GPUs
With NVIDIA’s Turing architecture turning six years old this year, the company has been retiring many of the remaining Turing products from its video card lineup. And today that spirit of spring cleaning is coming to the entry-level segment of NVIDIA’s professional visualization lineup, where NVIDIA is introducing a pair of new desktop cards based on their low-end Ampere hardware. The new RTX A1000 and RTX A400 cards will be replacing the T1000/T600/T400 lineup, which was released three years ago in 2021. The new cards slot into the same entry-level category and finally finish fleshing out the RTX A series of proviz cards, offering NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation professional graphics technologies in the lowest-power, lowest-performance, lowest-cost configuration possible. Notably, since the entry-level T-series were based on NVIDIA’s feature-limited...
Analyzing the Price of Mobility: Desktops vs. Laptops
Computers have been getting faster over the years, and with the increased performance we eventually passed the point where most systems were “fast enough” and the various features and...
110 by Jarred Walton on 9/7/2013
NVIDIA Announces Fall GeForce Game Bundles - Batman: Arkham Origins & New Free-To-Play
NVIDIA sends word this morning that they’re launching a new GeForce video card game bundle for the late-summer/early-fall timeframe. This time around NVIDIA is partnering with WB Games to...
13 by Ryan Smith on 8/30/2013
NVIDIA 326.80 Beta Drivers Available – Splinter Cell: Blacklist Ready
NVIDIA is pretty good about staying on top of the latest releases with updated drivers, and today is no different. Building from the current 326.41 Beta release, today’s 326.80...
4 by Jarred Walton on 8/20/2013
Apple Initiates Video Card Replacement Program for Radeon HD 6970M Equipped Mid-2011 27” iMacs
In a somewhat baffling piece of news this weekend, word comes that Apple has initiated an internal replacement program for the video cards on some of their mid-2011 27&rdquo...
46 by Ryan Smith on 8/17/2013
AMD Announces Never Settle Forever Bundle, Introduces Selectable Rewards
With AMD’s existing Never Settle Reloaded bundle set to wind-down this summer, AMD is announcing this morning that they are once again refreshing their popular Never Settle bundle program...
23 by Ryan Smith on 8/14/2013
AMD's Radeon HD 7990 Gets an Official Price Cut: $799 and Below
We don’t typically run pipeline stories on video card price cuts, but then again most price cuts are gradual affairs that even the manufacturers themselves rarely draw attention to...
34 by Ryan Smith on 8/7/2013
Android 4.3 update for Nexus 10 and 4 removes unofficial OpenCL drivers
We had previously reported that Android 4.2 firmwares for Nexus 10 and Nexus 4 were found to contain OpenCL drivers. The drivers were an internal implementation detail and not...
13 by Rahul Garg on 8/1/2013
Happy 20th Birthday Second Reality
Every so often I get asked about what caused me to be interested in GPUs, and consequently how I ended up at AnandTech. The answer to either of those...
27 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2013
AMD Frame Pacing Explored: Catalyst 13.8 Brings Consistency to Crossfire
In the continuing saga of AMD's efforts to improve their framerate consistency, back in March AMD set a deadline of this summer to deliver their first driver implementing advanced...
102 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2013
NVIDIA Demonstrates Logan SoC: < 1W Kepler, Shipping in 1H 2014, More Energy Efficient than A6X?
Ever since its arrival in the ultra mobile space, NVIDIA hasn't really flexed its GPU muscle. The Tegra GPUs we've seen thus far have been ok at best, and...
141 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/24/2013
NVIDIA Announces Quadro K6000
As SIGGRAPH 2013 continues to roll on, today’s major announcements include those from NVIDIA. SIGGRAPH is NVIDIA’s favored show for professional graphics and Quadro product announcements, with NVIDIA using...
22 by Ryan Smith on 7/23/2013
Khronos @ SIGGRAPH 2013: OpenGL 4.4, OpenCL 2.0, & OpenCL 1.2 SPIR Announced
Kicking off this week is the annual SIGGRAPH conference, the graphics industry’s yearly professional event. Outside of the individual vendor events and individual technologies we cover throughout the year...
29 by Ryan Smith on 7/22/2013
NVIDIA GeForce 326.19 Beta Drivers Available
Following the release of the WHQL 320.49 drivers earlier this month, NVIDIA has moved on to their next driver branch, R325. The first release of these drivers, 326.01, was...
18 by Ryan Smith on 7/18/2013
NVIDIA’s Summer GeForce Game Bundle Announced - Splinter Cell Blacklist
NVIDIA sends word this evening that they’re launching a new GeForce video card game bundle for the summer timeframe. This time around NVIDIA is partnering with Ubisoft to get...
21 by Ryan Smith on 7/9/2013Windows 8.1 and VS2013 bring GPU computing updates to Direct3D and C++ AMP
Windows 8.1 is bringing a new incremental update to the driver model to WDDM 1.3, which will enable incremental new GPU computing functionality. One of the important pieces is...
16 by Rahul Garg on 7/2/2013
Some Quick Gaming Numbers at 4K, Max Settings
Part of my extra-curricular testing post Computex this year put me in the hands of a Sharp 4K30 monitor for three days and with a variety of AMD and...
134 by Ian Cutress on 7/1/2013
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Review: The New Enthusiast Kepler
A little less than a month has transpired since the launch of the GeForce GTX 770, and we’re back again with another new NVIDIA card. Launching today at $250...
110 by Ryan Smith on 6/25/2013
A Look at Intel HD 5000 GPU Performance Compared to HD 4000
When I got my hands on a Haswell based Ultrabook, Acer's recently announced S7, I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Acer had chosen to integrate Intel's HD 4400...
55 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/24/2013
Performance Retrospective: AMD’s Radeon HD 7970M
We recently posted our first review of a notebook equipped with NVIDIA’s latest mobile tour de force, the GeForce GTX 780M. With a theoretical computational performance increase of 30%...
59 by Jarred Walton on 6/21/2013
GeForce GTX Titan Two-Way SLI Scaling: PCIe 2 vs. PCIe 3
Back when I had Origin’s tri-Titan equipped Genesis in house, I received a few requests for benchmarks with PCIe 3 enabled. Because we tested the system with its default...
21 by Ryan Smith on 6/21/2013
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