Math with Maxwell and Turing
TechSpot decided to test out NVIDIA's claims that the GTX 1660 is 113% faster than the old GTX 960, which is still sitting in the top five for most used GPUs on…
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Tag: Maxwell
The Architecture of NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs – Turing Explored
Although NVIDIA's new GPU architecture, revealed previously as Turing, has been speculated about for what seems like an eternity at this point, we finally have...
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Vulkans on the Fury Road
With Vulkan support being added to Mad Max, at least in beta form, Phoronix decided to take advantage of the release to test the performance of a wide variety of NVIDIA cards…
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NVIDIA’s Q2 2017 Results: Now and Moving Forward
It always feels a little odd when covering NVIDIA’s quarterly earnings due to how they present their financial calendar. No, we are not reporting from the future. Yes,...
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That old chestnut again? Intel compares their current gen hardware against older NVIDIA kit
There is a spat going on between Intel and NVIDIA over the slide below, as you can read about over at Ars Technica. It seems that Intel have reached into the industries…
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Tiler Exposed in Maxwell/Pascal Architectures
Yesterday David Kanter of Realworldtech posted a pretty fascinating article and video that explored the two latest NVIDIA architectures and how they have branched...
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NVIDIA Offers Preliminary Settlement To Geforce GTX 970 Buyers In False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit
A recent post on Top Class Actions suggests that buyers of NVIDIA GTX 970 graphics cards may soon see a payout from a settlement agreement as part of the series...
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Rumor: Nintendo NX Uses NVIDIA Tegra… Something
Okay so there's a few rumors going around, mostly from Eurogamer / DigitalFoundry, that claim the Nintendo NX is going to be powered by an NVIDIA Tegra system on a...
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Will you still need me when I’m sixty; four generations of mid ranged GTXes on Linux;
Phoronix took a look at how NVIDIA's mid range cards performance on Linux has changed over the past four generations of GPU, from Fermi, through Kepler, Maxwell, and finally Pascal. ...
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Rumor: 16nm for NVIDIA’s Volta Architecture
For the past few generations, NVIDIA has been roughly trying to release a new architecture with a...
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Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal Comparison Benchmarks
Techspot published an article that compared eight GPUs across six, high-end dies in NVIDIA's last four architectures: Fermi to Pascal. Average frame rates were listed across nine games, each measured...
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A New Focus on NVIDIA’s Ansel
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Here Comes the Maxwell Rebates
The GTX 1080 announcement is starting to ripple into retailers, leading to price cuts on the previous generation, Maxwell-based SKUs. If you were interested in the GTX 1080, or an AMD graphics…
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Asus Echelon GTX 950 Limited Edition In Arctic Camouflage Available Soon
Asus is launching a new midrange gaming graphics card clad in arctic camouflage. The Echelon GTX 950 Limited Edition is a Maxwell-based card that will come factory overclocked and paired with…
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The EVGA SC17 Gaming Notebook Review
When EVGA showed me that it was entering the world of gaming notebooks at CES in January, I must admit, I questioned the move....
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Phoronix Tests Almost a Decade of GPUs
It's nice to see long-term roundups every once in a while. They do not really provide useful information for someone looking to make a purchase, but they show how our…
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NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Will Power Autonomous Embedded Devices With Machine Learning
Nearly two years ago, NVIDIA unleashed the Jetson TK1, a tiny module for embedded systems based around the company's Tegra K1 "super chip." That chip was the company's first foray...
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Hot Topic: Asynchronous Shaders
Much of the PC enthusiast internet, including our comments section, has been abuzz with “Asynchronous Shader” discussion. Normally, I would explain what it is and then outline the issues that…
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