Unigine Heaven DX11 Benchmark Basic Edition

High-end video cards are hungry, demanding beasts. They eat money, suck down power, run hot, and occasionally require complex driver configuration or other special care in return for the visual thrills they provide. Moreover, the benefits of such a...

At the 2012 CES, Intel touted direct X 11 support on upcoming Ultrabooks and attempted to demonstrate the technology using a racing game, but if you look closely you'll see it's video playback of the game rather than live gameplay.

High-end graphics cards are hungry, demanding beasts. They eat money, suck down power, run hot, and occasionally require complex driver configuration or other special care in return for the visual thrills they provide. Moreover, the benefits of such a...

Last week we set our sights on seeing how well the new DX12 API is able to distribute workloads across multiple CPU cores on a new AMD processor. Today we are going to continue, except this time we will be using an Intel Haswell-E processor that has a...

One thing that has been on our minds about the new DX12 API is its ability to distribute workloads better on the CPU side. Now that we finally have a couple of new DX12 games that have been released to test, we spend a bit of time getting to bottom of...

Microsoft has taken the covers off of their DirectX 12 API and it features several surprises. Among them, backwards compatibility with DX11 GPUs.

It's A New Dawn! NVIDIA has brought one of our favorite demo characters back to our computer screens. Inside we will look at A New Dawn in comparison to the original 2002 Dawn in performance and image quality and see what current GPU technology allows...

Attempting to install the new Crysis 2 1.9 update and added DX11 Tessellation & High-Res Texture Pack felt like anything but a "gift." We give you our first hand experience and a treasure trove of screen shots for good measure. Crysis 2 is a little...

As I learned from a trip to KFC this summer, doubling down can have its risks and its rewards. Sadly, the Colonel's new sandwich wasn't exactly the rewarding explosion of bacon-flavored goodness for which I'd hoped. Eating it mostly involved a lot of...

DX 11 Tessellation in real-time 3D. The Unigine Heaven Benchmark supports DX11 with Tessellation and we have taken a look at Tessellation in this unique application. Tessellation has the potential to improve the gameplay experience, and you will see...