Earlier today, Oppo made the Find N5 official as the new world's thinnest single-folding / bi-fold foldable smartphone (the Huawei Mate XT is still thinner when unfolded, but that one folds twice or is "tri-fold" as they say). The Find N5 took the crown from the Honor Magic V3, but of course that device came out last year and Honor is already working on its successor.
It's still unclear if the Magic V4 will be thinner than the Find N5, but a new rumor out of China claims we should expect Honor's next foldable to launch in the first half of the year - close to June, if not in...
vivo unveiled the V50 earlier this week at an event in New Delhi, India, making it vivo's first big launch of 2025. The vivo V50 is yet to go on sale, but we've received the phone for review, so let's take a quick look at what it has to offer before we put it through our review gauntlet.
The vivo V50's retail box looks identical to its predecessor's - the V40. It includes some documents, a SIM ejector tool, a charging cable, a power adapter, and a protective case.
The protective case is either clear or black depending on the market
The vivo V50 is built around a 6.77" FullHD+...
Microsoft partnered with Teachable AI Experiences and the Xbox Games Studios' Ninja Theory to introduce a new AI model aimed at helping game developers. It's called Muse.
What can Muse do? It can generate game visuals and controller actions based on a 3D understanding of a game. The model was trained on 1.6 billion parameters and with 1 billion images and controller actions. That's about 7 years of continuous human gameplay. They used Ninja Theory's Bleeding Edge game.
The data used for the model was collected using gameplay data from users who gave their consent. The model works...
The vivo X200 Ultra is expected to launch in China in mid to late April alongside the X200s, as a recent rumor told us. Today a new intriguing detail about the X200 Ultra has surfaced on Weibo.
Namely, that it will have a new Action Button, placed on the lower part of the right frame. It will primarily serve as a camera button, despite vivo apparently not choosing to call it that - so there's a chance it will be customizable.
vivo X100 Ultra
The X200 Ultra's triple rear camera setup has once again been confirmed to employ a 50 MP main camera, a 50 MP ultrawide, and a 200 MP...
Antennas Direct ClearStream Eclipse: Two-minute review
The ClearStream Eclipse is a reversible design that gives you black and white color options (Image credit: Future)
The Antennas Direct ClearStream Eclipse is a simple, yet powerful indoor antenna with an unobtrusive design. Like other examples of the best indoor TV antennas, its only function is to “pull” the stations you want at your particular location. Still, until you try a given model at yours it’s impossible to predict the results. That said, Antennas Direct makes it a bit easier with its free Antenna Point iOS/Android app, which uses your phone’s location data to display a map showing transmitter locations, and thus your aiming direction, and lists all their main and sub-channels sorted as Strong, Fair, or Weak (based purely on distance, with no considerations for elevation or obstructions, but it’s a start).
The Antennas Direct CleStream Eclipse’s packaging claims a “50-plus-mile range,” but remember that any antenna’s performance is largely dictated by its elevation and by the presence or absence of intervening hills or tall buildings. Note that this review also covers the amplified Eclipse: the same antenna is offered without the signal amplifier for about $15 less.
The Eclipse antenna is a flexible vinyl halo about 8 inches across, meant to be fixed to a smooth surface — typically, a windowpane or painted wall — using the supplied crescent of clear double-sided adhesive plastic. (Since my trials were strictly temporary, I used blue painter’s tape instead, and suggest others do likewise until they finalize their installation.) One side of the antenna is white, the other black, so decor-wise you can pick your poison.
Flip the antenna around for the white option (Image credit: Future)
A housing at the bottom about a half-inch thick — the antenna itself is not much more than a half-millimeter or so thick – provides a standard coaxial F-connector plus the supplied coax cables. ClearStream packs two: 3-foot and 12-foot lengths, intending the shorter one to connect the antenna to the included signal amplifier, and the longer one to the amp to your TV (other lengths are available at most hardware stores). The amp module, about the size of a pack of gum, has two F-connectors (antenna input and signal output), and a mini-USB port for power. A supplied 8-foot power cable supplies the juice, which can come from any open USB port on the TV or another component, or from the small wall charger packed with the Eclipse. (The amp supplied with my Eclipse sample looked slightly different than the one shown in ads, but is likely to be electrically identical.)
Before we report on the ClearStream Eclipse’s performance, it’s worth repeating: real-world reception is overwhelmingly affected by your location’s elevation, and by any obstructions, natural or man-made, that intervene between it and your desired stations’ transmitters. Our results reflect a semi-rural spot at about 700 feet above sea level, in a second-story window with a clear line-of-sight southeast, where a variety of signals emanate from the east, south, and southwest, at distances ranging from 17 miles to more than 75 miles. This is a pretty excellent site, so your mileage will vary.
With that caveat, in my trial the Eclipse pulled in 16 main signals, delivering a total of 61 main and sub-channels combined – impressive results. Of these, the most distant one (nearly 70 miles) was occasionally “blocky” enough to be only borderline usable, while the rest were solid, though this is likely to vary from day to day and even hour to hour as atmospheric conditions change.
The included amplifier module attaches to the antenna and to your TV's USB port for power. (Image credit: Future)
Antennas Direct ClearStream Eclipse: Price and release date
First available: June 2016
Price: $49.99
With its very fine performance (especially on UHF-band signals), the ClearStream Eclipse Amplified is very fairly priced at $50, and it can regularly be found for less. Nonetheless, spending half to twice as much on a larger design incorporating VHF elements may deliver a few more fringe signals.
The antenna plus included accessories (Image credit: Future)
Should you buy the Antennas Direct ClearSstream Eclipse?
Buy it if...
You need fringe-suburban to edge-rural reception: The Eclipse managed to pull in signals from 17 to nearly 70 miles in our test setting.
You want an unobtrusive antenna: The Eclipse's surface-mount design lets it easily be hidden in a window or on a wall outside of view.
Don't buy it if...
You need to receive signals much beyond 50 miles: The Eclipse may not be able to pull in signals from long distances, especially if your home is in a low spot or obstructed by hills or buildings.
You need a VHF (channels 2-13) station at some distance: In this case, a larger indoor antenna with VHF elements may well do better.
Mohu Vibe review: Also consider
Mohu Arc A slightly pricier antenna with a decor-friendly design. It lacks amplification, so is best suited for urban and suburban enviroments where stations are within a 40-mile radius.
Winegard FlatWave Amped Pro TH-3000 A pricier amplified antenna that provides very good range at 60-plus miles, It also features a useful Bluetooth setup app to assist in installation.
How I tested the Antennas Direct ClearStream Eclipse
Tested at semi-rural location
Compared with powerful "reference" antenna
I test indoor TV antennas at a semi-rural, hilltop location with good elevation and a clear line-of-sight over nearly 360 degrees to TV transmitters ranging from about 15 to about 70 miles. This testing environment gives me the ability to evaluate models catering to a full spectrum of indoor antenna needs.
For the testing process, I first place the antenna high up in a south-facing window and run the tuning process on a TV with an ATSC 3.0 “next-gen TV” tuner. I then record the number of carriers tuned, along with the total number of sub-channels. A powerful inside-the-attic rooftop-type antenna at the same location is also used as a reference for comparison.
Apple made the iPhone 16e official yesterday, and the cheapest device in the company's current lineup doesn't have the Camera Control button that was introduced with the rest of the iPhone 16 family. The Camera Control is, on the others, the only way to access Apple's Visual Intelligence AI features, but the iPhone 16e will get these too despite not having the Camera Control.
And so will the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. A new report claims Apple has confirmed that Visual Intelligence will arrive on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max with a future update - perhaps this will land with iOS...
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti definitely had a high expectation bar to clear after the mixed reception of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 last month, especially from enthusiasts.
And while there are things I fault the RTX 5070 Ti for, there's no doubt that it has taken the lead as the best graphics card most people can buy right now—assuming that scalpers don't get there first.
The fact that the RTX 5070 Ti beats both of those cards handily in terms of performance would normally be enough to get it high marks, but this card even ekes out a win over the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super, shooting it nearly to the top of the best Nvidia graphics card lists.
As one of the best 4K graphics cards I've ever tested, it isn't without faults, but we're really only talking about the fact that Nvidia isn't releasing a Founders Edition card for this one, and that's unfortunate for a couple of reasons.
For one, and probably most importantly, without a Founders Edition card from Nvidia guaranteed to sell for MSRP directly from Nvidia's website, the MSRP price for this card is just a suggestion. And without an MSRP card from Nvidia keeping AIB partners onside, it'll be hard finding a card at Nvidia's $749 price tag, reducing its value proposition.
Also, because there's no Founders Edition, Nvidia's dual pass-through design to keep the card cool will pass the 5070 Ti by. If you were hoping that the RTX 5070 Ti might be SFF-friendly, I simply don't see how the RTX 5070 Ti fits into that unless you stretch the meaning of small form factor until it hurts.
Those aren't small quibbles, but given everything else the RTX 5070 Ti brings to the table, they do seem like I'm stretching myself a bit to find something bad to say about this card for balance.
For the vast majority of buyers out there looking for outstanding 4K performance at a relatively approachable MSRP, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is the card you're going to want to buy.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti: Price & availability
(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)
How much is it? MSRP is $749/£729 (about AU$1,050), but with no Founders Edition, third-party cards will likely be higher
When can you get it? The RTX 5070 Ti goes on sale February 20, 2025
Where is it available? The RTX 5070 Ti will be available in the US, UK, and Australia at launch
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti goes on sale on February 20, 2025, starting at $749/£729 (about AU$1,050) in the US, UK, and Australia, respectively.
Unlike the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, there is no Founders Edition card for the RTX 5070 Ti, so there are no versions of this card that will be guaranteed to sell at this MSRP price, which does complicate things given the current scalping frenzy we've seen for the previous RTX 50 series cards.
While stock of the Founders Edition RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 might be hard to find even from Nvidia, there is a place, at least, where you could theoretically buy those cards at MSRP. No such luck with the RTX 5070 Ti, which is a shame.
The 5070 Ti MSRP does at least come in under the launch MSRPs of both the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super, neither of which had Founders Edition cards, so stock and pricing will hopefully stay within the bounds of where those cards have been selling for.
The 5070 Ti's MSRP puts it on the lower-end of the enthusiast-class, and while we haven't seen the price for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT yet, it's unlikely that AMD's competing RDNA 4 GPU will sell for much less than the RTX 5070 Ti, but if you're not in a hurry, it might be worth waiting a month or two to see what AMD has to offer in this range before deciding which is the better buy.
Value: 4 / 5
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti: Specs
(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)
GDDR7 VRAM and PCIe 5.0
Slight bump in power consumption
More memory than its direct predecessor
Like the rest of the Nvidia Blackwell GPU lineup, there are some notable advances with the RTX 5070 Ti over its predecessors.
First, the RTX 5070 Ti features faster GDDR7 memory which, in addition to having an additional 4GB VRAM than the RTX 4070 Ti's 12GB, means that the RTX 5070 Ti's larger, faster memory pool can process high resolution texture files faster, making it far more capable at 4K resolutions.
Also of note is its 256-bit memory interface, which is 33.3% larger than the RTX 4070 Ti's, and equal to that of the RTX 4070 Ti Super. 64 extra bits might not seem like a lot, but just like trying to fit a couch through a door, even an extra inch or two of extra space can be the difference between moving the whole thing through at once or having to do it in parts, which translates into additional work on both ends.
(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)
There's also the new PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, which speeds up communication between the graphics card, your processor, and your SSD. If you have a PCIe 5.0 capable motherboard, processor, and SSD, just make note of how many PCIe 5.0 lanes you have available.
The RTX 5070 Ti will take up 16 of them, so if you only have 16 lanes available and you have a PCIe 5.0 SSD, the RTX 5070 Ti is going to get those lanes by default, throttling your SSD to PCIe 4.0 speeds. Some motherboards will let you set PCIe 5.0 priority, if you have to make a choice.
The RTX 5070 Ti uses slightly more power than its predecessors, but in my testing it's maximum power draw came in at just under the card's 300W TDP.
As for the GPU inside the RTX 5070 Ti, it's built using TSMC's N4P process node, which is a refinement of the TSMC N4 node used by its predecessors. While not a full generational jump in process tech, the N4P process does offer better efficiency and a slight increase in transistor density.
Specs & features: 5 / 5
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti: Design & features
(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)
No Nvidia Founders Edition card
No dual-pass-through cooling (at least for now)
There is no Founders Edition card for the RTX 5070 Ti, so the RTX 5070 Ti you end up with may look radically different than the one I tested for this review, the Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.
Whatever partner card you choose though, it's likely to be a chonky card given the card's TDP, since 300W of heat needs a lot of cooling. While the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 Founders Edition cards featured the innovative dual pass-through design (which dramatically shrank the card's width), it's unlikely you'll find any RTX 5070 Ti cards in the near future that feature this kind of cooling setup, if ever.
With that groundwork laid, you're going to have a lot of options for cooling setups, shroud design, and lighting options, though more feature-rich cards will likely be more expensive, so make sure you consider the added cost when weighing your options.
As for the Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, the sleek shroud of the card lacks the RGB that a lot of gamers like for their builds, but for those of us who are kind of over RGB, the Prime's design is fantastic and easily worked into any typical mid-tower case.
The Prime RTX 5070 Ti features a triple-fan cooling setup, with one of those fans having complete passthrough over the heatsink fins. There's a protective backplate and stainless bracket over the output ports.
The 16-pin power connector rests along the card's backplate, so even if you invested in a 90-degree angled power cable, you'll still be able to use it, assuming your power supply meets the recommended 750W listed on Asus's website. There's a 3-to-1 adapter included with the card, as well, for those who haven't upgraded to an ATX 3.0 PSU yet.
Design: 4 / 5
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti: Performance
(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)
RTX 4080 Super-level performance
Massive improvement over the RTX 4070 Ti Super
Added features like DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation
A note on my data
The charts shown below offer the most recent data I have for the cards tested for this review. They may change over time as more card results are added and cards are retested. The 'average of all cards tested' includes cards not shown in these charts for readability purposes.
And so we come to the reason we're all here, which is this card's performance.
Given the...passionate...debate over the RTX 5080's underwhelming gen-on-gen uplift, enthusiasts will be very happy with the performance of the RTX 5070 Ti, at least as far as it relates to the last-gen RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super.
Starting with synthetic scores, at 1080p, both the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 5070 Ti are so overpowered that they get close to CPU-locking on 3DMark's 1080p tests, Night Raid and Fire Strike, though the RTX 5070 Ti does come out about 14% ahead. The RTX 5070 Ti begins to pull away at higher resolutions and once you introduce ray tracing into the mix, with roughly 30% better performance at these higher level tests like Solar Bay, Steel Nomad, and Port Royal.
In terms of raw compute performance, the RTX 5070 Ti scores about 25% better in Geekbench 6 than the RTX 4070 Ti and about 20% better than the RTX 4070 Ti Super.
In creative workloads like Blender Benchmark 4.30, the RTX 5070 Ti pulls way ahead of its predecessors, though the 5070 Ti, 4070 Ti Super, and 4070 Ti all pretty much max out what a GPU can add to my Handbrake 1.9 4K to 1080p encoding test, with all three cards cranking out about 220 FPS encoded on average.
Starting with 1440p gaming, the gen-on-gen improvement of the RTX 5070 Ti over the RTX 4070 Ti is a respectable 20%, even without factoring in DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation.
The biggest complaint that some have about MFG is that if the base frame rate isn't high enough, you'll end up with controls that can feel slightly sluggish, even though the visuals you're seeing are much more fluid.
Fortunately, outside of turning ray tracing to its max settings and leaving Nvidia Reflex off, you're not really going to need to worry about that. The RTX 5070 Ti's minimum FPS for all but one of the games I tested at native 1440p with ray tracing all pretty much hit or exceeded 60 FPS, often by a lot.
Only F1 2024 had a lower-than-60 minimum FPS at native 1440p with max ray tracing, and even then, it still managed to stay above 45 fps, which is fast enough that no human would ever notice any input latency in practice. For 1440p gaming, then, there's absolutely no reason not to turn on MFG whenever it is available since it can substantially increase framerates, often doubling or even tripling them in some cases without issue.
For 4K gaming, the RTX 5070 Ti native performance is spectacular, with nearly every title tested hitting 60 FPS or greater on average, with those that fell short only doing so by 4-5 frames.
Compared to the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super, the faster memory and expanded 16GB VRAM pool definitely turn up for the RTX 5070 Ti at 4K, delivering about 31% better overall average FPS than the RTX 4070 Ti and about 23% better average FPS than the RTX 4070 Ti Super.
In fact, the average 4K performance for the RTX 5070 Ti pulls up pretty much dead even with the RTX 4080 Super's performance, and about 12% better than the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 4K, despite the latter having 8GB more VRAM.
Like every other graphics card besides the RTX 4090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090, playing at native 4K with ray tracing maxed out is going to kill your FPS. To the 5070 Ti's credit, though, minimum FPS never dropped so low as to turn things into a slideshow, even if the 5070 Ti's 25 FPS minimum in Cyberpunk 2077 was noticeable.
Turning on DLSS in these cases is a must, even if you skip turning on MFG, but the RTX 5070 Ti's balanced upscaled performance is a fantastic experience.
Leave ray tracing turned off (or set to a lower setting), however, and MFG definitely becomes a viable way to max out your 4K monitor's refresh rate for seriously fluid gaming.
Overall then, the RTX 5070 Ti delivers substantial high-resolution gains gen-on-gen, which should make enthusiasts happy, without having to increase its power consumption all that much.
Of all the graphics cards I've tested over the years, and especially over the past six months, the RTX 5070 Ti is pretty much the perfect balance for whatever you need it for, and if you can get it at MSRP or reasonably close to MSRP, it's without a doubt the best value for your money of any of the current crop of enthusiast graphics cards.
Performance: 5 / 5
Should you buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti?
(Image credit: Future / John Loeffler)
Buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti if...
You want the perfect balance of 4K performance and price Assuming you can find it at or close to MSRP, the 4K value proposition on this card is the best you'll find for an enthusiast graphics card.
You want a fantastic creative graphics card on the cheap While the RTX 5070 Ti doesn't have the RTX 5090's creative chops, it's a fantastic pick for 3D modelers and video professionals looking for a (relatively) cheap GPU.
You want Nvidia's latest DLSS features without spending a fortune While this isn't the first Nvidia graphics card to feature DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, it is the cheapest, at least until the RTX 5070 launches in a month or so.
Don't buy it if...
You want the absolute best performance possible The RTX 5070 Ti is a fantastic performer, but the RTX 5080, RTX 4090, and RTX 5090 all offer better raw performance if you're willing to pay more for it.
You're looking for something more affordable While the RTX 5070 Ti has a fantastic price for an enthusiast-grade card, it's still very expensive, especially once scalpers get involved.
You only plan on playing at 1440p If younever plan on playing at 4K this generation, you might want to see if the RTX 5070 or AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 cards are a better fit.
Also consider
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 While more expensive, the RTX 5080 features fantastic performance and value for under a grand at MSRP.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super While this card might not be on the store shelves for much longer, the RTX 5070 Ti matches the RTX 4080 Super's performance, so if you can find the RTX 4080 Super at a solid discount, it might be the better pick.
I spent about a week testing the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, using it mostly for creative work and gaming, including titles like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Avowed.
I also used my updated suite of benchmarks including industry standards like 3DMark and Geekbench, as well as built-in gaming benchmarks like Cyberpunk 2077 and Dying Light 2.
I also test all of the competing cards in a given card's market class using the same test bench setup throughout so I can fully isolate GPU performance across various, repeatable tests. I then take geometric averages of the various test results (which better insulates the average from being skewed by tests with very large test results) to come to comparable scores for different aspects of the card's performance. I give more weight to gaming performance than creative or AI performance, and performance is given the most weight in how final scores are determined, followed closely by value.
I've been testing GPUs, PCs, and laptops for TechRadar for nearly five years now, with more than two dozen graphics card reviews under my belt in the past three years alone. On top of that, I have a Masters degree in Computer Science and have been building PCs and gaming on PCs for most of my life, so I am well qualified to assess the value of a graphics card and whether it's worth your time and money.
Oppo held its big launch event for the Find N5 today and there was a second device that got announced on stage – the Oppo Watch X2. If it looks familiar, that’s because the Watch X2 is nothing more than a rebadged OnePlus Watch 3 which launched earlier this week.
Oppo Watch X2 in Lava Black and Summit Blue
The two watches share the exact same internals with the only difference being the Watch X2 comes in Summit Blue with a slightly altered watch bezel. The rest of the specs and features are identical between the two wearables.
Oppo Watch X2 key specs
To recap, you get a...
ColorOS 15, which made its debut with the Oppo Find X8 series, introduced the O+ Connect feature that allows Oppo phones to easily share files with iPhones and iPads. Now, with the launch of the Oppo Find N5, the company is introducing O+ Connect for Mac.
At its simplest, this allows you to view, move, search and delete files on your phone from your Mac or MacBook. You can view files without copying them, e.g. looking through your recent photos. You can also use your computer to edit files and any changes will be automatically sent back to the phone.
O+ Connect for Mac
This feature...
