The Witcher 3 remaster and 44 GPUs in Gears of War: E-Day for Hardware Unboxed

Steve tested the remaster while unwell, and the Gears benchmark passed 100,000 views in its first seventeen hours.

Channel: Hardware UnboxedStory of October 4, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered | GPU Benchmark

Three uploads, two big games, and a lot of graphics cards. Hardware Unboxed opened its week with "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered | GPU Benchmark," comparing CD Projekt Red's 2015 role-playing classic with its new remaster around Novigrad, then pitting the RTX 5070 Ti against the Radeon RX 9070 XT with ray tracing and path tracing switched on and off. It is the week's most watched upload, close to 600,000 views, and the comment section reads like a group squint at side-by-side screenshots. Many viewers say they can barely tell the two versions apart, some think the distant lighting looks flatter in the remaster, and one runs the joke of admiring the wrong side. Others sent get-well wishes to Steve, who was clearly under the weather, and several winced at hearing the game called eleven years old.

Then came Gears of War: E-Day, The Coalition's prequel set on the day the Locust emerged. First an optimization guide with a fix for the game's noise issue and a look at RTX Mega Geometry, then the full treatment: 44 GPUs at Ultra and Medium, with upscaling. The description's verdict is that it looks impressive and runs well even on 8GB cards, and that benchmark is the video moving fastest on the channel right now.

Overall the channel is running somewhat below its usual pace, with subscribers holding level. Among similar tech channels it sits in the middle, while Digital Doctor is having by far the biggest week of the group and MrMobile is steady.

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The videos drawing views on Hardware Unboxed right now

Gears of War E-Day Optimization, How to Fix Noise, Best Settings for …196,448 views · 2026-10-01 Gears of War: E-Day | 44 GPU Benchmark104,056 views · 2026-10-03

The numbers

Here is how Hardware Unboxed's week looks in figures.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels

Digital Doctor

44,070,797

The Studio

4,889,321

Max Tech

1,681,537

iFixit

1,674,716

Hardware Unboxed

1,305,210

Snazzy Labs

1,239,678

bigclivedotcom

731,124

Jeff Geerling

613,639

MrMobile [Michael Fisher]

442,927

subscribers

1,170,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

385,832,383

views per day

96,571

typical day: 148,929

this week's videos (first-day views)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered |…

395,349

Gears of War E-Day Optimization, How to…

145,522

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

iFixit

1,280,000

MrMobile [Michael Fisher]

1,280,000

Snazzy Labs

1,270,000

Max Tech

1,270,000

Hardware Unboxed

1,170,000

The Studio

1,160,000

bigclivedotcom

1,130,000

Digital Doctor

1,100,000

Jeff Geerling

1,090,000

As of October 4, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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