In this article, we’ll be explaining what you need to know about the technology: how it works, what device you’ll need to access Gigabit LTE, where it is coming, and more. Read on to learn about the immediate future in wireless technology. What is the Technology Behind Gigabit LTE? Gigabit LTE is an upgrade on existing cellular LTE technology that provides higher connection speeds. As the name suggests, Gigabit LTE is a form of LTE that’s designed to hit approximately gigabit downstream speeds at peak in ideal conditions....

Now 10 years later, the series appears to be as strong as ever with the lauded arrival of Far Cry 4. Although I’ve only had time to play for about an hour, that was enough time to be impressed by this release’s immersive gameplay and breathtaking visuals. Graphics have always been a selling point of the series as few games offer the same open world environments that can be experienced in Far Cry....

While not unplayable with and AMD FX processor, those running high-end GPUs stand to lose around 15% performance. Moreover it is becoming a common occurrence to see an Intel Core i3 processor matching or even beating an AMD FX processor in today’s games. As always, gamers are best off with a Core i5 processor as the more expensive Core i7 models offer no real gains. The Core i7-4770K responded well to a little overclocking in Far Cry 4 with a 7% performance increase from the standard 3....

“As a result of ongoing discussions with key partners, we have made the strategic decision to move the launch date of Forspoken to January 24, 2023,” the game’s official account tweeted. It added that while all game elements are complete, the final polishing phase is continuing. This marks the second time Forspoken has been delayed. Its official release date was originally May 24, 2022, so one would expect a third postponement to be unlikely, though not impossible....

Bloomberg writes that the video was posted on Twitter by a well-known Chinese dissident. It alleges that eight people died in the Foxconn factory’s dorm, a claim that others have repeated on Chinese social media. “There are no deaths at our facility,” a Foxconn unit said in a statement. “We believe this is a maliciously edited video. The group is making every effort to ensure the production safety, and health and safety of colleagues....

When testing with Crysis 3 at 1920x1200 the Gainward GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost averaged 22.9fps, making it 18% faster than the Radeon HD 7850 and 32% faster than the 7790. It was also 29% faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, while it was just 8% slower than the GTX 660. With an average of 46fps the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost SLI graphics cards were a whopping 53% faster than a single Radeon HD 7950 and 10% faster than the 7850 Crossfire cards....

To get a fuller picture, it’s increasingly apparent that you need to factor in a card’s frame latency, which looks at how quickly each frame is delivered. Regardless of how many frames a graphics card produces on average in 60 seconds, if it can’t deliver them all at roughly the same speed, you might see more brief jittery points with one GPU over another – something we’ve witnessed but didn’t fully understand....

When testing Max Payne 3 at 2560x1600, the GTX 780 Ti averaged 74.3fps for results that outedged the GTX 780 by 25% and the R9 290X by only 1%. Gigabyte’s GTX 780 Ti OC boosted performance quite a bit to 83.5fps, extending the lead over AMD’s R9 290X to 14% while also being 12% faster than a standard GTX 780 Ti and 41% faster than the GTX 780. Gigabyte’s GTX 780 GHz Edition landed within 1fps of the R9 290X, making it just 1% slower while it was 1% faster than the R9 290....

As Google has opted for AMOLED panels, there are several advantages in play. Due to extremely deep blacks and an essentially infinite contrast ratio, colors really pop. Viewing angles are also excellent in general, and Google claims a 40% decrease in brightness when viewed at 30-degrees. Maximum brightness when displaying an all-white image is usually an issue with AMOLED panels, and that’s no exception on the Pixel XL. Brightness is below 400 nits here, and there is no sunlight brightness mode that gives this a boost above 500 nits, which is something Samsung provides on their AMOLED-laden Galaxy S7 series....

The difference in hardware utilization is particularly significant when comparing HEVC software playback to H.264 hardware-accelerated playback. This is a situation that will be common to most current-generation devices, as H.264 hardware decoding is very common, whereas we’re only starting to see HEVC hardware decoders on the market. For mobile devices, HEVC’s greater hit on performance naturally leads to a greater hit on battery life. Again, this is a trade-off that users, at least for the next few years, will have to consider when encoding or playing HEVC content....

You’ll need to look closely to spot the differences in the frames below. As we’re looking at different forms of compression, the images generally look pretty similar, except in fine details. Typically you can spot the better encode by looking for sharper detail on faces and fabrics such as shirts; less blocking in blurred backgrounds or other smooth gradient areas; and fewer artefacts. The frames that follow are 1100 x 600 crops of the full 1920 x 1080 frame....

We expected the Radeon HD 5850 to be at least 20% slower than the HD 5870 based on the specifications that were given to us just a few weeks ago. However, in reality the card works out to be just 10-15% slower while costing a little over 30% less. You could say the Radeon HD 5850 offers the best value proposition of the two, while the Radeon HD 5870 certainly remains the best performer....

Four years in development and $475 million produced a 681 million-transistor, 484mm² behemoth – first as the 8800 GTX flagship and 8800 GTS 640MB on November 8. An overclocked GTX, the 8800 Ultra, represented the G80’s pinnacle and was sandwiched between the launches of two lesser products: the 320MB GTS in February and the limited production GTS 640MB/112 Core on November 19, 2007. Aided by the new Coverage Sample anti-aliasing (CSAA) algorithm, Nvidia had the satisfaction of seeing its GTX demolish every single and dual-graphics competitor in outright performance....

The Envy 14 starts at $999.99 with an Intel Core i3 processor and scales up to the Core i7. The configuration of our review system costs $1,390 with an upgraded Intel Core i5 450M processor operating at 2.4 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 2.66 GHz, 4GB DDR3 system memory (two modules), a Seagate Momentus 500GB 7200 RPM hard drive, 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 switchable graphics, a 14....

The Emotion UI is an interesting skin, first and foremost because it ditches the app tray in favor of the iPhone-style layout which sees all apps on the homescreens. It’s not the first Android launcher to remove the app drawer, but it’s the first I’ve used on a regular basis. I tend to prefer having the app drawer so I can place just my most frequently accessed apps on the homescreen and have the rest sorted alphabetically, but with the Emotion UI you can just chuck everything you don’t want into a folder or the last screen....

The new Braswell SoCs perform similarly to the Bay Trail-D SoCs in HandBrake. The new Pentium N3700 delivered the same performance as the Pentium J2900, while the Celeron N3050 matched the Celeron J1800. Like HandBrake the x264 HD Benchmark shows minimal performance difference between the Braswell and Bay Trail-D SoCs. The Pentium N3700 was only slightly slower than the J2900, while the Celeron N3050 was slightly slower than the J1800....

The Core i7-8750H is essentially the successor to the widely popular ‘Kaby Lake’ Core i7-7700HQ that was used in nearly every top-end gaming laptop over the last year or so. I expect the i7-8750H will also be the go-to chip for gaming laptops and other performance mobile devices, so this review will be useful to anyone looking to upgrade to a new Coffee Lake H-series system. The key improvement to the i7-8750H is in its core count: we’re now looking at 6 cores and 12 threads, up from 4 cores and 8 threads in the i7-7700HQ while keeping to the same 45W TDP....

On hand for testing we have the Core i9-9900K – actually we ended up with a few of these, with more tests and comparisons in the works for later on – and we also have the i7-9700K which is basically the same CPU, but crucially, with Hyper-threading disabled. The Core i9-9900K is an 8-core processor with Hyper-threading enabled for 16 logical threads. It operates at a base frequency of 3....

The H87 Performance still includes many of the features found on the Z87 Professional, such as Home Cloud, HDMI-In, XSplit as well as a hi-density power connector, 15u gold expansion slots, Intel LAN and Creative Audio. However unlike the Z87 Professional the H87 Performance uses the H87 chipset rather than the Z87 and that means there are a few new features, such as Intel Small Business Advantage, Intel Anti-Theft Technology, and Intel Identity Protection Technology....

Therefore it came as little surprise their second generation controller became widely popular in no time. SandForce had built a reputation for itself and a faster controller was the central piece into building faster SSDs. The consumer-level controller known as the SF-2200 was released in early 2011 including SATA 6Gb/s support and boasting read and write speeds of over 500MB/s, a mind blowing figure when compared to its predecessor. The first product based on this controller was the popular OCZ Vertex 3 drive, but many others have followed, for better or for worse....