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...
Oculus Rift Launch Day News: New AMD & NVIDIA Drivers; Async Timewarp & Platform Restrictions Added To SDK
After just over three and a half years and a Facebook acquisition in between, Oculus’s first-generation Rift headset is launching today. We took a hands-on preview of the headset...
11 by Ryan Smith on 3/28/2016
NVIDIA Announces 24GB Quadro M6000
With NVIDIA currently between GPU generations, things have been relatively quiet on the professional graphics front for the company. On the high-end NVIDIA released the Quadro M6000 back in...
16 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2016
AMD Updates Gaming Evolved Client
Game streaming and recording has continued to be both a growing hobby and profession for many in recent years. Anytime there is growing interest in anything from society there...
5 by Daniel Williams on 3/18/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.1 Hotfix
Following last week's release of Radeon Software 16.3 Hotfix, AMD is back again with a quick update to their driver set, bringing it to 16.3.1 Hotfix. The list of resolved...
7 by Daniel Williams on 3/18/2016
GDC 2016: Tearing & Freesync/G-Sync Support Coming to Windows' UWP Apps
With the recent release of the first major games built for Windows’ Universal Windows Platform runtime, the current limitations of UWP has been a hot topic in technical circles...
11 by Ryan Smith on 3/17/2016
Razer Core Thunderbolt 3 eGFX Chassis: $499/$399, AMD & NVIDIA, Shipping In April
Back at CES 2016, Razer announced their Core Thunderbolt 3 external graphics (eGFX) chassis. Built around the new Thunderbolt 3 standard and its long-awaited official support for external video...
80 by Ryan Smith on 3/16/2016
GDC 2016: Imagination Demonstrates PowerVR Vulkan SDK & PowerVR Ray Tracing
Among the many companies showing off their latest development wares at GDC this week is Imagination. As opposed to their new GPU IP launches over the past couple of...
3 by Ryan Smith on 3/16/2016
MSI Introduces two new GTX 950 2GB GPUs with 75W TDP: the OCV2 and OCV3
A standard GTX 950 reference design comes in at a 90W TDP, which means it requires a 6-pin PCIe power connector as the standard PCIe slot is typically rated...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/16/2016
NVIDIA Announces GameWorks SDK 3.1
Innovation is hard work. Doing work that has already been done elsewhere can be satisfying, but also annoying - no-one wants to reinvent the wheel every time. In the...
52 by Daniel Williams on 3/16/2016
VRScore: Crytek and Basemark Announce New Benchmark Release
Virtual Reality has definitely been playing the slow and steady race for a while now. Thankfully, with the approach of consumer VR headsets going on sale, more of us...
5 by Daniel Williams on 3/15/2016
GDC 2016: Geomerics Demonstrates Updated Enlighten Lighting Tech
As some of our regular readers may already be familiar with them, ARM’s Geomerics division is one of the more unusual parts of ARM’s overall business group. Unlike the...
8 by Ryan Smith on 3/15/2016
AMD Unveils GPU Architecture Roadmap: After Polaris Comes Vega
Although AMD’s GDC 2016 “Capsaicin” event was primarily focused on game development – it is the Game Developers Conference, after all – AMD did spend a brief moment discussing...
54 by Ryan Smith on 3/15/2016
AMD Announces Radeon Pro Duo: Dual GPU Fiji Video Card For VR Content Creation
At AMD’s GDC 2016 “Capsaicin” event, the company has announced their long-awaited dual Fiji video card. Being released under the name Radeon Pro Duo, the new card is a...
56 by Ryan Smith on 3/14/2016
Discussing the State of DirectX 12 With Microsoft & Oxide Games
Taking place next week is the 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. GDC has been an important show for some time, but in recent years it has taken...
67 by Ryan Smith on 3/11/2016
More on AMD’s XConnect Tech: Thunderbolt 3 for External Radeons
Last night AMD issued a driver update that brought support for a new technology, XConnect. In a nutshell, XConnect is AMD’s trade name for running external video cards via...
64 by Ryan Smith on 3/10/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Hotfix: Support for Vulkan and TB3 Enclosures
With the driver update floodgates not closing yet, we are given a massive update from AMD that brings Radeon Software Crimson Edition to version 16.3 (driver version 16.15). Incoming...
18 by Daniel Williams on 3/10/2016
An AnandTech Round Table with ASUS: 10 Years of the Republic of Gamers
Earlier this year before CES 2016, we approached ASUS with an idea: as the Republic of Gamers brand is now in its 10th year of operation, we wanted to...
36 by Ian Cutress on 3/9/2016
AMD To Showcase Latest Innovations at “Capsaicin” Press Event & Webcast
Capsaicin, whether you call it the essence of flavor or the distillation of pain (ed: it's the latter), at its core capsaicin is what drives everything we call spicy...
47 by Daniel Williams on 3/8/2016
NVIDIA Releases 364.47 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Not even a week has passed and we have another driver update from NVIDIA. Despite the quick turnaround this is not a rushed released. Indeed, we have some heavy...
22 by Daniel Williams on 3/8/2016
ASUS Unveils 75W GeForce GTX 950 Graphics Card; Powered Entirely By PCIe Slot
ASUS has quietly introduced its new video card based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 GPU with a 75W power limit. By virtue of a lower power limit, this...
38 by Anton Shilov on 3/7/2016
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