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The 3DMark Port Royal world record has been beaten, and all it took was a $5,000+ liquid nitrogen-cooled RTX 5090
Overclocker Cmaker has set a new world record in 3DMark Port Royal with a score of 51,663. This was achieved using an MSI RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z graphics card cooled by liquid nitrogen, pushing its clock speed to 3,623 MHz. The rest of the system included an Intel Core i9 14900KF and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, also under extreme cooling.
Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination
Streamer Uwos Lab successfully built and benchmarked a desktop PC powered entirely by 192 AA alkaline batteries over a five-hour stream. The custom-built rig, running Hannah Montana Linux, managed to operate for 30 minutes before the power drop became too significant.
New Steam Machine benchmark leak hints at imminent launch
A new benchmark leak on Geekbench suggests that Valve's Steam Machine may be nearing its launch. The leak details a device named 'Valve Fremont' running SteamOS with specifications matching the official Steam Machine hardware, including a custom six-core AMD CPU. This leak hints at a potential release window of one to four weeks, though Valve has not officially confirmed the device.
Intel's Big Battlemage Arc Pro B70 GPU benchmarked in games, ends up bang-on Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB performance
Benchmarks indicate Intel's Arc Pro B70 GPU offers performance comparable to the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti in traditional rasterization, but falls behind when ray tracing is enabled. Despite its larger die size and 32 GB of VRAM, the GPU is not being released for gaming due to cost-effectiveness concerns compared to Nvidia's offerings.
Evening Tech Bits
Recent hardware news includes testing of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition across various synthetic benchmarking utilities. Additionally, MSI has reportedly leaked specifications for the GeForce RTX 5070 12GB Laptop GPU.
Morning Mobilization
Samsung has reversed its decision to make the Call Screening feature exclusive to its S26 smartphones. Separately, 3DMark has delisted a smartphone company for alleged cheating during benchmarking tests, which was reportedly due to the hardware running at its maximum capabilities.
I benchmarked Cyberpunk 2077 on 15 gaming laptops, these are the specs you need to hit 60fps in RT Ultra in 2026
This analysis benchmarks Cyberpunk 2077 on 15 gaming laptops to determine the specifications needed to achieve 60fps at RT Ultra settings by 2026. It suggests an RTX 5080 is required for QHD resolution and an RTX 5070 for 1200p, with detailed breakdowns of performance versus price for different GPU tiers.
Geekbench says enabling Intel BOT paints an 'unrealistic picture' of CPU performance and makes Intel chips seem faster versus the AMD competition 'than they would be in typical, real-world usage'
Primate Labs, the developer of the Geekbench benchmark tool, has stated that Intel's BOT software provides an unrealistic picture of CPU performance. They argue that BOT only supports a limited number of applications, leading to benchmark results that make Intel processors appear faster than they would in typical real-world usage. Additionally, Primate Labs observed a significant startup delay when running Geekbench with BOT enabled.
Here's 8 minutes in nostalgic benchmark heaven, with me running 3DMark2001 on an RTX 5090 to celebrate its 25th…
The article details an experiment running the 3DMark2001 benchmark on modern hardware, specifically an RTX 5090, to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Despite initial compatibility issues with a Ryzen 9 7950X and Windows HDR settings, the benchmark was successfully run at 4K resolution, showcasing the evolution of PC graphics technology.
