Of course, it's easy to speculate why and how NVIDIA is making such a move so soon after its planned launch on 10/15/202020. If the in-house spies have done a good job, NVIDIA could counter with a card that is already physically present and whose design has been adapted to the competitor's product (BIOS, clock rates). This would indirectly [...]
The discussions about what current flow various 6-, 8- or now even 12-pin sockets can survive are as old as these sockets themselves. But while over the years one could see the odd experiment or two, the 12-pin Micro-Fit 3.0 connector is new. This in turn naturally aroused human curiosity and this is exactly where my longtime friend Aris [...]
At the end of Turing's life cycle, I personally reviewed how the RTX 2000 series performed and which features really scored. With the "small" 2060 Super I tested if raytracing is already feasible for the masses, if DLSS is optically acceptable by now and how much 1440p power you can expect in this price range.
With the revision 456.55 NVIDIA wants to fix most of the problems of the new GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 and solved it. In addition to the power supply shutdowns that repeatedly occurred at the beginning with power supplies that seemed to be nominally sufficient, it was mainly the crashes of certain cards within the 3D environment that caused a [...]
After my article about the capacitors on the GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 has made a lot of waves, I have to criticize myself in two respects. I had underestimated that the readers might be interested in a somewhat longer and more technical explanation of the circumstances or background and that secondly, the (thoughtless) adoption of the terms [...]
Not only the editors and testers were surprised by sudden instabilities of the new GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, but also the first customers who were able to get board partner cards from the first wave. An interesting pattern of behavior emerged that did not affect all cards or manufacturers and the problems only occurred at certain boost clock [...]
With the GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA is rounding out its graphics card portfolio at the top end today, for now. Much more is not possible with the GA102-300 anyway and so one may see the current expansion as a replacement for the Titan RTX rather than the RTX 2080 Ti. An upcoming “Quadro RTX A” should then also be able to get all shaders [...]
At the moment there is a little bit of land underneath, because even logistics and a tight schedule are not real friends and probably never will be. The launch of the GeForce RTX 3090 should, one believes the well informed media, already take place on Thursday, the 24.09.2020 at 15.00 o’clock. And since it can be assumed that a review will [...]
I had recently already measured it in the article “GDDR6X at the limit? Over 100 degrees measured inside of the chip with the GeForce RTX 3080 FE!” and noted, that in extreme cases temperatures of over 110 °C were reached during mining or with Furmark, which of course falls into the more questionable range. It’s interesting that [...]
Latest memory chips, such as Micron’s GDDR6X modules on the GeForce RTX 3080 allow the internal protection mechanism to be used for special protection mechanisms (e.g. the clocking down) of the chip temperature Tjunction with suitable software, which is a nice addition in itself, anyone would be able to do it. But this knowledge of what it [...]
That NVIDIA’s Ampere would trigger such a hypetrain, one could have known, yes one should have. I had guessed it (even if not to the extent that it happened) and so I took the full risk in the end and let myself be tempted to a server move at dawn on the Ampere Hype special day. Thank God, because even if there was a little bit of hangover [...]
It couldn't be easier and if you put it to it and are not busy recording the video, then you can do the professional dismantling in well under 10 minutes. Let me show you how it's done.
The long awaited day has arrived and yes, there is a lot to report. Of course there are tests for 10 games in two resolutions and 17 tests for workstation applications and studio apps – that will be a lot of output for me and tons of input for you. I had threatened you weeks ago a hot autumn, which has now arrived and I promise you on the [...]
As I have to deal with Ampere more than the article plan is good for, I have packed all my thoughts and visual comparisons into not very serious pictures to bridge the gap. I am not allowed to show the card in operation yet, but the NDA never mentioned the plug. So we’ll just use this instead. First we have the trolleybus against a 384-bit [...]
NVIDIA has recently introduced the GeForce RTX 30 series with an Ampere-based chip for home users, and is expected to launch its prosumer and workstation-oriented Quadro RTX graphics cards in the Ampere-based range soon. The NVIDIA Quadro RTX series started in 2018 with the Turing GPUs ahead of the consumer cards of the time and will soon move to [...]
Who doesn’t remember the good times when you beat an Intel quad-core Q6600 with G0 stepping, preferably at a DFI Lanparty with X38 chipset, towards the 4 GHz? Back then, Intel’s binning was quite easy. The good chips from the middle of the wafer, if it was a good wafer, got the highest VID and still ran the coolest. Those were the [...]
Just before the launch of Ampere, NVIDIA is quickly unleashing two tools that can make life easier for reviewers and technology enthusiasts. In today’s article “NVIDIA LDAT – Latency Display Analysis Tool Introduced and Quite Exclusively Tested” you will learn everything about latencies and their origin, as well as how to [...]
The fact that you generally use the FPS, i.e. the rendered frames per second, as a benchmark for the gaming performance, is common but actually anything but target-oriented. If you know my metrics in the graphics card tests, you will have noticed that for some years now, I have been using the frame time, i.e. the real render time of each [...]
The GeForce RTX 3090 as the upcoming top dog and the RTX 3080 as the current flagship rely on the GA102 processor, which does pretty much everything differently than before. With the stated 10,496 CUDA cores, at least on paper (but not only there), an incredible number of ALUs are banged in, which surely shocks not only AMD at first sight. But [...]
The demand for the Founders Edition of the GeForce RTX 3080 should be immense, because with a circulated performance above an old “T-Rex”, thus the Titan RTX, for 699 Euro, greed should quickly eat up the brain. A spending spree in a green bloodlust? That’s not so unlikely. In any case, the bags with the advance orders were [...]
