NVIDIA is making changes to its driver support policy, and will soon discontinue support for GPUs older than the GTX 400 series. The company hopes that cutting off older products will help it optimize future drivers for the latest technologies, as well as possibly entice users to upgrade.
AMD’s new R-series GPUs may roll out sooner than expected. The high-end R9 280X and the flagship R9 290X are expected to hit shelves by the middle of October, although exact prices remain unknown.
The desktop GPU market is in decline, and is now a statistical two-horse race between AMD and NVIDIA, according to a recent report from Jon Peddie Research. The firm’s analysis revealed a 5.4 percent quarterly decline in shipments for the market overall and a 5.2 percent decline over last year. Looking at overall market share, NVIDIA continued to hold the top spot over beleaguered rival AMD in the second quarter, with 62 percent of the add-in GPU market share compared
AMD may have scored a major victory when it secured its placement as the APU supplier for both the Xbox One and the PS4, but the firm has had a tough time when it comes to the high end PC market. The company’s formerly venerable line of Radeon GPUs has lost ground in recent years to high performance offerings from NVIDIA. In response, AMD late last year began to entice GPU shoppers with impressive game bundles. Dubbed the “Never Settle
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Following last week’s launch of the GTX 780 GPU, many were confused by NVIDIA’s pricing. At $650, the card was situated in an odd price category between the “ultra-end” GTX Titan and GTX 690 at $1,000 and the “high-end” GTX 680 at $450. The 780 performed better than the 680, but not by a consistently high margin, and NVIDIA’s mindset in terms of pricing was called into question. Today, NVIDIA hopes to address those concerns with the launch of the
Intel revealed the details of the GPU lineup for its upcoming Haswell microarchitecture late Wednesday. The company announced that it is introducing three tiers of GPUs that will cater to most performance and power efficiency requirements. Along with the new GPUs is a new name to help distance the parts from the public’s perception that integrated graphics solutions offer poor performance. The high end GPUs will take on the name “Iris,” while lower end models will retain the current “HD
After a minor delay, Intel’s next generation of Core series processors, codenamed “Haswell,” will arrive in early June, according to a humorous announcement from the company on Friday. Assuming that the countdown begins at the time of Intel’s post, Haswell should launch Monday, June 3, at 11:00 pm EDT (Tuesday, June 4 at 11:00 am CST), which just happens to coincide with the start of the important computer trade show Computex, held annually in Taipei, Taiwan. The public launch of
AMD released the long-awaited Radeon HD 7990 Wednesday, finally providing an official dual-GPU product in this generation. While ASUS and PowerColor have had their own unofficial 7990 variants on sale for months, today’s release from AMD is the first in-house look at two Tahiti HD 7970-class GPUs on a single PCB. The card features 8.6 billion transistors (4.3 billion per GPU), over 8 teraflops of raw computing power, 6GB of GDDR5 memory, two 8-pin power connectors, and a custom three-fan
After earlier rumors suggested that Microsoft’s next Xbox will be powered by an AMD GPU, new information Monday points to an AMD CPU as well, opening the door for an advanced integrated offering from the struggling chip maker. According to sources speaking with Bloomberg, Microsoft will use an AMD solution that combines the company’s Jaguar CPU technology with a 7000 series GPU. This closely matches the hardware specifications for Sony’s PlayStation 4, which was announced in late February. Microsoft’s current