Eighteen months of driver churn, three custom-loop test rigs, and 412 hours of in-game telemetry later, the Founders card lands the first clean 4K/120 native number we've measured on a single-GPU build. We benchmarked 47 titles, including six launch-day CyberPatch suites, and pulled the plug on DLSS 4 frame-gen to see what the silicon actually does.
Every card below is bench-tested, scored, and double-source verified. Shipped inside our 90-minute launch window.
Yuki Park and Marcus Tan spent six weeks driving the Founders card through 47 titles, three custom loops, and one wall of Cyberpunk 2077 ray-tracing presets. The verdict is in — and so are the frame-time charts.
Forty-seven headsets later, one of our testers handed this back without asking for a refund. That's the review.
After 92 keyboards on the bench, this is the first hall-effect unit where the rapid trigger actually feels like an advantage, not a gimmick.
Firaxis shipped a slow first act and a brutal second. The third act is one of the best 4X designs in a decade. Here's where it lands.
41 titles covered · 19 leagues · 1,400+ matches scouted in person since 2017. Filed from the floor, not from a Discord screen.
K. O'Brien files from the LAN floor: rosters are locked, scrim VODs are circulating, and the press riser has a new coffee machine.
Read the dispatch →R. Castellanos watches from the analyst booth: 14-hour scrim days, three-game review blocks, and the coach who never logs off.
Read the dispatch →J. Min-Ho on the floor at Sangam: how the Pacific favorites are pre-banning three maps they used to fear most.
Read the dispatch →A. Souza breaks the new format from the CBLAC press box: two groups, double round-robin finals, and the orgs that pushed hardest for it.
Read the dispatch →Six stats, six footnotes. The proof column a serious reader checks before trusting an outlet.
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