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...
NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference 2013 Keynote Live Blog
We're live at NVIDIA's 2013 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) press conference, seated and ready to go. Anand, Ryan, and myself are here and expecting Jen-Hsun's keynote to get under...
22 by Brian Klug, Anand Lal Shimpi & Ryan Smith on 3/19/2013
NVIDIA and Continuum Analytics Announce NumbaPro, A Python CUDA Compiler
As NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference 2013 kicks off this week, there will be a number of announcements coming down the pipeline from NVIDIA and their partners. The biggest and...
10 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2013
Revolution or Evolution? ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU Mini On Show
A noticeable trend in the current desktop ecosystem is towards the small, as evidenced by the Intel NUC and successes of mini-ITX products like the BitFenix Prodigy. Users...
39 by Ian Cutress on 3/7/2013
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...
23 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2013
AMD Announces FirePro R5000; PCoIP For Remote Desktops
Though most readers aren’t acutely aware of it, AMD’s FirePro lineup of graphics cards encompasses a number of more specialized fields. On top of their “mainline” cards like the...
7 by Ryan Smith on 2/25/2013
GeForce Titan Pre-Order Available
This week saw the launch of NVIDIA's latest and greatest single GPU consumer graphics card, the GeForce Titan. Priced at a cool grand ($1000), the Titan isn't the sort...
22 by Jarred Walton on 2/22/2013
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 17
We managed to get in one more Podcast before Brian and I leave for MWC 2013 today. With the number of major announcements that happened in the past week...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2013
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...
337 by Ryan Smith & Rahul Garg on 2/21/2013
Sony Announces PlayStation 4: PC Hardware Inside
Sony just announced the PlayStation 4, along with some high level system specifications. The high level specs are what we've heard for quite some time: 8-core x86-64 CPU using AMD...
161 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013
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...
157 by Ryan Smith on 2/19/2013
High-End Meets Small Form Factor: GeForce Titan in Falcon Northwest's Tiki
Today NVIDIA officially unveiled its first consumer facing GK110 graphics card: the GeForce Titan. Although GK110 launched last year, gamers didn't have access to it as it launched exclusively...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/19/2013
NVIDIA GeForce 314.07 WHQL Available
NVIDIA's beta R313 driver with performance enhancements for Crysis 3 (among other titles) has now received WHQL certification. We wouldn't expect much of a difference in performance relative to...
10 by Jarred Walton on 2/18/2013
AMD Reiterates 2013 GPU Plans: Sea Islands & Beyond
A few minutes ago AMD wrapped up a somewhat impromptu conference call, which had been called together to reiterate the company’s 2013 GPU plans. While there is technically very...
58 by Ryan Smith on 2/15/2013
NVIDIA's New F2P Bundle: The First Hit Is Free
Last week AMD announced their Never Settle Reloaded gaming bundle, with several high-profile games available with the purchase of AMD GPUs. This week, NVIDIA follows suit with their own...
51 by Jarred Walton on 2/11/2013
3DMark for Windows Launches; We Test It with Various Laptops
After a two-year hiatus, Futuremark is back with a new version of 3DMark, and in many ways this is their most ambitious version to date. Instead of the usual...
69 by Jarred Walton on 2/5/2013
AMD Announces New Winter Video Game Bundle: Never Settle Reloaded
Although game bundles are nothing new for the video card industry, in the last couple of years they’ve come back into vogue in a way we haven’t seen in...
13 by Ryan Smith on 2/2/2013
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
AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 Drivers Released
As promised alongside last week’s release of the Catalyst 13.1 WHQL drivers, AMD has shipped out the first public beta for the next version of their drivers this week...
6 by Ryan Smith on 1/29/2013
NVIDIA GeForce R313.95 Beta Drivers Available
It seems ironic that after years of their monthly releases when AMD/ATI has now switched to a "when it's necessary" release schedule--something NVIDIA has been doing via official beta...
2 by Jarred Walton on 1/28/2013
Whither 3DMark—Updates on the Cross-Platform Launch
Early in December 2012, I posted a short article about the Fire Strike trailer for the next 3DMark with the note that the full release was promised before the...
15 by Jarred Walton on 1/23/2013
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