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NVIDIA Launches ‘Creator Ready’ Drivers For GeForce, TITAN & Quadro GPUs
For many years, NVIDIA has offered “Game Ready” GeForce drivers to those who waste no time jumping on the newest PC titles. With day-one support, gamers can expect the best performance, and sometimes the enabling of special features, such as the screenshot tool Ansel. As an example, Battlefield V‘s launch was greeted by a…..
Google Launches Cloud Game Streaming Service Stadia – Powered By AMD GPUs
Over the last decade or so, we’ve seen many attempts at online game streaming services, very few of which survive. At this year’s GDC, Google made a surprise announcement by launching its own cloud gaming service called Stadia. Powering this new service will be custom built AMD Radeon datacenter GPUs. Singled out…..
NVIDIA Hits Quadro RTX 6000 & RTX 8000 With Significant Price Drops
When NVIDIA announced its Quadro RTX series at last August’s SIGGRAPH conference, we were given many reasons to be intrigued. At the forefront, we have Tensor and RT cores, and not to mention a staggering 48GB framebuffer on the top dog, RTX 8000. Something else that stood out was that same card’s…..
Autodesk Announces Highly Anticipated Arnold Renderer GPU Beta
At last August’s SIGGRAPH, it was hard to escape NVIDIA’s RTX. I remember talking to one of our contacts at NVIDIA about the number of renderers coming out in the future that would support RTX in some way, and I admit that I was a little gap-jawed when I was told that…..
Intel Announces Compute Express Link (CXL) Interconnect Open Standard
As the datacenter market continues to increase in capability, we need to worry about a lot more than just the processors and memory. Interconnects are an integral ingredient here. As we learned just earlier, NVIDIA acquired networking giant Mellanox to ensure that it has its foot planted as firmly in the market…..
NVIDIA Acquires Mellanox, Planting Foot Even Firmer In Lucrative Datacenter Market
At last check, it looked as though Intel was going to win its bid to acquire networking giant Mellanox. This past weekend, though, the rumor mill was active with word that NVIDIA was instead the victor, and fortunately for the world watching, the company wasted no time in making its move official.…..
MAXON Releases Cinebench R20, Enhances CPU Test, Drops GPU Test
For many years, MAXON’s Cinebench has been a much-loved benchmark for generating super-quick (relatively) performance results for single- and multi-thread CPU tests, as well as an OpenGL GPU test. With Cinema 4D R20 having released at last summer’s SIGGRAPH, it became clearer than ever that the standalone Cinebench benchmark needed an update.…..
Battery-Life And Applications Tests Coming To PCMark 10 In Near Future
The folks over at UL have announced that a new iteration of PCMark 10 is coming, and will introduce two long-awaited tests: battery-life, and applications. On the battery-life side, this means that PCMark 10 will finally be able to fully replace PCMark 8 for those who were sticking to it for that…..
AMD’s 19.2.3 Radeon Driver Supports Ryzen Mobile, Fixes Radeon VII Fan Speed Bug
At CES, AMD pleased Ryzen mobile fans the world over when it announced that it would be handling GPU driver releases going forward. That fixes a rather annoying problem of users having to wait months for an official driver update to be provided by the notebook vendor – a genuinely pathetic problem…..
SanDisk And Micron Introduce Beefy 1TB microSD Cards
It’s hard to believe just how fast technology moves sometimes. At the end of January, we learned from Samsung that 1TB smartphones were coming, thanks to its new 16-layer 512Gb V-NAND. As we saw last week, the smartphone giant wasted no time putting that 1TB V-NAND into a phone, as the Galaxy…..
Qualcomm’s Quick Charge Tech Expands To Wireless
With each new Quick Charge iteration, Qualcomm promises that we’ll be waiting for even less time while our phones charge. But what about those folks who would love to take better advantage of wireless charging? It’s the new hotness, and yet Quick Charge hasn’t catered to it. Until now, of course. Qualcomm…..
Corsair Releases First CAPELLIX LED Memory Kit: DOMINATOR Platinum RGB
Corsair had a lot to show off at last month’s CES, but one of the products that was undeniably eye-catching was the new DOMINATOR Platinum RGB memory, featuring the company’s CAPELLIX LEDs. These LEDs are not only able to run brighter at equal power compared to current solutions, a lot more LEDs…..
Intel Wants You To Join Its Graphics “Odyssey” To Improve Community Feedback
Intel is the leader in desktop graphics thanks to the inclusion of an integrated graphics processor on most of its mainstream offerings. The discrete GPU side of things has been a little more tumultuous for the company, however. We were at IDF in 2009 when Larrabee was announced, a graphics card that…..
Arm Amps-up Its Server Push With Neoverse N1 And E1 Platforms
As it stands today, Arm dominates the mobile chip landscape. Its architectures are found in most of the world’s smartphones, with heavy-hitters Qualcomm using them in its Snapdragon processors, and Apple in its A-series. Given the permeation of Arm in mobile, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that mobile…..
Ahead Of 5G Smartphone Rollout, Qualcomm Announces An Even Better 5G Modem
Over the past year, Qualcomm and its partners have given us plenty of reasons why the upcoming 5G rollout is worth getting excited over. Many of the performance claims have been undoubtedly impressive. In effect, it seems like we’ll be getting more performance than we even “need”, which means there should be…..
Trials Rising To Support Cross-platform Profiles, Tracks & Leaderboards
This week, Rocket League gets bolstered cross-play capabilities by allowing friends on different platforms to team up. Being able to play against others on different platforms has existed for a while in RL, but with the ability to team up with friends on another platform, another major caveat of cross-play gaming gets…..
Synology Releases 5-bay DS1019+ NAS, Sports NVMe Slots And 8GB Of Memory
Those looking for a new five-bay NAS would do well to check out Synology’s newest DiskStation, the DS1019+. This new NAS replaces the DS1517+, and offers five bays as well as a quad-core CPU and 8GB 4GB of memory as standard. It also includes dual M.2 slots for super-fast SSD access, and…..
NVIDIA And Dassault Systèmes Tease ‘RTX On’ Features Coming To SolidWorks
At the ongoing SOLIDWORKS World 2019, NVIDIA, along with a number of partners, rolled out a slew of Quadro RTX workstations. As you might expect, given the location, these workstations are perfectly suited for SolidWorks use, allowing users to edit inside of a fluid viewport in SW, and then render or animate…..
AMD’s Radeon VII Is Not Receiving Radeon Pro Driver Optimizations
With three articles on launch day, we can honestly say that Radeon VII’s launch has kept us busy. What’s been most exhausting, though, has been keeping track of details. I can’t remember the last time there was so much miscommunication surrounding a new GPU launch, and it seems like nothing is stopping…..
AMD Releases Its First Radeon Pro Enterprise Driver of 2019
Just in time for SOLIDWORKS World in Dallas, Texas, AMD has released its latest Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver, which among many things improves performance in Dassault Systèmes’ flagship design suite. According to AMD, the 19.Q1 driver represents a 46% performance increase in SolidWorks, over last year’s 18.Q1 driver. Similarly, a…..
Battlefield V’s DRM Is Infuriating To Gamers, But Especially To Benchmarkers
DRM is one of the worst plagues to hit ever hit consumer goods. To purchase a product and be locked out of it due to draconian DRM is, to me, inexcusable. It was BS when S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky had a five-time activation limit, and it was likewise BS when the much-hyped Spore…..
For Better Or For Worse, Epic’s Game Store Is Stirring Up The PC Game Market
Last week, publisher Deep Silver made the interesting announcement that it would be moving Metro Exodus from Steam and other platforms to become an exclusive at Epic Games Store. For gamers, this move generally works out well because there is a cost savings of $10, but it of course comes at the…..
Intel Names Bob Swan As Its Permanent CEO
Following months of anticipation and uncertainty, Intel has today named interim CEO Bob Swan as the company’s new full-time CEO. The move isn’t going to change too much for Swan, but it finally adds some stability to the company to help it move forward more effectively, and efficiently. Admittedly, the fact that…..
Samsung Announces 1TB eUFS 2.1 Flash Storage For Future Smartphones
For many, smartphones have largely replaced desktops and notebooks, because they can get everything they need to get done right on that little screen. If you’re someone who fits into that mold, your hunger for more storage likely never goes away. Currently, the top storage device you can get today is 512GB,…..
G.SKILL Releases 192GB Memory Kit To Complement Intel’s Xeon W-3175X
Intel’s new 28-core Xeon W-3175X is a beast of a processor. It’s a chip that’s meant for the most serious of workloads, and that means lots of memory would be helpful. Leave it to G.SKILL to give us an absolute lust-worthy memory kit on day 1, with its beautiful Trident Z Royal…..