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.
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
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
NVIDIA today released its latest GPU, the 3GB GeForce GTX 780, a card based on the GTX Titan’s GK110 with slightly reduced performance and significantly reduced cost. The GTX 780 features 2,304 CUDA cores operating at a base clock of 863 MHz and a boost clock of 900 MHz. The 3GB of memory is clocked at 6008 MHz and the card has a total of 288.4 GB/s memory bandwidth and can push 165.7 GT/s. With a TDP of 250 Watts,
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NVIDIA’s ambitious plan to carve out a slice of dedicated Android-based mobile gaming is now ready for consumer consumption. The NVIDIA Shield handheld console is available for pre-order today for $349.00, with an expected shipping date in late June. NVIDIA first unveiled the console, then called “Project Shield,” at CES in January. It was designed only as a proof-of-concept but, after initial reactions were positive, the company decided to produce the device for sale, shortening its name to simply “Shield.”
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
Multi-monitor gaming can provide a fun and engrossing experience for users willing to purchase an array of displays and at least one high performance GPU. But despite a strong marketing push by GPU firms AMD and NVIDIA, many games still do not display properly by default across multiple monitors. Issues with some games and multi-monitor displays can often be resolved manually by editing the games’ configuration files, and sites such as WidescreenGaming.net exist to guide users through this process. For