NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit: Starting At $199 (4GB), $299 (8GB) The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit offers a massive performance boost over the previous generation, at an affordable price point. More affordable than Jetson AGX Orin Low power and small form factor Huge improvement over Jetson...Read more...
A new report claims two power connection standards will be available for the upcoming RTX 4070 based on two different power-limit classes. Igor's Lab claims more expensive 225W variants will reportedly feature the latest 12VHPWR connector, while 200W MSRP RTX 4070 models will be equipped with the older 8-pin power...Read more...
A ray tracing technique known as path tracing looks set to make it to mainstream PC gaming, thanks to an SDK release by NVIDIA today. Implementing real-time path tracing is claimed by the graphics centric firm to be “the next frontier in video game graphics.” With an SDK available, we should start to see this...Read more...
Gigabyte has revealed more than it should have in the release notes accompanying a utility software release. The latest Gigabyte Control Center release is claimed to support RGB features of the “GV-N4070AERO OC-12GD/ GV-N4060GAMING OC-8GD products.” These Ada Lovelace architecture graphics cards have not been...Read more...
We may have just caught our first glimpses of two new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards. Leaked images of a purported GeForce RTX 4070 Ti FE and an RTX 4060 (Ti) have emerged, providing signs that NVIDIA is ready to pay attention to what is traditionally the high-volume midrange market. Sadly, the images are...Read more...
Barring any last-minute delays, we're now less than three months away from the release of Diablo IV on PC and console. As it pertains to the former, owners of a GeForce RTX 40 series graphics will be able to utilize NVIDIA's AI-assisted Deep Learning Super Sampling 3 (DLSS 3) technology right from the get-go, the GPU...Read more...
The GPU wars are heating up with game bundles coming back in style. Last week we wrote about AMD gifting codes for The Last Of Us Part I with select Radeon RX graphics card purchases, and not to be outdone NVIDIA has followed suit with a sweet offer of its own—purchase a qualifying GeForce RTX 40 series GPU and...Read more...
At this point, there might not be a whole lot of mystery surrounding NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card, given the widespread leaks and rumors. Based on everything we know so far from the various leaks, it will slot in neatly underneath the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti with 23.3 percent fewer CUDA cores but...Read more...
NVIDIA has begun pushing out a new 'Game Ready' GPU driver, version 531.29 WHQL, and with it comes a fix for an odd bug that was causing CPU usage to spike after exiting a game. This was actually addressed in an out-of-band hotfix last week, but unless you manually sought it out, you wouldn't have received the...Read more...
We're back with another HOT gaming PC giveaway. This time we've partnered up with Asetek and MSI to offer up a fully liquid-cooled monster machine—and you can win it!
Not only is the CPU chilled by the MSI MEG Coreliquid S360 AIO, but the graphics card is none other than an MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Sea Hawk X which...Read more...
When Microsoft and OpenAI partnered in 2019, the two companies sought to bring supercomputing resources designed and dedicated to allow OpenAI to train an expanding suite of increasingly powerful AI models. OpenAI needed an unprecedented cloud-computing infrastructure, larger than anyone in the industry had attempted...Read more...
Unless the barrage of leaks and rumors are all wrong, NVIDIA is getting ready to unveil a new addition to its Ada Lovelace lineup—the GeForce RTX 4070. Not to be confused with the existing GeForce RTX 4070 Ti we reviewed in January, the non-Ti model is expected to feature fewer CUDA cores and lower GPU clocks at a...Read more...
NVIDIA is hosting an event at GDC 2023 that will discuss the integration of path tracing technology into Cyberpunk 2077's highly anticipated RT Overdrive graphics mode. NVIDIA's senior developer technology engineer Pawel Kozlowski, and CD Project Red's global art director Jakub Knapik will be speaking at the event...Read more...
According to a report by Reddit user, it appears NVIDIA is now shipping a new GPU die with the RTX 4090 named AD102-301-A1. We don't know anything about this die officially, but the user, u/cavitysearch123, reports that the die features a reduced voltage limit of 1.070v compared to the original die's limit of 1.1v...Read more...
Folks who follow technology news—probably you, if you're reading this—will no doubt be aware that the United States' federal government has allocated some $52 billion to promote microprocessor manufacturing inside the country. This money is being split between a few companies, but two of the biggest are both building...Read more...
A report emanating from a Chinese tech news source asserts that the next generation of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards are “expected” to come packing GDDR7 memory. It is also claimed that the next-gen NVIDIA lineup, unsurprisingly referenced as the RTX 50 series by the source, will be the first graphics cards featuring...Read more...
NVIDIA may soon welcome another sibling to the GeForce RTX 3060 family. A graphics card cataloging source on Twitter highlighted that a new version of the popular Ampere architecture RTX 3060 has caused a blip on the radar. This could be the best RTX 3060 yet, with 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM delivering over 456GB/s of...Read more...
Graphics drivers are a critical component of a gaming PC, but they're also ludicrously complex pieces of software in their own right. Sometimes things go wrong, as they did this weekend with NVIDIA's GeForce driver version 531.18. This driver was found to have a bug that causes significant CPU usage in the background...Read more...
People buy expensive video cards to make their computers faster, but the opposite is happening for some owners of NVIDIA GPUs, that's to an apparent driver bug. Affected individuals report strangely high CPU usage at various times, causing higher temperatures and sluggish performance. The issue seems to trace back to...Read more...
It doesn't pull the numbers that console-focused titles like Call of Duty can, but Counter-Strike is one of the most popular PC games of all time. It remains so to this day, consistently sitting near the top of the Steam player count charts. Popular games get sequels, right? Well, not yet at least—eleven years on from...Read more...
Chinese graphics card maker Galax has launched a trio of GeForce RTX 4080 HOF OC LAB graphics cards. These are perhaps the only graphics cards directly targeting extreme overclockers, now that the EVGA Kingpin series of GPUs are history. Galax’s new RTX 4080 HOF models boast some way-out specs including up to 470W...Read more...
This has been a pretty big year for game releases already and we're just now entering March. Besides Hogwarts Legacy, the long-anticipated Atomic Heart finally arrived, and we've also seen the release of Company of Heroes 3, Forspoken, Dead Space, and more. With a pile of game releases naturally comes a spate of...Read more...