GPUs
VESA this morning is taking the wraps off of the next iteration of its DisplayHDR monitor certification standard, DisplayHDR 1.2. Designed to raise the bar on display quality, the updated DisplayHDR conformance test suite imposes new luminance, color gamut, and color accuracy requirements that extend across the entire spectrum of DisplayHDR tiers – including the entry-level DisplayHDR 400 tier. With vendors able to begin certifying displays for the new standard immediately, the display technology group is aiming to address the advancements in the display technology market over the last several years, while enticing display manufacturers to make use of them to deliver better desktop and laptop displays than before. Altogether, the DisplayHDR 1.2 is easily the biggest update to the standard since it launched in...
NVIDIA Announces H100 NVL - Max Memory Server Card for Large Language Models
While this year’s Spring GTC event doesn’t feature any new GPUs or GPU architectures from NVIDIA, the company is still in the process of rolling out new products based...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023
The NVIDIA GTC Spring 2023 Keynote Live Blog (8:00am PT/15:00 UTC)
Please join us at 8:00am PT (15:00 UTC) for our live blog coverage of NVIDIA’s Spring GTC keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical...
18 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023
NVIDIA Bundles Redfall Bite Back Edition With GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs
NVIDIA has launched a new RTX game bundle for the chipmaker's latest generation GeForce RTX 40 series (Ada Lovelace) video cards. For their latest promotional offer, the company has...
4 by Zhiye Liu on 3/16/2023
Cadence Delivers Technical Details on GDDR7: 36 Gbps with PAM3 Encoding
When Samsung teased the ongoing development of GDDR7 memory last October, the company did not disclose any other technical details of the incoming specification. But Cadence recently introduced the...
29 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2023
NVIDIA Releases Hotfix For GeForce Driver To Resolve CPU Usage Spikes
NVIDIA released the company’s GeForce 531.18 WHQL driver on February 28th. It didn’t take long before user reports started to pile up on the NVIDIA forums about a strange...
1 by Zhiye Liu on 3/8/2023
AMD Announces The Last of Us Part 1 Game Bundle For Radeon RX 6000 & 7000 Video Cards
The Last of Us Part 1, a remaster of the original Playstation-hit, is making its way to the PC on March 28. To celebrate the feat or to let...
7 by Zhiye Liu on 3/8/2023
Intel Scraps Rialto Bridge GPU, Next Server GPU Will Be Falcon Shores In 2025
On Friday afternoon, Intel published a letter by Jeff McVeigh, the company’s interim GM of their Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics group (AXG). In it, McVeigh offered a brief...
47 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2023
CES 2023: AMD Instinct MI300 Data Center APU Silicon In Hand - 146B Transistors, Shipping H2’23
Alongside AMD’s widely expected client product announcements this evening for desktop CPUs, mobile CPUs, and mobile GPUs, AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su also had a surprise up her sleeve...
38 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2023
The AMD CES 2023 Keynote Live Blog (6:30pm PT/02:30 UTC)
CES keynote season continues this week with the second major PC-centric keynote of the event, being held by AMD. Helmed as always by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD is...
7 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2023
NVIDIA CES 2023 Special Address Live Blog (8am PT/16:00 UTC)
Kicking off CES 2023, the first presentation of the week comes from NVIDIA. The prolific GPU vendor is at the show to talk about new consumer hardware for desktops...
9 by Ryan Smith on 1/3/2023
AMD Reveals Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT: First RDNA 3 Parts To Hit Shelves in December
With AMD’s first-wave of Zen 4 CPUs now in the books with the Ryzen 7000 series, the consumer arm of AMD is now shifting its attention over to its...
197 by Ryan Smith on 11/3/2022
AMD RDNA 3 GPU Unveil "together we advance_gaming” Live Blog (1pm PT/20:00 UTC)
Following hot on the heels of AMD’s major CPU launch of the year – the Zen 4 architecture and Ryzen 7000 family – today AMD will be giving their...
16 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 11/3/2022
AMD Announces Radeon RDNA 3 GPU Livestream Event for November 3rd
Following on the heels of AMD’s CPU-centric event back in August, AMD today has sent out a press release announcing that they will be holding a similar event in...
18 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2022
NVIDIA Scrubs GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Launch; 16GB To Be Sole RTX 4080 Card
In a short post published on NVIDIA’s website today, the company has announced that it is “unlaunching” their planned GeForce RTX 4080 12GB card. The lowest-end of the initially...
100 by Ryan Smith on 10/14/2022
Microsoft: DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU Decompression Finally on Its Way
As part of this week’s Microsoft Ignite developers conference, Microsoft’s DirectX team has published a few blog posts offering updates on the state of various game development-related projects. The...
45 by Ryan Smith on 10/14/2022
AMD Issues Early Q3’22 Financial Results: Misses Guidance By $1B as Client Revenue Craters
Underscoring a difficult second half of the year that seems to be shaping up for the entire tech industry, AMD this afternoon has become the latest tech company to...
33 by Ryan Smith on 10/6/2022
NVIDIA: H100 Hopper Accelerator Now in Full Production, DGX Shipping In Q1’23
With NVIDIA’s fall GTC event in full swing, the company touched upon the bulk of its core business in one way or another in this morning’s keynote. On the...
9 by Ryan Smith on 9/20/2022
The NVIDIA GeForce Project Beyond and GTC Fall 2022 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 8am PT/15:00 UTC)
Kicking off a bit later this morning will be NVIDIA’s GTC 2022 fall keynote, which should prove to be a very interesting event. Besides NVIDIA’s usual run-through of business announcements...
48 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 9/20/2022
EVGA and NVIDIA To Split: EVGA Won’t Make Next-Gen NVIDIA Cards
In a move that will have significant repercussions for the video card industry in North America and Europe, EVGA today has announced that the company is parting ways from...
119 by Ryan Smith on 9/16/2022
Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.0 Announced: Doubled Speeds and Flexible Fabrics
While it’s technically still the new kid on the block, the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard for host-to-device connectivity has quickly taken hold in the server market. Designed to...
4 by Ryan Smith on 8/2/2022
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