With spring now well under way and the pending launch of Intel’s Haswell chips, OEMs always like to have “new” parts across the board, and so once more we’re getting a new series of chips from NVIDIA, the 700M parts. We’ve already seen a few laptops shipping with the 710M and GT 730M; today NVIDIA is filling out the rest of 700M family. Last year saw NVIDIA’s very successful launch of mobile Kepler; since that time, the number of laptops shipping with NVIDIA dGPUs compared to AMD dGPUs appears to have shifted even more in NVIDIA’s favor. Not surprisingly, with TSMC still on 28nm NVIDIA isn’t launching a new architecture, but they’ll be tweaking Kepler to keep it going through 2013.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Review: Bringing Balance To The Force
Launching today is NVIDIA's answer to AMD's Radeon HD 7790 and 7850, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. The GTX 650 Ti Boost is based on the same GK106...
77 by Ryan Smith on 3/26/2013
NVIDIA Launches Quadro K4000, K2000, K2000D, & K600
Back in August of 2012 NVIDIA announced their first Kepler based Quadro part, the Quadro K5000. Based on NVIDIA’s at the time leading GK104 GPU, K5000 was the customary...
20 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2013
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX Titan Review, Part 2: Titan's Performance Unveiled
Earlier this week NVIDIA announced their new top-end single-GPU consumer card, the GeForce GTX Titan. Built on NVIDIA’s GK110 and named after the same supercomputer that GK110 first powered...
331 by Ryan Smith & Rahul Garg on 2/21/2013
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan, Part 1: Titan For Gaming, Titan For Compute
Last year's launch of the Titan supercomputer was a major win for NVIDIA, and likely the breakthrough they’ve been looking for. A fledging business merely two generations prior, NVIDIA...
153 by Ryan Smith on 2/19/2013
Cineca’s Tesla K20-Based “Eurora” Supercomputer Unveiled; Water Cooling Unlocks Extra Efficiency
We typically don’t cover a lot of supercomputing news outside of the major Top500/Green500 announcements due to the fact that the launches of so many supercomputers are clustered around...
17 by Ryan Smith on 1/31/2013
AVADirect’s Clevo P570WM X79 Gaming Notebook Available for Pre-Order in the US
Depending on whom you ask, desktop replacement notebooks are either a growing or a shrinking market. Most large OEMs have completely abandoned the DTR market, with high-end DTR-like notebooks...
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Razer Announces 10.1" Edge Gaming Tablet with Ivy Bridge, Kepler, Windows 8
We saw Razer's Project Fiona gaming tablet last year at CES, and came away from the hands-on opportunity and corresponding conversation with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan fairly impressed with...
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Dell Precision M6700 Notebook Review: The Enterprise Split
When you think about it, the enterprise workstation market really only has three key players. You have HP, who produce some excellent mobile workstations but have been stagnating horribly...
126 by Dustin Sklavos on 12/12/2012
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K20 & K20X: GK110 Arrives At Last
Continuing our SC12 related coverage today, while AMD was the first GPU announcement of the day they are not the only one. NVIDIA is also using the venue to...
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DigitalStorm Bolt Gaming System Review: It's Little But It's Fierce
Since I've started reviewing boutique desktops I've been of the opinion that while they're not strictly for enthusiasts, the enthusiast market is one that boutiques can tap into by...
19 by Dustin Sklavos on 10/24/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Launch Recap
Earlier this week we reviewed NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 650 Ti. As this was a hard launch many of NVIDIA’s partners have had their cards available for purchase from day-one...
7 by Chris Hansen on 10/11/2012
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGA
At a pace just shy of a card a month, NVIDIA has been launching the GeForce 600 series part by part for over the last half year now. What...
89 by Ryan Smith on 10/9/2012
The New Razer Blade: Thoroughly Reviewed
Earlier this year, Razer handed me a Blade evaluation unit and told me to go wild. Considering the company had no previous experience with developing PC laptop hardware, I...
59 by Vivek Gowri on 10/3/2012NVIDIA Quietly Releases GeForce GTX 670MX and GTX 675MX for Notebooks
Testing the Alienware notebooks with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680Ms while seeing reviews for the GK104-based GeForce GTX 660 Ti and GK106-based GeForce GTX 660 go up has been interesting...
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Alienware M18x R2 Notebook Review: NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680M in SLI
Around the launch of the Alienware M17x R3, Alienware essentially bifurcated its high end notebook offerings into single-GPU (the M17x R3) and dual-GPU (the M18x). The M17x R3 was...
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Alienware M17x R4 Notebook Review: Ivy Bridge and the GeForce GTX 680M
Alienware recently updated their Bronze Editor's Choice award-winning M17x R4 gaming notebook to include Intel's Ivy Bridge processors and optional AMD Radeon HD 7900M series graphics or NVIDIA's new...
60 by Dustin Sklavos on 9/21/2012
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 650: GK107 With GDDR5
Alongside today’s launch of the GK106-based GeForce GTX 660, NVIDIA is also launching one other card: the GeForce GTX 650. In a nutshell, the GTX 650 is the long-awaited...
22 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2012
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Review: GK106 Fills Out The Kepler Family
It's been nearly 6 months since the launch of the first Kepler GPUs, and due to 28nm production difficulties NVIDIA has spent the last 6 months with a sizable...
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AVADirect Quiet Gaming PC System Review Part II: Can Ivy Bridge and Kepler Make Up the Difference?
The last time we reviewed AVADirect's Quiet Gaming PC was in January. I was mostly pleased with it, but it went awry in the places that boutique systems often...
17 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/27/2012