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...
Hidden Secrets: Investigation Shows That NVIDIA GPUs Implement Tile Based Rasterization for Greater Efficiency
As someone who analyzes GPUs for a living, one of the more vexing things in my life has been NVIDIA’s Maxwell architecture. The company’s 28nm refresh offered a huge...
191 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.7.3
AMD's Radeon Technologies Group has released another driver update with a healthy list of fixes. On the list today are fixes for CrossFire, flickering in both rendering and the...
17 by Daniel Williams on 7/29/2016AMD Announces Radeon RX 470 & RX 460 Specifications; Shipping in Early August
Back before Radeon RX 480 even launched, AMD briefly teased the next two cards in their lineup at E3 2016’s PC Gaming Show. These cards, the Radeon RX 470...
56 by Ryan Smith on 7/28/2016MSI Shows New Radeon RX 480 Gaming Cards, with an 8-pin
Today MSI is announcing the latest entry in the Gaming X GPU line with the Radeon RX 480 Gaming X 8G/4G cards as well as non-X variants. The main...
34 by Daniel Williams on 7/26/2016AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX Series: WX 4100, WX 5100, & WX 7100 Bring Polaris to Pros
It’s been a while since we’ve last seen a new workstation graphics card from AMD. With their Fiji GPU not being a good fit for the market, the company...
30 by Ryan Smith on 7/26/2016Updated: AMD Announces Radeon Pro SSG: Fiji With M.2 SSDs On-Board
As part of this evening’s AMD Capsaicin event (more on that later), AMD’s Chief Architect and SVP of the Radeon Technologies Group has announced a new Radeon Pro card...
120 by Ryan Smith on 7/25/2016NVIDIA Announces Quadro Pascal Family: Quadro P6000 & P5000
If there was one word to describe the launch of NVIDIA’s Pascal generation products, it’s “expedient.” On the consumer side of the business the company has launched 3 different...
40 by Ryan Smith on 7/25/2016Updated: NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan X” Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd
In 2014/2015, it took NVIDIA 6 months from the launch of the Maxwell 2 architecture to get GTX Titan X out the door. All things considered, that was a...
228 by Ryan Smith on 7/25/2016SAPPHIRE Announces NITRO+ Radeon RX 480
This morning SAPPHIRE is announcing their latest card in the NITRO+ family, the NITRO+ Radeon RX 480. Some key features of SAPPHIRE’s new NITRO+ RX 480 cards include higher...
57 by Daniel Williams on 7/22/2016Cards Galore: A Quick Look At the Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Launch Lineup
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 is here to contend for mainstream space. Alongside the NVIDIA-only Founders Edition card, we will see a large number of cards released from other...
55 by Daniel Williams on 7/21/2016The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Founders Editions Review: Kicking Off the FinFET Generation
It has taken about 2 years longer than we’d normally see, but the next full generation of GPUs are finally upon us. Powered by FinFET based nodes at TSMC...
201 by Ryan Smith on 7/20/2016Futuremark Releases 3DMark Time Spy DirectX 12 Benchmark
Today Futuremark is pulling the covers off of their new Time Spy benchmark, which is being released today for all Windows editions of 3DMark. A showcase of sorts of...
75 by Daniel Williams on 7/14/2016Doom Vulkan Patch Released
Bethesda PR has sent over a quick note this morning that the long-awaited Vulkan patch for Doom is now available, allowing the game to be played with either the...
73 by Ryan Smith on 7/11/2016ASUS, Inno3D, & Gigabyte Tease Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Cards
Yesterday we saw the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060. Though NVIDIA is producing a reference Founders Edition card, as this is a more mainstream product, NVIDIA is leaving...
55 by Daniel Williams on 7/8/2016AMD Posts Radeon 16.7.1 Drivers, Fixes RX 480 Power Consumption Issues
In what’s hopefully the final chapter on AMD’s saga over the last week with the Radeon RX 480’s power consumption, AMD has posted the previously promised 16.7.1 driver set...
105 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2016NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060: Starting at $249, Available July 19th
Excitingly, GPU Season 2016 is now in full swing. In the last two months we have seen NVIDIA launch a pair of high-end cards – the Pascal-based GeForce GTX...
228 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.69 WHQL Game Ready Driver
NVIDIA is back once again with their first driver release for the month of July. This latest update, 368.69 WQHL, is focused on the usual mix of fixes, along...
3 by Daniel Williams on 7/7/2016AMD's Tuesday Radeon RX 480 Status Update: New Driver By Late Thursday
Following up on this weekend's statement from AMD about a potential power issue with the reference Radeon RX 480, AMD has just sent over their previously promised update on...
121 by Ryan Smith on 7/6/2016GIGABYTE Announces GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC
As the various board partners finally begin unveiling their custom GTX 1000 series designs, GIGABYTE has arrived with their latest entry in the Mini ITX game. GIGABYTE’s GeForce GTX...
21 by Daniel Williams on 7/5/2016AMD Releases Statement On Radeon RX 480 Power Consumption; More Details Tuesday
Following up on this week's Radeon RX 480 launch, there has been some questions raised about the power consumption of the card. This is after some sites whom directly...
181 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2016