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With the Lumia 925, Nokia has tweaked the firmware to help mitigate some of these issues, but the camera remains the same. You’re getting an 8.7-megapixel 1/3.2" true-16:9 backside illuminated sensor with 1.4µm pixels, a Zeiss 26mm (effective) f/2.0 lens with optical stabilization, and a dual-LED flash. There’s also a 1.2-megapixel f/2.4 front facing camera, but that’s less important. As soon as I started capturing images using the ‘PureView’ camera, it was obvious that Nokia had addressed my concerns with the Lumia 920’s camera....

According to their write-up, the team at Igor’s Lab was fooling around with Spider-Man Remastered when they noticed that the game’s settings gave them some strange options: to switch frame generation on without enabling DLSS and to pair frame generation with AMD FSR and Intel XeSS. Igor’s Lab went straight to Nvidia to ask if those options were meant to be there. Nvidia confirmed that they were and explained that frame generation functioned separately from upscaling, but added that DLSS 3 had been optimized to work with it....

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst is incredibly demanding when using the ‘Hyper’ quality setting and we see that the RX 480 falls to a 43fps average. The GTX 1060 was 21% faster with an average of 52fps, allowing it to match the Nano and GTX 980. Now at 1440p the GeForce GTX 1060 is able to average 36fps though this did make it just 13% faster than the RX 480. Here you will see the 4GB graphics cards really struggling due to the high VRAM requirements of the Hyper setting....

With Titan X and 980 Ti-like performance, the GTX 1070 looks like the best option for 1440p gamers, delivering well north of 60 FPS in nearly every game we tested. AMD is yet to adjust its upper tier pricing, so the 1070 should come in at a little over 40% cheaper than the Fury X if that board partner MSRP is met. This doesn’t bode well for AMD as the 1070 was 6% faster than the Fury X at 1440p and 12% faster at 1080p....

At the time, many speculated that the Founders Edition card would be specially selected to provide better overclocking performance, or that it would be factory overclocked by Nvidia themselves. As it turns out, the Founders Edition is not nearly as special, as it is merely a reference card, but a beautiful and well-constructed one. Why would you want to spend an extra $100 (or $70 in the case of the GTX 1070) on the Founders Edition card, when it doesn’t provide any real performance advantage?...

For those of you not keeping tabs, we now have the GTX 1660 for $220, the GTX 1660 Ti for $280, the RTX 2060 for $350 and the RTX 2060 Super for $400. In the price range between $200 and $400 there were already 4 GeForce options, but as of today we now have 6. The GTX 1660 Super slots in at $230 and there’s also the 1650 Super coming next month, no word on pricing yet....

In the dozen games that we tested the GeForce GTX 460 SLI graphics cards were on average 16% faster than the GeForce GTX 480. This is a big deal not just because the GeForce GTX 480 is the fastest single GPU graphics card you can buy, but because you will likely end up paying less for the GTX 460 duo. There are more advantages favoring the GeForce GTX 460 SLI configuration over a single GeForce GTX 480....

While the GeForce GTX 480 fared very well in our time demo benchmark, beating the Radeon HD 5870 convincingly, our own FRAPS benchmark tells a much different story. Here we found that the GeForce GTX 480 was still faster than the Radeon HD 5870 but by a much smaller margin. The minimum frame rate gap was only of 3fps. Later on we observed this radical change came from the maxed-out ‘Enthusiast’ setting we used for this article, compared to the ‘High’ setting used previously....

Although the GTX 770 was essentially a rebadged GTX 680 with faster memory, the GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti were new products, even if they featured the same architecture. Overall, the GeForce 700 series pushed Kepler to its limits – all with the exception of the GTX 750 Ti. Priced at $150, the GTX 750 Ti was similar to the GTX 650 Ti Boost in terms of frame rate performance despite looking like it should have been 20% slower on paper....

At 2560x1600 the Titan X was 35% faster than the GTX 980, 57% faster than the R9 290X, but 16% slower than the R9 295X2. At 4K we find that the Titan X is 40% faster than the GTX 980 and 50% faster than the R9 290X. The Titan X delivered a silky smooth 80fps at 2560x1600 making it just 2% slower than the R9 295X2 while it was 33% faster than the GTX 980 and 45% faster than the R9 290X....

Today we are checking out Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU, a product that’s already available in a handful of gaming laptops, and is the faster and more expensive sibling of the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU we reviewed a few weeks ago. Specification wise, the RTX 3070 Laptop GPU doesn’t follow the exact same core configuration as its desktop counterpart. Both use GA104 silicon but the desktop GPU features 5888 CUDA cores, compared to just 5120 on the laptop version....

Now before we get into it, do note, this article is not designed to change your opinion (our ours) about Ampere. The RTX 3080 is the best value high-end GPU on the market by a country mile… if you can get your hands on one. But back to Ampere and its interesting quirks, the aim here is to investigate and explain what’s going on. For those of you not up to speed, in our RTX 3080 review we found that gaming performance at 1440p was not as impressive relative to what was seen at 4K....

OCZ claims that the 64GB version will provide read speeds as high as 225MB/s, with write speeds reaching a maximum of 135MB/s and 40MB/s sustained. The bigger and more expensive 128GB and 256GB drives are much faster, providing read and write rates as high as 260MB/s and 200MB/s, respectively, while they will sustain a write speed of up to 150MB/s. It features an anodized silver aluminum housing which helps keep the weight down....

This also includes BlackBerry Desktop, Lin, Blend, World, Protect, Password Keeper, PIN to PIN device messaging, Enhanced Sim Based Licensing, and Identity Based Licensing. BlackBerry-hosted email addresses will also stop working, even on other platforms like Android and iOS. BBM for Enterprise and BBM Enterprise for Individual use will still work through BlackBerry ID outside the OS that are reaching end-of-life. BlackBerry says users should move any data to other devices and platforms, calling their service providers where necessary....

The name might not be familiar, but Plaid connects many of the world’s largest fintech services to consumers’ bank accounts. It boasts a client list of over 5,500 apps and is used by tens of millions of people in North America. Fast Company writes that Plaid faced a class-action lawsuit over allegations it gathered “more financial data than was needed.” Some of Plaid’s clients (Plaid.com) The suit also alleged that Plaid obtained people’s bank login credentials through set-up log-in pages that deceptively imitated those of users’ own banks....

TechCrunch writes that the alleged PUBG Mobile copycats are Garena Online’s Free Fire games, which Krafton calls “thinly veiled unauthorized versions of Battlegrounds.” Krafton claims that Free Fire and Free Fire Max “extensively copy numerous aspects of Battlegrounds, both individually and in combination, including Battlegrounds’ copyrighted unique game opening ‘air drop’ feature, the game structure and play, the combination and selection of weapons, armor, and unique objects, locations, and the overall choice of color schemes, materials, and textures....

Taiwan-based QNAP Systems has had to explain how and why it forced some of its customers to update the software for their NAS systems. While there was a clear need to stop ransomware that had already reached thousands of QNAP storage systems, many users felt they should have been given a choice due to each one’s unique situation. The issues started in January when the Deadbolt ransomware group began infecting QNAP devices with encryption malware....

Speaking with retailers, it did sound as though supply was going to be better. Based on the markup we were seeing for 6700 XT at eBay, we expected that the 6600 XT would cost around $570, and three weeks later the actual figure is close to that at $605. At the time, the average sale price for the RTX 3060 was $720 which remains unchanged. So the Radeon RX 6600 XT is a little worse than we estimated before launch, but it’s still better value than the RTX 3060, at least based on the 12 game sample used for the day-one review....

It’s a powerful gaming machine, with a Kaby Lake Core i7 and GeForce GTX 1060 graphics giving you enough grunt for the latest games. But you get this hardware in a beautiful metal unibody chassis: a phrase I wouldn’t use to describe many other gaming laptops on the market. Granted, the Razer Blade is an expensive laptop, at over $2,000 for a usable configuration, though in many ways you get what you pay for....

Razer also used the opportunity to announce a collaboration with watchmaker Fossil to release a limited-edition wearable. As the name implies, the Razer X Fossil Gen 6 Smartwatch takes Fossil’s latest Gen 6 and mixes in Razer’s distinct flair. In addition to its two Razer-branded interchangeable straps (black and neon green), the wearable comes with three exclusive Razer watch faces—analog, text, and digital Chroma on a 326ppi circular display. Since it’s built on the same Fossil Gen 6 platform, the wearable is powered by a Snapdragon Wear 4100+ for superior speed and performance....