Category: Graphics

First discrete Intel Arc GPU out in two weeks – A370M for laptops

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

The first generation of gaming discrete GPUs from Intel – back then designated “Xe HPG” – was supposed to come out in 2021. That obviously didn’t happen and there has been confusion as to how much delay will there be ever since. In the end, it looks like Intel will narrowly manage to launch in the first quarter of this year, as promised last summer. Though it won’t be stand-alone desktop cards yet, just lower-end laptop cards. Read more “First discrete Intel Arc GPU out in two weeks – A370M for laptops” »

Nvidia Lovelace/Ada GPUs will copy the killer feature of RDNA 2

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Recently we have reported on the specs of Nvidia Lovelace GPUs found in driver source code stolen and published by hackers. Another juicy bit has been discovered since then: the Lovelace architecture has a significantly larger cache memory. This will greatly increase performance with the same memory bandwidth. Nvidia is de facto preparing its own version of Infinity Cache introduced in AMD’s RDNA 2 GPU architecture. Read more “Nvidia Lovelace/Ada GPUs will copy the killer feature of RDNA 2” »

Specs of the integrated GPU coming to Zen 4 Ryzen CPUs leaked

Graphics, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

One of the drawbacks of the higher-tier Ryzen processors (3000X, 5000X models) is that they do not have an integrated GPU. However, this should change with the new 5nm Ryzen 7000 generation with Zen 4 architecture. AMD hasn’t announced it yet, but according to numerous leaks, this generation will also already provide integrated graphics. Now another proof has emerged and also some indication of its specs. Read more “Specs of the integrated GPU coming to Zen 4 Ryzen CPUs leaked” »

GeForce RTX 4000 “Lovelace“ power draw might exceed 800 W

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

GPU TDPs have become a bit unhinged lately. Having breached the 300W barrier and then jumping up to 320-350 W, Nvidia is now even developing a 450 W card in the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. However this might be nothing in comparison with what is about to come. It seems that not even the scary 600W number that we heard abotu earlier is the final destination. Nvidia’s next-gen is about to set the bar even higher (and not in a good way). Read more “GeForce RTX 4000 “Lovelace“ power draw might exceed 800 W” »

GPUs finally getting cheaper, Radeon prices are lowest in a year

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Although the chip shortage crisis is far from ending with new and potentially dangerous problems arising in the world, some semblance of normality might now be coming to hardware prices. Of those, graphic cards are the most affected by the crisis and also most important to us. The last couple of weeks have seen a promise of the end of the current state of desolation with epic prices and “soviet-style” empty shelves. Read more “GPUs finally getting cheaper, Radeon prices are lowest in a year” »

Nvidia 12pin, PCIe 5.0 GPU power connector and interoperability

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

In 2020, Nvidia introduced a new power connector with GeForce RTX 3000 (Ampere) graphics. This originally seemed to be a proprietary Nvidia design that was only used by their own Founders Edition cards (and it required getting adapters/new cables for most PSUs). But now it seems to be turning into a standardised power connector under PCI Express 5.0 – well, almost. The situation around these cables is a bit more complicated. Read more “Nvidia 12pin, PCIe 5.0 GPU power connector and interoperability” »

New highend Radeon replacing RX 6900 XT could come out in April

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

The purported details of the Radeon graphics cards refresh – the new performance–boosting 7nm GPU RDNA 2 models that AMD is reportedly preparing – seems to be constantly changing. Not long after the very first more solid sources emerged, the leaks are growing in number. A few days ago we reported that these cards were expected in June or July, but actually, the highest performance model could come a lot sooner than that. Read more “New highend Radeon replacing RX 6900 XT could come out in April” »

Nvidia will launch a new RTX 3060 Ti with GA103 die, photo is out

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Nvidia’s Ampere graphics were initially based on the GA102 (RTX 3090, 3080) and GA104 (RTX 3070, 3060 Ti) chips, with the smaller GA106 and GA107 coming later. Interestingly, there was aslo talk of GA103 chip from the very star that didn’t show up. A year after Ampere’s release, it came to life in the form of mobile GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. Now we’ve got its first photo, as well as news that it’s making its way to desktop cards… Read more “Nvidia will launch a new RTX 3060 Ti with GA103 die, photo is out” »

Nvidia introduces DLDSR: Dynamic Super Resolution with AI scaling

Graphics, News | | Ľubomír Samák

Last week, Nvidia quietly released GeForce RTX 3080 with 12GB of VRAM, which was strangely buried in an announcement of a driver release for God Of War. But there was yet another new feature hidden in it: Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR). It’s a new technology for GeForce RTX cards based on DLSS, but this time it’s not about upscaling, but ironically about downscaling, enhancing the Dynamic Super Resolution feature. Read more “Nvidia introduces DLDSR: Dynamic Super Resolution with AI scaling” »

Samsung will make GDDR6 50% faster than today, already sampling

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

Since HBM2E is no longer used in gaming GPUs due to its price, the highest performing graphic memory is now the PAM4-based GDDR6X, developed by Micron for Nvidia and reaching transfer rates of up to 21.0 GHz. However, it could now be outperformed by the classic GDDR6. Samsung has announced 20GHz and even 24GHz samples of GDDR6 (or GDDR6+?), that could bring about a 50% bandwidth increase when compared to current GDDR6. Read more “Samsung will make GDDR6 50% faster than today, already sampling” »

GeForce RTX 2060 12GB quietly released. More memory costs more

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB of memory is officially here. Earlier leaks had it coming on December 7, which is the date of store availability. In the end Nvidia already “revealed” the card last week. But extremely quietly, the company just published the specs of the “new” on its website. The return of the RTX 2060, or arguably RTX 2060 Super is now a real thing. But unfortunately there are some questions around the price. Read more “GeForce RTX 2060 12GB quietly released. More memory costs more” »

Nvidia launches improved DLSS and FSR competitor Image Scaling

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

It’s been a little over a year since Nvidia announced the 2.0 generation of their FPS-increasing AI upscaling DLSS, with significantly better quality thanks to temporal reconstruction and stabilization. Now it has been refined into DLSS 2.3, which brings a new AI for better quality, but at the same time Nvidia also introduces a purely spatial upscaler, which is actually a competitor or alternative for the similar AMD FSR technology. Read more “Nvidia launches improved DLSS and FSR competitor Image Scaling” »

Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse: RTX 3060 is no match in Full HD

Extra tests, Graphics | | Ľubomír Samák

Radeons RX 6600 XT are the most powerful graphics cards with the small AMD Navi 23 core. The Navi 22 in the RX 6700 XT is naturally better, but it still humbles the GeForce RTX 3060 with ease. However, in making this bold claim, it should be clarified that this dominance only works perfectly under certain circumstances – at lower resolutions without ray-tracing. This graphics card, in short, begs for high-speed monitor gamers with FHD resolutions. Read more “Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse: RTX 3060 is no match in Full HD” »

Hynix already has HBM3. Clocks up to 6.4GHz with huge bandwidth

Graphics, Memory, News | | Jan Olšan

GDDR7 is still far in the future (though Nvidia got ahead with their own Micron-made GDDR6X). But high-performance GPUs could get another new memory technology in the near future: HBM3 chips. Hynix has now announced that it has developed the first generation of this memory, which could lift graphics bandwidth by almost an order of magnitude. A single HBM3 chip (package) has a bandwidth higher than the entire RTX 3080. Read more “Hynix already has HBM3. Clocks up to 6.4GHz with huge bandwidth” »

Extreme TDPs for GPUs? Nvidia Hopper is allegedly above 1000W

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

It seems that after the power consumption increase brought by Nvidia’s latest GPU (GeForce RTX 3000) was not the last time we’ll see this happening. We had news of 450W GeForce cards and even 550W future SKUs coming, but the crowning jewel will be the high-performance server GPU codenamed Hopper. Nvidia is supposedly planning a four-digit consumption exceeding 1000 W, requiring a completely new power supply solution. Read more “Extreme TDPs for GPUs? Nvidia Hopper is allegedly above 1000W” »

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