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

These are the lowest prices on every Cyber Monday gaming graphics card — every current GPU model from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel at Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, Walmart, and more

By Stewart Bendle, Jeffrey Kampman last updated 2 December 25

Check the best prices on Nvidia RTX and AMD Radeon graphics cards during Cyber Monday.

Cheap gaming PCs are endangered, but this $800 ABS prebuilt rocks — get an RTX 5060 and 32GB of RAM for less this Cyber Monday

By Jeffrey Kampman published 1 December 25

Deals If you're still searching for an affordable gaming PC this Cyber Monday, this ABS prebuilt boasts an RTX 5060 and 32GB of RAM for just $800.

GPU deals are drying up fast, but these are the best ones you can still get while supplies last — RTX 5050 for $219, 5070 for $499, RX 9070 for $519, and more

By Jeffrey Kampman published 1 December 25

GPU deals are rapidly drying up on Cyber Monday, but we sifted through discounts that are still live to find the best remaining deals.

We put together a $650 gaming PC build that doesn't suck with Cyber Monday deals — this is the cheapest parts list worth buying right now

By Jeffrey Kampman published 30 November 25

Cyber Monday discounts let us put together a $650 gaming PC that doesn't suck, but act fast.

Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2025

By Jarred Walton, Jeffrey Kampman last updated 29 November 25

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.

GPU Benchmarks and Performance Hierarchy

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

By Jarred Walton, Jeffrey Kampman last updated 29 November 25

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

In the era of stratospheric RAM prices, putting a new GPU in an old PC might be your best upgrade bet, but be sure to grab the right monitor, too

By Jeffrey Kampman published 27 November 25

You can work around an old CPU, but you can't fix 1080p and 60Hz

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 vs Intel Arc B580 Face Off: $249 graphics cards duke it out for budget gaming supremacy

By Jeffrey Kampman published 25 November 25

We put the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 vs Intel Arc B580 through an eight-round face-off to declare a winner.

Saying goodbye to Nvidia's retired GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — we benchmark 2017's hottest graphics card against some modern GPUs as it rides into the sunset

By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 25 October 25

We check in on Nvidia’s most famous graphics card ever as support ends.

A modder's demo of Nvidia's Reflex 2 tech with Frame Warp

Intrepid modder builds Frame Warp demo from Nvidia Reflex 2 binaries — tech remains mysteriously shelved despite greatly reducing latency

By Jeffrey Kampman published 24 October 25

Nvidia's Reflex 2 tech has been showcased in the real world.

Nvidia's DGX Spark AI mini-PC goes up for sale October 15 — 1 petaFLOP developer platform was originally slated for May

By Jeffrey Kampman published 14 October 25

Potent, pint-size platform also got a $1000 price hike between announcement and launch

Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture breaks cover — Panther Lake's 12 Xe Core iGPU promises 50+% better performance than Lunar Lake

By Jeffrey Kampman published 9 October 25

Intel's Xe3 graphics architecture arrives on Panther Lake CPUs, and Intel has used it to build its largest, highest-performance integrated GPU yet.

Intel takes the wraps off Panther Lake — first 18A client processor brings the best of Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake together in one package

By Jeffrey Kampman published 9 October 25

Panther Lake brings the power efficiency and graphics performance of Lunar Lake and the platform flexibility of Arrow Lake all together on one SoC

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 review: a necessary update, not an exciting one

By Jeffrey Kampman published 26 September 25

The GeForce RTX 5050 brings a much-needed performance boost to the low end of the graphics card market, but it faces intense competition at its $249 MSRP.

A range of hardware that supports GeForce Now

Nvidia's GeForce Now gets an RTX 5080 upgrade — Ultimate subscribers now get Blackwell benefits in the cloud

By Jeffrey Kampman published 18 August 25

Nvidia is upgrading its GeForce Now service at Gamescom with new RTX 5080-powered instances for Ultimate subscribers, plus a range of other improvements.

A Montech Century II 1200W PSU next to an RTX 5090

I paired a cheap $125 PSU with a $3,000 RTX 5090

By Jeffrey Kampman published 15 August 25

The RTX 5090's 575W TGP is intimidating, but some cheap PSUs are still up to the task

The user interface of the MLPerf Client 1.0 benchmark

MLPerf Client 1.0 AI benchmark released — new testing toolkit sports a GUI, covers more models and tasks, and supports more hardware acceleration paths

By Jeffrey Kampman published 1 August 25

MLPerf Client 1.0 has just been released with some big improvements over the prior version 0.6 benchmarking tool.

Nvidia confirms end of Game Ready driver support for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs — affected products will get optimized drivers through October 2025

By Jeffrey Kampman published 31 July 25

End of the line for a wide range of iconic graphics cards

A figurative diagram of frame generation on a GeForce graphics card

Input latency is the all-too-frequently missing piece of framegen-enhanced gaming performance analysis

By Jeffrey Kampman published 18 July 25

Low input latency is key to a good framegen experience. Let's (try to) measure it.

Intel releases new tool to measure gaming image quality — AI tool measures impact of upscalers, frame gen, others; Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric now available on GitHub

By Jeffrey Kampman published 16 July 25

Intel has just released its new Computer Graphics Video Quality Metric on GitHub, a new measure designed to capture the complex artifacts found in modern rendering techniques in computer graphics.

The GeForce RTX 5090 just got an actual discount for Prime Day and is flying off the shelves — $2649 deal still live at B&H

By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 10 July 25

RTX 5090s usually sell for around $3000, but a PNY card is still available at $2649

Two Nvidia GPUs fall below MSRP for Prime: Triple-fan RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 cards are the Best Prime Day graphics card deals yet

By Jeffrey Kampman last updated 8 July 25

Premium Behold, a rarity.

$200 GPU Face-off: Nvidia vs AMD vs Intel

$200 GPU face-off: Nvidia RTX 3050, AMD RX 6600, and Intel Arc A750 duke it out at the bottom of the barrel

By Jeffrey Kampman published 20 June 25

If you can’t spend more than around $200 on a discrete GPU, you have three choices these days. We dug in to see if any of them are worth your hard-earned cash.

An example image of a dinosaur produced using neural texture compression

VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality — enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos

By Jeffrey Kampman published 18 June 25

AI texture decompression promises better image quality, lower resource usage

A Nintendo Switch 2 console next to its box

Nintendo Switch 2 review: New internals are a major power-up

By Jeffrey Kampman published 12 June 25

Update The Nintendo Switch 2's powerful internals deliver a major upgrade to the Switch formula, but there's still some room for improvement.

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