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Nvidia recently released a driver update that adds support for Freesync monitors, but the GPU maker was quick to point out that "non-validated" displays could exhibit serious issues. However, Techspot put that claimto the test last January, and just followed up on it with a handful of new...

Over the weekend, VentureBeat got an early look at Jon Peddie Research's Q4 2018 add-in board report, and found that discrete GPU shipments dropped in Q4 2018. But the market researcher just posted their own summary of the report, complete with statistics that previous interpretations left out...

Industry analysts recently claimed that AMD, Nvidia, and their manufacturing and retail partners are sitting on tons of unsold GPUs they made during the cryptocurrency mining craze, and now, Digitimes' industry sources say that they've begun cutting prices to get rid of them. More specifically...

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 TI is out, and one of out favorite Scottish YouTubers has already posted an analysis of the new GPU, along with some notes about the rest of the Turing lineup. Among other things, he points out that the GTX 1660's 284mm^2 die is relatively small compared to the...

The Taiwanese news outlet DigiTimes claims that the Nvidia will launch the mid-range GTX 1660 graphics card on March 15, at a price point of $229. This more or less lines up with the latest info from our own industry sources, who claim the 1660 will launch on March 14 at that same price point...

Nvidia released the 419.17 drivers a few days ago, and as we noted, they featured a number of new SLI profiles, GPU video encoding improvements, and the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements. But yesterday, BleepingComputer found that the new drivers also came with fixes to a number of...

Italian hardware news site Bits and Chips just posted a Tweet suggesting that the RX 580 8GB is expected to get a price cut to $199, while the RX 590 will allegedly drop to $229 "in next weeks." As with all GPU rumors, this has to be taken with a generous helping of salt, but assuming they're...

Canadian game developer Beamdog is the studio behind the PC remasters of classic RPGs like Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Planescape: Torment, and NeverWinter Nights. The company recently partnered with Skybound Games to bring the remasters to consoles, and, according to a recent blog post, they aren't...

Nvidia just uploaded a new set of drivers optimized for Anthem and Dirt Rally 2.0. Among other things, Nvidia says the WHQL 419.17 drivers add SLI support for Apex Legends and Far Cry New Dawn, and feature enhanced SLI support for Anthem. Nvidia fixed an artifacting bug in Battlefield V and a...

Intel's discrete GPU is still years away, but they're already trying to get the graphics community involved. Chipzilla previously made calls for graphics experts to join their team, but yesterday, Intel Graphics launched a more consumer-centric campaign. Functionally, Intel Graphics' "Odyssey"...

The Times of India reports that Intel corporation acquired the Indian chip design startup Ineda Systems in an "all cash deal sealed last week" for an undisclosed amount. While Ineda seemingly specializes in low-power IoT hardware and autonomous driving technology, chipzilla is said to be more...

As the 1660 TI launch nears, more and more designs from various manufacturers are starting to pop up around the web. Videocardz posted designs from MSI, Asus, Galax, Palit, and EVGA, and they even managed to get a die shot of what they claim to be the TU116 GPU, as well as a shot of the MSI...

AdoredTV just posted their review of the Radeon VII. In terms of performance, AdoredTV's results line up with reviews that went up earlier, generally besting the liquid cooled Vega 64 and achieving parity with the GTX 1080 TI and RTX 2080, depending on the title and settings. But what really...

The "CPU" has been the heart of the modern computer for decades. As chip design costs. and speeds, have increased, the tech industry has typically defaulted to dumping more resources into flexible, integrated general purpose processors rather than spending millions on specialized chips for...

One of our sources previously informed us that the Nvidia GeForce 1660 TI will launch on Feburary 15, and by the looks of things, Nvidia is indeed ramping up for a launch. TweakTown's AIB source "confirmed" that the "the GTX 1660 Ti is coming, and it isn't far away." Meanwhile, Videocardz...

Earlier today, we (and other media outlets) reported that the newest version of Asus GPU Tweak II contained an GPU "ad." But Asus later informed us that the overlay image in question is not an ad, but an "image placeholder" for a streamer-focused feature that's in development. In its current...

As was previously announced, the Mozilla devs are working on an overhaul to Firefox's rendering engine. Instead of rendering the web on a CPU with GPU acceleration as a side feature, like Chrome, Firefox and Edge currently do, "Webrender" approaches the task more like a game engine would, and...

IEEE Spectrum reports that Rakesh Kumar and his associates are working on a "wafer-scale" interconnect for GPUs. Instead of fabricating multiple GPUs on a massive silicon wafer, or using power hungry and slow traditional interconnects like existing supercomputers use, Kumar wants to use a...

Nvidia RTX-equipped gaming laptops are out, and both Nvidia and their retail partners are heavily promoting them. But before you jump on one, remember that Nvidia (and AMD) have a long-running habit of using somewhat deceptive branding for their laptop GPUs. As TechSpot points out, the mobile...

On Twitter, the prolific dataminer Komachi spotted some listings for unreleased products on the Eurasian Economic Commission's website. Mirroring the Gigabyte RTX 2060s that were leaked last year, the website has several MSI and Gigabyte GTX 1660 TI models listed, seemingly confirming the name...

A report from Apple Insider last week suggests that Apple and Nvidia aren't on the best terms. As it points out, the companies have a long history going back to the early 2000s, but the trouble started in 2004 when Nvidia failed to produce the GeForce 6800 Ultra Apple needed. Following some...

Throughout their history, Microsoft's Direct3D team, who are responsible for the various incarnations of DirectX and other related APIs, had to test quite a few graphics cards. In their own words, they've accumulated "a LOT" of old GPUs, and instead of storing them in boxes, the team decided to...

AMD just announced the Radeon 7 GPU at their CES keynote. This is presumably the gaming-oriented variant of their previously announced Vega datacenter GPU, and it will be built on Taiwan Semiconductor's 7nm process. The Radeon 7 GPU sports 60 Compute Units that run at up to 1.8Ghz, and also...

As many of you already know, early 2018 was a bad time to build a new PC. The price of new DDR4 was offensively high about a year ago, and the recent cryptocurrency craze didn't help video card prices either. Media outlets and research firms like DramXchange and Digitimes have been prophesizing...

Digitimes claims that Intel will host a conference for its "GPU architecture technologies" in "December," and that Raja Koduri and several high ranking executives will be there to answer questions. As they often are, the Digitimes report is frustratingly short on details, and doesn't cite a...

According to Jon Peddie Research, GPU shipments in Q3 2018 are down 2.2% compared to Q3 2017. But that decline is largely due to a 16% drop in desktop graphics shipments, as notebook graphics shipments actually increased by 7% year on year. Both AMD and Nvidia lost marketshare to Intel compared...

According to Digitimes' "industry sources," business prospects look bleak for DIY motherboard and GPU manufacturers in the first half of 2019. Thanks to the "sustained chill in the crypto mining sector, the supply shortages of Intel CPUs, and lackluster buying sentiment at terminal markets amid...

Powercolor may have leaked the RX 590 a little early, but official reviews are out today. Here at HardOCP, we take a look at XFX's take on the 12nm GPU, and see how it stacks up against its predecessors and the competition.

Powercolor has seemingly announced the AMD Radeon RX 590 ahead of everyone else, including AMD. As of this post, the Powercolor website is down, but the Internet Archive managed to get a snapshot of the news page yesterday. In a press release with a November 15 date, Powercolor says their Red...

Earlier today, WCCFtech spotted something interesting on 4gamer. Following the "Next Horizon" event, the Japanese site interviewed David Wang, Senior Vice President for the Radeon Technologies Group. While he didn't answer specific questions about AMD's "Navi" GPU, he did comment on AMD's...

Researchers from The University of California, Riverside, published a paper detailing how an Nvidia GPU can be used to orchestrate a variety of attacks. In one attack, the researchers fed GPU memory allocation and performance counter data to a "machine learning based classifier," which...