Hardware Profiles

(Profile updated as of 16/12/2021)

AMD's return to ultra-high end graphics cards, and Hardware Ray Tracing, this one is a very special entry for me. It's also a sad one, since I only owned this card for a week or so, before accidentally breaking it (long story), but in that short time, it was truly impressive piece of hardware. So, I had to write a profile for it, of course. So here it is.

(Profile updated as of 6th October. 2019)

Here is my profile for a CPU, my lovely Ryzen 7 2700X. I have owned two of these, one normal and now the 50th Anniversary Edition. They are identical except for the differences on the engraved heatspreader so this applies to both except the launch date which is listed.

Anyway I love this CPU, and it was fun to nerd out over all the hardware details. :3

(Profile updated as of 8th December 2019)

Yay! Here is the profile I made for my Ryzen 7 3700X. The successor to my trusty Ryzen 7 2700X, well, sort of.

Without further ado, the profile!

(Profile updated as of 30th October 2019)

Here is my GPU profile for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, NVIDIA's pre-emptive strike against AMD's Vega-based cards, launched in 2017. This card has achieved 'legendary' status as it still is one of the most powerful video cards available 2 years later.

(Profile updated as of 10th July. 2019)

Here is my GPU profile for the GTX 1660. NVIDIA's probably best value Turing-based graphics card in my opinion and even then it's not like Oh My God I want To Buy It Now.

TU116 is interesting to me because NVIDIA has stripped out the Tensor and RT hardware to make a smaller, leaner die to address the high volume market that is very sensitive to die size and cost of manufactuering, and probably doesn't care about RT just yet (even if this chip had RT cores: It wouldn't be fast enough to actually do anything with them. RTX 2060 barely is).

(Profile updated as of 12th August. 2019)

Here is my GPU profile for the RTX 2060 Super. I wanted RTX so I took the plunge with the second wave of Turing-based 20-series cards.

(Profile updated as of 10th July. 2019)

Here it is! The mighty Radeon R9 290X graphics card, with its Hawaii GPU that is now almost legendary. The GPU that beat Kepler and half of Maxwell. *Nostalgia* Anyway I did a profile for it so here you go.

(Profile updated as of 16th March. 2020)

I made a new GPU profile, yay! This time it is for my RX 590. The ultimate incarnation of the legendary Polaris architecture.

(profile updated as of 16/12/2021)

My Hardware profile for AMD's return to the high end in 2017, the Radeon RX Vega 64 graphics card. I actually owned two of these cards, one Reference Liquid Edition, and one Powercolor Red Devil. The pictures here are from the Red Devil (my friend took them for me before he sold the card to me) as I never took my Liquid Edition apart.

(Profile updated as of 16/12/2021.)

I made a GPU profile thing for one of my favourite GPUs. Well, it was my favourite GPU until I took it out of my PC because I broke it. Yes, I actually broke it. But anyway, here is Vega 20 with its pretty HBM2 memory and buckets of raw memory bandwidth.

(Profile updated as of 16/12/2021)

Tiny baby Navi! So cute, so adorable.

(Profile updated as of 16/12/2021)

Here it is. The first profile I made in a long time. This time, it is for my lovely new Radeon RX 5700, based on AMD's all-new "Navi" processor, using RDNA graphics architecture. So this is a really important one for Radeon.