The Hardware Unboxed Podcast

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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The RTX 5060 Ti is a Trap

Episode 68: Nvidia has just released the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and the RTX 5060 is coming soon so we break all of that down in today's episode. CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:31 - The Meeting with Nvidia 10:26 - Why Does the 8GB Model Exist? 25:40 - GPU VRAM vs Console VRAM History 42:31 - The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is a Trap 54:45 - Ray Tracing Hot Takes 1:04:13 - Did the 8GB Card Taint the 16GB Card? 1:16:57 - AMD Has an Opportunity 1:21:11 - Updates From Our Boring Lives SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Audio: htt...

Apr 18, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 68

Intel Arc B580 CPU Overhead Is NOT Fake: HUB vs PRO Hi-Tech

Episode 67: Being accused of faking benchmarks and some really poor testing has turned Steve into a rage monster this episode as we break down the Arc B580 CPU overhead situation CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:39 - The Arc B580 CPU Overhead Issue is Real 14:15 - Lower End Parts Can Be CPU Limited 21:31 - The Influx of Comments 29:38 - The PRO Hi-Tech Video and Language Barrier 37:30 - The Testing Was Bad 45:39 - PRO Hi-Tech Response 1:07:30 - That's Not How to Test CPU Overhead 1:26:05 - Final Though...

Apr 11, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 67

Tariffs Raising GPU Prices, 4K CPU Testing and RX 9070 GRE

Episode 66: This week Steve decided to try comedy, tariffs were announced that will probably hurt the prices of PC gaming components, and we saw some GPU rumors CHAPTERS 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - Steve Trolls People With 4K CPU Testing 25:33 - Our Dumb Early Thoughts on Tariffs 36:51 - RX 9070 GRE Rumor Chat 44:23 - We're Going to Computex 52:14 - Updates From Our Boring Lives SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Audio: https://shows.acast.com/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/...

Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 66