Tag Archives: RTX

It's a triple-fan RTX 2070 SUPER from Gigabyte - is it the card to get?

High-end Navi appears to be on the way after all

Back at Computex, NVIDIA launched its new ‘RTX Studio' initiative, aiming to create professional drivers for creative desktop users and powerful workstation laptops for those who need to do design, editing, modelling work on the go. We saw a bunch of RTX Studio laptops announced then but a few more …

Back at the start of July, NVIDIA officially launched the RTX SUPER series of graphics cards, bringing a decent improvement to the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070. Today, the RTX 2080 Super is officially launching and we have reviews, spec details and pricing/availability information.

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is coming out in just a few days time and is set to be one of Nvidia's big ray-tracing showcases this year. Currently, all RTX GPU buyers will get a code for Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Given all of the RTX-specific promotion this game is getting, you might have expected …

Wolfenstein: Youngblood is coming out in just one week's time, putting a twist on the usual Wolfenstein formula by focusing on co-op play. In Youngblood, you will play as either Jess or Soph Blazkowicz, the twin sisters of B.J Blazkowicz on a journey to Paris to find their missing father. …

Monster Hunter World is getting some big updates this year, particularly on the PC side of things. Not only have we had some graphical updates and the Witcher 3 crossover event, but DLSS support is also heading to the game soon ahead of the new Iceborne expansion launch. A few …

Cyberpunk 2077 is on the way and it will be coming out much sooner than anticipated. The game already looks incredible based on the early footage we saw last year but it is going to look even better at launch, with real-time ray-tracing being added to the PC version. CD …

Last week, Activision officially announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, a return to the series that propelled the franchise into the annual blockbuster it is today. Call of Duty titles often don’t get much credit for how good they look or how well they run but there will be plenty …

To kick off Computex 2019, NVIDIA has had two big announcements so far. The first was the launch of the RTX Studio laptop initiative, aimed at bringing more workstation-grade laptops to market for creators. The second announcement is geared more towards the gaming audience, with two new games getting RTX …

Ever wanted to own a high-end gaming laptop? Today we would like to give KitGuru readers that opportunity. We are giving away a brand new Alienware Area-51m laptop, featuring an Intel Core i9-9900k processor and an Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU for blistering performance. 

Back in Q3 2018, Nvidia reported lower than expected results due to a weakened crypto-mining market and excess Pascal inventory taking longer to sell. Then for Q4 2018, Nvidia had to cut its earnings estimates due to weaker than forecasted sales in the gaming and datacentre markets. Now, we have …

Earlier this week, Nvidia officially launched the GTX 1660Ti and GTX 1650 graphics chips for laptops. We've already seen several models sporting these new GPUs from the likes of MSI, ASUS and Acer. Now, GIGABYTE is joining the club with two new laptop launches, the AERO 15 Classic and the …

So far today, we've seen plenty of announcements for the revamped, 2019 range of Acer Predator products, including a new monitor, a new desktop and two new Helios series laptops. Now, our attention is turning to the Acer Nitro series, which strikes a decent balance between price and performance. Today …

At GDC last year, we saw multiple tech companies begin discussing the potential for bringing real-time ray-tracing to video games. Nvidia was the first to really begin pushing that boat with the launch of RTX graphics cards, featuring specific hardware to make ray-tracing faster and more efficient. From today onward, …

MSI makes some of the best aftermarket graphics cards around and the updated Trio air cooler design is a big part of that success. Still, sometimes you want the temperatures that only liquid cooling can truly provide. For those people, EKWB has announced today that it is releasing MSI Gaming …

RTX 20 series pricing is looking better this week as price cuts swoop in at OCUK

It's a very sleek laptop from ASUS ROG, packing RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics. Is it worth £3200?!

Shadow of the Tomb Raider finally has RTX features - are they worth turning on?

The specification of 8Pack OrionX2 has evolved from the previous OrionX (base spec £25k, typical spec £30k) with the main system migrating from Intel X99 and ten CPU cores to Intel X299 with 18 cores and 36 threads. The secondary system moving from quad core Kaby Lake to 8 cores of i9-9900K.

Back when Nvidia began showing off RTX and DLSS running in games for the first time, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the few big titles supporting the technology. Unfortunately, the last six months have gone by without any word on when the RTX patch would arrive. That …

Soon you'll be able to turn ray-tracing on with your non-RTX graphics card.

There has been a lot of talk surrounding real-time raytracing over the last year. Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD all announced plans to begin supporting the technology at GDC 2018. Now this year, Crytek is carving out its own piece of the pie, releasing a real-time raytracing demo for CRYENGINE. CRYENGINE …

With the boom in popularity of the battle royale genre drawing millions of users per day, there has been an increased focus on squeezing every last bit of performance out of hardware. Better components certainly offer more frames per second, but Nvidia wanted discern whether more frames truly translated to …

Nvidia has kicked off this week with three announcements. For starters, a new Game Ready driver is debuting today with optimisations for Apex Legends, we've received news that the list of ‘G-Sync compatible' displays is expanding to include more options and a new RTX GPU bundle is also on the …

When Nvidia first announced the RTX 20-series, ray-tracing was just one of the features being heavily pushed. The other was of course DLSS, which uses machine learning cores on the GPU to analyse in-game frames and provide better anti-aliasing compared to other methods. Unfortunately, DLSS performance has been giving questionable …

This is a very busy week for videogame releases. We've got Metro Exodus, Crackdown 3, Far Cry New Dawn and Anthem all coming out at once. Nvidia GPU users planning to jump in to one of these games this weekend will want to check out the latest driver update. Nvidia's …

It has been just over one month since we first learned that DICE would be adding Nvidia's DLSS technology into Battlefield V. At first, we thought that the update would arrive at the same time as the RTX 2060 launch but that did not come to fruition. Fortunately, the DLSS …

RTX laptops are finally hitting retail but early adopters will want to double check their version of Windows if they want to take advantage of ray-tracing.

Nvidia lowers Q4 financial expectations following "lower than expected" sales for high-end Turing graphics cards.