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Is Radeon REALLY better for old PCs? | Driver Overhead

Iceberg Tech 2026-09-19 | Is Radeon REALLY better for old PCs? | Driver Overhead

I still hate the RX 6500 XT

Iceberg Tech 2025-09-06 | Benchmarking the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card in modern and popular games in 2025, using a moderately priced gaming PC.

AMD's answer to budget conscious gamers in 2022 was the RX 6500 XT. It offered the then-new RDNA 2 architecture, including ray tracing and great efficiency, at the crowd-pleasing price point of $199. Unfortunately, it also came with a bunch of caveats and cutbacks that turned it into a slap in the face for gamers. A lot of people were willing to overlook these slights, but I wasn't. In this video, I'm gonna reopen some old wounds.

00:00 I still hate the RX 6500 XT
00:55 Why I hate it
03:18 The RX 6500 XT
04:37 Benchmarks
04:42 Assassin’s Creed Shadows
05:21 Doom: The Dark Ages
05:56 Kingdom Come Deliverance II
06:25 The Last of Us Part 2
06:57 Spider-Man 2
07:17 Black Myth Wukong
07:49 Horizon Forbidden West
08:44 Indiana Jones
09:22 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
09:49 GTA V Enhanced
10:45 Conclusion

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Death of a GOAT

Iceberg Tech 2025-08-30 | Benchmarking the Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti 11GB graphics card in modern and popular games in 2025, using a moderately priced gaming PC.

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If there's one thing all PC enthusiasts can agree on, it's that UE5 is a bit rubbish. If there's two things we can all agree on, it's that the GTX 1080 Ti is one of the best products that Nvidia have ever made, and some would even argue that it's one of the greatest GPUs of all time. In fact, I proved it was the GOAT in a perfect, flawless, unbiased group test last year.

Nvidia, however, are allergic to positive press. This year they announced plans to discontinue driver support for this and all other Pascal, Maxwell and Volta GPUs, setting them on the road to a life of error messages and janky workarounds from the PCGW. That means this might be the last video I make about the 1080 Ti in which it has full driver support.

00:00 Death of a GOAT
00:51 Why the 1080 Ti was considered the greatest
03:33 Burying Pascal
04:53 Benchmarks
04:58 Oblivion Remastered
05:59 Black Myth Wukong
06:48 Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film
07:12 Kingdom Come Deliverance II
08:06 Assassin's Creed Shadows
08:46 Spider-Man 2
09:09 Horizon: Forbidden West
09:32 The Last of Us Part 2
10:02 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
10:36 GTA V Enhanced Edition
11:27 Marvel Rivals
11:55 Battlefront II, for some reason
12:22 Not all RT exclusives are verboten
13:09 Conclusion

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Farewell, Pascal

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wot I did on my holidays

Iceberg Tech 2025-08-30 | A content creator can never truly have a vacation.

The last RX 580 review ever.

Iceberg Tech 2025-08-23 | Benchmarking the AMD Radeon RX 580 2304SP 8GB graphics card in modern and popular games in 2025, using a moderately priced gaming PC.

Everybody knows how good the Radeon RX 580 is. It's been the staple of budget gaming for years, thanks in no small part to the efforts of YouTubers hyping it up. For my part, I'm making a solemn promise to you now, that I will never make another dedicated review of the RX 580, or any of its various rebrandings, reincarnations or knockoffs, ever again. Which I'll probably break, because... y'know, gotta keep making CONTENT, amirite?

For this one last ride, I'm pitting the 580 against some recent games, and some updates of classics, to see how it fares.

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00:00 The last RX 580 review ever.
01:02 One more ride with the RX 580
02:55 Benchmarks
08:30 Polaris can't always keep up in 2025
09:39 Conclusion

#radeon #rx580 #scalperpandemic

The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is too good for me.

Iceberg Tech 2025-08-18 | Benchmarking the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D in modern & demanding games, using a Radeon RX 7900 XT.

AMD's Ryzen X3D CPUs are built with gamers in mind, delivering performance gains beyond what could otherwise be provided by adding more cores or higher clocks. The 2023 7800X3D has since been surpassed by the 9800X3D in AMD's lineup, which means there are deals to be had on the older model - and, if you were concerned that a previous gen chip might already be falling behind, trust me, it's doing fine in 2025. Perhaps a little TOO fine...

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From decade-old workstation to CONSOLE KILLER

Iceberg Tech 2025-08-08 | Upgrading a 2014-era Dell Precision T5810 to a gaming rig capable of a console-like gaming experience on a budget

Prebuilt PCs are a staple of budget PC content on YouTube, but usually an Optiplex or similar office PC lacks enough room for any serious upgrades. However, workstations like the Dell Precision range can support high core-count CPUs and full height graphics cards with PCI-Express power connectors, and can be bought for under £100 - making them a great platform for building a Console Killer!

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00:00 From Workstation to Console Killer
02:15 Dell Precision 5810
03:41 Upgrades
08:54 The Games
16:43 Conclusion

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Can Oculink turn a mini PC into a gaming BEAST? | feat. GMKTEC EVO T1

Iceberg Tech 2025-07-31 | Testing the GMKTec EVO-T1 mini PC with Intel Core Ultra 9 285H, combined with a full size Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card via the EVO-T1's Oculink port.

GMKTec's latest model is very much at the premium end of the market, with a 16 core (6 P-core, 10 E-core) Intel Ultra 9 285H CPU that should, on paper, be enough to drive a powerful GPU to some seriously high FPS. The EVO-T1 is one of relatively few PCs in this segment that support Oculink, giving it the ability to drive a full-fat graphics card that could help realise the mobile CPU's true gaming potential - but does that translate to real world performance?

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00:00 Mini PC + Oculink = Gaming Beast?
00:54 Oculink
02:03 GMKTec EVO-T1
03:31 Synthetic Benchmarks
05:05 Gaming Benchmarks
05:09 Apex Legends
05:46 Counter Strike 2
06:34 Marvel's Rivals
06:58 Star Wars: Battlefront 2
07:33 Space Marine 2
08:08 Baldur's Gate 3
08:34 Hitman: World of Assassination
09:10 Marvel's Spider-Man 2
09:40 The Last of Us Part 2
10:36 Conclusion

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The RTX 2060 Super can still play everything.

Iceberg Tech 2025-07-24 | Benchmarking the Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 Super 8GB in modern games using a moderately priced gaming PC.

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The RTX 2060 Super is currently the cheapest card available that ticks the major boxes for playing modern games - 8GB of VRAM, hardware upscaling and (modest) hardware ray tracing. It might not give the optimal PC gaming experience at high resolutions and frame rates, but at least you shouldn't find any titles which flat out refuse to work in 2025. Ticking boxes aside, however, what does that mean in terms of actual gameplay?

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00:00 RTX 2060 Super in 2025
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01:52 The Story of the RTX 2060 Super
04:07 Test Setup
04:14 Benchmarks
04:18 Doom: The Dark Ages
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07:06 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
07:30 The Last of Us Part 2
08:10 Kingdom Come Deliverance II
08:30 Dragon Age: Veilguard
08:55: Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
09:28 Spider-Man 2
10:09 Horizon: Forbidden West
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12:07 Conclusion

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The First i7

Iceberg Tech 2025-07-19 | Benchmarking the Intel Core i7-920 in games from 2007 up to the present day.

Back in the mists of time, Intel had the bright idea of rebranding their CPUs in a way which would resonate with customers for over a decade and a half. The 2008 Intel Core i7-920 for the company's first dedicated HEDT platform, X58, would become among the first of many chips that would be associated with quality and performance in the minds of consumers.

In 2025, this CPU is almost old enough to drink. But can it still cook?

(damn, I should have used that line in the script)

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00:00 The First i7
00:44 The Story of the i7-920
04:13 Test Setup
05:43 The Games
13:01 The eSports
14:37 Synthetic Benchmarks
15:31 Conclusion

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PC Gaming (when youre broke)

Iceberg Tech 2025-07-13 | Testing cheap, free to play & rented games on a budget gaming PC.

We talk enough about expensive new components on YouTube, and it doesn't really seem to help anyone, so I've dusted off a cheap Dell T5810 workstation PC I bought for fifty quid last year and put it through its paces in some cheap & free to play games.

Thanks to Kingston for providing the A400 SSDs: kingston.com/unitedkingdom/en/ssd/a400-solid-state-drive?partnum=sa400s37%2F480g

00:00 PC Gaming (when you're broke)
00:50 The £51 PC
03:49 Free To Play Games
04:19 Counter-Strike 2
05:08 Fortnite
06:25 Overwatch 2 (not Marvel Rivals)
07:19 XBOX Game Pass PC
08:18 Skyrim
08:53 Star Wars: Battlefront 2
09:41 GTA V
10:24 Humble Bundle
11:21 Warhammer 40K: Boltgun
11:56 Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
12:26 Dredge
13:02 Amazon Luna
14:35 Death Stranding
15:25 Star Wars Outlaws
16:39 Watch Dogs Legion
17:50 Conclusion

Arrow Lake & Arc in a TINY PC | Intel Ultra 9 285H feat. Geekom IT15

Iceberg Tech 2025-07-07 | Reviewing the Geekom IT15 Mini PC, featuring the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H and integrated Arc 140T Graphics

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Intel's latest series of Arrow Lake CPUs eschew hyperthreading, which hasn't exactly gone down well in their high end models for desktop PCs. Where it may come in handy is in mobile devices and mini PCs, which in previous generations have been prone to serious throttling. The Geekom IT15 is a NUC-style unit equipped with the 285H, in a chassis that hasn't traditionally been able to keep high-performance Intels under control. Can Arrow Lake change all that?

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00:00 Geekom IT15
00:52 Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
02:27 Price & specs
04:17 Synthetic benchmarks
06:41 Gaming benchmarks
11:06 Power consumption
11:19 Conclusion

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The Steam Machine Reborn | feat. Minisforum UM750L

Iceberg Tech 2025-06-29 | Installing SteamOS on a budget Ryzen APU-powered mini PC, and playing older & lighter weight games.

Although Steam Decks and competing handhelds are proving popular now, Valve's original plan for the SteamOS variant of Linux centred on console-like "Steam Machines". While this plan was abandoned years ago, the Steam Deck ISO has been made available by Valve - ostensibly to allow the OS to be installed on competing handhelds, but there's nothing stopping us from installing SteamOS on any PC we want, and bringing the Steam Machine concept back to life.

Thanks to Minisforum, I've taken the opportunity to install SteamOS on one of their budget mini PCs, the UM750L Slim. This low powered device isn't designed for gaming, but it's pretty good at running older, lower spec and indie games.

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00:00 Steam Machines
00:36 SteamOS
01:18 Test PC
03:12 Bioshock Infinite
03:44 Red Dead Redemption
04:24 Persona 4 Golden
05:09 Warhammer 40K: Boltgun
05:44 The Forgotten City
06:22 The Outer Wilds
06:59 Sifu
07:30 Hades 2
08:04 Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
08:34 Night Runners
09:30 Conclusion

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RX 9000 vs RX 7000 in a fair fight

Iceberg Tech 2025-06-23 | Comparing AMD's RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 architectures for performance and efficiency, using the Radeon RX 7600 XT and 9060 XT clocked at (roughly) the same frequencies.

Even though there's no top end model to compete directly with Nvidia, AMD's RX 9000 series are a bigger uplift over the previous generation than you might expect. By underclocking the RX 9060 XT, it's possible to do a direct comparison with the RDNA 3-based RX 7600 XT and see just how big that improvement really is.

Thanks to Scan UK for providing the RX 7600 XT for testing. Check out the Asus Prime RX 9060 XT 16GB at the link below:
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Test system:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Asus ROG Strix B650E-I Motherboard
32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL30
Thermalright 360mm AIO
Corsair HX1200i PSU
25.10.09.01 Drivers

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Binary Sunrise", "Hotline", "Midnight Racer", "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 RDNA Evolution
00:44 Comparing architectures
02:52 Scan Computers UK
03:40 Matching clocks
04:32 Benchmarks
04:36 Assassin's Creed Shadows
05:07 Doom: The Dark Ages
05:43 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
06:05 Stellar Blade Demo
06:23 Alan Wake 2
06:38 Black Myth Wukong
06:58 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
07:13 Dragon Age Veilguard
07:27 Cyberpunk 2077
07:43 Spider-Man 2
07:58 God of War Ragnarok
08:11 Horizon Forbidden West
08:22 The Last of Us Part 2
08:36 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
08:47 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
09:18 RT Benchmarks
09:22 Indiana Jones path tracing
10:02 Alan Wake 2 path tracing
10:20 Black Myth Wukong path tracing
10:34 Cyberpunk 2077 path tracing & ultra RT
11:16 Spider-Man 2 RT
11:52 Stalker 2 Epic RT
12:10 Veilguard maximum RT
12:34 Overall results
12:51 Power consumption & efficiency
13:46 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

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The Cheapest AM5 | AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Iceberg Tech 2025-06-16 | Testing the Ryzen 5 8400F, currently the cheapest CPU on the AM5 socket, in modern & demanding games

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AM5 is an expensive prospect in 2025. The cheapest chip currently available on this socket is the Ryzen 5 8400F, a 6 core 12 thread CPU with less L3 cache and fewer PCIE lanes than its more mainstream competitors. Is it good enough to tide you over until something more attractive comes along?

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00:00 The Cheapest AM5
00:40 AliExpress Summer Sale
03:23 AMD Ryzen 5 8400F
07:42 Benchmarks
07:46 Counter Strike 2
08:31 Space Marine 2
09:17 Starfield 2
09:40 The Last of Us Part One
10:00 Spider-Man 2
10:27 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
10:43 Cyberpunk 2077
11:08 Hitman: World of Assassination
11:37 Baldur's Gate 3
11:53 9-Game Average & Synthetics
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13:17 Conclusion

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Can the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB beat the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?

Iceberg Tech 2025-06-05 | Reviewing the new Asus Prime OC Radeon RX 9060 XT, and comparing it to an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB.

AMD's new Radeon RX 9060 XT is expected to hit the market with prices starting around US$350 or UK£320, with a clear eye towards defeating Nvidia's 5060 Ti in terms of price to performance. Team Red have done it before in the past, but in recent years they've struggled to match Team Green in terms of pure performance. Can the new RDNA 4 architecture close the gap?

Thanks to Asus UK for the review sample.
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00:00 RX 9060 XT 16GB vs. RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
01:00 The Story of the RX 9060 XT 16GB
03:24 Test Setup
04:46 Benchmarks
04:50 Assassin's Creed: Shadows
05:18 Stellar Blade Demo
05:54 Doom: The Dark Ages
06:21 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
06:44 Cyberpunk 2077
07:24 Alan Wake 2
07:58 Dragon Age: Veilguard
08:20 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
08:58 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
09:15 The Last of Us Part 2
09:47 Horizon Forbidden West
10:21 God of War Ragnarok
10:37 Marvel's Spider-Man 2
11:19 Black Myth Wukong
11:43 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
12:01 15-Game Average
12:32 Ray Tracing
15:44 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#AMD #RX9060XT #AsusPrime #Asus

RTX 5060 vs. the sub-£300 competition | feat. RTX 4060 & Arc B580

Iceberg Tech 2025-05-30 | Benchmarking the RTX 5060 8GB against the RTX 4060 it replaces, as well as the Intel Arc B580, and comparing the three GPUs for value.

We may not like it, but the best performing new card under £300/$300 is (currently) Nvidia's new RTX 5060, even with its cut down specs and stunted 8GB frame buffer. The RTX 4060 and Arc B580 are still attractive options for those on a budget, or who want an option that doesn't necessarily line Jensen's leather pockets - but how do they compare in terms of performance, and what should they cost?

00:00 RTX 5060 vs. 4060 vs. B580
00:47 The competitors
02:06 Test rig
03:11 Benchmarks
03:15 Doom: The Dark Ages
03:58 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
04:34 Assassin's Creed: Shadows
05:00 Alan Wake 2
05:24 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
06:24 The Last of Us Part 2
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07:20 God of War Ragnarok
07:44 Horizon Forbidden West
08:08 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
08:30 Black Myth Wukong
09:14 Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark Utility
09:44 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
10:07 Cyberpunk 2077
10:36 Ray tracing
13:27 Overall results & value comparison

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

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Can the RTX 5060 beat an RTX 2080 Ti?

Iceberg Tech 2025-05-24 | Reviewing the new Asus Prime OC Geforce RTX 5060, and comparing it to an RTX 2080 Ti from 2018.

Nvidia's new entry level Geforce in the 50 series is the 8GB RTX 5060, with a $299 MSRP and UK selling prices starting at £269. The RTX 2080 Ti was the flagship of the Turing series, with a $999 MSRP and retail prices going significantly higher than that. Has the last 7 years of development brought flagship performance down to the masses? Is 8GB really enough, and can the older card's 11GB help it win this head-to-head?

Thanks to Asus UK for the review sample
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00:00 RTX 5060 vs. RTX 2080 Ti
00:46 History of the two GPUs
02:25 The Contenders
04:31 Test Setup
04:43 The Benchmarks
04:47 Doom: The Dark Ages
06:17 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
07:16 Assassin's Creed: Shadows
07:54 Alan Wake 2
08:19 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
09:02 The Last of Us Part 2
09:43 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
10:15 Not Spider-Man 2
10:31 God of War Ragnarok
10:54 Horizon Forbidden West
11:20 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
11:42 Black Myth Wukong
12:09 Monster Hunter Wilds
12:33 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
12:56 Cyberpunk 2077
13:17 Ray Tracing
15:44 ... And The Winner Is?
17:40 Final Thoughts

C O N T A C T
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The best laptop CPU (is now on desktop) | MinisForum BD790i X3D feat. Ryzen 9 7945HX3D

Iceberg Tech 2025-05-17 | Benchmarking the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D high-end mobile CPU on a desktop ITX motherboard, MinisForum's BD790i X3D, using a Radeon RX 7900 XT.

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minisforum.uk/products/bd790i-x3d-motherboard

Thanks to Kingston for providing the Fury Impact SODIMM memory kit for this review. Find it here:
kingston.com/unitedkingdom/en/memory/gaming/kingston-fury-impact-ddr5-memory?speed=5600mt%2Fs&total%20(kit)%20capacity=64gb&kit=kit%20of%202&dram%20density=16gbit&profile%20type=plug%20n%20play

High end laptop CPUs are usually held back by the rest of the laptop - thermal, power and graphics constraints mean they never reach the same potential as their desktop counterparts. Minisforum have answered this by installing mobile CPUs onto proper ITX motherboards, with improved power delivery, integrated heatsinks and access to full-size PCI-Express graphics cards. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is a mobile equivalent of the 7950X3D - moreover, at $599, it's actually cheaper than the desktop version. Is it worth picking up?

SMUDebug (allows the BD790i X3D to use X3D Turbo Mode, which disables the non-Vcache CCX)
softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/SMUDebugTool.shtml

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Neon Nights, "Levelcap", "Hotline", "Midnight Racer", "Binary Sunrise" and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
01:10 Minisforum BD790i X3D
03:15 Why does this matter?
04:15 Test setup
06:53 Gaming benchmarks
11:49 Synthetic benchmarks
14:07 Conclusion

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You Can(t) Build a PS5 Equivalent PC in 2025

Iceberg Tech 2025-05-10 | Building a PC using equivalent components to a PS5 and benchmarking some modern console ports & cross-platform AAA games from 2024 and 2025.

I like building PS5 equivalent PCs. I've made some videos about it in the past - copying console-equivalent quality settings and resolutions from outlets like Digital Foundry, and applying them to the PC version using an 8 core Zen 2 CPU and 36 CU RDNA 2 GPU - all just to see how close they get to the PlayStation originals.

Usually, they come pretty close. This time? 😢

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Neon Nights, "Hotline", "Levelcap", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 You Can('t) Build a PS5
01:08 The PS5's components
03:03 Ghost of Tsushima
03:56 Spider-Man 2
06:31 The Last of Us Part 2
07:43 Horizon Forbidden West
08:58 Assassin's Creed: Shadows
11:02 Black Myth Wukong
12:33 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
13:39 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
15:12 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#scalperpandemic

Buy nothing.

Iceberg Tech 2025-04-26 | Building an average gaming PC according to the Steam Hardware Survey for February 2025, and using it to play some classic modern games, as well as remasters, independently developed games, and free-to-play games.

Raycevick's Rollerdrome review: youtu.be/JnSpTyRuapk?si=SqSAyVkcoTHs-j6l

The vibe in the PC industry is largely negative right now. New components are disappointing, or have crippling flaws, or both. Games continue to be developed with high system requirements, and often suffer from stutters that prevent smooth gameplay - and to top it all, everything is more expensive than it should be. And it sucks.

In this video, I've built the Steam Hardware Survey's idea of the average gaming PC, and used it to play a bunch of games that can be had cheaply or for free - and which (mostly) don't suffer the performance problems we see in 2025.

PC specs:
Intel i5-12400F & stock cooler
Team Group T-Force 32GB (4x8) DDR4-3600
MSI Z690 Motherboard
Gigabyte RTX 4060 Eagle Ice
2TB Crucial NVME SSD
850W Corsair PSU

00:00 Buy nothing.
01:01 The situation in 2025
02:10 The average gaming PC
03:49 Modern Classics
08:30 Remasters
13:02 Indies
15:53 Free to Play
18:38 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#scalperpandemic #steamhardwaresurvey

Can the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB beat an RTX 3080?

Iceberg Tech 2025-04-16 | Reviewing the new Asus TUF OC Geforce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, and comparing it to an RTX 3080 12GB from 2020

Nvidia's new Blackwell range is being fleshed out with some more moderately priced options, with the highlight being the 16Gb version of the RTX 5060 Ti. Historically, 60 Tis have offered similar performance to a two-generation-old flagship, only at a lower price and with lower power consumption. Can the RTX 5060 Ti keep up this trend?

Thanks to Scan Computers for providing components for my GPU test rig
scan.co.uk

Thanks to Asus UK for the review sample
asus.com/microsite/Graphics-Cards/GeForce-RTX-50-Series/uk

Test PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Asus ROG Strix B650E-I
Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2x16) DDR5-6000 CL30 (tuned to Buildzoid’s timings)
Crucial T500 2TB NVME SSD
Corsair HX1200i PSU
Jonsbo case
Thermalright 360mm AIO

00:00 Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review
00:49 The story of the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
02:05 RTX 5060 Ti vs. RTX 3080
03:30 Test setup
03:42 Benchmarks
03:46 Assassin's Creed Shadows
04:32 The Last of Us Part 2
05:25 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
06:04 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
06:34 Monster Hunter Wilds
07:04 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
07:28 Marvel's Spider-Man 2
08:12 Black Myth Wukong
08:30 Horizon Forbidden West
08:55 God of War Ragnarok
09:15 Alan Wake 2
09:38 Star Wars Outlaws
10:18 Cyberpunk 2077
10:57 13-game average
11:32 Ray tracing
14:32 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#Nvidia #RTX5060Ti #DLSS4 #AsusTUF #Asus

Everybody (still) loves the RTX 3060 in 2025

Iceberg Tech 2025-04-15 | Benchmarking the Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 12GB in modern games using a moderately priced gaming PC.

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Nvidia's 60 series GPUs are usually the most popular, and right now the Steam Hardware Survey puts the RTX 3060 at the top spot. Being popular doesn't mean being the best, however, and 2025's games are proving challenging even for the latest hardware. Is the 3060 keeping up?

Oh... and just how are you supposed to pronounce MLLSE?

Test PC:
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
MSI B650 Pro Gaming Wifi
Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB (2x16) DDR5-6400 CL36 @ 3000 CL30
Crucial T500 2TB NVME SSD
Corsair RM850x PSU
Thermalright FS140 Cooler

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Binary Sunrise", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

Other tracks:
Unicorn Heads "808 Doorbell Chime" youtu.be/vDfxwxzim3o?si=80HEIH1EIjfTHBfj

00:00 RTX 3060 12GB in 2025
00:34 Sponsored by AliExpress
01:20 The Story of the MLLSE RTX 3060 12GB
03:55 Test setup
04:03 Benchmarks
04:07 The Last of Us Part 2
05:13 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
05:49 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
06:30 Stalker 2
06:58 Monster Hunter Wilds
07:41 Assassin's Creed Shadows
08:04 Avowed
08:25 Spider-Man 2
09:17 Dragon Age Veilguard
09:40 Horizon Forbidden West
10:04 God of War Ragnarok
10:31 Star Wars Outlaws
11:13 Black Myth Wukong
11:37 Alan Wake 2
12:30 Cyberpunk 2077
13:12 Marvel Rivals
13:36 Overclocking the MLLSE RTX 3060
14:23 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#aliexpresshbd #cashbackchallenge

False Economy? | RX 5700 XT in 2025

Iceberg Tech 2025-04-03 | Benchmarking the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT in modern games using a moderately priced gaming PC.

(Disclosure: I have partnered with Ubisoft to produce this content, and was given a free copy of Assassin's Creed: Shadows for benchmarking)

The RX 5700 XT is no stranger to my channel: in 2023 it was a real contender for the best budget-priced gaming GPU, especially in an era where 8GB was the bare minimum for contemporary titles. In the last two years prices have dropped, but system requirements have jumped. Has the 5700 XT kept pace, or been left behind?

Test PC:

AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
MSI B650 Pro Gaming Wifi
Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB (2x16) DDR5-6400 CL36 @ 3000 CL30
Crucial T500 2TB NVME SSD
Corsair RM850x PSU
Thermalright FS140 Cooler

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Binary Sunrise", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

Other tracks:
Unicorn Heads "808 Doorbell Chime" youtu.be/vDfxwxzim3o?si=80HEIH1EIjfTHBfj

00:00 RX 5700 XT in 2025
00:35 The Story of the RX 5700 XT
01:58 Test setup
02:09 Benchmarks
02:13 Assassin's Creed: Shadows
03:25 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
04:01 Non-benchmark: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
04:58 Avowed
05:34 Spider-Man 2
06:20 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
06:43 Horizon Forbidden West
07:05 God of War Ragnarok
07:34 Star Wars Outlaws
08:02 Black Myth Wukong
08:28 Cyberpunk 2077
08:47 Alan Wake II
09:21 Marvel Rivals
10:03 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#Nvidia #scalperpandemic #ubisoftpartner #ad

iGPU vs. eGPU | AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & RX 7600M XT

Iceberg Tech 2025-03-24 | Comparing the GMKTec EVO-X1 using just its integrated Radeon 890M graphics to the AD-GP1 external GPU over Oculink.

AMD's integrated graphics are good enough these days that, some say, you don't even need to think about entry level graphics cards any more. However, many devices which sport these Radeon 890M GPUs can also support an external GPU, like this integrated unit featuring an 8GB Radeon RX 7600M XT. How much benefit is there from this kind of EGPU over one of the better iGPUs around, and is it worth the cost?

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Amazon links:
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EVO-X1 32GB+2TB:
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EVO-X1 64GB+1TB:
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GMKTec AD-GP1 external GPU dock:
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Amazon link:
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Tools used:
Universal X86 Tuning Utility
amdaputuningutility.com

Smokeless UMAF
github.com/DavidS95/Smokeless_UMAF

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Future Tomorrow", "Extra Lives", "Binary Sunrise", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 HX 370 & Radeon 890M vs. RX 7600M XT
00:56 About the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & Radeon 890M iGPU
02:36 About the RX 7600M XT EGPU
04:31 3DMark Time Spy
05:10 Cyberpunk 2077
06:13 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
07:06 Red Dead Redemption
07:45 Black Myth Wukong
08:54 GTA V Enhanced
09:29 Spider-Man 2
10:47 Apex Legends
11:36 Counter Strike 2
12:03 Marvel Rivals
12:40 Conclusion

The First i9

Iceberg Tech 2025-03-19 | Benchmarking the i9-7900X in games and benchmarks from its launch in 2017 up until the present day.

Intel's i9 series lasted 7 years, from its launch in mid-2017 up until its ignominious end in 2024. The series, posed as a premium tier above the previous i7 and i7 Extreme flagships, started with the i9-7900X. Despite the fanfare, the first i9 didn't appear to offer much compared to its HEDT predecessor, the i7-6950X. We might better remember its successors like the 9900K, but in this video I'm returning to where the i9s all began.

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Making the fastest Ryzen 9 HX 370 in the world (for no reason)

Iceberg Tech 2025-03-17 | Tuning the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in a GMKTec EVO-X1 using all available means in order to reach the number one spot on 3DMark's Time Spy leaderboard.

My full GMKTec mini PC & EGPU video, comparing the Radeon 890M integrated graphics to their $600 RX 7600M XT Oculink dock, had to be delayed for a week, but I still wanted to do something interesting with it in the meantime. So, here's a video documenting my half-baked attempts at tuning the APU to make it give bigger numbers.

Tools used:
Universal X86 Tuning Utility
amdaputuningutility.com

Smokeless UMAF
github.com/DavidS95/Smokeless_UMAF

GMKTec EVO-X1 links:

Use code GMKX1IT for an extra $10 off the discounted price from GMKTec's website:
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Amazon links:
EVO-X1 32GB+1TB:
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EVO-X1 32GB+2TB:
amazon.com/dp/B0DPQCD37Z

EVO-X1 64GB+1TB:
amazon.com/dp/B0DSDB1FM2

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Future Tomorrow", "Extra Lives", "Binary Sunrise", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 The Fastest HX 370 in the World
00:57 About the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
02:48 The APU Tuning Iceberg, level 2: UXTU
04:57 The APU Tuning Iceberg, level 3: RAM Timings
07:49 The APU Tuning Iceberg, level 4: BIOS modding (sorta)
09:54 Gaming Benchmarks
12:54 3DMark Time Spy

Jensen didnt lie about the RTX 5070

Iceberg Tech 2025-03-14 | ... from a certain point of view.

#rtx5070 #rtx50 #rtx50series #jensenhuang

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

Return of the FrankenGPU | RTX 4090M 16GB

Iceberg Tech 2025-03-11 | Benchmarking a Sejishi RTX 4090M 16GB modified mobile GPU from China in 12 modern & popular PC games.

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Browsing Chinese retailers can unearth all kinds of weird & wonderful finds. In this video I'm looking at one such item, a graphics card using a repurposed Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 Mobile GPU with 16GB of VRAM. Based on plenty of existing evidence on YouTube, it's clear that potential buyers should be very wary of Frankensteined graphics cards like this, especially ones based on Geforce GPUs which require third-party drivers. I decided to test this one out, so you don't have to.

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00:00 Weird RTX 4090M from China
00:40 Sponsored by AliExpress
01:41 The Story of the RTX 4090M
06:02 Gaming Benchmarks
06:08 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
06:36 Spider-Man 2
06:52 Avowed
07:31 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
08:09 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
08:28 Horizon: Forbidden West
08:39 God of War: Ragnarok
08:51 Star Wars: Outlaws
09:16 Black Myth Wukong
09:31 Cyberpunk 2077
09:47 Alan Wake 2
10:07 Marvel Rivals
10:32 Conclusion

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Pro Money, No Problems? | Beelink SER 9 Pro feat. AMD Strix Point

Iceberg Tech 2025-03-08 | The premium mini PC market is facing new challenges in 2025. Mid-priced options featuring previous-gen Ryzen 7000 and 8000 APUs are often "good enough" for most use cases, and the M4 Mac Mini is offering stiff competition beyond that. AMD's Strix Point APUs promise to deliver more performance and efficiency than their predecessors, but is it enough to justify a premium price tag? And is Beelink's latest SER series mini PC really worthy of the name Pro?

Buy one here:
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or buy the better version:
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or the cheaper option:
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Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Future Tomorrow", “Binary Sunrise”, "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 Beelink SER 9 Pro feat. Ryzen AI 9 365
00:39 Strix Point
03:36 IO & Connectivity
05:11 Benchmarks: Synthetic & Productivity
07:46 Gaming Benchmarks
12:09 Power Consumption & Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#strixpoint #beelink #minipc

A drama-free* RTX 5070 review | Asus TUF OC 5070 12GB

Iceberg Tech 2025-03-05 | Benchmarking the Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 12GB in modern games.

There's been a torrent of bad news surrounding Nvidia's RTX 50 series graphics cards since launch, from melting power connectors and missing ROPs, to retail shortages and blatant lies masquerading as marketing (no, this isn't "4090 performance for $549", Jensen, and you know it)

It would be easy for me to feed into the anti-hype around Blackwell and join the pile on, declaring the whole RTX 50 series pointless and telling Nvidia they should be ashamed of themselves for treating customers like this... but I'm far too tired for that. Here's a review, minus (almost) any drama.

*obviously I have to tell you what the drama is before I avoid it, sheesh.

DISCLOSURE:
The test unit was loaned to me by Asus UK, hence the "sponsored content" flag at the start of the video. I didn't accept money for the review, and neither Asus nor Nvidia gave me any instructions on what to say or what not to say. The test rig also features several components that were provided free of charge by Scan Computers, AliExpress and Crucial.

Test PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Asus ROG Strix B650E-I
Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2x16) DDR5-6000 CL30 (tuned to Buildzoid’s timings)
Crucial T500 2TB NVME SSD
Corsair HX1200i PSU
Thermalright 360mm AIO

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Neon Nights", "Hotline", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

Other tracks:
Unicorn Heads "808 Doorbell Chime" youtu.be/vDfxwxzim3o?si=80HEIH1EIjfTHBfj

00:00 RTX 50 series drama
00:56 The story of the RTX 5070
04:21 Test setup
04:35 Benchmarks
04:39 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
05:15 Monster Hunter: Wilds Benchmark
06:11 Spider-Man 2
06:45 Avowed - DLSS & ray tracing bugs?
08:10 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
08:42 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
09:40 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
10:31 Horizon Forbidden West
10:54 God of War Ragnarok
11:22 Star Wars Outlaws
12:06 Black Myth Wukong
12:48 Cyberpunk 2077
13:55 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
14:28 Alan Wake II
15:09 Marvel Rivals
16:05 Arkham City PhysX vs. RTX 4070
16:46 Overclocking
18:20 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#Nvidia #scalperpandemic #Asus #rtx5070

The Bare Minimum? | 12GB RTX 4070 in 2025

Iceberg Tech 2025-02-25 | Benchmarking the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 12GB in modern games.

Pick up your copy of Avowed here: https://game.page/avowed/Iceberg%20Tech

(Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this product from keymailer.co)

Given the relatively small performance uplift from the RTX 50 series, as well as the updated DLSS upscaling and ray reconstruction being brought to older generations of GPU, the RTX 4070 is looking like it’s going to remain relevant in 2025. Unlike previous generations of 70-class cards, the 4070 features 12GB of VRAM - generally considered to be about the bare minimum for modern gaming. 2025 is already shaping up to be a demanding year on GPUs - should you be thinking of picking one of these up?

Test PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Asus ROG Strix B650E-I
Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2x16) DDR5-6000 CL30 (tuned to Buildzoid’s timings)
Crucial T500 2TB NVME SSD
Corsair HX1200i PSU
Thermalright 360mm AIO

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Neon Nights", "Hotline", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

Other tracks:
Unicorn Heads "808 Doorbell Chime" youtu.be/vDfxwxzim3o?si=80HEIH1EIjfTHBfj

00:00 RTX 4070 in 2025
00:53 The Story of the RTX 4070
03:08 Test setup
03:40 Benchmarks
03:44 Avowed
04:57 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
05:54 Monster Hunter: Wilds Benchmark
06:56 Spider-Man 2
08:03 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
08:56 Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
09:54 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
10:31 God of War Ragnarok
11:07 Horizon Forbidden West
11:37 Star Wars Outlaws
12:21 Black Myth Wukong
13:24 Cyberpunk 2077
14:15 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
14:56 Alan Wake II
15:45 The Last of Us Part 1
16:30 Marvel Rivals
17:35 Arkham Knight
18:54 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#Nvidia #scalperpandemic #Avowed #Keymailer

The Dual Core Experience in 2025 | AMD Athlon 3000G

Iceberg Tech 2025-02-19 | Testing the AMD Athlon 3000G with a discrete GPU, as well as its own integrated graphics, in modern & popular games.

Nobody makes dual core CPUs any more, at least not for the current desktop PC platforms. In fact, nobody was asking for a benchmarking video of a dual core CPU either, and yet here I am, making just such a video. Are dual cores really dead in 2025? Is there a spark of hope for those looking to rock an Athlon 3000G in modern games? Did I waste hours of my time and 13 minutes of your life to draw an obvious conclusion?

Music by Backing Track backingtrack.gg
Track names: "Binary Sunrise", "Midnight Racer" and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 A dual core CPU in 2025
00:50 The Athlon 3000G
02:53 Test Setup
03:07 Cinebench 24 & Civilization VI
04:11 Gaming Benchmarks (w/ Radeon RX 7900 XT)
04:15 Cyberpunk 2077
04:54 Hitman: World of Assassination
05:26 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
05:59 The Last of Us Part One
06:24 Baldur's Gate 3
06:48 Starfield
07:27 Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
07:54 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
08:24 Counter Strike 2
09:24 iGPU Benchmarks
09:52 Red Dead Redemption
10:27 Doom 2016
11:08 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
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Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#scalperpandemic #AMD #AM4

AM4 8 Cores, 8 Years Later | Ryzen Retrospective

Iceberg Tech 2025-02-12 | Testing every generation of AM4 8-core CPU in demanding games of the last few years.

AMD is currently riding higher than ever in both reviews and customer opinion, and a large part of that success is thanks to their venerable AM4 socket. Since 2017 the motherboards based on AM4 have supported each new CPU series with little more than a BIOS update, making for a platform that has truly stood the test of time. In this video I've compared six models of Ryzen AM4-based CPU, each with 8 cores and 16 threads, in a set of games from the last few years.

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00:00 8 Years of AM4 8 Cores
01:53 The Evolution of AM4
02:53 Zen 1: Ryzen 7 1700X & 2700X
04:41 Zen 2: Ryzen 7 3700X & 4700G
07:21 Zen 3: Ryzen 5700X & X3D
09:29 Benchmarks
09:33 Civilization VI
10:30 Assassin's Creed Origins
11:23 Cyberpunk 2077
12:32 Hitman: World of Assassination
13:19 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
14:15 The Last of Us Part 1
15:13 Baldur's Gate 3
15:51 Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
16:36 Starfield
17:42 Counter Strike 2 (CW: sarcasm)
18:44 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
19:38 Cinebench 24 & game average
20:32 AM4 CPUs in 2025

C O N T A C T
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#aliexpress #scalperpandemic #pc #tech #techhaul #ryzen #AMD #AM4

Big Card, Big Gains? | RTX 5080 Asus ROG Astral

Iceberg Tech 2025-01-30 | Benchmarking the Asus ROG Astral OC Nvidia Geforce RTX 5080 16GB in modern games.

Thanks to Scan Computers for providing components for my GPU test rig
scan.co.uk

Thanks to Asus UK for the review sample
asus.com/microsite/Graphics-Cards/GeForce-RTX-50-Series/uk

The RTX 5080 marks Nvidia’s second highest tier of consumer GPU for the Blackwell architecture, focusing on new neural rendering techniques and enhanced versions of features like DLSS upscaling and the new DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation. With many of these features available on previous gen RTX cards, and others currently only available in a small number of titles, is there enough reason to buy one?

Test PC:

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Asus ROG Strix B650E-I
Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB (2x16) DDR5-6000 CL30 (tuned to Buildzoid’s timings)
Crucial T500 2TB NVME SSD
Corsair HX1200i PSU
Jonsbo case
Thermalright 360mm AIO

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Test system:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Asus ROG Strix B650E-I motherboard
32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR5-6400 @ 6000 CL36
4TB Crucial P3 Plus NVMe SSD
Corsair RMX850 PSU

00:00 RTX 5080 Review
00:45 The ROG Astral OC RTX 5080
03:31 Test setup
04:44 Benchmarks
15:48 Features
16:38 DLSS 4 Upscaling
18:21 DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation
20:33 Power consumption, overclocking & undervolting
22:38 Pros & Cons
23:57 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
Bluesky @IcebergTop10s
Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#Nvidia #RTX5080 #DLSS4

Surviving the Ray Tracing Revolution

Iceberg Tech 2025-01-23 | Testing six sub-£300 GPUs of varying ages and levels of performance in games which use mandatory ray tracing.

Ray tracing is starting to become mandatory, even if RTX and similarly HW-accelerated GPUs aren't. While games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle have started alarm bells ringing, even Black Myth Wukong and Stalker 2 are using a form of RTGI which can't be disabled - though, at least they don't require RT hardware to do so. Still, "software RT" is pretty intensive, so how do some older & cheaper cards, even ones without RT cores, actually survive?

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00:00 Ray tracing on the cheap
01:24 The RT Revolution
02:55 The candidates
06:49 Test Setup
07:22 Benchmarks
07:26 Indiana Jones
09:16 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
11:12 Star Wars: Outlaws
13:07 Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition
14:00 Black Myth Wukong
16:00 Conclusion

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Titan Fall | Nvidia Geforce Titan RTX (2018)

Iceberg Tech 2025-01-14 | Benchmarking the Nvidia Geforce Titan RTX 24GB against popular games from 2018 to 2024 using a modern gaming PC.

Thanks to Crucial for providing their Pro Overclocking DDR5 RAM and P3 Plus Gen 4 NVMe SSDs. Check them out here:
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At the time of writing, the Titan RTX is the last graphics card to bear the Titan name. Nvidia seems to have settled on the more sensibly priced* 90 series, even though they might lack the prestige of the Titan name. At $2500 USD, the Titan RTX was one of the most expensive single GPU cards ever released, and coincided with the introduction of the new RTX range, bringing real time ray tracing to the masses for the first time. Was this combination of expensive halo tier product and first generation tech a recipe for instant disappointment, and has it kept pace with the latest batch of RT-exclusives?

*sensibly priced compared to the GPU equivalent of a Rolex, anyway.

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Test system:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Asus ROG Strix B650E-I motherboard
32GB (2x16GB) Crucial DDR5-6400 @ 6000 CL36
4TB Crucial P3 Plus NVMe SSD
Corsair RMX850 PSU

00:00 Titan Fall - the last Titan (so far)
01:45 The story of the Titan RTX
05:06 2018 games
08:56 2019
11:59 2020
13:27 2021
15:19 2022
16:03 2023
19:20 2024
24:28 Value
26:46 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
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Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#Nvidia #Titan #scalperpandemic

Intels Character Arc | Battlemage B580 12GB

Iceberg Tech 2025-01-06 | Testing the Intel Arc Battlemage B580 12GB graphics card in 14 popular and demanding games in 2025 at 1080P and 1440P, using an average gaming PC.

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The new Arc B580 has made an impact on the sub-$300 GPU market already, offering everything its competitors have in terms of features, while also satisfying the higher VRAM needs of newer games. Is it worth your money?

Hardware Lab’s Arc CPU overhead video: youtu.be/T62dRJ35buI?si=9IwiP-SFMVUmrSEi

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00:00 Intel Arc B580 vs. 2025
01:14 The Story of the Arc B580
03:37 Test Setup
04:42 Comparable GPUs
05:55 Drivers
06:20 Gaming Benchmarks
06:24 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
07:28 Black Myth Wukong
09:18 Alan Wake 2
10:14 God of War: Ragnarok
10:52 Horizon: Forbidden West
11:26 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
12:23 Cyberpunk 2077
13:17 The Last of Us Part One
14:00 Resident Evil 4 Remake
14:45 Star Wars: Outlaws
15:34 Starfield
16:10 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
17:03 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
17:36 Counter Strike 2
18:33 Older games- Crysis, Far Cry 3, GTA V, Quake 2
20:28 CPU concerns
22:16 Benchmarks with Ryzen 7 7800X3D
24:19 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
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Buy now or wait? | Intel Arc A770 in 2024 / 2025

Iceberg Tech 2024-12-31 | Testing the Intel Arc Alchemist A770 16GB graphics card in 13 popular and demanding games in 2024 at 1080P and 1440P, using an average gaming PC.

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Intel's first stab at a mass-market graphics card series has been around for a couple of years now, it's had plenty of time to mature and for drivers to become optimised, so it's probably as good as it's ever gonna be. The second generation Battlemage has started to filter out, with the B580 already selling out or simply hard to get in some parts of the world. Can the old model A770 offer a decent alternative in the meantime?

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00:00 Intel Arc A770 vs. 2024
00:51 Buying the A770
01:38 The Story of the Arc A770
02:22 Gaming Benchmarks
02:26 The Last of Us Part 1
03:13 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
03:57 Cyberpunk 2077
04:58 Alan Wake 2
05:47 Black Myth Wukong
06:23 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
07:10 God of War: Ragnarok
07:45 Horizon: Forbidden West
08:16 Starfield
08:50 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
09:33 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
10:14 Star Wars: Outlaws
11:02 Counter Strike 2
11:45 Conclusion

C O N T A C T
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Email contact@icebergtech.co.uk

#aliexpress #intel #scalperpandemic #pc #tech #techhaul #unboxing #pcbuild

Good mini PCs are getting cheap | GMKTec K8 Plus

Iceberg Tech 2024-12-17 | Testing the Ryzen 7 8845HS-powered GMKtec NucBox K8 Plus mini PC in gaming & synthetic benchmarks.

Thanks to GMKtec for supplying the review unit. Buy one here:

Amazon:
K8 Plus 32+1TB: amazon.com/dp/B0DHNTW3H6
K8 Plus 32+2TB: amazon.com/dp/B0DHZMRZYQ
K8 Plus 64+1TB: amazon.com/dp/B0DHPBF7R5

Official Site:
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See the GMKTec K8 review here:
youtu.be/wE9H4JRIg64

See the cheap EGPU comparison here:
youtu.be/d-IHxl46yyg

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Track names: "Future Tomorrow", "Midnight Racer", “Binary Sunrise” and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 Good /cheap mini PCs
00:44 GMKTec K8 Plus - what's new?
03:10 Gaming
08:34 Synthetic benchmarks
09:24 Conclusion

A D S
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Still G.R.E. | AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB

Iceberg Tech 2024-12-13 | Testing the AMD Radeon RX 6750 GRE 10GB graphics card in 12 popular and demanding games in 2024 at 1080P and 1440P, using an average gaming PC.

The various incarnations of the Navi 22 GPU have offered a decent upgrade path from the more budget-friendly 1080P cards like the RX 6600 and 6600 XT, and the China-only 6750 GRE continues that trend. Alas, AMD pulled an Nvidia and gave the same model name to two completely different spec GPUs. The 10GB version being tested here has 2304 shading units, just like the old RX 6700 (and the PS5, now that I mention it), unlike the 2560 of the 12GB version. Is it still good for 1440P in late 2024/2025, or is it worth saving up for something better?

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Still D.R.E. Cover by Koji Kobura youtu.be/cI8GtrVlAGg?si=qkwFZxmW6Zrcc4xy

00:00 RX 6750 GRE 10GB vs. 2024
00:52 The Story of the RX 6750 GRE
02:26 Gaming Benchmarks
02:30 Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
03:28 Black Myth Wukong
04:01 Star Wars: Outlaws
04:43 Indiana Jones & The Great Circle
05:38 God of War: Ragnarok
06:04 Ghost of Tsushima
06:32 Horizon: Forbidden West
07:01 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
07:36 The Last of Us Part 1
08:29 Cyberpunk 2077
08:56 Alan Wake II
09:36 Starfield
10:11 Conclusion

A D S
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C O N T A C T
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Battle of the Sixties | GTX 1060 6GB vs. RTX 4060

Iceberg Tech 2024-12-06 | Testing & comparing the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB and RTX 4060 8GB graphics cards in 10 games from their respective eras, using a reasonably priced gaming PC.

Gamers have a special place in their heart for the 60 series GPUs from Nvidia, with the GTX 1060 in particular being a long-time favourite that has spent a significant amount of time at the top of the Steam Hardware Survey. The RTX 4060 meanwhile has been reluctantly embraced by gamers, offering acceptable performance and features for its price, despite being a cut-down model from what was expected for this class of GPU. In this video, I've done my best to ascertain whether the RTX 4060 really is a downgrade, and whether we should expect more from the 60s.

Test rig:
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL30
MSI B650 Gaming Motherboard
EVGA GTX 1060 6GB
Gigabyte Eagle RTX 4060 8GB

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Track names: "Neon Nights", "Starstream Returns", "Midnight Racer", "Hotline", “Binary Sunrise” and "Vercetti Forever"

00:00 Battle of the 60s
00:40 GTX 1060 vs. RTX 4060
03:09 Establishing the rules
04:01 GTX 1060 6GB Benchmarks
10:46 RTX 4060 8GB Benchmarks
17:15 Comparing the results
18:26 Conclusion

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#scalperpandemic #geforce #gtx1060 #rtx4060

Mini PCs Need To Change

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-30 | Apple's new 2024 Mac Mini promises to disrupt a whole market segment, outperforming some of the best mini PCs out there, while undercutting them at a base price of just $599. While companies like Beelink await new developments from AMD and Intel that can better compete with the M4 Apple Silicon, their best recourse in the meantime is to cut corners - and prices.
The latest version of Beelink's SER 8 features an unheard of APU - the Ryzen 7 8745HS, which makes the bold (and sensible) move of omitting the AI cores of the existing 8845HS and 8945HS, against the flow of current trends. At under $500, it offers more RAM and storage than the Mac Mini, and remains within the Windows ecosystem. Is it worth your money?

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00:00 Mini PCs Need To Change
00:46 Beelink SER 8
01:27 Specs
02:41 Connectivity & Upgradeability
04:30 Benchmarks
05:36 Blender & Davinci Resolve
06:43 Gaming - Mac vs. PC
07:35 Gaming Benchmarks
12:22 Conclusion

A D S
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Nvidia’s Lost GPU

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-22 | Although the Ampere lineup of GPUs found in the Geforce RTX 30 series seemed pretty complete, there was one SKU that didn’t entirely make it to the desktop lineup. The GA103 GPU was apparently supposed to be the heart of the original RTX 3080, and later rumours suggest it should have been used in the RTX 3070 Ti, and yet a graphics card utilising this 7424-shader GPU never quite made it all the way to market.

In this video, I test a full-size GA103 from a laptop-based RTX 3080 Ti Mobile that has been adapted into a desktop-compatible PCI-Express graphics card, to see what might have been.

Thanks to Alexi for providing the graphics card for this video.

Sources:
Kopite7kimi, X.com
https://x.com/kopite7kimi/status/1323438754426548224
https://x.com/kopite7kimi/status/1457733233940975617

Moore’s Law is Dead “RTX 4070 & GA103 Truth Leak” (around the 13:49 mark)
youtube.com/watch?v=l5ZDOHI3IkM

Videocardz “NVIDIA GA103 graphics processor pictured, features 496 mm² die area”videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-ga103-graphics-processor-pictured-features-496-mm%C2%B2-die-area

Digital Trends “Nvidia's Enigmatic GA103 GPU Finally Spotted In The Wild”digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidias-enigmatic-ga103-gpu-finally-spotted-in-the-wild

Techspot “Nvidia is reportedly partnering with TSMC for 7nm Ampere production next year”techspot.com/news/87098-nvidia-reportedly-partnering-tsmc-7nm-ampere-production-next.html

Chips & Cheese “Nvidia’s Ampere & Process Technology: Sunk by Samsung?”chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-ampere-process-technology-sunk-by-samsung

00:00 GA103 - Nvidia's Lost GPU01:01 History of the Nvidia GA103
02:59 How I got hold of one
04:58 The graphics card
08:31 The games
14:57 Conclusion

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EGPUs for the rest of us (feat. Aoostar GEM 10 & Oculink)

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-18 | EGPU solutions have typically been aimed at wealthier consumers. Even DIY setups can be expensive, so they tend to be reserved for only high end graphics cards. The advent of cheap Oculink adapters has opened up the field, and now RX 580s and other cheap GPUs are viable ways of adding some 3D gaming horsepower to an otherwise incompatible machine.

In this video, I test out an RX 580 2304SP 8GB version and an RTX 3050 6GB with a budget mini PC, an old power supply and a cheap Oculink adapter from Amazon, and compare them to integrated graphics.

Thanks to AooStar for supplying the review unit.

Links:

AooStar GEM10

32+512g: amazon.com/dp/B0D2NFG5KW

32+1TB: amazon.com/dp/B0CJ2M5NNQ

Oculink adapter (affiliate link)
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Specs as provided:
Ryzen 7 6800H 8 core 16 thread CPU
Radeon 680M integrated graphics
16GB DDR5-6400 (soldered)
512GB NVMe Gen 4 SSD

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and as always, Unicorn Heads "808 Doorbell Chime"

00:00 Cheap EGPU solutions
00:56 AooStar GEM10
02:13 Budget GPU options
02:58 Games
08:09 Conclusion

A D S
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Killing the PlayStation 5 Pro

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-15 | Building a £700 / $750 gaming PC that can match or beat the new PS5 Pro using mostly new components

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00:00 Killing the PS5 Pro
00:46 Comfy chairs
02:31 “Console Killer” PCs
03:52 Graphics Card
05:27 CPU
06:57 Everything else
08:32 Build summary
08:57 Games
14:30 Did we kill the PS5 Pro?
16:47 Don’t forget your comfy chair!

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PS5 Pro is an easy target

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-15 | Console Killer PCs have been around since the PS4, but PS5 made them impossible for a while. PS5 Pro isn't great value for what it offers, however, which means matching or beating it with a PC isn't hard at all,
Check out this video, which features mostly new components and still costs about the same as a console:
youtu.be/TX3siXffJvQ

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Dont pay scalpers for a 5800X3D

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-14 | Full video:
youtu.be/spjNXhhP73k

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A Mobile Ryzen on an ITX motherboard!?

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-14 | Full review of the Topton AX7 with Ryzen 7 7840HS:
youtu.be/aDLZI8okKMs

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This GT 710 is cursed

Iceberg Tech 2024-11-12 | Your regular reminder not to spend money on GT 710s, no matter how fancy their VRAM.