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 [...]
Intel will probably launch its first discrete gaming graphics cards based on next-generation Xe HPG GPUs as early as next year. Unlike the Xe-LP and Xe-HP GPUs, which are manufactured in the company’s own 10nm SuperFin process, the Xe-HPG GPUs are to be produced in an external foundry, with TSMC being the most likely and promising candidate [...]
NVIDIA plans to launch the next generation of its GPUs in September, so far this is nothing new. My colleague Usman from WCCFTECH tapped his sources and got an interesting overview of the upcoming amp portfolio. Interestingly, it was again mentioned that NVIDIA has *not* confirmed the naming scheme of the final cards, but has begun to announce [...]
It’s done, even if it took a long time: the RBE now also supports older AMD graphics cards with Polaris chip. My personal thanks go to the community in general and to mynm in particular, because this time he did all the work and built everything into the RBE, while hellm did the background work this time. The result is very impressive and is [...]
There have been (once again) new rumors about AMD’s RDNA 2 “Navi 2X” GPUs that will be found in the next generation graphics cards of the Radeon RX series. The rumor again points to a late start in the 4th quarter. It will be available in the second quarter of 2020 and will also cover RDNA 3, which could be a major revolution for [...]
Basically, if all the information is correct, Nvidia hasn’t chosen a bad approach with the solution of a reference board that is as short as possible, which elegantly allows an air cooler to allow the fans to blow freely over a larger area without the air just landing on the board and then being pushed down towards the motherboard or up [...]
The market for all-in-one water cooling solutions for graphics cards is still abundantly manageable compared to CPU coolers, although the potential gain over air cooling is significantly higher. Higher boost steps and lower operating noise are only part of the reward, because all other components of the graphics card board also benefit from such [...]
For some time now, a separate encoding chip, which Nvidia NvEnc has christened Nvidia NvEnc, has been used in many NVIDIA graphics cards. This is a real hardware solution that can convert videos quite efficiently. Currently the common codecs H.264 and H.265 as well as resolutions up to 8K are supported. The Turing generation now promises video [...]
The latest rumor comes from the Chinese technology company FCPOWERUP, known for its reports on power supplies, which has stated in an article that NVIDIA will use a new power supply interface for its next-generation gaming product line. I will comment on this in a moment, but first of all I want to reflect what has been published so far. The page [...]
What does NVIDIA have to do with the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft? physically nothing at first, because this playground belongs to AMD at the moment. But what is driving NVIDIA’s current and expected stock prices? many analysts now expect this development to trigger a GPU upgrade super-cycle in the console market. Bank of America [...]
Before I act as a (future) painter and create a possible package including the dimensions known so far, we should review the rumors and leaks of the last days. Let’s take the usually well-informed Kopite7kimi at the word leak, who mentioned a tape-out of the GA102 chip on Samsung and not TSMC on Twitter. This means that a launch as early as [...]
Especially after the tests of the B550 motherboards, the justified question about the problem with the split PCIe 4.0 ports naturally arises. PCIe 4.0 with 16 or 8x connection should not show any (serious) difference together with the suitable (AMD) graphics card. But what about the fallback to PCIe 3.0, for example runs an older AMD or [...]
About two days ago, the news went through the media that Galax had released a GeForce GTX 1650 Ultra, which was equipped with a new TU106-125 instead of the small TU117-300. With it, this would be also the first physically existing RTX-castrate, that was sighted on the market. So I started looking for clues and was able to learn some interesting [...]
Yes, the Red BIOS Editor (RBE) has once again undergone a major upgrade, as hellm has now also unlocked the DRAM and made it fully accessible. The depth of the settings is almost overwhelming and there is probably no value from the JEDEC specifications that cannot be changed by a single entry in a special mask. This makes it really easy to change [...]
It’s no secret that the well-known Twitter-Leaker _rogame now runs his own website with hardwareleaks.com that I also visit there from time to time, certainly not. Based on the latest news about a new navi entry in Apple’s drivers for the upcoming macOS 11 “Big Sur”, which was announced at the WWDC conference recently and [...]
I had already reported a few things about NVIDIA’s new generation of Ampere cards in several articles and read the feedback on them. Interesting there were especially the extrapolations of the number of possible CUDA cores, where all comparisons to Turing regarding performance and efficiency and as a consequence also with the possible power [...]
The problem here, as always, is of course the desire, ability and permission to write details. The fact that I took myself out of the race for a few days is probably also due to the fact that a lot of things have become a very difficult balancing act and tightrope walk. To publish unreflectedly everything that is leaked on Twitter, or better [...]
We’ve updated the RBE once again, and with version 1.04 we’ve made a new installation available for download. Especially the handling of larger BIOS files and those that were not read with GPU-Z was fixed. This update has proven to be necessary, as many models have been and are now delivered with more extensive firmware. Furthermore I [...]
