Tag Archives: RTX

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 …

This week, Nvidia has announced that Turtle Rock Studios' upcoming co-op zombie shooter, Back 4 Blood, will support DLSS at launch, enabling AI-assisted performance gains for RTX graphics card users.  We don't know what sort of performance improvement we can expect just yet, but with Back 4 Blood set to …

For many, Ray-Tracing and its associated technologies represent the next major evolution in video games – akin to the shift from 2D to 3D or SD to HD. Until now however, Nvidia’s solution, which has proven to be the market leader in the technology, has been somewhat hampered by its …

DLSS is now in Red Dead Redemption 2 - here's our image quality and performance analysis

Earlier this month, Rockstar Games announced that it would be bringing Nvidia's DLSS technology to Red Dead Redemption 2 and Red Dead Online on PC as part of an upcoming update. That update has now arrived, and it looks like RTX graphics card owners will be getting up to a …

Last month during Computex, Nvidia and Rockstar announced that Red Dead Redemption 2 would be getting support for DLSS on RTX graphics cards. No date was announced at the time, but as it turns out, the update will be arriving next week.  Today, Rockstar announced the next content update for …

Following id Software’s RTX update for Doom Eternal earlier this week, some GeForce graphics card users began experiencing driver-related crashes. Fortunately for anyone experiencing this issue, a hotfix driver has now been made available. Earlier this week, Nvidia released the 471.11 driver, which enabled support for ray-tracing and DLSS in …

We check out ray tracing in Doom Eternal - how it does it look and perform?

DOOM Eternal's long-awaited ray-tracing update has finally arrived. Support for ray-tracing was announced prior to the game's launch in 2020, although id Software explained at the time that it wouldn't roll out until after launch. Aside from ray-traced lighting features on PC and console, the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 …

It is time for another GeForce Game Ready driver update. This time around, Nvidia is introducing RTX support for three titles – Lego Builder's Journey, DOOM Eternal and Rust. The driver also enables DLSS in Vulkan games using Proton to play on Linux-based systems.  Starting off with our RTX games, …

RTX 3080 Ti is here - but does it need to exist?

Today at Computex, Nvidia announced the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards. Alongside these new GPUs, the company also announced a number of games getting RTX feature support, including the likes of Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Rainbow Six Siege.  This follows on from rumours …

Nvidia has been ramping up support for its DLSS performance-saving technology this year, having shipped a plugin for Unreal Engine and announced similar treatment for developers working in Unity. We're starting to see the fruits of this labour, with nine more games updating with DLSS this month, including the very …

Following Intel's announcement of the new Tiger Lake-H processors, Gigabyte has come out to show its updated Aero and Aorus laptop models featuring these new processors, offering up to 25% more performance than its predecessors.  Available with three new CPU options, users mays choose between the new Intel Core i7-11800H, …

During the Nvidia RTX 30 series announcement in September 2020, Nvidia showcased the ray-tracing capabilities of its newly announced graphics cards using the Marbles at Night demo. Now, the demanding demo is freely available for all to test out first hand.  Marbles at Night is a physics-based, playable demo that …

The rumour mill has been churning out new information on Nvidia's future graphics card plans lately. Specifically, it was recently reported that the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti would launch in May. Now, updated reports claim that while the RTX 3080 Ti is launching next month, the RTX …

This week, Call of Duty: Warzone was finally patched to support Nvidia's DLSS technology. Modern Warfare had limited RTX support at launch with ray-traced shadows but lacked Nvidia's performance saving AI-driven technology, but that changes today. Call of Duty Warzone, which uses the same engine as 2019's Modern Warfare, now …

It seems that Nvidia's RTX 3060 won't be the only SKU featuring the crypto mining limiter. We've already heard rumours that the RTX 3080 Ti may come with the limiter in place, but new sources point towards the whole RTX 30 range being updated with it.  According to new reports, …

Mortal Shell has been on Nvidia's list of upcoming ray-tracing and DLSS supported titles for quite some time now. This week, the game's RTX update is officially dropping and Nvidia has a new Game Ready driver in preparation for it. Aside from that, we also have some new upgrades to …

Nvidia opened the door for thousands of developers to take advantage of DLSS technology when it released an official plugin for the Unreal Engine. Now, Nvidia is bringing its DLSS plugin to another widely used engine – Unity. As part of Nvidia's GTC 2021 announcements, the company revealed today that …

Nvidia will expand its RTX A workstation series with two new desktop GPUs and four laptop GPUs. During GTC, the company also revealed two entry-level mobile GPUs based on the Turing GPU architecture without RT or Tensor cores. Up to now, the Nvidia RTX A6000 was the only desktop workstation …

Back when Nvidia released RTX Voice, some users found a way to get the software working with GTX graphics cards. As it turns out, Nvidia actually quietly rolled out official support for non-RTX GPUs several months ago after pivoting its attention to Nvidia Broadcast, but few have noticed this.  As …

Cyberpunk 2077 now supports ray tracing for AMD graphics cards... we put it to the test!

A new leak has surfaced, giving us more early details for Nvidia's upcoming RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti GPUs for laptops. A new report this week is claiming details on specifications and more importantly, performance, with comparisons between the RTX 3050 and other Nvidia laptop GPUs.  According to Notebookcheck, …

Yesterday, Nvidia began rolling out a fairly major GeForce driver update, bringing a bunch of new gaming-oriented features and optimisations. One new feature wasn't mentioned though – this driver also adds beta support for GPU passthrough on GeForce GPUs. With this, users can utilise a physical GPU to run games on …

While many had hoped that the graphics card supply situation would improve over Q1 2021, it seems that things actually got worse. During a recent investor conference call, ASUS confirmed that it received less shipments of Nvidia GPUs in Q1 than it did in the previous quarter.

While getting hold of an RTX 30 series graphics card is still very difficult six months after launch, finding an RTX GPU powered laptop is much easier. For anyone looking to buy an RTX laptop, Nvidia is sweetening the deal with a free copy of Outriders.  For a limited time, …

Back when Crysis Remastered was announced, we learned that the game would include full RTX support, including hardware accelerated ray-tracing and DLSS. It has taken quite some time, but DLSS 2.0 has now been implemented.  Today, Crytek began rolling out Patch 2.1 for Crysis Remastered, which includes the long-awaited implementation …

According to Asus and Acer laptop listings, Nvidia might be getting ready to launch two new GPUs for laptops. The listings show that there will be an RTX 3050 and an RTX 3050Ti GPU option for some Asus and Acer laptops, while also giving some details of these unannounced GPUs. …

There have been rumours about Control coming to Xbox Game Pass floating around for a while now. The game officially came to the service for console subscribers back in December but now, the PC version of Game Pass is also getting the game, complete with ray-tracing enhancements.  As of the …