After testing Forza Horizon 6 with the Extreme and Extreme+RT presets, and coming away somewhat disappointed by the impact of ray tracing in the game, I went back and used the built-in benchmark to do a direct visual comparison between the two modes. In the above video, taken using the RTX 5090 setup, every graphics setting is maxed out on both sides, but ray tracing is disabled on the left. Reflections are clearly more accurate when using RT, but while the global illumination is technically more correct, I actually prefer the non-RT look and feel. In fact, if you delve a little closer into ho
Forza Horizon 6 runs well on lots of different PCs but the ray tracing is pretty disappointing… However, judging by the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 most recent flirtation with all that glitters—specifically, the $7,000 gold-plated Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition —it will likely cost a pretty penny. …
… Who can forget the outrageous Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition , a $7,000 GPU replete with 6.5 grams of gold plate? Or if you're not feeling so flush, how about the $2,500+ RTX 5080 edition ? …
Two months ago, Asus announced the ROG Equalizer , a power cable for certain Nvidia RTX graphics cards designed to banish the fear of melting connectors once and for all. Well, perhaps not completely so, because it seems we now have the first case of a melted ROG Equalizer cable. …
… Test PC specs Asus ROG Ally , 15 W power mode Ryzen 5 5600X 65 W , 16 GB DDR4-3200, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ryzen 7 7700X 105 W , 32 GB DDR5-6000, Radeon RX 7900 XT Core Ultra 5 245K 125 W , 32 GB DDR5-6000, GeForce RTX 5060 Ryzen 9 9950X3D 170 W , 32 GB DDR5-6000, GeForce RTX 5090 Monitor: Acer Nitro … …
… Computex 2026: Latest announcements Nvidia& 039;s RTX Spark promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest games Nvidia& 039;s roadmap for RTX Spark gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit... and it& 039;s not far … …
… Making matters even worse is the fact that the PSU sports four 12V-2x6 power sockets, despite the fact that you can only game on a single RTX 5090 . …
… Many of the exotic products we've covered have been part of various anniversary celebrations, like this undeniably impressive Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 . …
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… Nvidia also slightly slipped with the RTX 5090 , which arrived in January 2025, following the RTX 4090's release in October 2022. For what it's worth, at Computex Nvidia said it planned to release the Vera Rubin iteration of its RTX Spark chip in 2028 . …
… That hammer blow has yet to fall, but I guess if you're already happy to spend many thousands of dollars on an RTX 5090, the additional cost of a new AX1600i perhaps won't matter so much. …