Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Microsoft and Nvidia today announced that they trained what they claim is the largest and most capable AI-powered language model to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLP). The successor to the companies’ Turing NLG 17B and Megatron-LM models, MT-NLP contains […]

Best Buy will sell Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs this Thursday

If you’ve been searching in vain for a graphics card during the crippling GPU shortage, tomorrow might just be your best chance yet at snagging one. Best Buy announced that it will be selling GeForce RTX 30-series graphics card in select stores Thursday morning. “Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards will have limited quantities […]

Nvidia LHR explained: What is a 'Lite Hash Rate' GPU?

It’s a tough time to be a PC gamer. A crippling GPU shortage has made buying the best graphics cards next to impossible, and when you can find a GPU, it’s usually at an exorbitant markup. Making matters worse, crypto currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been absolutely booming throughout 2021, driving hordes of GPU […]

Nvidia launches AI Enterprise in general availability

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Nvidia today announced the general availability of AI Enterprise, a software suite of tools and frameworks that enable companies running VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on Nvidia-certified servers. Systems from Atea, Carahsoft, Computacenter, Insight Enterprises, SoftServe, Dell Technologies, and […]

Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups through its Inception AI startup program. Those companies have raised more than $60 billion in funding and come from 90 countries, Nvidia said. Based on estimates from market researcher Pitchbook, the Nvidia numbers represent roughly […]

Latest NVIDIA CloudXR Update Adds Bidirectional Audio Support

NVIDIA’s CloudXR platform envisions a future where high-end virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content can be streamed directly to devices so they can be made lightweight and mobile, rather than being tethered. In its latest update, CloudXR 3.0, NVIDIA has implemented bidirectional audio support to make environments immersive whilst aiding social interactions. The […]

Nvidia ending support for Windows 7, 8, and older 'Kepler' GPUs

Microsoft killed support for Windows 7 well over a year ago, and now it’s Nvidia’s turn. In a pair of support pages published over the weekend, Nvidia announced that on August 31, 2021, the final Game Ready drivers with support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 as well as older “Kepler” GPU-based GeForce graphics cards […]

Nvidia Adds First DLSS VR Titles Including No Man's Sky

No Man’s Sky is one of the first VR games to get Nvidia DLSS support to improve framerate and fidelity on PC headsets. DLSS stands for Deep Learning Super Sampling and was created by Nvidia to help boost the visual fidelity of PC games while reducing the demands they place on a machine. It uses […]

Tested: How Nvidia Reflex can make you a better esports gamer

“Frames win games,” Nvidia likes to say, but there’s more to esports domination than raw frame rates. How those frames get delivered matters too. Latency—the time it takes for an on-screen action to happen after you press a button—reigns supreme in the blink-and-you’re-dead competitive esports scene. If your game looks beautiful but feels sluggish, you’ll […]

Nvidia expects crippling GPU shortages to continue throughout 2021

If you’re waiting for the crippling graphics card shortage to loosen up before buying new hardware, well, you might be waiting for a while. Nvidia says it expects GPU stock to remain constrained for the rest of 2021 (which probably helps explain why we won’t see an RTX 4080 this year). “Overall demand remains very […]