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Cyberpunk 2077 Ray Tracing Overdrive on RTX 3080 Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077’s Ray Tracing Overdrive mode has gone live today. Virtually everyone is testing it on the latest and greatest RTX 4090, so I decided to test it on an RTX 3080. For those that don’t know, put simply, this version of Cyberpunk 2077 uses only path tracing to create far more realistic shadows, reflections, and lighting. The previous version used a hybrid lighting system even on psycho ray tracing mode. Basically put, this is as close you can get to realistic lighting in the decidedly dystopian Cyberpunk society. Can the RTX 3080 run what is likely the …

AMD Radeon 6900XT in 2023 Benchmarks

Small Form Factor Network is continuing to update its internal benchmarks charts and I thought I would take a moment to share our AMD Radeon 6900XT reference design results. I purchased this card directly from AMD when they were liquidating them some months ago. I tested it on our 12900K open bench test rig. Let’s get right to the benchmarks. Test system: Intel i9-12900K at Stock Settings with 360mm MSI AIO 32GB G.Skill DDR5-6400 CAS 32 MSI Z690I Unify ITX Motherboard Corsair P3 Plus NVME SSD for game storage Open air test bench via Xtia Xproto 1000 Watt …

Performance Per Litre – An Interesting Metric

One of the more challenging threads on our community forum recently, has been focused entirely on seeing who’s system had the best performance density on the forum. Whilst benchmark competitions have usually been reserved for the wealthy, or the sponsored, this one has the ability to change that with a factor that our community excels at – creativity and going ever smaller. Not by having the fastest system, but the fastest per litre, our users can ‘compete’ on size as well as performance. Tweaking, overclocking, custom cases, smaller power supplies, and the like, are all valid ways to improve one’s ranks. The …