Examining Intel's Ice Lake Processors: Taking a Bite of the Sunny Cove Microarchitecture
Intel has been building up this year to its eventual release of its first widely available consumer 10nm Core processor, codenamed "Ice Lake". The new SoC has an improved...
107 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/30/2019Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake vs. NVIDIA Turing: An Analysis in AI
It seems like the new motto for Silicon Valley for the last few years has been “Data is the new oil,” and for good reason. The number of companies...
56 by Johan De Gelas on 7/29/2019The Sony Xperia 1 Review: A 21:9 Take of the World
Sony is a company that we don’t talk nearly as much about as one would expect when it comes to their smartphones. In fact, here at AnandTech we had...
75 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/26/2019Talking TDP, Turbo and Overclocking: An Interview with Intel Fellow Guy Therien
One of the most misunderstood basic technical points over the past decade is related to power consumption and how different CPUs react differently to load. The basic premise is...
53 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/25/2019The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Review: Memories of the Future
The last two months have been a period of tit-for-tat in the PC video card industry. Both AMD and NVIDIA have been going back and forth, making announcements and...
111 by Ryan Smith on 7/23/2019The Kingston KC2000 SSD Review: Bringing BiCS4 To Retail
The Kingston KC2000 is a new high-end consumer M.2 NVMe SSD. Kingston had been neglecting this market segment for a while, but the two year old KC1000 has finally...
29 by Billy Tallis on 7/22/2019The MSI MEG X570 Ace Motherboard Review: Ace in the Hole at $369
In our first X570 motherboard review we have the MSI MEG X570 Ace. This motherboard represents MSI's high-end range and sits in the top 3 of its product stack...
95 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/18/2019The Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB Gaming Mechanical Keyboard Review: An Ergonomic Masterpiece
Today we are taking a look at the Freestyle Edge RGB, the successor to the the first ergonomic mechanical keyboard that we ever reviewed, the Freestyle Edge. Although its...
51 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/16/2019The MSI GE75 Raider Laptop Review: Core i9 and RTX 2080 Performance
MSI went heavily into developing gaming products several years ago, and although the company’s laptop lineup isn’t exclusively gaming, that is by far the biggest portion of their portfolio...
33 by Brett Howse on 7/12/2019The Noctua NH-U12A CPU Cooler Review: Big Performance in a Small Space
Today we are taking a look at Noctua's latest tower CPU cooler, the NH-U12A. It is a CPU cooler intended to fit top-tier cooling performance into a more compact...
74 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/11/2019The AMD X570 Motherboard Overview: Over 35+ Motherboards Analyzed
During Computex 2019, AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su introduced the company's newest AM4 chipset, the X570. Designed to support the new AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors, X570 is...
231 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/9/2019The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange Market
There have been teasers, press conferences, architectural announcements, and pricing games all around – and all before the first card has even shipped. The run-up to the launch of...
136 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2019The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar
It’s the review we’ve all been waiting for. Since December last year – and particularly since CES – AMD has been teasing us about the new Zen 2 microarchitecture...
451 by Andrei Frumusanu & Gavin Bonshor on 7/7/2019The Sennheiser GSP670 Wireless Gaming Headset Review: Cutting The Cord
Here at AnandTech we usually don’t really review much audio hardware or audio accessories, however we’ve been given the opportunity to take a look at Sennheiser’s new GSP670 gaming...
30 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/5/2019The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super & RTX 2060 Super Review: Smaller Numbers, Bigger Performance
Ever since Computex, NVIDIA has been teasing a “Super” announcement of their own. And this morning, that announcement is finally coming to fruition. NVIDIA is launching a mid-generation kicker...
281 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2019The 1STPLAYER Bullet Hunter MK6 Mechanical Keyboard Review: Affordable But Good
In today's review we are taking a look at the Bullet Hunter MK6, a mechanical gaming keyboard with RGB backlighting by 1STPlayer, a peripherals manufacturer based in China. The...
31 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/1/2019In The Lab: MSI X570 Motherboard Preview with the Godlike and Ace
The next generation of AMD Ryzen 3000 processors is edging closer to being released, and we'll see the results on July 7th. But alongside the new 7 nm processors...
90 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/28/2019The Google Pixel 3a XL Review: Does Mid-Range Make Sense?
It’s nearing 8 months since Google released the Pixel 3 and we extensively reviewed the phone. It also has been several years now since Google abandoned the Nexus line...
94 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/27/2019All Ryzen: Q&A with AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su
The biggest news of the annual Computex trade show came from AMD: the company is poised to launch its next generation Zen 2 microarchitecture, along with updates to its...
84 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2019The Kingston DC500 Series Enterprise SATA SSDs Review: Making a Name In a Commodity Market
SATA isn't dead yet. Kingston has kicked off a new generation of enterprise SSDs with a new family of SATA drives built around the new Phison S12DC controller and...
28 by Billy Tallis on 6/25/2019