AMD’s RX 7800 XT is a great card for the money, often beating out the RTX 4070 for $100 less. Though it’s not perfect. It struggles to match the GeForce card once ray tracing is enabled, and in terms of power efficiency, it’s nowhere close. That said, power efficiency is one metric that can be messed with, and as Techtesters have since discovered it’s possible to make the RX 7800 XT helluva lot more power efficient and still match the RTX 4070 in many games.

In our testing, the AMD-designed RX 7800 XT sucks around 258W from the wall on average during gaming, hitting peak wattage around 295W. An overclocked card, such as the RX 7800 XT TUF Gaming OC Edition I tested, can consume as much as 270W on average. 

Meanwhile, the RTX 4070 Founders Edition eats up around 197W on average in the same test, with peak wattage of just 232W.

On the two reference cards that works out to:

1080p

• RX 7800 XT: 0.43 Frames/J 

Long time RPG developer Tim Cain (Fallout, The Outer Worlds, Troika Games) has revealed another surprising fact about the Fallout series via his excellent YouTube channel. The games are known for their open-ended RPG gameplay and allowing player freedom, but according to Cain, one of their hallmarks, the so-called pacifist run where you don’t directly kill enemies, was originally an accident.

Cain, a veteran developer who created or had a hand in some of the best CRPGs ever made, has been putting out near-daily vlogs about his work for over half a year now. Some highlights we’ve covered include the “true purpose” of Fallout’s Vaults, a Troika Games Lord of the Rings demo, and a version of The Temple of Elemental Evil made to test a US Department of Defence AI project.

“It was accidental in Fallout,” Cain said of the seminal RPG allowing players to beat the game without killing anyone. “We’d designed the game and done the main quest and all that. And at one point, I belie…

According to a “reliable source” cited by Dualshockers, Creative Assembly is currently working on three new Total War games, with a licensed Star Wars game being one of them.

Since Sega abruptly canceled Hyenas a mere two weeks after its beta, it makes sense for Creative Assembly to have shifted focus back onto the series it’s most famous for. “To put it simply, Creative Assembly was good at offline games in the RTS genre,” Sega boss Haruki Satomi told investors at the time, “but they took on the challenge of developing Hyenas, an online game in the FPS genre… Although the game itself was good, we decided to cancel the development of Hyenas because we did not think it would reach a quality that would satisfy our users.”

Given the success of the Total War: Warhammer trilogy, which is nearly complete bar some DLC, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the series take a stab at another licensed setting like Star Wars. And with three games reportedly in the works, one of t…

Wooting, the makers of our favorite gaming keyboard right now, has surprise dropped a compact keyboard that is surprisingly adorable for a keeb with only three keys.

Three keys? Yeah, the keyboard affectionately called the Wooting UwU is designed with one game in mind, the free-to-play rhythm game called osu!

If you haven’t played the game, it only requires just a few click clacks of a keyboard, along with some swift and melodic movements of a mouse, or even a tablet. The game’s become super popular on social media apps, namely TikTok, because it’s absolutely frantic at times, and Wooting is hopping on the train with its own specially designed keyboard. If you can call it that.

I’ll admit I did think it was a little early for an April Fool’s joke when I first caught sight of the UwU, but then I delved a little deeper into this thing and, yeah, it’s pretty cool. It comes with support for all the excellent features we love about the Wooting Two HE and Wooting 60HE, m…

Looking for a Wordle win? Whether you’re about to tackle a blank board or you’re one guess away from losing, you’ll find all the tips you need to beat today’s puzzle right here. Learn how to make the most of every single line with our general advice, take a peek at a clue for the March 3 (988) game if you’d like a helping hand, or reveal today’s answer if you need to.

Today’s Wordle got off to a great start, and I soon found myself staring at four bright green letters… and one gap. One gap that stayed grey after trying that letter… and that letter, and that letter… Just this once though I ran out of letters to try before I touched the bottom of the board, so it didn’t feel too stressful to eliminate the other possibilities on the way down to my Wordle win. 

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, March 3

To make yourself clear, you might have to _____ your pur…

Dell has a deal on the Alienware 34 QD-OLED, which by our measure is the best gaming monitor you can get right now, for $1,139, $160 off its usual price. It was on sale for $1,100 earlier this week on Amazon but no longer. That was the best price we’ve seen so far, and waiting to see if it dips again could be wise, but Dell’s current deal isn’t bad at $39 more. It’s such a good monitor, we felt it was worth pointing out anyway.

Our review of the AW3423DW praised its “fabulous contrast and colors” and its fast pixel response. It’s got a 1440p resolution—still our preferred resolution for gaming, a great compromise between 1080p and 4K—and has a refresh rate of 175Hz with a .1ms response time. 

Those are good specs, but this 34-inch ultrawide seems pretty unassuming until you see it in action. We’ve got one of these in the PC Gamer testing lab in New York, and I can’t count the number of times someone walking by has commented on how good games look on this…