Articles by: Jarred Walton

Jarred Walton

Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He 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

The GPU Price Index, October 2021

By Jarred Walton

Our GPU price index tracks graphics cards sales and prices on eBay, which remained mostly flat over the couple of weeks.

Back 4 Blood Tested: Nearly Every GPU Can Hit 60 FPS

By Jarred Walton

Back 4 Blood runs well on modest hardware

AMD Radeon RX 6600 Review: RDNA2 Goes Mainstream at $329

By Jarred Walton

The RX 6600 brings AMD's RDNA2 architecture to a broader mainstream audience. The paper specs and pricing look good. Hopefully retail pricing doesn't change too much.

Far Cry 6 Benchmarks and Performance

By Jarred Walton

We tested Far Cry 6 on dozens of graphics cards to see how it performs.

The Best Graphics Cards: GeForce RTX 3080 FE

Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2021

By Jarred Walton

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

GPU Benchmarks and Performance Hierarchy

GPU Benchmarks and Hierarchy 2021: Graphics Cards Ranked

By Jarred Walton

Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards based on real-world gaming tests. Find out how the latest GPUs stack up.

Asus ROG Strix LC GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Review: The Fastest Card We've Ever Tested

By Jarred Walton

Extreme performance and lots of RGB

Far Cry 6 Proves Consoles Aren't Powerful Enough for Ray Tracing

By Jarred Walton

Ubisoft is right to make the Far Cry 6 ray tracing effects run on PCs only.

AMD Big Navi and RDNA 2 GPUs: Everything We Know

By Jarred Walton

The AMD Big Navi / RDNA2 architecture powers the next generation consoles and high-end graphics cards. Here's everything we know about AMD's latest generation GPUs.

How to Optimize Your GPU for Ethereum Mining (Updated)

By Jarred Walton

Tuning your card for the best performance and efficiency is important, and we've included most of the past three generations of GPUs.

Nvidia GPU Share Continues to Increase, According to Steam

By Jarred Walton

The latest Steam Hardware Survey shows a large jump in Nvidia share, and a corresponding drop in AMD and Intel shares of the GPU market.

Best Buy RTX 30 Ampere Event, August 26, 2021

Despite 17K Ampere Card Restock, Gamers Line Up at Best Buy, Leave Empty Handed

By Jarred Walton

Best Buy quickly sold out of 17,000 GPUs today. We went to one local store to see what the line looked like.

Intel Arc Alchemist and Xe HPG Architecture

Intel Ponte Vecchio and Xe HPC Architecture: Built for Big Data

By Jarred Walton

Intel shared details of its Ponte Vecchio GPUs at its Architecture Day 2021.

AMD's FSR Uses Lanczos Tech, Just Like Nvidia's Years-Old Sharpening Filter

By Jarred Walton

AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) turns out to use the same underlying algorithm as a feature Nvidia introduced years ago.

AMD Reveals Radeon RX 6600 XT Specs, Pricing, and Performance

By Jarred Walton

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT will launch on August 11. Here's our analysis of the specs, pricing, and early performance expectations.

Faked box for hypothetical Radeon RX 6700

What Ever Happened to AMD's Radeon RX 6700 Non-XT?

By Jarred Walton

AMD's Navi 22 powers the RX 6700 XT that launched four months ago, so where's the trimmed down version?

FidelityFX Super Resolution and DLSS 2.0 image quality comparisons

Investigating AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution Performance and Image Quality

By Jarred Walton

We take a look at AMD's new FidelityFX Super Resolution feature and analyze image quality and performance in our in-depth testing.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Review: More Bandwidth, More Power, More Money

By Jarred Walton

GA104 gets a GDDR6X Upgrade

AMD Radeon Pro W6800, W6600 and W6600M: RDNA2 Goes Pro

By Jarred Walton

Big Navi comes to AMD's professional line

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Review: Great Performance at a High Price

By Jarred Walton

Basically a 3090 with half the VRAM and an inferior cooler

Nvidia Reveals GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: A 3090 With Half the VRAM

By Zhiye Liu, Jarred Walton

Nvidia officially announced the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, the newest additions to the company’s Ampere product stack.

Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Bring RT and DLSS to Budget Laptops

By Jarred Walton

Nvidia announces RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti for laptops, bringing Ray tracing and DLSS to the budget sector, though with only 4GB of memory.

F1 2021 System Requirements: Ray Tracing Hits the Track

By Jarred Walton

The F1 2021 release will add ray tracing for enhanced visuals. Here are the system requirements to get your PC's engine ready for the July 16 launch.

Nvidia Refreshes Expensive, Powerful DGX Station 320G and DGX Superpod

By Jarred Walton

Nvidia's updated DGX Station 320G sports four 80GB A100 GPUs, along with other upgrades. The latest Superpod also uses 80GB A100 GPUs and adds Bluefield-2 DPUs.

Nvidia Ampere Next / Hopper coming in 2022

Nvidia's 'Ampere Next' GPU Is Coming in 2022

By Jarred Walton

Nvidia's future Ampere Next (presumably Hopper) GPUs are slated to launch in 2022. Hopefully things will have settled down by them.