GPUs
SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix's and TSMC's leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications. The primary focus of SK hynix's and TSMC's initial efforts will be to enhance the performance of the HBM4 stack's base die, which (if we put it very simply) acts like an ultra-wide interface between memory devices and host processors. With HBM4, SK hynix plans to use one of TSMC's advanced logic process technologies to build base dies to pack additional features and I/O pins within the confines of existing...
NVIDIA to Release Pascal Drivers for macOS
Capping off a crazy week for Apple-related GPU news, we have one more important development for the week. Buried in their announcement of the NVIDIA Titan Xp, NVIDIA has...
31 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2017NVIDIA Announces NVIDIA Titan Xp Video Card: Fully Enabled GP102 for $1200
If you’ve followed NVIDIA’s video card launches over the last few years, then there’s a pretty clear pattern to the company’s release schedule. If the company starts things off...
70 by Ryan Smith on 4/7/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software ReLive Crimson Edition 17.4.1
The game releases trickle this time of year, but the progression of technology marches on. More specifically VR is still a developing phenomenon, and 8K is just cresting the...
8 by Daniel Williams on 4/5/2017Apple to Redesign Mac Pro, Comments That GPU Cooling Was A Roadblock
In what’s turning out to be an oddly GPU-centric week for Apple, this morning the company has revealed that they will finally be giving the long-neglected Mac Pro a...
84 by Ryan Smith on 4/4/2017Apple To Develop Own GPU, Drop Imagination's GPUs From SoCs
In a bombshell of a press release issued this morning, Imagination has announced that Apple has informed their long-time GPU partner that they will be winding down their use...
144 by Ryan Smith on 4/3/2017Cosemi Announces 328-Feet ‘8K-Ready’ OptoDP Active DisplayPort 1.4 Optical Cable
Cosemi has announced its first OptoDP active optical cable that supports a DisplayPort 1.4 connection. That in itself isn't newsworthy, but up to 328 feet, or 100 meters, it...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2017NVIDIA Adds GeForce GTX 1060 To “Prepare for Battle” Bundle
In a brief announcement this morning, NVIDIA is expanding their "Prepare for Battle" bundle to include the GeForce GTX 1060. NVIDIA's latest bundle launched nearly two months ago, at the...
17 by Daniel Williams on 3/28/2017Quick Look: Comparing Vulkan & DX12 API Overhead on 3DMark
Earlier this week the crew over at Futuremark released a major update to their API Overhead testing tool, which is built into the larger 3DMark testing suite. The API...
48 by Ryan Smith on 3/25/2017NVIDIA Releases 378.92 WHQL Driver: Mass Effect and Dolby Vision for Games
This week in a relatively brief driver update, NVIDIA has released their Game Ready driver for the newly released Mass Effect: Andromeda. Following with the 378 branch, 378.92 adds official...
21 by Daniel Williams on 3/21/2017AMD Releases Radeon Software ReLive Crimson Edition 17.3.2
Continuing their momentum in update frequency, we have another driver release form AMD. This latest update is a minor "point update" for the month, and it includes only two...
3 by Daniel Williams on 3/16/2017The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founder's Edition Review: Bigger Pascal for Better Performance
Unveiled last week at GDC and launching tomorrow is the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Based on NVIDIA’s GP102 GPU – aka Bigger Pascal – the job of GTX 1080...
161 by Ryan Smith on 3/9/2017Imagination Announces PowerVR Furian GPU Architecture: The Next Generation of PowerVR
Taking place today is Imagination Technologies’ annual tech summit in Santa Clara, California. The company’s annual summit is always a venue for major Imagination news, and this year that’s...
19 by Ryan Smith on 3/8/2017NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1080 Ti: Available Week of March 5th for $699
In what has now become a bona fide tradition for NVIDIA, at their GDC event this evening the company announced their next flagship video card, the GeForce GTX 1080...
139 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2017GeForce GTX 1080 Price Cut to $499; NVIDIA Partners To Begin Selling 10-Series Cards With Faster Memory
Along with this evening’s new of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, NVIDIA has a couple other product announcements of sorts. First off, starting tomorrow, the GeForce GTX 1080 is...
29 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2017AMD GDC 2017: Asynchronous Reprojection for VR, Vega Gets a Retail Name, & More
In what has become something of an annual tradition for AMD's Radeon Technologies Group, their Game Developers Conference Capsaicin & Cream event just wrapped up. Unlike the company’s more...
13 by Ryan Smith on 2/28/2017XFX Starts to Sell Single-Slot Mini-ITX Radeon RX 460 Slim Graphics Cards
XFX has quietly started to sell its slim Radeon RX 460 video cards, which use a single-slot cooling system and can fit into a Mini-ITX computer. The cards features...
24 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2017MSI Adds Low-Profile AMD Radeon RX 460 Graphics Cards to Lineup
MSI has quietly added two low-profile AMD Radeon RX 460 graphics adapters to its product family. The add-in-boards (AIBs) are powered by AMD’s latest entry-level GPU, Polaris 11. As...
50 by Anton Shilov on 2/18/2017ELSA Launches a Single-Slot GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB SP
ELSA has announced a new graphics card with a single-slot cooling system. The GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB SP can fit into tightly packed PCs and does not...
24 by Anton Shilov on 2/17/2017AMD & NVIDIA Post GDC 2017 Event Details, Both Holding Events February 28th
Though it feels like we’re barely past CES, things are already quickly ramping up in the PC hardware industry once again. Kicking off in a bit under two weeks...
36 by Ryan Smith on 2/16/2017EVGA's New iCX Range: NVIDIA GPUs with More Control for Cooling
EVGA has introduced a new iCX cooling and tuning technology for its GPUs that promises higher efficiency and better control compared to predecessors. The video cards feature multiple onboard...
20 by Anton Shilov on 2/15/2017