Category: Graphics

MSI officially about RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X faults

Analysis, Graphics, News | | Ľubomír Samák

MSI has released a statement saying that the RTX 4070 Ti Ventus 3X graphics cards did indeed come out with an untweaked BIOS that prevents this graphics card from achieving its maximum performance. However, there seems to be a fix already that could solve everything. Still… let’s revisit this topic and try to sort through the possible technical reasons that cause the significant fluctuation in the performance of the cheapest three-fan MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super. Read more “MSI officially about RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X faults” »

MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X: Big cooler w/o a markup

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

The biggest hardware changes compared to non-Super cards concern the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super. What’s different is the GPU, the amount of GDDR6X memory or the width of the memory bus. We have the RTX 4070 Ti Super in one of the cheapest non-reference designs, the Ventus 3X, for analysis and it will be about “reputation repair” as well. MSI has tarnished it a bit in this line of graphics cards in the past, but now it’s a very attractive solution. Read more “MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X: Big cooler w/o a markup” »

RTX Video Super Resolution alternative: FSR for YouTube and VLC

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last year Nvidia came out with RTX Video Super Resolution, a video upscaling and postprocessing technology for usage in web browsers and later also in VLC Media Player. It looks like something similar will be available also for AMD GPUs, but while Nvidia’s approach is the equivalent of DLSS 1.0 applied to video content, Radeon’s upscaling will probably be based on FSR 1.0, so it could be usable by other vendor GPUs, like FSR. Read more “RTX Video Super Resolution alternative: FSR for YouTube and VLC” »

RTX 4070 Super FE gigatest: RX 7800 XT challenged at its own game

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

The cheapest of the new GeForce RTX 4000 Super graphics cards – the RTX 4070 Super – has the biggest increase in SM blocks compared to the non-Super variants (i.e. to the RTX 4070), yet the price, at least on paper, doesn’t increase too much. The price-performance ratio is thus very attractive and attacks the competing Radeon (RX 7800 XT) even if you disregard the typical Nvidia “premium” stuff, such as significantly faster ray tracing, DLSS 3 or CUDA. Read more “RTX 4070 Super FE gigatest: RX 7800 XT challenged at its own game” »

Fluid Motion Frames now also for Radeon iGPUs, leaves preview

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last year AMD released FSR 3 frame generation, of which a simplified version that doesn’t use game vector data is also usable globally on the GPU driver level as the AMD Fluid Motion Frames feature. It can be used in all sorts of games that lack their own FSR 3 (or Nvidia’s DLSS 3) support. This technology will soon make its way from beta to standard drivers, and it now even works on integrated GPUs, including gaming handhelds. Read more “Fluid Motion Frames now also for Radeon iGPUs, leaves preview” »

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super GPUs: Boost in price/performance

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

The GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs run their second year on the market. And like the previous two generations, they’ll get a shake-up for this second year with new models. Nvidia has once again turned to the label used during the Turing generation and will release three new gaming cards this month: the GeForce RTX 4070 Super, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super and GeForce RTX 4080 Super. And they should improve the bang-for-buck ratio by quite a bit. Read more “Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super GPUs: Boost in price/performance” »

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super cards: Full specs are known

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

35W versions of Intel’s Raptor Lake processors weren’t the only thing about which we got leaked information over the holidays. We now also know the complete specs of the refresh SKUs of Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace gaming GPUs, the GeForce RTX 4080 Super, RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics cards. It looks like they could improve the price-performance ratio quite nicely, assuming Nvidia doesn’t make them too expensive, that is. Read more “Nvidia GeForce RTX 4000 Super cards: Full specs are known” »

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is real, launching this month

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

When AMD released the Radeon RX 7600 as the cheapest RDNA 3 model, it was the only card without the “XT” designation. It uses fully enabled Navi 33 die configuration thoughs, so it invited the interpretation that a Radeon RX 7600 XT might not even exist. But as it turns out, such graphics card is indeed coming to market. There is also talk of other additions to the Radeon RX 7000 series, but it’s a muddier story with those. Read more “AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is real, launching this month” »

Fractal Design Flex 2 for free. First to write wins

Giveaway, Graphics, News | | Editors

Since we have no use for the Flex 2 holders from our recent review and also, FD doesn’t want them back, we’re giving them away. To readers who can take advantage of vertical mounting of the graphics card. There are only two available (black and white), so speed is of the essence. The first person to respond to this challenge gets to pick the colour, the second person will be sent the one left if they wish, and the third person in row is already writing late. Read more “Fractal Design Flex 2 for free. First to write wins” »

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with M.2 slot launched, can use PCIe 5.0 SSD

Graphics, News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

Some GPUs in current gaming graphics cards use just eight PCIe lanes instead of the whole ×16 interface. This includes cards like the Radeon RX 7600 and also the GeForce RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti. Asus recently came up with an idea to make use of the extra lanes that would go to waste such a GPU, and made a graphics card that gets some utility out of of the excess lanes, using them to connect an SSD and provide an extra M.2 slot. Read more “GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with M.2 slot launched, can use PCIe 5.0 SSD” »

GeForce RTX 5090: no 512-bit bus, but with DP 2.1 and on 3nm node

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Nvidia is yet to release the refresh of the current generation of GeForce RTX 4000 GPUs, which will be released in 2024, but after that (according to some sources in 2025) it’s time for the next generation GeForce RTX 5000 with Blackwell architecture. Information is slowly appearing about those GPUs – currently about the most powerful model, which will be based on the GB202 chip. But it looks like it has been “downsized” a bit. Read more “GeForce RTX 5090: no 512-bit bus, but with DP 2.1 and on 3nm node” »

Nvidia’s new fastest AI GPU: H200 with 141GB of HBM3E memory

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Last year, Nvidia launched the 4nm H100 accelerator with Hopper architecture. It has since been the company’s fastest GPU for AI. Now the company is launching its successor dubbed H200. It isn’t quite a new generation yet, but something of a refresh that will lead Nvidia’s lineup until the next generation with the Blackwell architecture is released. The H200 relies on the use of faster memory, but that should also lift overall performance. Read more “Nvidia’s new fastest AI GPU: H200 with 141GB of HBM3E memory” »

End of Polaris and Vega GPU support: AMD provides a redux driver

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Recently, it has been reported that AMD may be preparing to discontinue driver support for older Radeon graphics cards with Polaris and Vega architectures (pre-RDNA cards based on GCN lineage). AMD has now released the first new version of drivers for these graphics cards in two months, so it seems that the full end of updates for them is not yet here, but at the same time it is confirmed that support for them is moving to the back burner. Read more “End of Polaris and Vega GPU support: AMD provides a redux driver” »

GeForce RTX 4000 “Super” GPUs specs leak: shader core counts

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Recently, leaks have started to emerge about the new refreshed GeForce RTX 4000 graphics card models that Nvidia is apparently preparing for release next year. Previous reports have talked about Nvidia intending to use larger, more expensive chips for these, which could provide more memory capacity. But now, reports are coming in that cast doubts on this, saying that the GeForce RTX 4080 Super will stay at 16GB. Read more “GeForce RTX 4000 “Super” GPUs specs leak: shader core counts” »

AI performance in “DaVinci”: NVIDIA can be 100× faster than iGPU

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

From the last article, you already know what tasks are acceleratable by powerful NVIDIA graphics cards in DaVinci Resolve Studio. Now we have a speed comparison for you against simpler, integrated GPUs. Specifically confronting the RTX 4090 and RTX 4060 with the solution that Intel’s latest Raptor Lake Refresh processors have. The difference in favor of GeForce graphics cards is immense. Read more “AI performance in “DaVinci”: NVIDIA can be 100× faster than iGPU” »

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