Because of its price-performance ratio at launch, the GTX 1060 quickly became a favourite for gamers. Proof of that is the many years it stood at the top of the GPU usage chart on Steam. However, we now have a new popularity king on the gaming platform, the GTX 1650. …
Read More »Nvidia is bringing 22 games to GeForce Now this month, new wave of DLSS titles announced
It is the first Thursday of the month and Nvidia has now unveiled its plans for GeForce Now in December. This month, 22 more games will be added to the library, but beyond that, Nvidia also has a new Game Ready driver rolling out as more DLSS-supported titles are hitting …
Read More »Nvidia AD104 GPU is half the size of AD102 according to leaked picture
The AD104 GPU is expected to power the rumoured RTX 4070 Ti graphics card, with a launch planned for some time in the coming months. Thanks to the cancelled RTX 4080 12GB, we already have a good idea of what to expect from this GPU on the specs front, but …
Read More »Nvidia has reportedly discontinued the RTX 2060 and GTX 1660
The Nvidia RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 series GPUs have been long-standing in Nvidia's line-up, but their time on the market seems to be coming to an end, as recent reports claim Nvidia will discontinue them soon. The report comes from ITHome (via Wccftech), which has access to the Board …
Read More »Portal RTX is launching next week
Nvidia's in-house Lightspeed Studios has worked with several game developers in recent years to bring RTX features to various titles. During that time, this team has also created its own fully ray-traced remasters of games like Quake II and Minecraft. Next on the list is Portal RTX, which is officially launching in December.
Read More »Gigabyte begins listing RX 7900 and RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards
We're a couple of weeks away from AMD's RX 7900 series graphics cards hitting the market, and just over a month away from the rumoured unveiling of Nvidia's RTX 4070 Ti. Gigabyte appears to be laying the groundwork for both launches, with new EEC listings pointing to a number of …
Read More »Crysis 2 & 3 Remastered and Evil West head to GeForce Now this week
Nvidia is back with another weekly GeForce Now library update. While we saw a lot of titles added at once in previous weeks, the final update for November is on the lighter side, offering four games. However, they are all brand-new releases. Nvidia's final GeForce Now update for November brings …
Read More »Nvidia RTX 40 mobile GPUs to bring 30-50% performance uplift over previous generation
The initial 3DMark Time Spy scores of the RTX 40 series mobile GPUs have been shared online, giving us the first glimpse at the performance gains they will bring over the previous generation. Overall, performance gains seem to vary between 30-50% over their RTX 30 series counterparts. The Time Spy …
Read More »Nvidia speaks out on melting RTX 4090 connectors
Nvidia has been investigating user reports of melting 12VHPWR connectors for a few weeks at this point. Through its own investigation last week, Gamers Nexus concluded that many of these cases are likely a mix of user error and design oversight. Now, Nvidia has followed up with a new statement on the matter, confirming it has received reports of 50 cases so far.
Read More »Nvidia has already sold around 160,000 RTX 40 series graphics cards
Despite their MSRPs, the RTX 40 series graphics cards are selling relatively well. Currently, sales for the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 combined sit at around 160,000 units according to the latest analytics. Given that the RTX 4080 only just became available, fewer units have been sold, so there are …
Read More »First Nvidia RTX 4050 laptop GPU benchmark spotted
Reports about the RTX 4050 desktop GPU are still scarce, but the laptop variant is already popping up on benchmark databases. Two listings for the RTX 4050 laptop GPU have been spotted on PugetBench, showing performance between an RTX 3050 and RTX 3060 laptop GPU. The PugetBench entries (1, 2) …
Read More »New batch of titles arrives for GeForce Now, Nvidia announces CES ‘Special Address’
Another week has arrived and sure enough, there is another batch of titles on the way for GeForce Now, including seven brand new releases, the biggest of which is Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, which finally releases today. Aside from that, Nvidia has confirmed its plans for CES in January. While new …
Read More »Nvidia sees 51% Year-on-Year drop in gaming revenue
Nvidia's Q2 earnings report showed a substantial drop off in gaming revenue. Now three months later, the Q3 earnings report is in and revenue has declined further. Nvidia's Q3 earnings report covers up to the 30th of October, shortly after the RTX 4090 launched. The company ended the quarter with …
Read More »Loose cables, bending and debris behind melting 12VHPWR connectors
There has been much discussion around the 12VHPWR adapter shipping with Nvidia's new RTX 40 series cards after a few users reported issues with the connector overheating. We've seen plenty of theories on the root cause and even a dissection of the adapter, but reproducing the issue was proving to be tricky. The team over at Gamers Nexus spent weeks looking into this and running failure tests, and now, the results are in.
Read More »The RTX 4080 has arrived – custom cards range from £1300 to £1650
Following on from launch-day reviews yesterday, today the RTX 4080 graphics card officially becomes available to the public. The first retail listings have gone live and so far, the UK pricing situation is an interesting one, with custom cards starting at close to £1300, with the higher-end models going for £1650.
Read More »Nvidia’s Taiwan Twitter account has been hacked and suspended
Nvidia has had a run of bad luck with cybersecurity this year. Earlier in the year, a ransomware attack was carried out against Nvidia. Now, the company's Taiwan Twitter account has been breached and naturally, the hacker used this opportunity to run a crypto scam.
Read More »Nvidia’s 12VHPWR adapters are being produced by two manufacturers
Nvidia's 12VHPWR power adapter saga continues, now with a suspect identified. These power adapters are being supplied to Nvidia by two manufacturers, but it seems the melting issue can be isolated to one of them. This testing was conducted by Igor'sLAB, which has been working with R&D teams from various …
Read More »Nvidia RTX 4080 Founders Edition Review
Is the RTX 4080 really as bad value as it looks? We find out in our launch day review
Read More »Nvidia’s Frame Generation technology seems to work alongside FSR 2 and XeSS
Up to this point, we assumed that Nvidia's Frame Generation technology would only work in conjunction with native resolutions or in conjunction with DLSS 3. However, recent findings suggest otherwise, as the frame generation tech also works with AMD FSR 2 and Intel XeSS. According to Igor'sLAB, Frame Generation can …
Read More »Nvidia ‘still investigating’ RTX 4090 12VHPWR adapter issues
It has been a few weeks since Nvidia revealed that it is investigating reports of dodgy 12VHPWR adapters shipping with RTX 4090 graphics cards. We've seen plenty of investigation into the matter from the tech press, but Nvidia itself has remained silent since the investigation began. That changed this week with Nvidia releasing a statement on the matter...
Read More »Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti reportedly launching in January
Earlier this week, sources claimed that the cancelled RTX 4080 12GB SKU would return as the RTX 4070 Ti in early 2023. Now, an updated report gives us a date. Apparently, we can expect the new graphics card to launch at CES 2023, with availability also planned for January.
Read More »Newer Nvidia drivers bring significant gaming performance boost to RTX 30 GPUs
A few weeks ago, Nvidia released a graphics driver that significantly improved DX12 gaming performance for RTX 30 series graphics cards. While preparing for upcoming reviews, we've been re-benchmarking on the latest drivers, and it brings to light an important note for upcoming RTX 4080 reviews. When reading reviews for …
Read More »GeForce Now adds ten more games this week
November is a big month for game releases, and Nvidia has a bunch of them lined up for GeForce Now. Last week, the company announced plans to bring 26 games to GFN over the course of the month. 11 of those titles arrived last week and this week, another ten …
Read More »Cancelled Nvidia RTX 4080 12GB will reportedly return as RTX 4070 Ti in January
A few weeks ago, Nvidia ‘unlaunched' the RTX 4080 12GB due to criticism around the performance gap between the 12GB version and the 16GB version. However, the GPU at the heart of that SKU will live on and will reportedly return as an RTX 4070 Ti early in 2023. This …
Read More »Gigabyte introduces multiple RTX 4080 graphics cards
With the RTX 4080 coming in just a few days, Gigabyte has announced its range of graphics cards. The lineup will be divided into three segments: the Aorus Xtreme Waterforce series for those looking for water-cooled solutions, the high-end Aorus Master series for best-in-class air cooling, and the Gaming, Eagle …
Read More »Galax RTX 4090 overclocked to 3.7GHz breaks world record
Recent leaks have shown that Galax is working on an RTX 4090 HOF edition graphics card. Now ahead of launch, this very graphics card has been used to break a world record, with overclocker 'OGS' pushing the GPU to 3.7GHz.
Read More »Total War: Three Kingdoms, Star Ocean and more head to GeForce Now this week
November is a big month for game releases, and Nvidia has a bunch of them lined up for GeForce Now. This week, Nvidia announced plans to bring 26 games to GeForce Now this month, including plenty of day-one games. Upcoming titles like Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Goat Simulator 3 and Terracotta …
Read More »Nvidia DLSS 3 is coming to three more games in November
DLSS 3 is available to developers and with the number of supported graphics cards ramping up this month, so is the number of supported games. In November, three more games will get DLSS 3 support, and there are more DLSS 2 games on the way as well. In the latest …
Read More »Asus debuts new Dual RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X graphics card
Following on from months of leaks and rumours, the first GDDR6X RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards are starting to arrive. This time around, Asus is launching a revamped Dual-series RTX 3060 Ti with 8GB of GDDR6X memory. Similar to previous RTX 3060 Ti Dual series graphics cards, the new ones …
Read More »OBS Studio 28.1 introduces support for NVENC AV1 hardware encoding
With the release of the RTX 40 series, Nvidia introduced a new codec named NVENC AV1. As such, streaming software has to be updated to support the new encoder. OBS Studio has just introduced this with version 28.1, alongside other new features and fixes. Only RTX 4090 owners can take …
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