Last week Valve revealed the specs for the 300 prototype Steam Machines, based entirely on Intel and Nvidia hardware. Considering all the hype around AMD recently with the launch of the Mantle API and the forthcoming R9 290X graphics card, this move was surprising. It even led to rumours that …
Read More »Half-Life 3 trademark is gone but at least we have Steam Machine specs
Last week the Internet was flooded with pictures and articles on the Half-Life 3 trademark filing, we even reported on it. However the trademark filing seems to have disappeared along with our hopes of seeing the long awaited sequel any time soon. The filing had not been examined by the …
Read More »Nvidia debuts GeForce GTX Battlebox GPU bundle
Nvidia has just announced a new partnership with its system builders, to provide a standardised gaming PC package packing super high end hardware, offering outstanding performance. Known as the Battlebox™, these bundles will combine Intel Haswell CPUs, a 4K resolution monitor (running at 3840×2160 resolution) and a pair of GTX 780s …
Read More »The graphics card war is kicking into high gear
It's a great, great time to be a PC gamer. Not only is having a mid-range gaming setup going to cover you against most of the next-gen console developments, but Valve is set to produce its own Steam box system within the next six months using PC hardware – so …
Read More »HP to release the worlds first gesture enabled pc
Even with touch screens being so common in Windows 8 laptops now, I think it's time we stopped putting our grubby fingers all over their nice HD screens. HP agrees, which is why its newly announced notebook, the Envy 17 Leap Motion SE, supports gesture input. Set for release this …
Read More »EVGA Tegra tablets incoming
EVGA and Nvidia have just announced their partnership to bring you the world's first Tegra 4 powered tablet: The Tegra Note 7. It's hurtling on to the shelves in October, with a price tag of £180, just in time for the holiday season. Here's what we know so far about the specs; …
Read More »Batman: Arkham Origins PhysX demo
It's been a long time since people like me got excited by Ageia's new PhysX cards, with its tech demo games like Cell Factor, but that doesn't mean that the PhysX technology isn't still important. Granted now all you need is an Nvidia GPU, but if you're part of the …
Read More »KFA2 debuts new superclocked GTX 780
Nvidia partner KFA2 has announced the upcoming release of its new, record breaking, superclocked GTX 780 GPU that sits at a whopping 1058MHz as it rolls out of the factory. According to KFA2, this gives it Titan levels of performance, with an impressive 20 per cent clock boost over standard …
Read More »Ubisoft and Nvidia strike game bundle deal
Nvidia and Ubisoft have announced a new partnership, bringing together the GPU and publishing giants in order to incorporate new Nvidia graphics technology in certain titles and in turn bundle upcoming and recently released games with the latest range of graphics cards. According to both companies, this partnership has allowed …
Read More »AMD suggests Nvidia has sour grapes over next-gen consoles
Nvidia has been quite vocal about its disinterest in the console industry, citing low profit margins as one of the reasons you won't find any of its hardware in the next-gen Xbox One or PS4 consoles. AMD however, believes this isn't true and that by bringing its hardware to bear, …
Read More »nVidia price cuts extend to laptops with MSI GE60 and GE70
With all the price cuts on nVidia desktop graphics cards, we guess it was only time before the mobile space also started to throw up some GeForce bargains. Having broken into the world's Top 10 for laptops a few years back, this Taiwanese outfit still pushes hard to create original …
Read More »MSI and Aria now attack GTX660 pricing
It has been a hectic few days since the EVGA move to bring GTX580 cards to market for just £137 at the end of last week. Things got really heated yesterday afternoon when it seemed at one stage that price cuts were coming every half hour. KitGuru checks the latest …
Read More »nVidia price war gets serious – ANOTHER £44 off GTX680!
KitGuru loves a fight. The best fights in the tech industry resemble the loudest battles between Transformers and Decepticons. Massive organisations – bashing away at each other with cut-throat deals. But ever we're SHOCKED by the way nVidia pricing has been SLASHED today. UPDATE: In the past few minutes, we're …
Read More »You won’t believe these are mobile graphics
Every few years a new bit of technology bumps digital graphics to a new level. Where once HDR lighting was the new darling on the scene, bloom became the next big thing and tessellation on from that. This year, it's been all about the facial rendering techniques, specifically deep tissue …
Read More »Nvidia Shield has a new release date
Nvidia's handheld streaming console, the Shield, was expected to debut at the end of June, but due to some minor delays it was put on hold with no real word of when it might be made available. Now though we know, and it's just over a week away. The Shield …
Read More »Watch AMD smash a Geforce card with a hammer
Yup, that's how non-subtle this AMD advert is. It sees a typical gamer guy plugging in his new, green tinged, generic GPU into his PC and then tapping the space bar, because dammit, it's not working. In walks the slick, 21st century version of Danny Zucko who tells him that the …
Read More »Nvidia is all about the PC now
While Nvidia has always been “about the PC” in some way or another, it put a lot of time and effort into the current, fading console generation as well, since it was reliving its war with ATI (now AMD) in the battle between the Xbox 360 and PS3. While its …
Read More »Now you can buy Nvidia’s Shield, from America
Nvidia has told several people that got in touch with the graphics card maker, that it's currently not looking to bring the Shield to the EU. Chances are, that will all depend on how many of our US based cousins pick up the device and they can now do so …
Read More »PhysX gets new outing in Hawken
Hawken is a free to play first person shooter, featuring giant mechanical walker bots, that players pilot and shoot at one another with. In the latest trailer from Nvidia, the developers show off what new effects have been added to the game with the inclusion of more advanced PhysX features. …
Read More »New Nvidia driver gives Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider a boost
A new Nvidia driver release has given Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Sniper Elive V2, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Civilisation V, Call of Duty Black Ops II and a host of other games, big performance boosts for all contemporary GPUs. We're not just talking a couple of frames here either, but …
Read More »Nvidia cards struggling with AMD hair tech in Tomb Raider
We talked about AMD's new TressFX hair technology last week, showing of what it's capable of doing and debuting the fact that it would see its first outing in the new Tomb Raider game. Well now that game has hit the shelves and been installed on many a PC: and …
Read More »nVidia prepares to announce positive numbers
While the world of stocks and shares is supposed to be 100% water tight when it comes to the leaking of early info, for some reason every time a company is about to announce good or bad numbers – there is a corresponding increase or decrease in share values leading …
Read More »Could you distribute the Nvidia Shield in the UK?
Ok maybe not you on your lonesome, but if you run a big tech firm, maybe you could handle the distribution of Nvidia's handheld gaming device. You know, the one that can stream AAA titles straight from your PC? The reason I'm speculating like this, is because Nvidia is currently …
Read More »Roy Taylor appointed head of AMD worldwide channel sales
In one of the world's longest detours, technology sales guru Roy Taylor will be reunited with some of his oldest friends when he takes over the worldwide channel sales role for AMD in 2013. KitGuru adds some historical context and ponders what John Byrne's decision to bring Roy inside AMD …
Read More »Will nVidia have discrete desktop graphics to itself within 5 years?
For years, nVidia has enjoyed a huge lead in workstation graphics. No secret. Quadro brings in serious profit. The connection from workstation to desktop was tenuous – as both had very different brands, markets, drivers and sales strategies. But there's one thing that Quadro gives nVidia, which could be crucial …
Read More »Nvidia updates drivers for Borderlands 2 and Mists of Pandaria
Nvidia has released an update for its graphics card drivers, bringing the latest WHQL certified release to 306.23. It brings with it quite an extensive list of updates, with a focus on getting ready for the release of both Borderlands 2 and the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of …
Read More »Channel reports GTX660ti sales very sluggish
From the moment we discovered what the street price of the GTX660 was going to be, we were (a) concerned that it was too close to the GTX670 and (b) that it would tumble at some stage – causing worry among the early adopters who might have saved a wad …
Read More »AMD’s Radeon HD 7950 is set to receive a speed boost
With the nVidia GTX 660 Ti's release imminent, AMD's popular HD 7950 graphics card will soon be the recipient of a clock speed-boosting BIOS update. The update is intended to better prepare the 6 month old card for the stiff competition that it should receive from nVidia's GeForce GTX 660 Ti. The …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Intel refutes nVidia claims regarding HD4000 game compatibility
EXCLUSIVE INTEL INTERVIEW: At a recent Analyst's Day, nVidia went through its usual array of slides regarding a wonderful history, present conditions and how glorious the future is likely to be. All well and good, we'd have done the same if we had Tegra, Tesla, Quadro and GeForce in the …
Read More »Why can’t Tegra get mobile sales traction?
Following the launch of the late/fat/hot Fermi, nVidia's engineers buckled down to business and worked really hard to not only improve the rest of the Fermi range that followed, but also to achieve some extraordinary successes with low power parts into the Tegra family. Having seen the Nexus 7 up …
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