Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

DLink HD Wi-Fi Camera 8300LH Review
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & 2080 Mega Benchmark
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 GAMING OC 8G Review
Intel Expands Optane SSD 905P HHHL AIC and U.2 to 1.5TB Capacity + Quick Look Review
Logitech G305 Review
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To RTX 2080 Ti Graphics/Compute Performance (GTX 680, 780 Ti, 980 Ti, 1080 Ti, 2080 Ti)
Star Control: Origins Review

DLink HD Wi-Fi Camera 8300LH Review

In our last look at a Wi-Fi camera solution from DLink, we reviewed the 8010LH, an entry-level solution. Today we move up to the mid-range, DCS 8300LH that offers two-way audio and 1080p video.

Just like the 8010LH, the new 8300LH caters to the indoor market of baby and nanny cameras. This solution features a 1080p sensor, two-way audio, sound and motion detection and of course night vision. The 8300LH is IFTTT compatible and works with both Google and Alexa digital assistants. DLink does offer cloud recording with several plans available along with a one-day storage free option. You can also choose to record directly to a microSD card.

Read full article @ TweakTown

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & 2080 Mega Benchmark

We've already got our first official look at how the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & 2080 performs and we were impressed with what the 2080 Ti offered at 4K, but ultimately let down by the fact that these new Turing GPUs cost way too much. It's now day two and we're hitting you with a mega 35 game benchmark to put all your doubts to rest.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 GAMING OC 8G Review

Gigabyte is outing their GeForce RTX series graphics cards as well, in this review we look at their brand new GeForce RTX 2080, and in specific the GAMING OC 8G edition. Armed with tensor and raytracing processors this model comes slightly tweaked in the clock frequency. Next to that is has been armed with a feisty WINDFORCE 3X Cooling System.

We've already covered a lot of new technology as the Turing architecture of the new GPUs offers a fundamental change in the graphics card arena as, next to your normal shading engine, NVIDIA has added RT (Raytracing) cores, as well as Tensor (AI) cores into the new GPUs, and these are active. Is Turing the start of the next 20 years of gaming graphics? Well, that all depends on the actual adoption rate in the software houses, with the guys and girls that develop games. A dozen or so RTX games are in development and a dozen or so announced titles will make use of deep learning DLSS utilizing the Tensor cores. For the new RTX series, it's mostly about Raytracing though. So welcome to a long row of RTX reviews. We start off with the reference cards and will follow with the AIB cards as, for whatever reason, NVIDIA figured it to be an okay thing for them to launch everything at once. First a quick recap of what's tested in this article, a bit of architecture and then we'll dive into real-world testing of course. Starting November 20th of the year 2018 you will see two products become available, a GeForce RTX 2070 will follow later in October. The GeForce RTX 2080 then; this graphics card series will not have the full shader count and GPU as the 2080 Ti, in fact, it even has its own GPU called the TU104. This card will get 2944 shader processors (also referred to as Stream or Cuda cores) active based on that TU104 GPU running a base clock of 1515 MHz with Boost frequencies running upwards to 1800 MHz. The TU104 chip contains six GPCs, 48 SMs, and eight 32-bit memory controllers (256-bit total). Each SM includes 64 shader processors, 256 KB register file, 96 KB L1 data cache/shared memory cache, and four texture units. The full TU104 chip contains 13.6 Billion transistors and includes 3072 shader processors, 368 Tensor Cores, and 48 RT Cores. So yes, the RTX 2080 is cut down. One x8 NVLink link is activated providing 25 GB/sec of bandwidth in each direction (50 GB/sec total bandwidth). Keep in mind that the clocks and TDPs will be different here and there, AIB partners obviously have different factory tweaked products. The GDDR6 memory will get tied to a 256-bit bus, and depending on the clock frequency, we are looking at 448 GB/sec. It is a product that will start at 699 USD for the AIB partner products, and 799 for the Founders editions. This product will have a 225 Watt TDP. Will the 2080 rip a hole on that FPS ceiling? Well, let's find out and also show you a trick or two on Raytracing and DLSS, of course.

Read full article @ The Guru of 3D

Intel Expands Optane SSD 905P HHHL AIC and U.2 to 1.5TB Capacity + Quick Look Review

Intel just sent over a note that they have officially launched the 1.5TB capacity for the Optane SSD 905P (for both HHHL and U.2 form factors). Wed been expecting this for a while now, considering we had tested a full system incorporating the U.2 version of this very capacity two months ago. That system has now been given away, but I borrowed the SSD while Ken was tearing down the system for his review. With the product now officially launched, I thought it appropriate to take a quick look at this higher capacity part, both inside and out.

7 packages on one side of a single PCB. This is unexpected for a U.2 SSD since there is usually some sort of folded-over PCB sandwich, which doubles the available area for packages. Odd finding a single PCB here given the large 1.5TB capacity combined with XPoint dies only holding 16GB each.

Read full article @ PC Perspective

Logitech G305 Review

Top of the line optical sensor and cutting edge wireless technology put into a well-known and widely used shell. This is the recipe for the Logitech G305, which can be considered a wireless successor to the wired G Pro or G203 models; it even comes with quite the friendly price tag.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To RTX 2080 Ti Graphics/Compute Performance (GTX 680, 780 Ti, 980 Ti, 1080 Ti, 2080 Ti)

Yesterday were the initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux benchmarks based upon my early testing of this high-end Turing graphics card paired with their new 410 Linux graphics driver. For your viewing pleasure today is a look at how the RTX 2080 Ti compares to the top-end cards going back to Kepler... Or, simply put, it's the GeForce GTX 680 vs. GTX 780 Ti vs. 980 Ti vs. 1080 Ti vs. 2080 Ti comparison with OpenGL and Vulkan graphics tests as well as some initial OpenCL / CUDA tests but more Turing GPU compute tests are currently being conducted. For making this historical comparison more interesting are also power consumption and performance-per-Watt metrics.

Read full article @ Phoronix

Star Control: Origins Review

Is *Star Control: Origins* a game to get you travelling the stars? In its current form, I would say yes, but you should know what to expect. I do feel it needs some changes to achieve the potential it presented to me, but even in the state I experienced, it is still enjoyable. The fact that you may be able to play it on a modern laptop (at least more modern and powerful than mine) is also intriguing as this could be a good game to take with you for when you have time to kill. Just be mindful that it can hit that 'just one more time' button. The graphics are good and the performance is also pretty good, though some areas can stress the system, at least at maximum settings. Perhaps with optimization patches and Vulkan API support this will change, but until they come, it is impossible for me to say what is possible. The story did not leave me particularly well impressed, but the characters of the species I found enjoyable, and the use of distinct fonts I appreciate. The gameplay can definitely be fun but there are weaknesses I hope will be addressed in time to really let the game shine as I think it can.

Read full article @ OCC