In the 5th episode of CB-Funk, Jan and Fabian once again focus on the Core i9-13900KS, taunt the insane hardware requirements of the first two major new game releases of the year, collecting Interesting insights into rapid loading times with DirectStorage and speculation about even faster Nvidia graphics cards.
CB radio – the 5th episode
Last week, the first two triple-A games of the still young year were coming up: On Tuesday, Forspoken (benchmark test, rating overview) was released, a new fantasy action role-playing game from Square Enix, before the long-awaited remake of the Horror classic Dead Space (test) started. And the two games show that even high-end graphics cards of the new generations Ada Lovelace and RDNA 3 are no guarantee for high refresh rates in UHD. Even the GeForce RTX 4090 (test) just barely fails at the 60 FPS mark; this would require a GeForce RTX 4090 Ti or Titan Ada in Forspoken at 3,840 × 2,160 pixels and Ultra graphics settings. And they will come – or how about it?
Another topic is the premiere of DirectStorage, an API that is supposed to significantly reduce loading times in games. And detailed analyzes by the editors show: With correspondingly fast hardware, Forspoken gets by almost entirely without loading times. In fact, this is not (only) due to DirectStorage, but is only associated with the new technology. On the other hand, there were no FPS losses – at least not in the way that has been said in the past few days.
But before we start with the new hardware topics, let's take a look at the Core i9-13900KS, which Intel released as the first 6 GHz core processor. And the test published yesterday confirms what was already indicated in the last episode of CB radio: The biggest difference to the much cheaper Core i9-13900 without K is in the name. We hope you enjoy listening!
CB radio on Spotify, Apple, Google and Deezer
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Now it's your turn
< p class="p text-width">Now it's your turn – as always, the editors are looking forward to your assessments and perspectives on the topics discussed in this episode of CB radio in the comments. Feedback on the type, scope, handling and audio quality of the still young podcast project is not only welcome, but expressly desired. Ideas and suggestions for additions to the content of the next episodes are also welcome.