Tag: Nvidia

Coil whine free, reference cooled Geforce GTX 970 cards are now available

Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 970 reference models are very hard if not impossible to find on the market right now, mainly because every major manufacturer out there is preoccupied with developing their own custom versions of the 900 series Maxwell cards. This is no longer the case, as Overclockers UK have decided to break this pattern ...

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Tags: blower style cooler, coil whine, Gibbo, GTX 970, Nvidia, OCUK, Overclockers UK, reference model

Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 will stick to a 256-bit bus and 4GB of DDR5

Nvidia’s long awaited Geforce GTX 960 graphics card will soon join the high-end duo of the Maxwell 900 series and intends to do so in impressive fashion. Although it was originally believed that the GTX 960 will feature a 192-bit memory interface, recent shipping data shows that the upcoming Maxwell card will employ a 256-bit ...

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Tags: 256-bit bus, Geforce GTX 960, GM204 GPU, Maxwell, Nvidia, Zauba

Leaked Specs of the Radeon R9 390X reveal 4GB of 3D Stacked HBM and 4096 Stream Processors

After Nvidia was in the spotlight yesterday with an alleged future launch of the Big Daddy Maxwell GM200 GPU, today its eternal AMD rival will be enjoying some attention thanks to a major leak which emerged on the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking database. It seems that AMD is pulling out its premium guns for the future ...

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Tags: 3D stacked HBM, AMD, Fiji XT, GM200 GPU, Hawaii, leaked specs, Nvidia, R9 390X, Radeon, SiSoft Sandra

Next GM200 Big Daddy Maxwell GPU inbound

As I’ve written in a previous article, Nvidia recently had a major earnings call in which company officials answered direct questions and offered some tightly wrapped hints which may be pointing to future moves the company has in place. This of course implies the future release of a 20nm GM200 GPU for both giant card ...

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Tags: 16nm FinFET, 20nm core, Big Daddy Maxwell, GM200 GPU, Jen-Hsung, Nvidia

Nvidia Shield Portable update improves battery life and more

The Nvidia Shield Tablet has been all the hype in the past few months, but the company has reassured fans that it didn’t forget about previous releases either. The Nvidia Shield Portable is a comfortable gamepad running on Android that combines a tablet with a controller. Originally, the Shield Portable was just the Shield, but ...

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Tags: Android, Battery improvement, Nvidia, Shield Portable, Shield Portable update v99, Shield Tablet

Far Cry 4 gets official PC requirements

NVIDIA has recently revealed the minimum and recommended PC requirements for publisher Ubisoft’s upcoming first-person shooter, Far Cry 4. On the lowest end, gamers will need at least an Intel i5-750 or an AMD Phenom II X4 955 and 4GB of RAM, while the beefier preconditions include an Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.5 GHz or ...

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Tags: Far Cry 4, Nvidia, Ubisoft

AMD Radeon R9 290X and 290 get substantial price cuts – Nvidia backed against the wall

AMD gamers will be very pleased to learn that the Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 high-end graphics cards are currently retailing at a significantly reduced price compared to previous weeks. Two well known online retailers, Amazon and Newegg have listed the R9 290X at $379, respectively the R9 290 at $309. You can jump ...

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Tags: AMD, GTX 760, GTX 770, GTX 970, Nvidia, price cuts, R9 290, R9 290X, Radeon

Nvidia is readying its Geforce GTX 980 8GB for an imminent release

Nvidia will be launching an upgraded 8GB version of its Geforce GTX 980 GM204 Maxwell card this late November or early December. This information comes from Hermitage Akihabara, a highly reliable source which has proved very accurate in the past when speculating on future Nvidia releases. Nvidia’s GTX 980 8GB will be expected to further ...

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Tags: GTX 980 8GB, Maxwell, Nvidia, Radeon R9 290X 8GB, Release Date

Nvidia works its magic on Assassin’s Creed: Unity with exclusive GameWorks features

Ubisoft is going full throttle on the last quarter mile to the finish line, teaming up with Nvidia for their soon to be unveiled Assassin’s Creed: Unity – a title that has shocked everyone with its ridiculous PC system requirements. While the GTX 680 is set as minimum and the GTX 780 as recommended, it was ...

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Tags: Assassin's Creed: Unity, GameWorks features, Nvidia, Nvidia GameWorks trailer, PC, Ubisoft