What is Damage Labs?

Damage Labs is an independent publication about computer performance, graphics, artificial intelligence, and the technologies reshaping personal computing.

I’m Scott Wasson. I helped found Ars Technica and later founded The Tech Report, where I spent many years reviewing processors, graphics cards, and PC hardware. I’m perhaps best known for introducing frame-time-based graphics benchmarking as a better way to understand animation smoothness than average frame rates alone. I’ve also worked at the industry in the GPU teams at AMD and Intel. Most recently, I worked in product management for the MLPerf AI benchmarks.

Today, new trends in AI and elsewhere are reshaping the PC landscape in fundamental ways. It’s both frustrating at times—memory and GPU prices are nuts right now—and exciting. Damage Labs where I’ll be offering my thoughts and analysis on what’s happening.

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