Video Cards
Nvidia the latest collateral damage in US-China tech war
Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of artificial intelligence chips, is at the heart of a new round of U.S. tech sanctions targeting China. Nvidia noted in an SEC filing that the U.S. government
Adding an external GPU to your Mac is probably a better upgrade option than getting a new one
Apple recently announced they would be transitioning their Mac line from Intel processors to their own, ARM-based Apple Silicon. That process is meant to begin with hardware to be announced later this
Minecraft to get big lighting, shadow and color upgrades through Nvidia ray tracing
Minecraft is getting a free update that brings much-improved lighting and color to the game’s blocky graphics using real-time ray tracing running on Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics hardware. The new
Nvidia’s RTX GPUs get a speed boost with the new Super series
Nvidia made a somewhat unusual announcement today: It’s launching a set of updated GPUs that will come in at the same price points as the existing GeForce RTC 2060, 2070 and 2080 GPUs with ̶
Nvidia announces its next-gen RTX pods with up to 1,280 GPUs
Nvidia wants to be a cloud powerhouse. While its history may be in graphics cards for gaming enthusiasts, its recent focus has been on its data center GPUs for AI, machine learning inference, inferenc
Nvidia’s Quadro Virtual Workstations are now available on Azure
Nvidia today announced that its Quadro Virtual Machine Workstation (vWS) is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The promise of the Quadro vWS is to allow businesses to run high-end grap
Nvidia’s new Turing architecture is all about real-time ray tracing and AI
In recent days, word about Nvidia’s new Turing architecture started leaking out of the Santa Clara-based company’s headquarters. So it didn’t come as a major surprise that the compan
Nvidia CEO clarifies its GPUs are ‘absolutely’ immune to Meltdown and Spectre
Nvidia issued a security bulletin on Tuesday detailing updates it made to its driver software to address the so-called Meltdown CPU vulnerability revealed by Google's Project Zero. The bulletin was mi
Nvidia’s new Titan Xp top-end graphics card also offers Mac support
Nvidia updates its top-of-the-line Titan graphics card yearly, so it’s only natural the Titan Xp got announced Thursday. The Titan Xp’s new specs include 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at
NVIDIA Launches New GPUs For Deep Learning Applications, Partners With Mesosphere
The days when GPUs were only about letting you play Crysis with a higher framerate are long over. Many of the most transformative new computational techniques now rely on GPUs' ability to quickly run
Is StarCraft II Killing Video Cards, Or Is It Merely A Harbinger Of Bigger Problems?
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/dusty.jpg" />It seems some users are blaming <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/starcraft-ii/"><i>StarCraft II</i></a> for the fact t
ATI Releases StarCraft II Anti-Aliasing Hotfix
This is just a heads-up for any ATI folks out there looking to add a little anti-aliasing to your StarCraft II-ing. ATI has released an updated driver, version 10.7a, that includes a hotfix that enabl
The Sapphire 5970 4G Toxic Edition is the fastest video card on Planet Earth
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sapphire59704gb.jpg" />Damn you, Sapphire. Three weeks ago I bought your vanilla Radeon 5970, and now you release the Radeon 5970 4G TOXI
Asus Ares 5970 is truly two 5870s slapped together, no holds barred
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/asusares.jpg" />The <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/30/ati-gunning-for-nvidia-with-the-hd-5970/">ATI Radeon HD 5970</a> is ess
NVIDIA's flagship DX11 card drops, and the reviews are… decent
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/gtx480.jpg" />There's been a lot of buzz about the code-name Fermi series of cards NVIDIA has been cooking up. They're the company's firs
The ATI Radeon 5450: Eyefinity on the cheap (like $50 cheap)
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/eyefinity.jpg" />ATI just released a new, super entry level graphics card that should placate, well, not <i>hardcore gamers</i>, but most
Our 13.5-inch Radeon 5870 X2 will blot out the sun!
...Then we will benchmark in the shade. There’s not a lot more to this story than “this is a freaking huge video card,” so just gaze in awe at this monstrosity and then move on to th
AMD's Eyefinity reviewed on video for your pleasure
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/farc.jpg" />Some day, I too will have <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/10/amd-demos-eyefinity-mega-multi-monitor-system/">three
Radeon 5800 series arrives with no pomp, no circumstance, but major improvements
The more my games stutter and the more my HD content skips frames, the more I think about that wonderful day when I shall put together a beautiful new system with all new hardware. The trouble is that
Video card retrospective: take a trip down Video Memory Lane
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cards.jpg" />If you've been a PC gamer for more than a few years, it's definitely worth your time to take a look at this long history of