Is ray tracing really worth it?
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Adam Vjestica exposes the Emperor's new clothes

 Adam Vjestica at Tech Radar appears to have opened a can of worms by pointing out that despite the hype, ray tracing is really not worth bothering about and he has a point.

AMD launches Radeon Pro W6000X series GPUs for Apple Mac Pro
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Including a dual-GPU Radeon Pro W6800X Duo

AMD has brought a big update to the Apple Mac Pro system by introducing the new Radeon Pro W6000X series graphics cards, with all three SKUs, the Radeon Pro W6900X, Radeon Pro W6800X, and the Radeon Pro W6800X Duo, based on the RNDA2 Navi 21 GPU.

Intel's Xe HPG can manage 2.2 Ghz
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Going downhill with the wind behind it

Chipzilla's upcoming enthusiast-level Xe HPG (DG2) discrete gaming graphics card is doing rather well in terms of clock speeds according to the latest leaked  Geekbench 5 tests.

AMD readies another APU
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Driver code spotted

AMD appears to be readying another APU if a driver code spotted in the Linux 5.15 release, is anything to go by.

3dfx might be making a comeback
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Even if it was swallowed by Nvidia

After 20 years 3dfx, the graphics card maker which went bankrupt and was swallowed by Nvidia, might be making a comeback.