Life comes at you fast, and sometimes so do graphics drivers. Case in point, AMD has released its second GPU driver update in less than a week. Whereas the previous release mostly focused on fixing various issues, the new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.7.2...
AMD and Nvidia have released new drivers adding support for a feature Microsoft introduced with the May 2020 update of Windows 10, an update that still isn’t available to everyone. The feature in question is Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS for short),...
In earlier days, I used to test and review internet security suites for Maximum PC, usually in the form of annual roundups. During that time, I witnessed firsthand a concerted effort by major AV makers to optimize their software to have less of a performance impact on...
Linux gaming may not be as popular as gaming in Windows, but it is a growing segment. It is also improving, both in terms of support and performance. As it pertains to the latter, Jason Ekstrand, a member of Intel’s open source 3D driver team, is seeing some...
A recent video from Martin Fuller over at the DirectX Developer Day goes into great depth about what improvements Mesh Shaders are going to make to the whole GPU rendering pipeline. This is a technical video aimed at developers, and really isn’t intended for us...
