GPUs
Now that JEDEC has published specification of GDDR7 memory, memory manufacturers are beginning to announce their initial products. The first out of the gate for this generation is Samsung, which has has quietly added its GDDR7 products to its official product catalog. For now, Samsung lists two GDDR7 devices on its website: 16 Gbit chips rated for an up to 28 GT/s data transfer rate and a faster version running at up to 32 GT/s data transfer rate (which is in line with initial parts that Samsung announced in mid-2023). The chips feature a 512M x32 organization and come in a 266-pin FBGA packaging. The chips are already sampling, so Samsung's customers – GPU vendors, AI inference vendors, network product vendors, and the like &ndash...
Christmas Game Bundles: Civilization VI, Doom, Hitman, Serious Sam VR from AMD, HTC, & NVIDIA
In recent days AMD, NVIDIA and HTC have initiated three new free game campaigns in an attempt to attract attention of gamers to their hardware. AMD will add a...
25 by Anton Shilov on 12/14/2016AMD Announces Radeon Instinct: GPU Accelerators for Deep Learning, Coming In 2017
With the launch of their Polaris family of GPUs earlier this year, much of AMD’s public focus in this space has been on the consumer side of matters. However...
39 by Ryan Smith on 12/12/2016AMD Delivers Crimson ReLive Drivers: Yearly Feature Update for Radeon Gamers and Professionals
This time last year we saw the launch of Radeon Crimson. This was AMD’s big attempt to state that a yearly cadence for software features was a good thing...
48 by Ian Cutress on 12/8/2016NVIDIA Releases 376.19 WHQL Driver Update: Game Ready Oculus Touch and Two Giveaways
This week we are finally seeing the long-awaited release of the Oculus touch controllers and the collection of games following in its wake. As a result, we also seem...
21 by Daniel Williams on 12/6/2016NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 Gets Hybrid Cooling on Inno3D's iChill Black Model
Inno3D has expanded its lineup of video cards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 graphics processor with an add-in-board featuring a hybrid cooling system using a closed loop liquid...
33 by Anton Shilov on 12/5/2016NVIDIA Releases 376.09 WHQL Driver Update
Watchdogs 2 is being released this week, and with that we receiving a new NVIDIA driver update, bundled in with a few fixes. The 376.09 update continues the Release...
15 by Daniel Williams on 11/29/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.5 Hotfix
Watch Dogs 2 is being released this week, and with that we receiving a new driver update from AMD bundled in with a couple of fixes. As a result...
2 by Daniel Williams on 11/29/2016Point of View BV Declares Bankruptcy, But Holding Company Vows to Come Back
Shipments of discrete graphics cards for desktop PCs have shrunk by nearly two times since 2007 and competition between vendors intensified in the recent years. As a result, some...
13 by Anton Shilov on 11/28/2016Discrete Desktop GPU Market Trends Q3 2016: GPU Shipments Hit Two-Year High
Shipments of discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) are traditionally high in the third quarter as PC makers and retailers gear up for the holiday season and build up stocks...
53 by Anton Shilov on 11/28/2016MSI Adds Low-Profile GeForce GTX 1050 Ti to Lineup
MSI has quietly added a new low-profile graphics card into their lineup. The adapter is based on NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1050 Ti GPU featuring the latest Pascal architecture and...
42 by Anton Shilov on 11/22/2016Game Bundles: Get Civilization VI, Doom, Watch_Dogs 2 for Free with AMD, NVIDIA and Samsung Hardware
From time to time companies bundle the latest games with their hardware in a bid to attract attention of gamers and to make their products more competitive. Such promotions...
15 by Anton Shilov on 11/22/2016NVIDIA Releases 375.86 WHQL Driver Update
Two more weeks after NVIDIA’s last hotfix we have another WHQL update to cement those fixes, optimize more games, and prepare for more releases. Releases and updates have been...
20 by Daniel Williams on 11/18/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.4 Hotfix
Continuing with a steady stream of updates, we are here with a new driver from AMD. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.11.4 brings the core driver version up to 16.40.3211...
8 by Daniel Williams on 11/18/2016AKiTiO Introduces Node: Thunderbolt 3 eGFX Box for $299
Over the past week AKiTiO has formally introduced its new external graphics enclosure using a Thunderbolt 3 connection. As with other external graphics enclosures, the AKiTiO Node allows a...
56 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2016AMD @ SC16: Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm) 1.3 Released, Boltzmann Comes to Fruition
Kicking off this week is SC, the annual ACM/IEEE sponsored supercomputing conference in the United States. At this show last year, AMD announced the Boltzmann Initiative, their ambitious plan...
11 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2016NVIDIA Announces Record Q3 FY 2017 Results
Today NVIDIA announced their fiscal earnings for the third quarter of their 2017 fiscal year (and yes, that’s not a typo). NVIDIA has cracked the $2 billion mark for...
44 by Brett Howse on 11/10/2016Now Shipping: AMD Radeon Pro WX Series
Back in July AMD announced the Radeon Pro WX series. Part of a broader rebranding effort for AMD’s professional grade graphics cards – moving away from the FirePro brand...
32 by Ryan Smith on 11/7/2016ARM Announces Mali-G51 Mainstream GPU, Mali-V-61 Video Processing Block
These days ARM and its customers are in the midst of a major evolution in GPU design. Back in May the company announced their new Bifrost GPU architecture, a...
23 by Ryan Smith on 10/31/2016PowerColor Announces Devil Box: Thunderbolt 3 eGFX Enclosure
PowerColor has introduced its first enclosure for external graphics cards, the Devil Box. The accessory enables gamers to connect desktop video cards to AIO, SFF or laptop PCs using...
43 by Anton Shilov on 10/24/2016Update: NVIDIA Releases 375.63 WHQL Driver update
Update 10/23: NVIDIA has yanked the 375.57 drivers this weekend and replaced them with a new build, 375.63. The updated driver set fixes an especially annoying bug with tiles...
12 by Daniel Williams on 10/22/2016