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Jarrod Walton Jarrod can barely contain his excitement with all these big launches. The PC landscape is about to see the biggest upheaval in years. AMD Zen 4 CPUs, Intel Raptor Lake, Nvidia Ada Lovelace, and AMD RDNA 3 are all here or coming soon. B

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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40 series is here! The flagship RTX 4090 is the first card to feature the new Ada Lovelace architecture. The AD102 GPU at the heart of the card delivers a massive generational performance uplift, improved ray tracing, AI capabili

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Mark Williams Mark is an IT professional with a strong interest in voiding warranties. The launch of the RTX 4090 went as well as Nvidia could’ve hoped for. Independent benchmarks confirmed its insane performance at 4K, on average offering 45 percen

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