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 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 [...]
Since the new 12-pin sockets are so well known and one of the NDAs has fallen in the meantime, one should also clean up some of the rumours, mistakes and confusion. In the end, only a small communication lapse led to half of the power supply industry suddenly gasping for breath in panic and hyperventilating within a few days. But I want to unravel [...]
For those who were not able to watch the livestream or simply want to get more information afterwards – I have put together the most important PR slides again chronologically for presentation and sorted out some of them.
So now it has only just begun, the complete RTX’ing of the whole universe. Because if up to now either the prices for the powerhouses or the missing muscle weakness in the lower shelf area were gallantly in the way of a traced mass infection, now finally also for the small price people we will se nice amping and shading! I admit, the price [...]
Besides a lot of new software features and technological changes, today’s live stream of course also offered the long awaited information about the new Ampere generation graphics cards, whose most important key data I have summarized in this news. Of course, there will be more in-depth reports here, but there will be follow-ups. And of [...]
Today’s article is actually more of a random product, because during the preparations for the Ampere launch I not only renewed and significantly expanded the test system, but also all the metrics and graphics for the evaluation. this is exactly where the whole test starts, because the depth of the evaluation was not possible in this form [...]
I had already written extensively in February about the new board requirements and the more complex manufacturing process. And that’s exactly how it happens now, so I’ll go into it in more detail in a moment. But for many people, the actual state of production is certainly much more interesting. I also have exclusive information for [...]
From NVIDIA’s (and our) point of view, computer graphics has made tremendous strides in performance over the last 20 years. To realize this, of course, a combination of expertise in architectural development, thermal, mechanical, electrical and of course product design is required, especially since the eye is known to be involved. In this [...]
We already know that cheaper products have to be produced more simply in order to be able to hit the targeted price point at all. If you take a graphics card from the lower middle class as an example, then it is definitely worthwhile to examine the consequences. Exemplary because it affects all manufacturers and products to the same extent [...]
Rumors or no rumors, NVIDIA really pushed the lid on this time. Much of what is currently being repeatedly leaked is not so new and sometimes it is just a repetition of what went through the media months ago. Click-bait stop. Does anyone remember the number 20 that was just rewound? I had already speculated (and calculated) in June in the article [...]
