The Hardware Unboxed Podcast

By: Hardware Unboxed
  • Summary

  • Steve and Tim from the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed bring to you a weekly show discussing all the latest news and interesting topics in the PC hardware and gaming scene. With our decades of experience testing and benchmarking hardware, you'll be sure to enjoy various insights into tech and the occasional guest, especially if you love building PCs and playing PC games.

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Episodes
  • Intel Delivers What AMD Couldn't: Great GPU Value
    Dec 16 2024

    Episode 56: With the Intel Arc B580 now on shelves, we recap the launch and review. Was this a paper launch? Can Intel gain market share with this strategy? Should Intel cancel Arc GPUs? Does this spell trouble for AMD Radeon?


    CHAPTERS

    00:00 - Intro

    00:39 - Intel Arc B580 Launch Recap

    19:58 - It's Not a Paper Launch

    26:24 - This Launch Exposes Radeon's Blunders

    30:50 - The Plan to Build Market Share

    40:34 - Genuine Competition for Radeon?

    58:25 - Updates From Our Boring Lives


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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Intel Promises Battlemage GPU Game Fixes, Enough VRAM and Long Term Future (feat. Tom Petersen)
    Dec 9 2024

    Episode 55: Intel's Tom Petersen joins the podcast to chat about Arc Battlemage! We discuss fixing and improving game compatibility, the importance of enough VRAM, hardware design decisions including the die size, the future of the Arc division, XeSS 2 frame generation and plenty more.


    CHAPTERS

    00:00 - Intro

    02:12 - The Journey from Alchemist to Battlemage

    09:21 - Hardware Changes and Improving Game Compatibility

    15:13 - The Importance of VRAM

    20:11 - GPU Design Choices and Improvements

    34:18 - The Price

    38:12 - The Future of Arc: On the Chopping Block?

    48:28 - XeSS 2 Frame Generation and XeLL

    1:19:45 - Ray Tracing on Arc Battlemage

    1:25:32 - Outro


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    LINKS

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Ray Tracing: Has it Been A Success for PC Gaming?
    Nov 29 2024

    Episode 54: YouTube turned us Spanish! Also, we do a full recap on the state of ray tracing for PC gaming right now, looking back to the original RTX 20 series GPUs to how things are going now. Has Nvidia simply used ray tracing to upsell you on a more expensive graphics card?


    CHAPTERS

    00:00 - Intro

    00:40 - YouTube Turned us Spanish

    13:50 - Ray Tracing, Where Does it Stand Right Now?

    34:20 - Ray Tracing vs High Refresh Rate

    42:27 - Ray Tracing is About the Upsell

    53:41 - We Expected Ray Tracing to be Better By Now

    58:09 - The Chicken and the Egg

    1:03:44 - The Future of Ray Tracing

    1:24:23 - Updates From Our Boring Lives


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    SUPPORT US DIRECTLY

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hardwareunboxed

    Floatplane: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/HardwareUnboxed


    LINKS

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed/

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed

    Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hardwareunboxed.bsky.social


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    1 hr and 38 mins

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