NEWS 21 Aug 2018­ by Nail Garejev

Nvidia Announces Turing Based RTX 20xx Series Focusing on Ra…

A new generation of consumer gaming GPUs is finally arriving over two years after the launch of Nvidia Pascal based GTX 10xx series. Unfortunately for gamers, AMD had not been competitive at the top end and GPU prices were extremely inflated by the cryptomining craze. So let us take a look at what the new…
NEWS 10 Apr 2017­ by Nail Garejev

Titan Xp – Just to Retake Crown from 1080 Ti

With a surprise announcement, Nvidia has both pushed top GPU performance a little higher and added more confusion to their products’ naming scheme. Their previous top performer, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, was released a month ago, slightly beating Titan X (Pascal) in performance, while only sacrificing 1 GB VRAM and being considerably less expensive. To keep Titan…
NEWS 01 Mar 2017­ by Nail Garejev

Nvidia Announces The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

As soon as Nvidia has announced their latest, Pascal based Titan X, gamer's were expecting to see a similar performance in a more affordable GTX 1080 Ti. This wait is ending soon, as Nvidia has finally announced the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, to be released next week. In terms of specifications, GTX 1080 Ti is very…
ANNOUNCEMENT 10 Sep 2016­ by David Pink

NVIDIA GeForce Experience Leveled Up

NVIDIA have recently updated their exclusive all-in-one game updater, game optimizer and streaming service with the GeForce Experience 3.0. In their own words, this software “is the easiest way to update your drivers, optimize your games, and share your victories”, it’s also reportedly used by “tens of millions” of the worldwide PC player base. Wednesday…
ANNOUNCEMENT 20 Aug 2016­ by Nail Garejev

Nvidia Releases GeForce GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 for Laptops

While release of 14/16 nm GPUs has brought new performance records for desktops, the improved efficiency is extremely important for laptops. In a tighter, thermally and power-restricted environment it is less appealing to have a large hot chip with heavy cooling. Until this week, Nvidia’s most powerful laptop GPUs were cut down GTX 970M, 980M,…
ANNOUNCEMENT 05 Aug 2016­ by Nail Garejev

Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) First Benchmarks

Nvidia has released their latest Nvidia Titan X graphics card and together with its release, there are independent benchmarks and more details about the card’s capabilities. While named in a confusing way, similar to GeForce GTX Titan X (Maxwell), the new Titan X drops GeForce name, but is often referred as Titan X (Pascal) or…
ANNOUNCEMENT 31 Jul 2016­ by David Pink

NVIDIA’s False Advertising Lawsuit Settled

Nvidia has just agreed to a preliminary settlement in its false advertising class action lawsuit over allegations of misleading consumers with false specifications of its GTX 970 line of cards. The initial claim, which was filed in Feb 2015, accused Nvidia of falsely advertising a 3.5GB video memory graphics card as a 4GB model, which…
NEWS 23 Jul 2016­ by Nail Garejev

Nvidia Titan X Announced – Bigger Pascal

Nvidia has started their 16nm GPU generation with a big GP100 GPU intended for the high performance computing. While first Pascal based gaming cards used a considerably smaller GP104 GPU, everybody has expected a new Titan card to come eventually. It has arrived early this time around. Nvidia’s latest flagship is named Nvidia Titan X,…
ANNOUNCEMENT 07 Jul 2016­ by Nail Garejev

GeForce GTX 1060 Announced

Hot on the heels of AMD Radeon RX 480 release, Nvidia has announced their competitor in the same general price and performance category – GeForce GTX 1060. GTX 1060 is based on GP106 GPU, which is essentially half of the larger GP104 (used in GTX 1070 and 1080). As clocks are similar to its larger…
ANNOUNCEMENT 31 May 2016­ by Nail Garejev

GeForce GTX 1070: First Benchmarks

While the new Pascal GeForce cards were announced at the same time, their releases are put apart, as is usual for Nvidia. The more powerful GeForce GTX 1080 has already been released, but gamers have to wait until June 10th at the earliest to get the more affordable GTX 1070. Fortunately, for the impatient, the…
NEWS 18 May 2016­ by Nail Garejev

GeForce GTX 1080: First Benchmarks

The review and benchmark embargo on GeForce GTX 1080 has ended and we finally have the independent information on card’s performance. There are also more details on its configurations and feature set. The performance improvement, compared to older Maxwell cards is quite clear, as long as there is no CPU or memory limitations. GTX 1080…
NEWS 07 May 2016­ by Nail Garejev

GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Announced

Nvidia have announced their new Pascal architecture and 16 nm GPUs with a bang – massive GP100 GPU paired with high bandwidth 16 GB HBM2 memory. However, at the moment, GP100 is only present in Tesla compute cards. For gaming, Nvidia have just announced new cards based on smaller chip (likely called GP104) – GTX…
ANNOUNCEMENT 11 Apr 2016­ by Nail Garejev

Nvidia Tesla P100, First Device With Pascal GPU

After an extremely long run of GPUs manufactured on 28 nm process, we are finally seeing 16 nm designs from AMD and Nvidia. Nvidia’s first card using 16 nm transistors and Pascal architecture is Tesla P100. Unlike consumer GeForce cards, Tesla cards are aimed purely at high performance computation, rather than graphics. However, the GPUs…