Articles by Jarred Walton | Tom's Hardware

Jarred's love of computers dates back to the dark ages, when his dad brought home a DOS 2.3 PC and he left his C-64 behind. He eventually built his first custom PC in 1990 with a 286 12MHz, only to discover it was already woefully outdated when Wing Commander released a few months later. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.

Articles by: Jarred Walton

XeSS 1.3 improves performance by up to 28% with refined image quality — adds Ultra Quality Plus and Native AA modes

By Aaron Klotz published 5 April 24

A major update from the previous XeSS 1.2 version.

AMD RX 7000-series gaming GPUs still mostly MIA in Steam stats — continued gains for Nvidia's RTX 40-series

By Jarred Walton published 3 April 24

Business as usual, statistics questionable.

How to upgrade your Steam Deck's SSD for more storage and better performance

By Jarred Walton published 2 April 24

Putting in a 1TB or 2TB SSD is surprisingly easy.

GPU pricing update: Nvidia RTX 4080 Super prices down to $999 MSRP now — 4060 starts at $279

By Jarred Walton published 28 March 24

GPU prices are falling down, falling down...

Nvidia Hopper H200 breaks MLPerf benchmark record with TensorRT — no Blackwell submissions yet, sorry

By Aaron Klotz published 27 March 24

Nvidia beat its previous MLPerf record with newly optimized software and hardware.

Next-gen GPUs likely arriving in late 2024 with GDDR7 memory — Samsung and SK hynix chips showed chips at GTC

By Jarred Walton published 25 March 24

GDDR7 16Gb chips in production, 24Gb coming next year.

Horizon Forbidden West PC port analysis: Another game that can exceed 8GB VRAM use

By Jarred Walton published 25 March 24

Nvidia promoted, but AMD delivers superior bang for the buck.

SK hynix Platinum P51 shown at GTC 24, along with previous gen SSDs.

SK hynix's in-house designed PCIe 5.0 SSD breaks cover — Platinum P51 targets top-notch speed and lower idle power

By Jarred Walton published 20 March 24

In-house developed controller and 238-layer NAND, arriving later this year.

RTX off, AI on: Jensen says we'll see fully AI-generated games in 5-10 years

By Jarred Walton published 20 March 24

In a press Q&A at GTC 2024, Jensen discussed AI generated content including Sora and suggested that we could start seeing fully generated games within the next ten years.

Nvidia’s next-gen AI GPU is 4X faster than Hopper: Blackwell B200 GPU delivers up to 20 petaflops of compute and other massive improvements

By Jarred Walton published 18 March 24

The dual-die B200 GPU has 4X the AI training performance and 30X the inference performance of its predecessor.

Newegg is selling an old but unused RX 5600 XT GPU for $109 — it's super cheap, and here's how it stacks up in 2024

By Jarred Walton published 14 March 24

Two generations old but in mint condition, for a bit more than a Benjamin.

GDDR7 graphics memory standard published (GDDR6X shown)

GDDR7 graphics memory standard published by JEDEC — Next-gen GPUs to get up to 192 GB/s of bandwidth per device

By Jarred Walton published 5 March 24

Likely to be used in RDNA 4 and Blackwell GPUs

Cyberpunk 2077 adds core prioritization for hybrid CPUs, which would be great if it didn't cause other problems (Updated)

By Aaron Klotz published 1 March 24

It could help fix gaming issues with hybrid CPUs in the future.

Sapphire RX 7900 GRE Pulse photos and unboxing

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE review: the lowest binned Navi 31 variant is now globally available, starting at $549

By Jarred Walton published 26 February 24

Navi 31 hops on a golden rabbit.

Nvidia Ada Lovelace architectural overview

Nvidia Ada Lovelace and GeForce RTX 40-Series: Everything We Know

By Jarred Walton last updated 8 February 24

Nvidia looks set to push performance and features to new heights (Updated)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition photos and unboxing

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super review: Slightly faster than the 4080, but $200 cheaper

By Jarred Walton published 31 January 24

We really wish the 4080 Super had AD102 and 20GB.

PNY RTX 4070 Ti Super Verto OC card photos and unboxing

PNY RTX 4070 Ti Super Verto Epic-X RGB OC review: Big cooling and higher performance

By Jarred Walton published 26 January 24

Three large fans and a triple-slot cooler works quite well.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Sapphire Pulse card photos and unboxing

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT review: double the memory and higher clocks, still Navi 33

By Jarred Walton published 24 January 24

RX 6700 XT still provides stiff competition at the same price.

Asus RTX 4070 Ti Super TUF Gaming card photos and unboxing

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: More VRAM and bandwidth, slightly higher performance

By Jarred Walton published 23 January 24

There's surprisingly little uplift in most games from the memory upgrades.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super Founders Edition unboxing and card photos

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super review: Boosted clocks and core counts for the same $599 as the vanilla 4070

By Jarred Walton published 16 January 24

Nvidia's mid-cycle 'Super' refresh kicks off with a bang.

New GPU coolers bring swappable AIO features to custom loops — promises radical cooling improvements that you can use for multiple GPU generations

By Jarred Walton published 13 January 24

LYNK+ wants to provide German liquid cooled engineering, at an affordable price point.

Newer, faster PCIe 5.0 SSDs coming soon — Phison reveals E26 Max14um and E31T controllers

By Jarred Walton published 12 January 24

Phison revealed four new products that at CES 2024, including faster E26 Max14um drives, the next-gen E31T PCIe 5.0 controller, the E27T PCIe 4.0 controller, and an external USB 4 SSD.

Photo of an Advanced BTX PC build with a hidden GPU power connector, from CES 2024.

Asus shows off its BTF GPUs and Motherboards at CES 2024: Another way to quickly and cleanly build a system

By Christopher Harper published 10 January 24

Asus show us their BTF and Advanced BTF motherboards at CES 2024, alongside BTF RTX GPUs and their white variants. This includes a BTF RTX 4070 Ti Super, and a BTF RTX 4090.

Nvidia RTX 40-Series Super Models and CES 2024

Nvidia RTX 40-series Super models revealed — 4070 Super coming Jan 17 at $599

By Jarred Walton published 8 January 24

RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB on Jan 24 at $799 and RTX 4080 Super 16GB on Jan 31 at $999.

Nvidia GeForce Now to offer daily rates starting at $3.99 — plus RTX game updates, more AI, G-Sync and more at CES 2024

By Jarred Walton published 8 January 24

More RTX-enabled games, AI-powered NPCs, and livestreaming updates.

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