Nvidia’s Geforce GTX 970 reference models are very hard if not impossible to find on the market right now, mainly because every major manufacturer out there is preoccupied with developing their own custom versions of the 900 series Maxwell cards. This is no longer the case, as Overclockers UK have decided to break this pattern and come up with their ...
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Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 will stick to a 256-bit bus and 4GB of DDR5
Nvidia’s long awaited Geforce GTX 960 graphics card will soon join the high-end duo of the Maxwell 900 series and intends to do so in impressive fashion. Although it was originally believed that the GTX 960 will feature a 192-bit memory interface, recent shipping data shows that the upcoming Maxwell card will employ a 256-bit bus and 4GB of DDR5. ...
Read More »Leaked Specs of the Radeon R9 390X reveal 4GB of 3D Stacked HBM and 4096 Stream Processors
After Nvidia was in the spotlight yesterday with an alleged future launch of the Big Daddy Maxwell GM200 GPU, today its eternal AMD rival will be enjoying some attention thanks to a major leak which emerged on the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking database. It seems that AMD is pulling out its premium guns for the future battles with Nvidia, as the ...
Read More »Next GM200 Big Daddy Maxwell GPU inbound
As I’ve written in a previous article, Nvidia recently had a major earnings call in which company officials answered direct questions and offered some tightly wrapped hints which may be pointing to future moves the company has in place. This of course implies the future release of a 20nm GM200 GPU for both giant card manufacturers such as MSI and ...
Read More »Nvidia Shield Portable update improves battery life and more
The Nvidia Shield Tablet has been all the hype in the past few months, but the company has reassured fans that it didn’t forget about previous releases either. The Nvidia Shield Portable is a comfortable gamepad running on Android that combines a tablet with a controller. Originally, the Shield Portable was just the Shield, but since the Nvidia Shield Tablet ...
Read More »Far Cry 4 gets official PC requirements
NVIDIA has recently revealed the minimum and recommended PC requirements for publisher Ubisoft’s upcoming first-person shooter, Far Cry 4. On the lowest end, gamers will need at least an Intel i5-750 or an AMD Phenom II X4 955 and 4GB of RAM, while the beefier preconditions include an Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.5 GHz or an AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 ...
Read More »AMD Radeon R9 290X and 290 get substantial price cuts – Nvidia backed against the wall
AMD gamers will be very pleased to learn that the Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 high-end graphics cards are currently retailing at a significantly reduced price compared to previous weeks. Two well known online retailers, Amazon and Newegg have listed the R9 290X at $379, respectively the R9 290 at $309. You can jump on a Newegg exclusive offer ...
Read More »Nvidia is readying its Geforce GTX 980 8GB for an imminent release
Nvidia will be launching an upgraded 8GB version of its Geforce GTX 980 GM204 Maxwell card this late November or early December. This information comes from Hermitage Akihabara, a highly reliable source which has proved very accurate in the past when speculating on future Nvidia releases. Nvidia’s GTX 980 8GB will be expected to further increase the market demand for ...
Read More »Nvidia works its magic on Assassin’s Creed: Unity with exclusive GameWorks features
Ubisoft is going full throttle on the last quarter mile to the finish line, teaming up with Nvidia for their soon to be unveiled Assassin’s Creed: Unity – a title that has shocked everyone with its ridiculous PC system requirements. While the GTX 680 is set as minimum and the GTX 780 as recommended, it was quite predictable that the game ...
Read More »Graphics Card Frame Pacing analyzed
Frame pacing is a term used with regularity in the PC gaming world, although its meaning continues to be somewhat unclear to many PC gamers out there, but luckily the guys from game-debate published a great article in which they thoroughly explain what frame pacing involves. In video games, frame pacing is an essential factor for ensuring a smooth rendition; ...
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