In a stunning move from Nvidia earlier this week, the GPU company announced that they would finally begin supporting adaptive sync functionality on AMD FreeSync monitors. Previously, Nvidia graphics cards were only compatible with their proprietary G-Sync system, which is technically a slightly better implementation of adaptive sync monitor technology when compared to FreeSync however, monitors that support G-Sync require an additional piece of hardware from Nvidia to handle the variable refresh rate of the monitor which makes the monitors supporting G-Sync more expensive (usually in the range of $100-$250) than monitors of similar feature sets without the G-Sync [...]

With the launch of Nvidia’s 20-series GPUs seemingly an eternity ago, Nvidia has finally announced a January 15th release date for their Geforce RTX 2060. The new graphics card uses the same GPU core as the GTX 2070, the TU106, though is cut down featuring 1920 CUDA cores, 240 tensor cores, 30 RT cores, 120 TMUs and 48 ROPs. This allows the card to be capable of up to 6.5 TFLOPS, which is roughly equivalent to the performance of a GeForce GTX 1070 while still maintaining a 160w TDP compared to the 120w and 150w of the GTX 1060 and GTX 1070 respectively. It comes equipped with 6GB of GDDR6 running on an 192-bit bus, providing a bandwidth of 336GB/s (the same as the older GTX [...]

No question about it, Nvidia is red hot these days thanks to its superior graphics processing technology driving massive increases in datacenter and automotive technology revenue.

It’s then no surprise that Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank wants a piece of the action as a recent report from Bloomberg claims that SoftBank has slowly acquired a$4 billion stake in Nvidia for 4.9% share of the company. This will make SoftBank the 4th largest shareholder of Nvidia behind Fidelity, Vanguard, and PRIMECAP.

While there’s no question that Nvidia is an strong company with strong financials and a strong product to back it up, it’s interesting [...]

Though Nvidia’s GPU roadmap shows that Volta consumer graphics card won’t be coming until 2018, a Facebook post may have leaked the very first glimpse at what the Titan X Volta could look like.

The card in question sports a never-before-seen cooling shroud bearing the “Titan” logo. It uses an 8-pin and 6-pin power connector. Aside from the obvious appearance features, sharp-eyed users have also pointed out that it lacks the SLI connector. In its place are little notches (just above the logo) that bear resemblance to the NVLink connectors on the recently announced Nvidia GV100 workstation card.

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NVIDIA has just launched an all-new version of its flagship, ultra-high-end Titan X graphics card, dubbed the Titan Xp (Yes, really). This new 4K gaming beast brings with it a fully unlocked GP102 GPU core, featuring 3,840 CUDA cores and 12.15 TFLOPs of compute performance.

NVIDIA GeForce TITAN Xp Manufacturer NVIDIA Model Titan Xp Titan X GTX 1080 Ti Codename GP102 GP102 GP102 Architecture Pascal Fabrication 16nm FinFET (TSMC) Boost  Clock (MHz)  1582  1531 1582 CUDA Cores 3840 3584 3584 Framebuffer 12GB 12GB 11GB Memory Type GDDR5X Memory Interface 256-bit 384-bit 352-bit Memory Clock 11.4 Gbps 10 Gbps 11 Gbps Memory Bandwidth 547.7 GB/s 480 [...]

After recently launching the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia also released the GeForce 378.78 driver package which among other improvements significantly increases performance in games running on DirectX 12.

According to Nvidia, the new drivers increase DX12 performance by an average of 16% across the board with games such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and HITMAN boasting performance improvements by 33% and 23% respectively. Additional improvements include a wider array of games supporting Nvidia’s ANSEL in-game screenshot feature, support for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and improved SLI support in several games.

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Last week at GDC, Nvidia launched their new flagship GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and although performance testing of the graphics card is still under NDA, that hasn’t stopped some McDonalds chicken nugget lovin’ guys at ChipHell from leaking 3D Mark benchmarks on the new card.

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With the launch of Nvidia’s latest flagship GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, it looks like they’ve also given the green light for their AIB partners to unveil custom designs of the upcoming graphics card as well.

In a recently released teaser photo, EVGA took the wraps off the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3, which will likely be the flagship custom designed air cooled card for EVGA. Aside from the picture, EVGA hasn’t supplied much information such as clock speeds, onboard component information, and others, but we can see that it does sport a new EVGA triple-fan iCX cooler design which should provide better cooling performance compared to their dual fan iCX [...]

VR Rendering Pipeline

Nvidia is showing off some cool new things at GDC this year, recently launching the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and also taking the wraps off their new FCAT VR benchmarking tool.

Nvidia’s new FCAT VR benchmarking tool utilizes the same FCAT (Frame Capture Analysis Tool) benchmarking technology they’ve developed previously, now adapted to VR. As a result, the FCAT VR tool is able to benchmark some key metrics in VR systems such as frame time, dropped frames, warp misses, and synthesized frames to provide an even more accurate idea of how well a system will do with VR.

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