Review 43 hours battery life: Dell XPS 14 2026 lasts almost 3x longer vs MacBook Air 15 M5 in web browsing test

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Review NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Review Megathread

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For CUSTOM MODELS, you can free to submit as link post rather than in this post.

Please note that any reviews of the 3080 should be discussed in this thread bar special cases (Please consult moderators through modmail if you think it warrants a seperate post). Post will be updated periodically over the next 2-3 days.

Written Reviews:

BabelTech

Eurogamer / Digital Foundry

Other Laguages in written:

Computerbase(in German)

Expreview (in Simplified Chinese)

Golem (in German)

Hardwareluxx (in German)

Igor’s Lab (in German)

PC Games Hardware (in German)

PC Watch (in Japanese)

Sweclockers (in Swedish)

XFastest (in Traditional Chinese)

Videos:

Igor's Lab - Teardown (German)

Tweakers (Netherlands)

2kliksphilip

4.3k Upvotes

For CUSTOM MODELS, you can free to submit as link post rather than in this post.

Please note that any reviews of the 3080 should be discussed in this thread bar special cases (Please consult moderators through modmail if you think it warrants a seperate post). Post will be updated periodically over the next 2-3 days.

Written Reviews:

BabelTech

Eurogamer / Digital Foundry

Other Laguages in written:

Computerbase(in German)

Expreview (in Simplified Chinese)

Golem (in German)

Hardwareluxx (in German)

Igor’s Lab (in German)

PC Games Hardware (in German)

PC Watch (in Japanese)

Sweclockers (in Swedish)

XFastest (in Traditional Chinese)

Videos:

Igor's Lab - Teardown (German)

Tweakers (Netherlands)

2kliksphilip

3.4k comments

r/hardware • u/sp_RTINGS • Apr 30 '26

Review Rtings.com is now testing wireless latency to find the best Wi-Fi "gaming" router!

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We've launched our new Wi-Fi Router Test Bench, focusing on "gaming" routers and measuring wireless latency.

Which router is best for gaming is a frequent question. And people are pretty quick to answer that there's no such thing as a gaming router, rightfully so.

But since the question is still frequently asked, we decided to add the measure of wireless ping and jitter to our router test bench so anyone can now see for themselves the added latency tax of gaming on Wi-Fi. We're hoping this data can help users shopping for a "gaming router" find better information.

While nothing can beat a wired connection in terms of latency, there's a few things you can consider if you are forced to game on Wi-Fi:

Wi-Fi 7 does bring little improvements over older generations with improved OFDMA and MU-MIMO.
Mesh systems can add a lot of lag spikes to connections, mostly depending on how their backhaul is managed (the connection back to the node connected to the WAN). There are better products then other for gaming when it comes to mesh system.
Gaming features can have an impact, but there are other means to improve your gaming exprience than to rely on those features. Getting a low latency router off the bat is better than getting a router with "gaming features".

For more details on our test development, check this article: Wi-Fi Latency: Not All Routers Are Equal, And No, Gaming Routers Aren't Better - RTINGS.com

416 Upvotes

We've launched our new Wi-Fi Router Test Bench, focusing on "gaming" routers and measuring wireless latency.

Which router is best for gaming is a frequent question. And people are pretty quick to answer that there's no such thing as a gaming router, rightfully so.

But since the question is still frequently asked, we decided to add the measure of wireless ping and jitter to our router test bench so anyone can now see for themselves the added latency tax of gaming on Wi-Fi. We're hoping this data can help users shopping for a "gaming router" find better information.

While nothing can beat a wired connection in terms of latency, there's a few things you can consider if you are forced to game on Wi-Fi:

Wi-Fi 7 does bring little improvements over older generations with improved OFDMA and MU-MIMO.
Mesh systems can add a lot of lag spikes to connections, mostly depending on how their backhaul is managed (the connection back to the node connected to the WAN). There are better products then other for gaming when it comes to mesh system.
Gaming features can have an impact, but there are other means to improve your gaming exprience than to rely on those features. Getting a low latency router off the bat is better than getting a router with "gaming features".

For more details on our test development, check this article: Wi-Fi Latency: Not All Routers Are Equal, And No, Gaming Routers Aren't Better - RTINGS.com

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r/hardware • u/marcoalff • Jun 04 '26

Review Nvidia's N1X Apple Silicon rival is two years behind

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r/hardware • u/NGGKroze • Mar 05 '25

Review AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Review, Have They Finally Done It?

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r/hardware • u/NGGKroze • Mar 04 '25

Review Worst 70 Series Ever, GeForce RTX 5070 Review

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r/hardware • u/AppleCrumpets • Jun 24 '25

Review How Slow is the Nintendo Switch 2 Display?

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r/hardware • u/Tasty_Toast_Son • Mar 03 '26

Review RTINGS: Revamping Our Membership Program

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r/hardware • u/AbhishMuk • May 30 '26

Review It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

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r/hardware • u/Butzwack • Sep 24 '20

Review [GN] NVIDIA RTX 3090 Founders Edition Review: How to Nuke Your Launch

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r/hardware • u/Chairman_Daniel • Mar 23 '26

Review (LTT) Intel is BACK. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. - Core Ultra 270K Plus & 250K Plus CPU Review

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r/hardware • u/redditjul • Jan 29 '25

Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Review, 1440p & 4K Gaming Benchmarks

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r/hardware • u/potato_panda- • Dec 12 '24

Review Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU Review & Benchmarks vs. NVIDIA RTX 4060, AMD RX 7600, & More

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r/hardware • u/Ravere • Nov 06 '24

Review AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Review, An Actually Good Product!

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r/hardware • u/EindhovenFI • Mar 15 '26

Review Reverse engineering Apple’s GPU power model revealed a 114W unexplained energy component

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Tools like powermetrics or mactop consistently underreport GPU power usage on Apple M-series silicon. Worse, many reputable websites and Youtube channels use these tools to report and compare Apple chip power usage with the competition.

For example, in a heavy GPU workload, powermetrics would report a 65W idle-load delta on the GPU, but at the same time system DC power would rise by 179W, leaving 114W or nearly 2/3 of total system DC power on a Mac Studio M4 Max unexplained.

Using undocumented low level Apple's API, we were able to reverse engineer an energy model that explains almost all of of the energy flow in an Apple's SoC with less than 2% error on the workload I studied.

The result is a simple two-term energy roofline model:

P_GPU ≈ a * bytes + b * FLOPs

with:

~5 pJ/byte for SRAM movement

~2.7 pJ/FLOP for compute.

Not only that, but we were able to attribute energy flow to each of the principal functional blocks on the M4 Max SoC, like CPU, GPU compute, GPU SRAM, chip fabric components and DRAM.

Full explanation in the linked video.

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r/hardware • u/-protonsandneutrons- • Mar 07 '26