“Faster than the 2080 Ti.” That’s the promise Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made while revealing the GeForce RTX 3070 in September, and it’s a scintillating one. The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti sat atop Nvidia’s RTX 20-series graphics card stack, offering performance as scalding as its $1,200 price tag. Could the $500 GeForce RTX 3070 and […]
Nvidia announces open beta for Omniverse as a ‘metaverse’ for engineers
Nvidia has announced an open beta for its Omniverse, a virtual environment the company describes as a “metaverse” for engineers. Company CEO Jensen Huang showed a demo of the Omniverse, where engineers can work on designs in a virtual environment, as part of the keynote talk at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, a virtual event being […]
Nvidia unveils Maxine, a managed cloud AI videoconferencing service
Nvidia today launched Nvidia Maxine, a platform that provides developers with a suite of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing software to enhance video quality. The company describes Maxine as a “cloud-native” solution that makes it possible for service providers to bring AI effects — including gaze correction, super-resolution, noise cancellation, face relighting, and more — to end […]
Nvidia spans AI from $59 Jetson Nano robots to massive datacenters on a chip
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is delivering the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) keynote address this morning as he spotlights the company’s strategic platforms that span all of computing, from a $59 Jetson Nano robot brain to massive data processing units that are part of its datacenter-on-a-chip strategy. Nvidia’s big event is expected to draw 30,000 attendees […]
Warzone: How To Turn On Nvidia Reflex
There are always plenty of flashy new features and content added for each seasonal update to Warzone, but it’s actually one of the more technical updates that many players will be interested in for Season Six. Sure, new weapons and characters are exciting, but the hardcore audience will no doubt be more intrigued by a new […]
Nvidia Delays RTX 3070 Release After Two Disastrous Launches
Following stock issues for both the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 launches, Nvidia has decided to delay the launch of its most affordable new graphics card, the RTX 3070, to the end of October. In a blog post, the company explained that it was pushing back the launch so that more cards could be available […]
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition: It works hard, it plays hard
Nvidia says its monstrous $1,500 GeForce RTX 3090 delivers “the ultimate gaming experience.” That’s very true. You can even game at 8K—not 4K, 8K—with some titles on this so-called “BFGPU.” You probably shouldn’t buy it if all you do is game, though. Unless you’re a deep-pocketed enthusiast who doesn’t mind spending lavishly for the absolute […]
An Estimated 58 Million Steam Users Now Have VR Ready GPUs
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Email Address High PC hardware requirements are one reason why VR is often touted as being highly expensive, but as GPUs have gotten more powerful […]
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080: 3440×1440 ultrawide benchmarks
Nvidia’s Ampere-powered GeForce RTX 3080 chews up games and spits out frames for breakfast, as we covered in-depth in our comprehensive Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition review. You need a pixel-packed monitor to get the most out of it, though—like a 3440×1440 ultrawide display. Our initial tests of the GeForce RTX 3080 showed it […]
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 tested: 5 key things you need to know
The GeForce RTX 3080 is a monster. Nvidia promised that the Ampere GPU-powered RTX 30-series GPUs would be the company’s “greatest generational leap” ever, and it wasn’t exaggerating. The $699 GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition absolutely demolishes its predecessors in performance while working in all sorts of technological advances. It’s one of the best graphics […]