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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT review roundup: a niche purchase

The Verge

According to reviews, it’s a step up from previous generations when it comes to performance, but not worth its $1,000 price tag for most consumers. But AMD’s card is at a significant disadvantage when it comes to ray tracing. Reviews agree that this card is a racehorse. Reviewers are split on how important this is.

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Oceanography professors transform a research tool into a startup that’s sucking CO2 from seawater

GeekWire

It’s made from relatively inexpensive ingredients and doesn’t contain hard-to-come-by metals, or trace or toxic elements. ” Sachs acknowledged the cost issues, and said they’re aiming for a price tag of $100 or $200 per ton of carbon dioxide removed. “People are just going to buy the cheapest ones.

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MSI GE76 Raider review: Alder Lake is good, with caveats

The Verge

We got an average of 104 frames per second with ray tracing on Ultra, and a whopping 143 frames per second with ray tracing off. And on the more recent Cyberpunk 2077 , the Raider put up 102 frames per second with ray tracing off and 46 frames per second with ray tracing maxed out.

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Gigabyte Aero 15 review: works hard, plays hard

The Verge

An OLED screen, a cutting-edge GPU, and a hefty price tag The Gigabyte Aero 15 is a laptop aimed at designers and creative professionals. The only task that gave the Aero real trouble was the combination of ray tracing and 4K resolution. But when I first saw the thing, I didn’t believe that.

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Asus ROG Flow X13 review: a game-ready 2-in-1

The Verge

But by positioning this as a gaming rig and slapping it with a $3,000 price tag, Asus has forced the Flow into the premium gaming category. All games were run at their highest possible settings; in 4K, they were run with DLSS on and ray tracing off (where applicable). I also ran them at native resolution (with the XG Mobile).

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With the Samsung Galaxy S21, it’s time for Bixby to put up or shut up

The Verge

Your own tracker tag (before Apple even announces its tracker tag). Instead, it’s putting effort into getting Tile-esque tracking tags out the door before Apple can. In addition to improved frame rates and ray tracing, these chips will deliver Nvidia’s latest features, including its resizable BAR technology.

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Are Microsoft and Sony offering enough for you to buy a next-gen console this year?

The Verge

price tag for some PS5 games is a lot. That might change if more of them start integrating performance intensive graphics features like ray-tracing to maintain parity with the next-gen consoles, but even then it’ll be easier to turn down a couple of settings on PC than to shell out hundreds of dollars on new equipment.

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