NVIDIA
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...
MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K Review
MSI has several lines of gaming notebooks catering to different types of users. At the high-end is the GT series that supports the fastest mobile CPUs and GPUs while...
47 by Jarred Walton on 8/21/2014State of the Part: SoC Manufacturers
Introduction A few years ago, it seemed a new System-On-Chip (SoC) design using an ARM-based architecture would pop up every other week. While competition can be great, with so many...
94 by Jarred Walton on 8/19/2014NVIDIA Launches Next GeForce Game Bundle - Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
After letting their previous Watch Dogs bundle run its course over the past couple of months, NVIDIA sends word this afternoon that they will be launching a new game...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014NVIDIA Refreshes Quadro Lineup, Launches 5 New Quadro Cards
Continuing today’s spate of professional graphics announcements, along with AMD’s refresh of their FirePro lineup NVIDIA is announcing that they are undertaking their own refresh of their Quadro lineup...
24 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2014Tegra K1 Lands in Acer's Newest Chromebook
Today Acer announced four new models of a new 13.3" Chromebook design featuring Tegra K1. This is a significant launch for NVIDIA, proving there's industry interest in Tegra K1...
24 by Stephen Barrett on 8/11/2014NVIDIA FY 2015 Q2 Financial Results
On Thursday August 7th, NVIDIA released their results for the second quarter of their fiscal year 2015. Year-over-year, they had an excellent quarter based on strong growth in the...
16 by Brett Howse on 8/10/2014Revisiting SHIELD Tablet: Gaming Battery Life and Temperatures
While the original SHIELD Tablet review hit most of the critical points in the review, there wasn't enough time to investigate everything. One of the areas where there wasn't...
39 by Joshua Ho & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/8/2014NVIDIA GeForce 340.52 WHQL Drivers Now Available
Joining today’s launch of the SHIELD Tablet is a new GeForce driver set from NVIDIA. After last month’s release of the first R340 beta driver, 340.43, NVIDIA is back...
4 by Ryan Smith on 7/29/2014Short Bytes: NVIDIA's SHIELD Tablet
Today's launch of the new SHIELD Tablet with NVIDIA's Tegra K1 SoC has muddied up the tablet waters a bit. We've posted our full coverage of the device, but...
32 by Jarred Walton on 7/29/2014The NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Review
While I talked about this in the launch article, the SHIELD Tablet is very much the culmination of lessons learned from 2013. While the Tegra Note 7 was a...
175 by Joshua Ho on 7/29/2014NVIDIA Launches Shield Tablet
Today, NVIDIA is announcing the Shield tablet. While normally such launch announcements don’t require much in the way of exposition, NVIDIA is in an odd place. Last year, the...
107 by Joshua Ho on 7/22/2014MSI GE60 Review: Mainstream Mobile Maxwell
When NVIDIA launched their first Maxwell GPU, the GM107, back in February, they ushered in a new level of performance efficiency for desktop PCs. Given these improvements in efficiency...
64 by Jarred Walton on 7/17/2014Nvidia and Epic Games Showcase the Power of Tegra K1 With Unreal Engine 4 "Rivalry" Demo
For the past few years there have been claims that mobile graphics performance and capabilities are about to reach that of gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 and Playstation...
71 by Brandon Chester on 6/25/2014ISC 2014: NVIDIA Tesla Cards Add ARM64 Host Compatibility
Kicking off this week for the world of supercomputing is the 2014 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany. One of the major supercomputing conferences, ISC is Europe’s largest supercomputing...
6 by Ryan Smith on 6/23/2014NVIDIA Kepler Cards Get HDMI 4K@60Hz Support (Kind Of)
An interesting feature has turned up in NVIDIA’s latest drivers: the ability to drive certain displays over HDMI at 4K@60Hz. This is a feat that would typically require HDMI...
54 by Ryan Smith on 6/20/2014NVIDIA GeForce 340.43 Beta Drivers Now Available
Arriving just a few weeks after the release of their 337.88 GeForce WHQL driver, NVIDIA’s driver team is back again with a new beta driver. Now at version 340.43...
6 by Ryan Smith on 6/17/2014Google Announces Project Tango Tablet Dev Kit with Tegra K1 and 3D Capture/Tracking
Google recently announced their new Project Tango Development Kit, a 7" tablet with a unique twist. At present this is a device for developers, scientists, and other research-oriented groups...
33 by Jarred Walton on 6/5/2014ASUS Launches the ROG GX500, a 4K UHD 15-inch Gaming Notebook
In recent months, screen resolutions have exploded on to the scene when users started wanting something more than a cheap 1080p panel. Notebooks typically have had higher pixel...
21 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2014GeForce Experience 2.1 Released
It has been a bit over 2 years since NVIDIA first announced GeForce Experience, and while it took them a bit longer to get off the ground than they...
7 by Ryan Smith on 6/2/2014NVIDIA Releases GeForce GTX Titan Z
Back in March at GTC 2014, NVIDIA announced their forthcoming flagship dual-GPU video card, the GeForce GTX Titan Z. Based on a pair of fully enabled GK110 GPUs, NVIDIA...
58 by Ryan Smith on 5/28/2014