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It's Monday, and you know what that means, kids: well, absolutely nothing, actually. There's a new GeForce driver update that just dropped, though. GeForce WHQL driver version 497.29 is Game Ready for Horizon: Zero Dawn—which just got a patch adding DLSS support—and GTFO, a cooperative horror FPS game that's finally...
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NVIDIA is expanding its laptop GPU line with a few new SKUs that seemingly take aim at driving down price points for gamers and creators. The expanded stack is highlighted by the GeForce RTX 2050, which actually wields more CUDA cores than the GeForce RTX 2060 in mobile form (more on that in a moment), and the GeForce...
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If you’ve been maddened by the difficulty buying a new GPU, this may make it worse. One full-time cryptocurrency miner has offered a peek into his mining server farm, and it’s made up almost entirely of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPUs.
Jaxson Davidson has offered a glimpse into “building 1/4” of his mining farm. In...
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A high-end graphics card may not be in Santa's bag of toys this Christmas, regardless of whether you ended up on the Nice or Naughty list. In lieu of a physical graphics card, you can rent one in the cloud through NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service. Even better, the preorder designation on its RTX 3080 tier...
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When or if NVIDIA decides to introduce a refreshed GeForce RTX 3080 with more memory than the original SKU remains to be seen. However, if the upgraded graphics card does come to fruition, it might arrive with a beefier upgrade than just some additional GDDR6X slapped on, according to the latest unofficial rumor mill...
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We adore giveaways, as should be obvious from the frequent ones we host ourselves. But we're not the only ones to award cool gear to lucky winners. To celebrate the release of The Matrix Resurrections next week, NVIDIA has teamed up with modders to gift three custom Matrix-themed PCs, as well a handful of snazzy...
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A bevy of product announcements are expected at the Consumer Electronics Show next month, and up until now, it was rumored NVIDIA may use the event to introduce refreshed GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards. However, there is chatter that NVIDIA may have decided to postpone those cards.
In case...
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Ignoring the difficulties securing hardware for a moment, it's a pretty glorious time to play games on the PC. We get our choice of resolutions, frame rates, and detail levels, and if our hardware isn't up to snuff there's some innovative creative technologies available that try to bridge the gap. NVIDIA's Deep Learning Super Sampling requires...
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It has been a little over a year since NVIDIA introduced Reflex alongside its GeForce RTX 30 series. Reflex is essentially a suite of GPU, display, and software technologies designed to help lower end-to-end system latency and enable accurate measurements of system latency without expensive equipment. However, the...
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Gamers that own an Mac can now answer "Yes!" when asked "But can it run Crysis?", thanks to NVIDIA GeForce NOW. The cloud game streaming service has dropped an update that will deliver the ultimate upgrade to Mac owners.
With the company's latest update Mac owners can not only run Crysis through GeForce NOW, but if...
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Whether you will actually be able to find them in stock or not, NVIDIA is supposedly on the cusp of launching as many as three new GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards, including a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Should that come to pass, it would supplant the non-Ti version as NVIDIA's flagship consumer gaming...
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Hot on the heels of NVIDIA launching a refreshed GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, which is twice as much as the original version, two other existing models appear bound for more onboard memory too. They include the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, both of which are modern generation cards based on...
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The refreshed GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB of GDDR6 memory (up from 6GB on the original model) officially releases to retail today, though as of this writing, it's nowhere to be found for purchase. It might not matter anyway—a supposed glimpse at the card's cryptocurrency mining performance is a kick in the pants to...
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Have you tried to purchase a graphics card recently? You have our condolences. Supply remains well short of demand, leading to frustrating situations where scalpers can charge obscene premiums on eBay, and retail vendors can force unwanted bundles on consumers when cards are actually in stock. It stinks, but the...
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As we've discussed on many occasions since the initial announcement, NVIDIA is trying to buy Arm from current owner Softbank. Jensen Huang was confident that the deal would close by March of next year, but that's looking less and less likely as time goes on. First, the EU rejected NVIDIA's concessions and launched an...
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Given inflated prices and limited availability making it difficult for consumers to buy graphics cards, it's been a reasonable play for PC gamers to build machines with the intent to game on their integrated graphics solutions in the interim. Modern IGPs from Intel and especially AMD are quite capable, and can hold...
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Following months of speculation, leaks, and rumors, the re-release of the GeForce RTX 2060 with double the amount of memory and some other key upgrades is now official. NVIDIA's latest GeForce driver package seemingly confirmed the card's existence, and leaving little doubt, the specifications are plastered on...
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One thing we've learned over the past year is to never take anything for granted. So yes, while it is generally assumed NVIDIA will release its next-gen GeForce RTX 4000 series in 2022, we wouldn't exactly be shocked if those plans changed. It doesn't look like they will, though—rumor has it factories have already...
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Everyone's waiting with bated breath for the GPU shortage to abate, with current models perpetually out of stock and gamers paying out the nose for ultra-scarce hardware just to play a bit of Halo. We might see some relief early next year though, in the form of new GPU releases -- especially if TSMC is right about...
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Every so often NVIDIA will push out a hotfix driver to address certain issues before its next regular driver release. Now is one of those times. Call it a Thanksgiving treat if you will, but NVIDIA's GeForce 496.98 hotfix driver squashes a handful of bugs, and notably some that could otherwise result in your PC...
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There is a lot to digest in the latest GPU shipment report from Jon Peddie Research, which really highlights the fact that we are in a unique time period. Silicon shortages abound and it is next to impossible to find a graphics card in stock. Yet shipments of discrete GPUs continue to climb, while overall GPU...
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Images generated by NVIDIA's GauGAN2 AI
Visual imagination works differently for every person. Some people, with a condition called "aphantasia," aren't able to generate mental pictures at all. Others have the imagery come to mind first, and then describe it with words. Still others, like this HH contributor, think...
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