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The on-going chip shortage could see some older GPUs pushed back into the spotlight. According to reports this week, the RTX 2060 will be reemerging in early 2022 with upgraded memory, pushing the VRAM from 6GB to 12GB of GDDR6.  Nvidia had already relaunched the RTX 2060 with its original specs back …

Nvidia has officially announced four CMP mining graphics cards at this point, but it looks like a fifth one will be on the way soon. At least one person has been able to get hold of a CMP 170HX and based on their testing, it offers a 164 MH/s hash …

The first Nvidia 500 series graphics driver has been released, and as previously announced, this is the first driver to drop support for Kepler-based GPUs, although a workaround might be possible. The real big news here is that this driver also seems to introduce early support for next-gen GPUs.  The …

From May until late July, there was evidence that graphics card prices were slowly starting to drop closer to MSRP level, giving hope that we may see normalised pricing by the end of the year. Unfortunately, the price trend has started to reverse, with GPU pricing now slowly but steadily …

Since last year, the tech industry has been dealing with a major chip shortage, leading to increased prices and lower supply in most major product categories. Due to demand for supply lines, TSMC is reportedly going to be raising its prices by as much as 20 percent.  According to The …

While there has been evidence to suggest that graphics card stock and pricing has improved in recent months, it looks like we're heading towards another dip in availability. According to reports this week, supply of RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards will decrease in September.  According to ITHome …

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Alongside Gamescom this week, Nvidia is announcing the next 11 titles coming to GeForce Now this week. Beyond that, the company has confirmed that Dying Light 2: Stay Human will be available to stream to almost any device on day-one.  We already knew that Guardians of the Galaxy would be …

We're still fresh off the launch of the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti, but it seems Nvidia might not be done with the RTX 30 series just yet. This week, reports indicate that an RTX 3090 Super is on the way, and it may come with a TDP over 400W. 

Ray-tracing and DLSS are two of the biggest and most recent breakthroughs in video game technology. With ray-tracing creating a much more dynamic and life-like image at the cost of performance, and DLSS using machine learning to increase the perceived resolution thereby improving performance, the two technologies work well in …

Last week, Nvidia board partners began advertising an upcoming bundle, which will see Battlefield 2042 given away with purchases of RTX 30-powered PCs. Now just in time for Gamescom, Nvidia has officially announced the bundle, which is ‘available' as of today.  At the moment, getting hold of a graphics card …

Back in April, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) intervened with Nvidia's plans to acquire Arm. Following a preliminary investigation, the CMA is moving on to a ‘Phase 2 investigation', after concluding that the acquisition could “create real problems” for competition.  In a press release last week, CMA Chief …

Since DLSS launched, there have been many versions of it and developers rarely update the DLSS libraries of their games when a new version rolls out. Fortunately, a developer has created a tool that lets you update the DLSS library of any supported game you have installed. You can easily …

Throughout 2021, we've been seeing most graphics cards sold significantly above their MSRP due to on-going supply constraints. Prices have been improving, suggesting that the stock is increasing. However, according to Nvidia's CEO, we will still be dealing with GPU shortages throughout 2022 as well.  Jensen shared his expectations about …

Since announcing plans to acquire ARM from Japanese firm, SoftBank, Nvidia has been confident that the deal will close in the first half of 2022. Due to on-going regulatory investigations and other unexpected delays, Nvidia admits the deal is taking longer to close than anticipated. Speaking with The Financial Times, …

Nvidia announced that 34 games will be joining the GeForce Now library throughout August. For this week's update, we'll be getting nine more games on the streaming service, headlined by Sega's new alt-history strategy title, Humankind.  Humankind is this week's headlining game for GeForce Now, allowing the strategy game to …

Following on from rumours last week, Nvidia officially announced the RTX A2000 graphics card today. The new workstation GPU is much smaller than the rest of the line-up, allowing it to fit in almost any system with a dedicated graphics card slot.

With the Back 4 Blood open beta set to kick off and RTX-supported title, Naraka: Bladepoint launching this week, it is time for a new GeForce driver update. The new driver is available today and aside from day-one optimisations for new titles, this driver also adds support for seven new …

Xiaomi has started teasing its new generation of OLED TVs, and as it seems, they will feature Nvidia G-Sync modules. Scheduled to release on August 10th, Xiaomi's new-gen OLED TVs will allow gamers to enjoy a tear-free gaming experience when connected to a system using an Nvidia GPU. The announcement …

Back in April, Nvidia announced its new line-up of workstation GPUs for laptops, starting with the RTX A2000. No desktop version of this GPU was announced at the time, but new leaks suggest that a desktop variant will be coming soon.  VideoCardz has obtained a photo showing the upcoming RTX …

A couple of months ago, Alienware m15 laptop owners discovered that their GPUs weren't performing up to par. Now, Dell has found itself in a similar situation with its XPS 9510 laptop, which was misconfigured, leading to poor performance for the RTX 3050 Ti GPU found inside.  The XPS 9510 …

Just a couple of weeks ago, Nvidia and Turtle Rock Studios announced that upcoming co-op zombie shooter, Back 4 Blood, will support DLSS at launch for RTX-series graphics cards. As it turns out, we'll be getting an early look at the performance gains DLSS brings during the beta, which kicked …

Asus has recently listed a new batch of graphics cards on the EEC database, giving us a look at new RTX 30, GTX 1660 Ti and GT 730 graphics cards in the works. One model in particular stood out to us - the ASUS RTX3070-8G-NOCTUA, suggesting a collaboration with the cooling experts at Noctua.

It's the first week of the month, which means it is time to take a sneak peek at the games coming to GeForce Now over the next few weeks. There will be 34 new titles added to the library this month, 13 of which are are being added today.  This …

This month, the rumour mill has been fixated on next-gen graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD. While the rumoured Nvidia ‘AD102' and AMD's ‘Navi 31' are still far from release, reports claim that power draw will be much higher for these next-gen GPUs, possibly reaching as high as 500W.  The …

We've seen a few instances of disparity between versions of PC games releasing on Steam and Xbox Game Pass. Most recently, Nier Automata's Xbox Game Pass version was found to be superior to the Steam version, and now, recently released Cyberpunk shooter, The Ascent, has been found to be missing …

Nvidia's planned $40 billion acquisition of ARM is facing another challenge. Multiple regulatory bodies are currently investigating the deal to figure out whether or not it should be approved. Currently, Nvidia expects the deal to gain approval and go through in 2022, but it looks like China could hold the …

Nvidia has been rapidly building up its library of supported games for GeForce Now over the last year, leading to the 1000-game milestone being reached earlier this month. Now right on schedule, another 14 games are coming to GeForce Now to wrap up the month.  Of the 14 games joining …

We are still far from getting the RTX 30 series successor, but rumours and leaks on Nvidia's upcoming graphics cards have started to emerge. From what we've gathered so far, it looks like the RTX 40 series will be based on the TSMC N5 node and will use the new Lovelace GPU architecture.

We check out Zotac's flagship RTX 3090 - the AMP Extreme Holo