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Intel says its graphics drivers are now 'light years ahead of where we were a few years ago', and they'll need to be if it's going to tempt gamers towards its new iGPUs
CES 2026 Speedy hardware is a nice thing to have, but driver support can make and break a gaming experience.
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Intel's new top-end Core Ultra Series 3 mobile chips promise up to 77% faster iGPU gaming performance than Lunar Lake, and come with a whole host of friends
CES 2026 Strap in, it's about to get technical.
Nvidia's promising '4K 240 Hz path traced gaming' with DLSS 4.5 but do you want 6x Multi Frame Gen?
CES 2026 It's convinced the 2nd gen Transformer model is good enough that you will.
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'Quite frankly it was missing one thing': Alienware has fixed one of the biggest issues with its Area-51 gaming PC
CES 2026 The new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is part of the Alienware's CES 2026 party.
Alienware promises it's not 'cutting corners on the things that matter the most' with its new entry-level gaming laptops
CES 2026 So, lots of RAM then, eh?
Alienware is taking on Razer and Asus with its new ultra slim 'covert' gaming laptop tease
CES 2026 "It's a little more covert" than your traditional Alienware... like a Dell laptop maybe.
The AMD Ryzen AI Max range gets two more entries, one of which looks perfect for the ultimate in handheld PC gaming
CES 2026 It's certainly better for gaming than the 'new' Ryzen AI 400 chips, that's for sure.
AMD launches its fastest gaming CPU yet, though the new Ryzen 7 9850X3D is clocked just 8% higher than the 9800X3D
CES 2026 And AMD tells us to only expect 2 - 3% higher performance on average, 5% at best if a game really likes higher clocks.
