 2027

By Jarred Walton published

Planning for the future with up to 600kW per rack.

Nvidia data center GPU roadmap 2025 showing Rubin and Rubin Ultra

Nvidia announces Rubin GPUs in 2026, Rubin Ultra in 2027, Feynman also added to roadmap

By Jarred Walton published

NVL144 and NVL576 configurations coming down the pipe.

Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300

Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra B300 —1.5X faster than B200 with 288GB HBM3e and 15 PFLOPS dense FP4

By Jarred Walton published

Nvidia officially revealed its Blackwell Ultra B300 data center GPU, which packs up to 288GB of HBM3e memory and offers 1.5X the compute potential of the existing B200 solution.

Micron 4600 2TB SSD

Micron 4600 2TB SSD Review: The New Baseline in SSDs

By Shane Downing published

Editor's Choice

The new Micron 4600 is an all-around excellent SSD with great performance, good power efficiency, and no real weak spots.

Nvidia GTC 2025, Blackwell availability claims

Nvidia says it has shipped twice as many 50-series GPUs as 40-series since launch, but it's a misleading comparison

By Jarred Walton published

The problem is the first five weeks of Ada only had RTX 4090 cards available.

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