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  • NVIDIA Collaborates With PUBG, Offers Exclusive Limited Edition Skins

    NVIDIA Collaborates With PUBG, Offers Exclusive Limited Edition Skins

    NVIDIA has been known to have collaborated with many game studios. The joint ventures generally revolve around close optimization with its popular graphics cards; in some cases also involves game copies offered with the purchase of the said video card. The company is now working with PUBG Corp. to bring exclusive limited edition tracksuits which will be bundled with the purchase of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti, 1660 and 1650 graphics card or gaming laptops.

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    PUBG or PlayUnknown’s Battlegrounds is an online multiplayer looter shooter that took the world by storm. Its revolutionary battle royale genre gave the game a unique identity. The new style of gameplay involves the last man standing formula in a vast open map. The game is extremely popular and is known to have collaborated with other companies as well. According to a report, NVIDIA is now planning to incorporate its signature green style into the video game.

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    The unique green tracksuit will be available as an in-game cosmetic item which will be offered to customers that buy the latest entry of NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics card. The offer includes the GTX 1660Ti, GTX 1660, and GTX 1650 cards and gaming laptops. It is a promotional marketing move from team green that seeks to promote its latest iteration of entry to medium level performance video cards. The GTX 1660TI and 1660 are the successors of one of the most popular graphics card the GTX 1060; while the GTX 1650 will seek to replace the ageing budget GTX 1050 and 1050Ti cards. 

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    The new offer from NVIDIA will be available for prospective buyers till 30th September 2019. The promotional slogan goes by “Don’t Dress To Survive, Dress To Win” and certainly holds true with flashy green and white aesthetics. Design features a letterman’s jacket on top while the bottom an entirely green track pants. Many OEMs have made gaming laptops that are equipped with the aforementioned graphics card and will also offer the unique game item.

  • NVIDIA Unveils The RTX 2060 SUPER, 2070 SUPER, 2080 SUPER GPUs

    NVIDIA Unveils The RTX 2060 SUPER, 2070 SUPER, 2080 SUPER GPUs

    Computex 2019 has seemingly started off an arms race for the gaming industries giants. AMD spearheaded the electronics expo with its keynote that saw the company announce the RX 5000 series graphics card. These cards had undercut NVIDIA’s existing RTX series graphics card in price and, to some extent, power. While team red was preparing for the launch, team green had teased a new and improved lineup of RTX graphics card. 

    Nvidia is now officially announcing its SUPER Series of RTX graphics card which will bring a sizeable upgrade over its existing lineup. 

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    AMD will soon launch its graphics card which was supposed to be a viable alternative to the RTX cards at a competitive price. However, NVIDIA has already started phasing out its existing RTX graphics card, excluding the RTX 2060. The company has “supercharged” its products by the introduction of its new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, and GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER. These new cards are one of the latest and most powerful cards currently available for gaming purposes. 

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    GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GPU Specification

    The new SUPER variant of the RTX 2060 GPU brings a noticeable improvement to overall performance with a bump of 22% (average 15%) than the standard variant. The graphics card houses 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM which is 2GB higher than the RTX 2060. It is also claimed that the card will be faster than the last gen GTX 1080 and features 7+7 TOPs (FP32+INT32) and 57 Tensor TFLOPs.

    GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER GPU Specification

    RTX 2070 SUPER is reportedly 24% (average 16%) faster than the regular RTX 2070 which is a great improvement. Notably, NVIDIA is claiming that this card is faster than the GTX 1080 Ti with 9+9 TOPs (FP32+INT32) and 73 Tensor TFLOPs

    GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU Specification

    The new graphics card is the flagship and one of the most powerful GPU under NVIDIA’s arsenal. The card has had its speed bumped upto 15.5Gbps from the originals 14Gbps. Furthermore, the SUPER variant is faster than the TITAN Xp and features 11+11 TOPs (FP32+INT32) and 89 Tensor TFLOPs. 

    All of the new cards will support every new technique that was employed by the original RTX card. That includes Ray-Tracing technology alongside NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). The new cards will also be one of the few new cards from team green to support the Mesh Shading and NVIDIA Adaptive Shading. These techniques are used for polishing the graphical fidelity of any game without drastically impacting the performance and responsiveness of the game being rendered.

    NVIDIA is also launching a new integrated frame benchmarking & power tool by the name of “FrameView”. This new software enables accurate real-time information regarding game performance like FPS and average FPS, power drawn from the board, completely customisable overlay and even a log file for analytics. The feature will also be available to AMD cards, although power draw will not be read. The beta will be released soon, stay tuned for more on this.

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    Price and Availability

    GeForce RTX cards pricing will start from INR 34,890 for the 2060, while the RTX 2070 SUPER will be sold for INR 43,600. The premium graphics card RTX 2080 SUPER will have prospective buyers shell out INR 61,400. The first two cards will be commercially available from 9th July in India, while the later premium card will be released on July 23rd. The existing cards will be phased out apart from the RTX 2060 while the 2080 Ti still remains as the crown prince of the company.

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    NVIDIA is known to collaborate with other companies that provide gaming-related peripherals and electronic components. Companies like, ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac versions of the card will be available alongside the Founder’s Edition. The graphics card will also be available on gaming laptops such as Dell, Alienware, Acer, HP and Lenovo. A special deal is being offered by NVIDIA, in which users buying the graphics card on 9th July will receive a free copy of Control and Wolfenstein: Youngblood.

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    NVIDIA has made an impressive move with the affordable price of entry for its RTX SUPER series in India. The move will prove to be a great adversary to the upcoming RX 5700 & 5700 XT that will go on sale on 7th July. The upgraded additions to NVIDIA’s latest gen of graphics card will again be a strong choice for potential buyers for their gaming needs. 

  • NVIDIA Works With Bethesda For Ray Tracing Support on Wolfenstein And Quake II

    NVIDIA Works With Bethesda For Ray Tracing Support on Wolfenstein And Quake II

    NVIDIA in collaboration with Bethesda has announced the induction of real-time ray-tracing support in Bethesda’s latest instalment of Wolfenstein. The return of the Wolfenstein franchise with NVIDIA’s Adaptive shading and other advanced technology will give gamers a new depth in experience and graphical fidelity.

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    The ‘Born To Hunt’ bundle with NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card will have buyers receiving Wolfenstein: Newblood with purchases for a limited period of time. Youngblood is reported to be launched on the 26th of July. The offer is available with the purchase of RTX 2080Ti, 2080, 2070, 2060 or any PC desktop or laptops that ship with these graphics cards. The cost has yet to be announced by the company.

    For those unfamiliar with the terminology, Ray tracing is an advanced graphics technique used to give movies their realistic visual effects. With the inclusion of specialized ‘RT’ cores in NVIDIA RTX GPUs, that are designed specifically to achieve ray tracing in real time in games. The announcement was dropped today in Computex 2019. 

    Wolfenstein: Youngblood is set in an alternate history 19 years in the future after the events of Wolfenstein: The New Colossus. Bethesda is advertising the Co-Op feature of the game that allows players to game with their friends or solo in a new first-person shooter with Wolfenstein experience. The game will have players as one of BJ Blazkowic’s twin daughters wielding a wide arsenal of destructive weaponry, gadgets and abilities to free Paris from the Regime.

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    The game includes NVIDIA VKRay which allows any developer to add ray-traced effects to their games using the Vulkan API, becoming the first game till date to ship with this tool. NVIDIA Adaptive Shading is an advanced new technique showcased by NVIDIA today that helps developers improve performance during ray-tracing in games to achieve higher real-time visual fidelity while reducing the load on GPUs that bear the taxing load of ray-tracing without losing out on image quality. 

    NVIDIA had taken a team to put the 1997 title Quake II through their ray-tracing system earlier on in the year. The YouTube Video received about half a million views and a slurry of ‘hype’ comments. The three-level version of the game, as in the demo, will be open to the public for free on NVIDIA website and Steam from June 6th.

     

  • NVIDIA Teases A ‘Super’ Upgrade In Graphics Ahead Of Computex 2019

    NVIDIA Teases A ‘Super’ Upgrade In Graphics Ahead Of Computex 2019

    Computex 2019 is just around the corner, and brands are gearing up to showcase some of the best products and developments in computing. It is apparent that the PC market is unlikely to dwindle anytime soon which a few reports from the past claimed. Popular brands are innovating with newer products and techniques that bump up performance levels of machines while curbing the prices at the same time. Amidst all this, American chip manufacturer NVIDIA has posted a teaser on its YouTube channel, which hints at something “Super” making its way to the Computex 2019 event being held in Taiwan from 28 May to 1 June. 

    NVIDIA At Computex 2019: What To Expect?

    As per reports, the company is already planning a press conference at the said event. There is a chance that the “Super” announcement is AI/Software related since NVIDIA RTX and 16-series cards are still fairly new to the market. However, the company can unveil a significant upgrade to one of its older cards to bring them at par with the competition looming up ahead. And talking of competition, AMD’s Navi GPUs are also set to make a debut in the not-so-distant future, which might shift NVIDIA in its seat a little. 

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    As per sources, NVIDIA is planning to incorporate a faster 16Gbps memory standard in its existing RTX series of GPUs. This will be a significant boost from the previous 14Gbps memory in the GPUs. A 2Gbps memory improvement is expected to provide almost 14 percent of performance boost if and when it is implemented. However, the question of price still takes the podium. Will NVIDIA charge a hefty price for such an upgrade in the future? 

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    Since the teaser shows nothing except the embossed metal super logo (from a variety of angles), fans are only left with the option of taking wild guesses and waiting for the press conference at the event itself. As mentioned before, AMD’s price point for the upcoming Navi-based graphics chips may (severely) affect NVIDIA’s flagship lineup. But since the company has emerged unscathed time and again, we can expect NVIDIA to have a neat trick up its sleeve for Computex 2019.    

  • NVIDIA Rolls Out Driver With Ray Tracing Support For GTX Graphics Cards

    NVIDIA Rolls Out Driver With Ray Tracing Support For GTX Graphics Cards

    NVIDIA unveiled its RTX series of graphics cards in the month of September, 2018, which featured Ray Tracing – a feature that boosts the realism of shadows, lighting and other visual effects in real time.  While the resource-consuming feature was an RTX series exclusive at launch, NVIDIA has now released a new driver for GTX Graphics Cards. The driver provides Ray Tracing effects to be activated for respective cards, enabling GTX 10 and 16 series users to experience real-time ray tracing for select games on their setups.

    Which Games Support Ray Tracing In GTX Cards?

    GTX series users can test out the feature in only select games for now, which include Battlefield 5, Metro: Exodus and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. As per NVIDIA, if the users don’t want to download the complete game for any reasons, they can download free tech demos for the same games from NVIDIA’s Official Website. Gamers can test out reflective models and effects in Battlefield 5, while Metro Fans can experiment with Global Illumination in the recently released Metro: Exodus. 

    But there is a catch to all of this. GTX series users cannot actually experience the same functionality as present in the RTX series graphics cards. For starters, GTX series GPUs will run the Ray-tracing-based games at significantly lower and choppier frame rates. This is because the company is just using the GTX graphics cards to depict how Ray Tracing will work for each individual frame, not the complete game. 

    How Does Ray Tracing Perform In GTX Series Cards?

    As per reports, GTX 1080 Ti (the most powerful GPU in the 10-series) renders “Shadow of the Tomb Raider” at a mere 30fps with Ray Tracing turned on in addition to the highest settings. All this was tested with the Core i9 CPU, and what’s more interesting is the fact that NVIDIA’s recently released GTX 1660 Ti came closer to GTX 1080 in terms of gaming performance with Ray Tracing turned on. While the GTX 10-series is built on the Pascal architecture, GTX 16-series incorporates the Turing architecture. 

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    This bold step by NVIDIA might relate to two possibilities for the company. One, to demonstrate the viability of Ray Tracing technology in future games so as to boost the popularity of the RTX 20-series GPUs. Or maybe, the company wants to include full RT support in future 10-series Graphics cards, if the company is planning to ever release one. 

  • Steam Survey Shows The NVIDIA GTX 1060 As The Most Popular Graphics Card

    Steam Survey Shows The NVIDIA GTX 1060 As The Most Popular Graphics Card

    Steam conducts a monthly survey which depicts the graphics card information from all the gamers across the world. As per a survey conducted in the month of February 2019, AMD was still found struggling for the top spots in the list of the most used graphics cards. Whereas NVIDIA has a strong grip on almost all top 15 slots in the list, AMD made its entry on the 17th spot in the list.

    The Statistics

    The RX 580 is AMD’s most popular graphics card, and yet only 0.94 % of the total Steam user base uses the aforementioned model. Even Intel HD Graphics 4000 is placed higher on the list, with a total of 0.96% of gamers relying on the inbuilt graphics module. AMD as a whole is just hanging by the ledge, with a total market share of a mere 0.50%, compared to NVIDIA’s mammoth share.

    Almost 16% of Steam gamers have the GTX 1060 as their primary graphics, clearly exhibiting the popularity of the mid-budget graphics card. The Pascal-based GTX 1050 Ti, 1050 and 1070 are next on the list with 9.83%, 5.34% and 4.48% market shares respectively. Surprisingly, the older Maxwell-based graphics cards, GTX 960 and GTX 970 maintain their share at 2.95% and 2.93% respectively. The top performer in the 10 series, the 1080 Ti makes the list at 1.62%

    Turing based cards were launched in the month of September 2018, and they have been steadily gaining popularity over time, as seen in the survey. The RTX 2070 is at 0.50%, whereas the RTX 2080 Ti and 2080 stand at 0.21 and 0.40 percent respectively. On the other hand, AMD’s top-of-the-line RX Vega graphics cards hold a minuscule share of 0.19%. AMD has released some really performance-worthy cards lately, but it is still having trouble competing against the well-established NVIDIA graphics cards. 

    AMD’s Strategy For Success

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    AMD is looking forward to launching the 7nm fabrication-based Navi GPUs in the second half of 2019, which may help the sinking shares of the company and propel it towards the higher spots. However, it is worth noting that even if AMD unveils a game-changing graphics card lineup, it may have trouble incorporating itself in the market owing to NVIDIA’s strong grip in that sector.

  • NVIDIA Announces $99 Jetson Nano CUDA-X AI Computer

    NVIDIA Announces $99 Jetson Nano CUDA-X AI Computer

    At the GPU Technology Conference in California, NVIDIA unveiled the Jetson Nano AI computer which can be used to draft AI-based systems with ease. On March 18, the company announced that the Jetson Nano will be available in two kit options, listed below

    • Devkit for developers, makers and enthusiasts
    • Production ready module for companies
    Jetson Nano Features

    The Jetson Nano sports the CUDA-X AI computer, which brings accelerated computing to the platform. CUDA-X AI is a collection of software acceleration libraries designed on the NVIDIA’s programming model. The company claims that it delivers 472 GFLOPS of performance for AI-based computing. Remarkably, the CUDA-X consumes only 5 watts of power for operation.

    The company previously released the Jetson AGX Xavier and the TX2 for autonomous machines and AI respectively. The latest Jetson Nano sports high resolution sensors that can process data parallelly. NVIDIA claims that it supports major AI frameworks to make it easy for developers to integrate their preferred models with the chip. It will enable users to create projects like drones and digital assistants with a framework of their choice. 

    The company also states that the chip has upgraded power management, clocking, memory and accessible input/outputs. It features Jetpack SDK, which is also designed on CUDA-X and has libraries for deep learning, computer vision, graphics and multimedia processing. It runs the Linux OS, which is fully compatible with NVIDIA’s AI platform. Moreover, NVIDIA includes a reference platform called JetBot to reduce the time taken for initial hardware assembly. All of the aforementioned source codes are available on Github, the company says.

    Jetson Nano Specifications

    The Jetson Nano runs on the quad-core ARM A57 CPU and a 128 core NVIDIA Maxwell based GPU. It supports 4K/60fps video modules. It has support for 4GB LPDDR4 memory with transfer rates of up to 25.6 Gbps, and a Gigabit Ethernet port for connectivity. As mentioned before, it runs Linux for Tegra. The module measures at 70mm x 45mm, whereas the whole devkit measures at 100mm x 80mm. 

    Price And Availability

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    The NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit is available for US$ 99, whereas the Production ready module for the same can be purchased for US$ 129. The Jetson Nano will be available for purchase June onwards and will be retailed at NVIDIA’s global distributors.

  • NVIDIA GTX 1660 With 6GB GDDR5 VRAM Launched In India

    NVIDIA GTX 1660 With 6GB GDDR5 VRAM Launched In India

    NVIDIA has launched the Turing-based GTX 1660 Graphics card in India. First announced in February 2019, the GPU chip has 6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM and is a step up from the GTX 1060 GPU chip, which is based on the Pascal architecture. The 1660 series is targeted towards the mid-range GPU sector and will compete against graphics cards like AMD’s RX 580.

    GTX 1660 Features

    As mentioned before, the GTX 1660 is based on the 12th Generation Turning Architecture. The company claims that 1660’s architecture is much more power efficient than the standard Pascal architecture. The GPU chip requires 120 watts of power to operate optimally, which means that users with Generation 800 and 900 NVIDIA cards can upgrade to the GTX 1660 without upgrading their power supply unit. Taking increased power efficiency into consideration, NVIDIA claims that the GPU delivers the best performance per watt in its class.

    The GPU chip features a total of 1,408 Cuda cores with a base clock speed of 1.5 GHz and a boost clock speed of up to 1.8 GHz. NVIDIA claims that at 1080p, the chip is 35% faster than the Pascal-based GTX 1060 3GB and almost 130% faster than Maxwell-based GTX 960. The GPU packs 6 GB of GDDR5 memory with a transfer rate of up to 8 Gbps. Furthermore, NVIDIA states that the GTX 1660 is “built for streamers”, since it is optimized for Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), which is the most popular streaming software globally.

    With built-in NVIDIA Ansel, the 1660 enables users to capture high quality images in-game or create 360-degree photospheres of the same. Using NVIDIA Freestyle, gamers can use post-processing to customize the way their games look.

    Price And Availability

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    The GTX 1660 is expected to be available for purchase soon in India, however, no exact date has been stated by the company. The GTX 1660 GPU will retail Rs. 21,500 onwards.

  • Nvidia Announces New GPU Driver, Game Bundle & G-Sync Compatible Monitors

    Nvidia Announces New GPU Driver, Game Bundle & G-Sync Compatible Monitors

    Nvidia has given its users even more reasons to purchase its RTX series Graphic cards. The American technology company launched its RTX series of graphics cards in the second half of 2018, and they have been favourites amongst gamers and video editors owing to the new Ray tracing support. Now, the company is giving gamers the chance to take home a three-game bundle with the RTX graphic cards. Apart from this, Nvidia had a couple of other surprises for their gaming audience.

    Game Ready Driver

    Nvidia released the new 419.35 game ready driver package that extended optimization for games like Apex Legends, The Division 2 and Devil May Cry 5. Since the launch of Apex Legends, a lot of players are facing random game crashes, followed by an error message. Forums were being spammed by gamers for solutions but no successful fixes were posted by the company. With the release of the new driver, players should be able to get rid of this issue. The driver update also includes some bug fixes and tweaks for high data consumption issues.

    The patch notes are available below. Additionally, you can download the updated display driver here

    G-Sync Compatible Monitors

    The list of G Sync compatible monitors is growing day by day, and now the latest driver package has introduced support for three new monitors with G Sync. The latest additions include:

    • Acer ED237 A
    • Acer XF250Q
    • BenQ XL2540-B/Zowie XL LCD

    Nvidia is continuously testing new displays to see if they’re compatible with G Sync or not. Nvidia CEO says that the company will optimize the software that’s necessary to make the monitors G Sync compatible. If a user has a G Sync monitor, he/she can manually turn on G Sync support in the Nvidia Control Panel to check if driver support has been introduced for that specific model or not. However, Nvidia has warned the users not to experiment with the G Sync Nvidia control panel if their monitors are not certified by the same.

    Triple Threat Gaming Bundle

    To keep gamers on their heels, Nvidia has announced that it will give away a game bundle containing three A-list titles with the purchase of each RTX series graphics card, laptop or gaming desktop. The company has included digital codes for Battlefield 5, Anthem and Metro Exodus which the users can redeem on the respective accounts.

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    If a user purchases the RTX 2080 Ti or the RTX 2080, all three games will be included in the bundle. However, the user will get only one of the aforementioned games if he/she purchases the RTX 2070 or the RTX 2060. More details regarding the offer are available here

  • GTX 1660 Ti With 6GB GDDR6 RAM Launched

    GTX 1660 Ti With 6GB GDDR6 RAM Launched

    Nvidia is an American company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming and professional markets. Late last year the company launched the Titan RTX GPU which is targetted towards the premium sector. On 22 February 2019, the company launched a new GPU chip called GTX1660 Ti which is targetted towards the mid range sector.

    GTX 1660 Ti Features  

    The all new GTX 1660 Ti chip is based on the 12th generation Turing Architecture. Unlike the GTX 1060 which can be deemed its predecessor is based on the Pascal architecture. According to Nvidia, the architecture on the latest chip is 1.4x power efficient than Pascal architecture. The GTX 1660 Ti requires 120 watts of power to operate and taking the increased power efficiency into consideration, it delivers the best performance per watt of any GPU in its class. 

    The GTX 1660 Ti features 1,536 Cuda cores that have a boost clock of 1.8 GHz. The new chip packs 6 GB of GDDR6 memory which has a transfer rate of up to 12 Gbps. The company has also added that overclocking the new chip is fairly easy. The GTX 1660 TI has dedicated hardware encoder that delivers 15% improved efficiency over prior generation graphics cards. Noteworthy, the new chips is also optimized for Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) which is the most popular software used by streamers globally. 

    The GTX 1660 Ti also has built-in support for Nvidia ANSEL which allows taking high-quality screen captures and 360-degree photospheres of games. It also has support for Nvidia Freestyle technology that allows the gamers to customise the appearance of their games with post-processing technology. This filter can convert gameplays or photos to resemble watercolour paintings, oil paintings or even retro movies. 

    GTX 1660 Ti Price

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    GPU’s based on GTX 1660 Ti chip start at US $ 279 (around Rs 19,800). However ready to purchase GPU’s from manufacturers like Asus, EVGA, MSI, PNY, Zotac will slightly differ in price dependent on region and features like single or double fans.  

     

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Retail Packaging Images Surface Again

    Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Retail Packaging Images Surface Again

    As we approach the rumoured launch date of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660Ti, even more images of the graphics card retail packaging appear online. Sources claim that they captured images of retail packaging of the EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC, Palit GTX 1660 Ti StormX and Galax GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. And looking at the images, the pictures look like they’re very authentic.

    Rumoured Launch Dates

      All three cards look like the variants of the upcoming Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. The speculated graphics card is supposed to release on February 22. Previously, a launch date of February 15 was expected, but that has been postponed to exactly a week later.

    GeForce GTX 1660 Ti: Features

    The retail packaging images clearly show the presence of the much-speculated GPU’s Turning Shaders. It also shows that the 1660 Ti will have 6 gigs of GDDR6 memory. One thing to note here is that the absence of any Ray Tracing information on the retail box may mean that the 1660 series won’t support Ray tracing.

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    Nothing has been announced by Nvidia so far, so we can consider all these reveals as leaks. But sources say that the rumoured launch date is already on the line. Hopefully, we’ll be able to believe in the 1660 Ti very soon?

  • World’s Most Powerful GPU, Nvidia TITAN RTX Announced

    World’s Most Powerful GPU, Nvidia TITAN RTX Announced

    Nvidia is an American technology company, renowned for their GPUs. The company designs graphics processing units for both gaming and professional markets. GPUs unlike CPUs are mainly used to process image/video files and execute rendering tasks at a rapid pace. Architecturally, the CPU is composed of just a few cores with lots of cache memory that can handle a few software threads at a time. In contrast, a GPU is composed of hundreds of cores that can handle thousands of threads simultaneously. Recently, Nvidia has launched their TITAN RTX graphic card which the company claims is world’s most powerful GPU.

    The Mighty TITAN

    The Nvidia TITAN RTX has 576 multi-precision Turing Tensor Cores which provide up to 130 teraflops of deep learning performance. It has 72 Turing RT Cores which can deliver up to 11 GigaRays per second of real-time ray-tracing performance. The TITAN RTX has 24 GB of GDDR6 RAM, which according to Nvidia is up to two times faster than previous TITAN GPUs. This high memory storage can be used to fit larger data sets and processing instructions. It has a base clock frequency of 1350 MHz and a boost clock frequency of up to 1770 MHz.

    The new TITAN RTX allows enough power to render 8K video in real time. Additionally, the company has showcased the NVIDIA NVLink that offers 100 GB/s transfer speeds which can be used to pair two RTX GPU’s if the need arises. Out of the box, the GPU also supports Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 10 (64-bit), and Linux 64-bit. To operate, it requires 650 watts of power supply and has a thermal threshold of 89-degree Celsius.

    Ports, Price And Availability

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    • 3 x DisplayPort
    • 1 x HDMI
    • 1 x USB Type-C

    The GPU has a price tag of 2,499 USD (Rs 1,76,000). However, the ‘notify me’ page for the same is already up on the company’s website.

  • NVIDIA Showcases The Power OF RTX Process Using Star Wars

    NVIDIA Showcases The Power OF RTX Process Using Star Wars

    NVIDIA has released a new video, which showcases the potential of real-time ray tracing (RTX) in Unreal Engine. The video is made in collaboration with Epic Games, NVIDIA, and ILMxLAB. Real-time ray tracing is the next big thing, that has happened to film and game makers. The video is based on the scene adopted from Star Wars: The Last Jedi movie. It has been completely made using Unreal 4 engine. This footage was showcased at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

    Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said:

    Ray tracing is a rendering process typically only associated with high-end offline renderers and hours and hours of computer processing time. Film-quality ray tracing in real time is an Unreal Engine first.

    This is an exciting new development for the media and entertainment linear content worlds—and any markets that require photorealistic visualization.

    Findings from the video

    The minute-and-a-half long video showcase the potential of the NVIDIA’s RTX process for a Volta based GPU. The scene begins when two stormtroopers were discussing the elevators condition and how Kylo Ren destroyed an elevator in D-sector using his helmet. Then Captain Plasma (head of stormtroopers) punishes them, by posting them at a discomforting place for speaking about a higher authority.

    For an untrained eye, the video looks completely realistic with real-time shadows and reflections. In fact, it is very difficult to find an element, which can prove otherwise. The level of stunning image quality of highly reflective surfaces and soft shadows looks no different from reality.

    The RTX process is based on the path of light rays and how they bounce off the surface. This method will result in incredible real-life like graphics. It was very intensive to render a scene like this up until now. However, this will change with the NVIDIA RTX.

  • Nvidia Titan V GPU Is Here And It Costs $2999

    Nvidia Titan V GPU Is Here And It Costs $2999

    Nvidia has announced the new Titav V GPU priced at US $2999. The company claims that the Titan V is “the most powerful PC GPU ever created.”

    The Titan V sells for $2,999 and is focused on AI and scientific simulation processing. Nvidia claims 110 teraflops of performance from its 21.1 billion transistors, with 12GB of HBM2 memory, 5120 CUDA cores, and 640 “tensor cores” that are said to offer up to 9x the deep-learning performance of its predecessor.

    Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement:

    Our vision for Volta was to push the outer limits of high performance computing and AI. We broke new ground with its new processor architecture, instructions, numerical formats, memory architecture and processor links. With Titan V, we are putting Volta into the hands of researchers and scientists all over the world. I can’t wait to see their breakthrough discoveries.

    Here are all the specs you need to know about the Titan V:

    Graphics Processing Clusters 6
    Streaming Processors 80
    CUDA Cores 5120
    Texture Units 320
    Base Clock 1200 MHz
    Boost Clock 1455 MHz
    Memory Clock 850 MHz
    L2 Cache Size 1.7 Gbps
    Total Video Memory 12288 MB HBM2
    Transistor Count 21.1 Billion
    Connectors 3 x Displayport, 1 x HDMI
    Form Factor Dual Slot

    With lots of big titles expected to be launched in 2018, this new GPU will add to the gamer rush. If you are willing to splash the cash, then you can buy the Titan V here.

  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Launched At A Starting Price Of Rs 39000

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Launched At A Starting Price Of Rs 39000

    NVIDIA has launched the new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in India and will be available worldwide from the 2nd of November. The starting price of the GPU is Rs 39000 in India.

    The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is packed with 2,432 cores and 8 GB of memory running at 8Gbps for a total bandwidth of 256 GB/s. It delivers double the performance of the famous GeForce GTX 970.

    The base clock speed of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is 1607 MHz. The typical Boost Clock speed is 1683 MHz. The Boost Clock speed is based on the average GeForce GTX 1070 Ti card running a wide variety of games and applications. Note that the actual Boost Clock will vary from game-to-game depending on actual system conditions. GeForce GTX 1070 Ti’s memory speed is 8 Gbps data rate. The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti reference board measures 10.5” in length. Display outputs include one HDMI, one DVI and three DisplayPort connectors. One 8-pin PCIe power connector is required for operation.

    GeForce GTX 1070 Ti-based graphics cards will begin shipping November 2 from the NVIDIA GeForce Partner Network, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac.

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