Pre-ordering is a dirty word in the modern gaming discourse. Paying for a game before its releaseda risky move? But is there something more to this questionable practice? Let us see if a defense can be made for pre-ordering video games! What is pre-ordering? First, we must establish what pre-ordering is. Its pretty straightforward. You [...]

The release of the RDNA 4 architecture is a watershed moment for AMD Radeon as it represents a serious, modern, and powerful architecture that is feature rich. Today we will showcase some of its biggest improvements over its predecessors. If you want to gain context or know what previous architectures achieved, please check our previous [...]

16GB and 8GB VRAM variations to suit a variety of PC builds. June 05, 2025 SAPPHIRE Technology announces the latest SAPPHIRE NITRO+ AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card, featuring AMD RDNA 4 architecture with striking features for an enhanced gaming experience. The Ultimate NITRO+ Charged Gaming Quest Engineered with a supreme cooling design and [...]

We already covered the amazing STALKER series several times here at Sapphirenation. It is one of PC Gamings most beloved franchises! Recently, it saw a release for consoles as well first with ports of Shadow of Chornobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat for the PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Then with the launch of the [...]

Recently we saw the release of Sonys brand-new top tier console the PlayStation 5 Pro! It is a lean, mean machine indeed and while it is still somewhat supply limited, it is already making waves! But for us at SAPPHIRE NATION what matters most is how will this impact PC gaming hardware? And also almost [...]