Blueprints

Value- and performance-driven hypothetical builds

Budget. A perfect balance between price and performance. It feels like every month, we’re bracing ourselves for a new set of hardware launches. With CES finally landing, we’re being graced with a whole bunch of them all at once. New AMD and Nvidia cards, and new Intel GPUs have launched roughly at the same time, although admittedly the Intel ones a little sooner. That said, right now it’s only the 5080 and 5090 cards we have tested so far, we’re still awaiting review samples and units to land with us, to figure out how exactly the lower end cards tick. Nvidia has already announced that the RTX 5070 will deliver just as much performance as an RTX 4090, but at almost one quarter of the cost. Whether that’s true remains…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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