NVIDIA
With NVIDIA’s Turing architecture turning six years old this year, the company has been retiring many of the remaining Turing products from its video card lineup. And today that spirit of spring cleaning is coming to the entry-level segment of NVIDIA’s professional visualization lineup, where NVIDIA is introducing a pair of new desktop cards based on their low-end Ampere hardware. The new RTX A1000 and RTX A400 cards will be replacing the T1000/T600/T400 lineup, which was released three years ago in 2021. The new cards slot into the same entry-level category and finally finish fleshing out the RTX A series of proviz cards, offering NVIDIA’s Ampere-generation professional graphics technologies in the lowest-power, lowest-performance, lowest-cost configuration possible. Notably, since the entry-level T-series were based on NVIDIA’s feature-limited...
United States FTC Files Lawsuit to Block NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition
In the biggest roadblock yet to NVIDIA’s proposed acquisition of Arm, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced this afternoon that the regulatory body will be suing...
175 by Ryan Smith on 12/2/2021NVIDIA Launches A2 Accelerator: Entry-Level Ampere For Edge Inference
Alongside a slew of software-related announcements this morning from NVIDIA as part of their fall GTC, the company has also quietly announced a new server GPU product for the...
16 by Ryan Smith on 11/9/2021NVIDIA Announces Jetson AGX Orin: Modules and Dev Kits Coming In Q1’22
Today as part of NVIDIA’s fall GTC event, the company has announced that the Jetson embedded system kits will be getting a refresh with NVIDIA’s forthcoming Orin SoC. Due...
19 by Ryan Smith on 11/9/2021European Union Regulators Open Probe Into NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition
Following an extended period of regulatory uncertainly regarding NVIDIA’s planned acquisition of Arm, the European Union executive branch, the European Commission, has announced that they have opened up a...
39 by Ryan Smith on 10/27/2021ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition Announced
One thing Noctua is famed for, other than its high-end design and engineering team delivering top quality air-cooling products, is the brown/beige color scheme. Some users may detest the...
51 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/4/2021The MSI GE76 Raider Review: Tiger Lake Plus Ampere Equals Framerate
Let us pretend we are desktop people, thinking about building a new system. What would we look for? If we are after a gaming system, clearly we need a...
33 by Brett Howse on 9/8/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: DPU + IPUs (Arm, NVIDIA, Intel)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS ONE SFF Gaming PC Review: Desktop Comet Lake Charges Up with Ampere
Zotac has been a pioneer in bringing compact small form-factor (SFF) machines to the market right since the ION days. A few years back, they also got into the...
19 by Ganesh T S on 8/13/2021NVIDIA Announces RTX A2000 Video Card: Low Profile & Low Power for ProViz
As part of a suite of SIGGRAPH-related announcements, NVIDIA this morning is announcing a new addition to their RTX line of professional video cards, the RTX A2000. Following NVIDIA’s...
33 by Ryan Smith on 8/10/2021NVIDIA Unveils PCIe version of 80GB A100 Accelerator: Pushing PCIe to 300 Watts
As part of today’s burst of ISC 2021 trade show announcements, NVIDIA this morning is announcing that they’re bringing the 80GB version of their A100 accelerator to the PCIe...
16 by Ryan Smith on 6/28/2021NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 3080 Ti & 3070 Ti: Upgraded Ampere Cards Coming in June
The second major keynote of the day for Computex comes from NVIDIA, who has taken to the virtual showfloor to discuss new products for both gamers and the enterprise...
50 by Ryan Smith on 6/1/2021NVIDIA To Extend Ethereum Throttle to GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, & 3060 Ti “LHR” Cards
Continuing their ongoing efforts to limit the Ethereum mining performance of their GeForce video cards – and thus make them less enticing for miners – NVIDIA today has announced...
47 by Ryan Smith on 5/18/2021NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti for Laptops
Coinciding with today’s launch of Intel’s Tiger Lake-H CPUs for high performance laptops, NVIDIA is also using the occasion to launch their latest lineup of laptop video cards, the...
30 by Ryan Smith on 5/11/2021NVIDIA Updates GeForce RTX 3060 Ethereum Throttle; Updated Drivers Required For Future 3060s
NVIDIA this morning has released a new driver set for their GeForce cards, version 466.27. And though it’s primarily for next week’s release of Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition...
90 by Ryan Smith on 4/29/2021NVIDIA Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm Server CPU For Use In Big AI Systems
Kicking off another busy Spring GPU Technology Conference for NVIDIA, this morning the graphics and accelerator designer is announcing that they are going to once again design their own...
119 by Ryan Smith on 4/12/2021The NVIDIA GTC 2021 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 8:30am PT/15:30 UTC)
Join us at 8:30am PT for our coverage of NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical or virtual &ndash...
30 by Ryan Smith on 4/12/2021NVIDIA Raises GeForce NOW Paid Subscription Plans to $10 Per Month, $100 Per Year
Just over a year ago, NVIDIA finally brought GeForce NOW, its PC game streaming service, out of beta. The commercial launch of the service saw the introduction of two...
20 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2021NVIDIA Fumbles, Releases GeForce RTX 3060 Driver Without Anti-Mining Throttle
In an effort to partially mitigate the market chaos that has come from the cryptocurrency mining boom over the last 6 months, last month NVIDIA very publicly introduced a...
40 by Ryan Smith on 3/16/2021Launching Today: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 - Aiming For Mainstream At $329
NVIDIA this morning is launching their previously announced GeForce RTX 3060. First unveiled back at CES 2021, the latest member of the GeForce RTX 30 series is continuing NVIDIA’s...
118 by Ryan Smith on 2/25/2021NVIDIA Closes Out Q4 & FY2021 With Another Round of Record Earnings
NVIDIA this afternoon closed the book on another record fiscal year, announcing their FY 2021 and Q4 2021 earnings results for the company. For the last quarter of their...
19 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2021