NVIDIA
With NVIDIA’s Turing architecture turning six years old this year, the company has been retiring many of the remaining Turing products from its video card lineup. And today that spirit of spring cleaning is coming to the entry-level segment of NVIDIA’s professional visualization lineup, where NVIDIA is introducing a pair of new desktop cards based on their low-end Ampere hardware. The new RTX A1000 and RTX A400 cards will be replacing the T1000/T600/T400 lineup, which was released three years ago in 2021. The new cards slot into the same entry-level category and finally finish fleshing out the RTX A series of proviz cards, offering NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation professional graphics technologies in the lowest-power, lowest-performance, lowest-cost configuration possible. Notably, since the entry-level T-series were based on NVIDIA’s feature-limited...
The Prybar: GeForce GTX 690 Arrives
If there was any doubt after Saturday night as to what NVIDIA's prybar was for, this should put it to rest. FedEx just dropped off the prybar's companion, the...
68 by Ryan Smith on 4/30/2012
NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 690: Dual GK104 Flagship Launching May 3rd
As we mentioned back on Monday, NVIDIA was going to be making some kind of GeForce announcement this evening at the NVIDA Gaming Festival 2012 in Shanghai, China. NVIDIA’s...
109 by Ryan Smith on 4/28/2012
Eurocom Monster 1.0: Gaming with Quad-Core IVB and Kepler at 11.6”
Eurocom is a company that we’ve seen a few times over the years. Mostly, their focus is on the high-end mobile workstation market, though they also sell plenty of...
32 by Jarred Walton on 4/27/2012
iBUYPOWER Erebus GT Review: Ivy Bridge and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 in SLI
It was only a month-and-a-half ago that we were able to test the iBUYPOWER Erebus GT, a boutique desktop with a custom water-cooling loop at a very compelling price...
64 by Dustin Sklavos on 4/27/2012
NVIDIA Updates GeForce 600 OEM Desktop Lineup, Adds GT 645, GT 640, GT 630
While NVIDIA doesn’t publically announce most of their OEM desktop graphics cards, they do update their website with the specifications of these cards, which is how we usually find...
29 by Ryan Smith on 4/25/2012
Of Crowbars and Countdowns
It’s not often that we cover marketing teasers, but then it’s not often that we get crowbars in the mail either… Earlier this afternoon the following crowbar unexpectedly showed up...
32 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2012
Mobile Ivy Bridge and ASUS N56VM Preview
Intel is firing a massive artillery barrage at its competition today with the release of desktop and mobile Ivy Bridge processors. Last year’s Sandy Bridge gave Intel a huge...
49 by Jarred Walton on 4/23/2012
ASUS Transformer Pad 300 (TF300T) Review
Before the $399 iPad 2, before the $199 Kindle Fire, there was the $399 Eee Pad Transformer from ASUS. Like nearly all first attempts in the tablet space, the...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/22/2012
NVIDIA Plots Mobile SoC GPU Performance, Surpassing Xbox 360 by 2014
Qualcomm was the first to tell us that it expects to offer console level GPU performance in the not too distant future, generally hinting that its Adreno 3xx GPUs...
51 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/19/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Launch Recap
If the numbers are true, then most of you have already read our Kepler review, and you know that the card has made quite a splash - it's the...
29 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/24/2012
Jen-Hsun's Email to NVIDIA Employees on a Successful Kepler Launch
The road to any new microprocessor design is by no means simple. Planning for a major GPU like NVIDIA's Kepler starts four years prior to the chip's debut. In...
31 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/22/2012
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Review: Retaking The Performance Crown
“How do you follow up on Fermi?” That’s the question we had going into NVIDIA’s press briefing for the GeForce GTX 680 and the Kepler architecture earlier this month...
404 by Ryan Smith on 3/22/2012
NVIDIA's GeForce 600M Series: Mobile Kepler and Fermi Die Shrinks
While the desktop-bound GeForce GTX 680 is undoubtedly the most exciting release from NVIDIA today and the true flagbearer for their new Kepler microarchitecture, NVIDIA actually has a whole...
25 by Dustin Sklavos & Jarred Walton on 3/22/2012
The Razer Blade Review
Razer is, first and foremost, a gaming company. From the company slogan (“By gamers, for gamers”), to partnerships with a number of the most popular game development studios, even...
95 by Vivek Gowri & Jarred Walton on 3/15/2012
NVIDIA Releases 296.10 GeForce Driver, Introduces Windows 8 Driver Support
NVIDIA has just posted the WHQL-certified GeForce driver 296.10 for Windows 7 and Vista desktops and laptops and Windows XP desktops, and has also released a 296.17 driver specifically...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 3/13/2012
HP Phoenix h9se: The Pavilion Goes Beyond Thunderdome
Outside of the Envy series and the bygone era of Voodoo (anyone remember the Blackbird?), HP hasn't exactly been a brand associated with high performance gaming desktops, at least...
40 by Dustin Sklavos on 2/29/2012
Sonic 4: Episode II, Now Optimized for Tegra
We had a chance to get some hands on time with the Tegra Zone enhanced version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, which was announced yesterday for NVIDIA's...
9 by Brian Klug on 2/28/2012
Nvidia Announces LTE Partnership with Renesas Mobile and GCT Semiconductor
Nvidia's announcement today is a bit interesting, as it seems to head-off one of the most commonly perpetuated rumors that I read online in the SoC space. Namely, that...
2 by Brian Klug on 2/23/2012
The Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) Preview Part II
Yesterday we presented the first results of Qualcomm's Krait based MSM8960 SoC. While we still await the first Krait based phones (widely expected to begin shipping sometime in Q2)...
49 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2012
LG's Optimus 4X HD: 1.5GHz Tegra 3 Smartphone w/ 4.7-inch HD Display to Launch at MWC 2012
Although we're still waiting on the global announcement, LG Korea has already announced the Optimus 4X HD one of the first Tegra 3 based smartphones. The 4.7-inch display is...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/22/2012
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