
Tag : gpu
Zotac Announces PCI-E x1 GeForce GT 710 Graphics Card
Some time ago, NVIDIA unveiled the GT 710 graphics card designed for HTPCs and relatively basic usage scenarios. The company claimed that you could experience performance gains up to 10 times better than integrated graphics solutions.…
Rajintek Announces Morpheus II Core Edition VGA Cooler
Rajintek is a hardware company which currently specializes in affordable solutions aimed towards budget-conscience users. Their products offer astounding value and compete against higher tier solution with a much greater price point. For example, The Triton…
AMD Scores Apple Mac Design Wins with Polaris
After many fruitful years of partnerships with Apple, AMD is reportedly continuing the relationship with their latest Polaris based GPUs. Apple has alternated MacBook Pro suppliers between Nvidia and AMD in the past but tended towards…
Is This Photo of The GTX 1080 Genuine?
NVIDIA’s upcoming architecture codenamed Pascal is rumoured to launch in June and apparently invites have already been sent out to members of the press for an early briefing on its unique features. The new range is built…
Do AMD Drivers Really Deserve Such a Hostile Reception?
Introduction AMD has a serious image problem with their drivers which stems from buggy, unrefined updates, and a slow release schedule. Even though this perception began many years ago, it’s still impacting on the company’s sales and…
NVIDIA DRIVE PX2 Powered by Two GP106 Chips
NVIDIA showed of its DRIVE PX 2 system – the new iteration of its autonomous and driver assistance AI platform – at last week’s GTC 2016 conference, and eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that the board…
AMD Mainstream Polaris 11 Specifications Leaked
As always, most of the focus on Polaris has been on the top end chip. This has meant that much of the talk ahs been focused on the Polaris 10, the R9 390X/Fury replacement. Today though, we’ve…
Nvidia Pascal GTX 1000 Will Arrive at Computex
From the many leaks and rumours that have come out, the expected release of Pascal will come later this year at Computex. During the Taiwanese event, Nvidia will finally unveil the GTX 1000 lineup to the…
NVIDIA Pascal to Enter Mass Shipments in July
Yesterday, we reported on AMD’s plans to supposedly launch their next graphics architecture, codenamed ‘Polaris’ in June. The details surrounding NVIDIA’s response with Pascal aimed at consumers was unknown but it seemed likely the range would…

AMD Radeon R9 490X And 490 Reportedly Set For June Release
AMD’s upcoming graphics architecture, codenamed ‘Polaris’ will be the company’s first product utilizing the 14nm FinFET manufacturing process. During CES 2016, AMD showcased the greatly improved performance per watt compared to the current 28nm NVIDIA GTX…
AMD Introduces Quick Response Queue in Latest Drivers
Asynchronous Compute has been one of the headline features with DX12. Pioneered by AMD in their GCN architecture, Async Compute allows a GPU to handle both graphics and compute tasks at the same time, making the…
NVIDIA Unveil Tesla P100 GPU
GTC 2016: As part of NVIDIA’s GPU Tech Conference, Jen-Hsun unveiled the latest product in the Tesla family with the P100. Branded as the most advanced hyperscale datacentre GPU, it features 150 billion transistors and is based…
Nvidia May Have Stopped GeForce GTX 980Ti Production
One of the inevitable signs of an imminent release of new products is when the old model starts becoming hard to find. A seamless transition to the new version is a mark of good logistics and something…
NVIDIA Pascal Rumoured to Struggle with Asynchronous Compute
NVIDIA’s new Pascal GPU micro-architecture – billed as 10x faster than the previous Maxwell iteration, and set for release in retail graphics cards later this year – is rumoured to be having problems when dealing with…
AMD Release Radeon Crimson 16.3.2 WHQL Driver With Oculus Rift Support
With the Oculus Rift launching now, both AMD and Nvidia have released new drivers to ensure compatibility with the VR headset. Nvidia has released their GeForce driver 364.72 and AMD has responded with their first WHQL driver…
NVIDIA Ramping Up GeForce Now to be “Netflix of Gaming”
NVIDIA is expanding its GeForce Now game on-demand service, which streams PC and console games to the NVIDIA Shield set-top box. The service currently has over 100 games available, for a monthly subscription fee, and has…
Apple in talks to Acquire Imagination Technologies for PowerVR GPUs
In what is likely good news for Qualcomm, Apple has confirmed they are in talks with mobile graphics designers Imagination Technologies. While Apple has denied making or considering an offer at this point in time, they…
QNAP Launches TDS-16489U Dual Xeon E5 Double Server
QNAP’s newest server, the TDS-16489U, is an amazing one that sets itself apart from the rest in so many ways. I want one so badly even though I have absolutely no need for this kind of…

AMD Open to Making Mobile GPUs
Looking back, AMD missed a big opportunity to get into the mobile phone and tablet market. According to Raja Koduri, SVP for RTG, AMD may be contemplating getting back into the mobile graphics market, provided the circumstances…
OCUK Offers Free SSD with ASUS GTX 970 Graphics Cards
Who doesn’t like to get free stuff? And especially when it is something as sweet as a solid state drive. That is what you currently can get, at least if you purchase one of the participating…
Far Cry Primal Graphics Card Performance Analysis
Introduction The Far Cry franchise gained notoriety for its impeccable graphical fidelity and enthralling open world environment. As a result, each release is incredibly useful to gauge the current state of graphics hardware and performance across…
More AMD Polaris 10 Details Revealed
In the few days after AMD first demoed Polaris 10 to us at Capsaicin, more details about the upcoming graphics cards have been revealed. Set to be the big brother to the smaller Polaris 11, the better performing…
MSI Releases 75W GTX 950 GPUs OCV2 and OCV3
For graphics cards, 75W is a golden number as it dispenses with the need to have a separate power. This allows users to avoid a PSU upgrade and broadens the market for the card. Originally launched…
Intel Seeks AMD GPU Patent Licensing
After Samsung and Nvidia had their recent legal spat, more light has been shed on the world of GPU patents and licensing. While Intel holds their own wealth of patents, no doubt some concerning GPUs, Nvidia…
AMD’s Raja Koduri Talks Future Developments – Capsaicin
Even though a lot of information was shared from the Capsaicin live stream, some details weren’t made known till the after party. In an interview, Radeon Technologies Group head Raja Koduri spoke in more detail about…
AMD Reportedly Has 83% of VR Hardware Marketshare – Capsaicin
2016 may well go down as the year VR finally takes off for real. Sony and Microsoft have both been making progress towards VR and augmented reality while Oculus and HTC are set to launch the Rift…
AMD Unveils Radeon Pro Duo 3DMark Performance – Capsaicin
Being the fastest single-card graphics card to date, we all know that AMD’s new Radeon Pro Duo is fast. Just how fast though is the dual-Fiji giant we don’t yet know though the 16TFOPs number and…