Articles by Jeffrey Kampman, Senior Analyst, Graphics

Jeff Kampman has been playing PC games ever since he learned how to fire up freeware CDs from the DOS command line. He started building his own PCs in the mid-aughts and later turned that passion into a career, working as a news and guides writer, reviewer, and ultimately Editor-in-Chief at The Tech Report, where he dove deep on CPUs and GPUs (and more) in pursuit of the smoothest gaming experiences around. Jeff later took on roles at Asus and Intel as a technical marketer before joining Tom's Hardware. As Senior Analyst, Graphics, Jeff covers everything from integrated graphics processors to discrete graphics cards to the massive data center GPU installations powering our AI future. Jeff is also a hobbyist photographer, Twitch streamer, espresso enthusiast, and runner.

Articles by: Jeffrey Kampman

The GeForce RTX 30-series upgrade matrix — does your Ampere GPU need an upgrade in 2026?

By Jeffrey Kampman published 28 April 26

Premium We go over every GPU in the RTX 30-series lineup to determine whether or not it's the right time to leave the Ampere platform for newer Blackwell and RDNA4-based pastures.

Pragmata PC performance tested: 18 GPUs take us to the Moon

By Jeffrey Kampman published 16 April 26

We test Capcom's latest across the latest graphics cards to find the best way to play.

Anthropic's latest AI model identifies 'thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities' in 'every major operating system and every major web browser' — Claude Mythos Preview sparks race to fix critical bugs, some unpatched for decades

By Jeffrey Kampman published 7 April 26

Anthropic holds back its most advanced model yet to allow companies and institutions to prepare.

We go hands-on with Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and its 5X and 6X multipliers — more generated frames, now tailor-made for your monitor's refresh rate

By Jeffrey Kampman published 31 March 26

Same RTX 50-series GPUs, more AI-generated pixels

Intel Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs bring 32GB of RAM to AI and pro apps — bigger Battlemage finally arrives, but it's not for gamers

By Jeffrey Kampman published 25 March 26

Intel brings 32GB of VRAM and plenty of bandwidth to the local AI inference party

GTC 2026: Ian Buck press Q&A transcript — VP of Hyperscale and HPC speaks out on shelving CPX and shipping LPU decode this year

By Luke James, Jeffrey Kampman published 23 March 26

Premium Following Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote, where CEO Jensen Huang laid out the company's Vera Rubin architecture and the Groq 3 LPU acquisition, Nvidia's Ian Buck sat down with press for a Q&A session.

Nvidia will only produce one 88-core Vera CPU model — Jensen says the company will make billions of dollars from a single SKU

By Anton Shilov published 18 March 26

Nvidia intends to build a multi-billion-dollar CPU business with its Vera processors, but only plans to offer one SKU.

We got a first look at Nvidia's DLSS 5 and the future of neural rendering at GTC — the results can be impressive, but there's work to do

By Jeffrey Kampman published 17 March 26

New AI model can dramatically improve the appearance of games, but it's early days for the tech.

Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote live blog — Vera Rubin GPUs and CPUs, DLSS 5, and the 'future of technology'

By Jake Roach last updated 16 March 26

Nvidia's GTC 2026 keynote has wrapped, but Tom's Hardware was on the ground to deliver live updates during CEO Jensen Huang's two-hour presentation.

Nvidia Groq 3 LPU and Groq LPX racks join Rubin platform at GTC — SRAM-packed accelerator boosts 'every layer of the AI model on every token'

By Jeffrey Kampman published 16 March 26

Groq tech readies Rubin for the multi-agent system frontier

Dynamic MFG comes to RTX 50-series GPUs to push monitor refresh rates to the max — more flexible mode with 5x and 6x multipliers arrives March 31

By Jeffrey Kampman published 10 March 26

Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, announced back at CES, will be arriving March 31, along with extended 5X and 6X modes.

GPU Benchmarks and Performance Hierarchy

The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2026: Ten years of graphics card hardware tested and ranked

By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 9 March 26

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

Asus GeForce RTX 5080 Noctua Edition review: Silent running

By Jeffrey Kampman published 6 March 26

Editor's Choice

Asus and Noctua team up again for a silent, speedy Blackwell beast

A group of RTX 50-series and RX 9000-series GPU boxes

The great Bench GPU retest begins — how we're testing for our GPU Hierarchy in 2026, and why upscaling and framegen are still out

By Jeffrey Kampman published 20 February 26

Premium It's time to test. Here's how the sausage is made.

Meta will deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs in production, with Vera to follow — company sees perf-per-watt improvements of up to 2X in some CPU workloads

By Jeffrey Kampman published 18 February 26

Nvidia lands a big win in its ambitions to become a CPU vendor

Corsair AI Workstation 300 review: Strix Halo sets sail in a compact and classy (but pricey) package

By Jeffrey Kampman published 16 February 26

A solid Strix Halo box sailing in stormy seas thanks to the RAMpocalypse

Nvidia DGX Spark update cuts idle power by 32% or more — hot-plug detection on ConnectX NIC makes for a more efficient AI workstation

By Jeffrey Kampman published 12 February 26

The latest software update for Nvidia's DGX Spark reduces idle power by 32% or more, thanks to better power management on its 200 Gbps ConnectX NIC.

MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z review: RTX 5090 Ti, anyone?

By Jeffrey Kampman published 12 February 26

Editor's Choice

The best gaming graphics card gets better

Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2026

By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 7 February 26

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.

Still using or redeploying an older PC during today’s RAM crisis? A new power supply could save you from an insane repair bill

By Jeffrey Kampman published 3 February 26

A new PSU for an older system is cheap insurance against cascading failures, downtime, and data loss.

Nvidia DGX Spark review: the GB10 Superchip powers a fast and fun AI toolbox that beats out AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395

By Jeffrey Kampman published 27 January 26

Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell mini-PC is a winner, but you need to be all in on AI to justify one.

Hidden third fan on the Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 5090 Infinity

Gigabyte CEO explains Nvidia's potential GPU supply strategy amid crushing memory shortages — gross revenue per gigabyte of GDDR7 memory could decide what products thrive

By Jeffrey Kampman published 16 January 26

Gigabyte CEO Eddie Lin says the revenue contributed per gigabyte of GDDR7 on Nvidia graphics cards will be the key measure for which products thrive and which will be in short supply in 2026.

Jensen Huang discusses the economics of inference, power delivery, and more at CES 2026 press Q&A session — 'You sell a chip one time, but when you build software, you maintain it forever'

By Luke James published 9 January 26

Premium In a press Q&A at CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addressed everything from Rubin’s design philosophy to inference economics, power constraints, open models, and more.

Audeze launches Maxwell 2 headset, with better spatial immersion and bass — plus, of course, improved AI noise-canceling mic tech

By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal published 8 January 26

Audeze launched its new Maxwell 2 planar magnetic gaming headset at CES 2026, with improved audio and mic technology, and swappable side plates.

Intel Panther Lake pre-release testing delivers over 80 fps in Cyberpunk, 100 fps in F1 — Arc B390 offers playable 1080p frame rates with XeSS quirks in our hands-on tests

By Jake Roach published 7 January 26

Panther Lake’s 12 Xe3 cores can deliver some serious gaming horsepower, but the software still needs work

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