Nvidia reaches chip deal with Samsung
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Tuesday, 02 July 2019 12:04

Nvidia reaches chip deal with Samsung


Will produce next-generation chips

Nvidia has confirmed it is going to rely on Samsung Electronics to produce next-generation GPUs and has signed a foundry cooperation agreement with the world’s largest chipmaker.

Nvidia RTX Super series confirmed for July 2nd
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RTX 2080 Super and custom cards come at a later date

Nvidia has confirmed the announcement and NDA dates of its Geforce RTX Super series graphics cards and according to an online report, the RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super will launch on July 2nd, while RTX 2080 Super comes later in July.

Volvo Group picks Nvidia for its self-driving industry AI vehicles
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Big deal for Nvidia

The Volvo Group has announced it will be using Nvidia's Drive end-to-end autonomous driving platform for training, testing, and deployment of self-driving vehicles, aiming at public transport, freight transport, refuse and recycling collection, construction, mining, forestry, and other industries.

Nvidia works with Arm on supercomputers
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Accelerator chips will work with Arm processors by the end of the year.

The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia said it would make its chips work with processors from Arm to build supercomputers.

More games hop on Nvidia Ray Tracing train
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Including Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs: Legion, COD: Modern Warfare, and more

Nvidia was quite keen to announce that some of the big AAA game titles like Cyberpunk 2070 and Watch Dogs: Legion will be ray traced with CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 as one of the biggest names around.

Nvidia preparing Super Turing RTX refresh
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RTX 2080, 2070 and 2060 to get a more CUDA cores, faster memory

According to fresh leaks, it appears that Nvidia will launch a full refresh of its RTX series in mid-July, giving all cards a slight bump in CUDA core count as well as more or faster 16Gbps memory in some cases.

Radeon 5700 Navi doesn’t have Ray tracing
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A different angle look

The Navi paper-launched when I was still in sunny Tuscany taking a break from the tech, but here are some of the things that have caught my attention. No Ray tracing, no high end, and only performance/mainstream, not much benefit from 7nm, and nine months late to fight 2070 are just a part of it.

AMD gains in shrinking market
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Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:20

AMD gains in shrinking market


Gaining at Nvidia's expense

Research from Jon Peddie Research on the GPUs used in PCs shows that AMD managed a 21 percent gain in desktop discrete GPU shipments in the first quarter.

Nvidia announces EGX
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Monday, 27 May 2019 13:06

Nvidia announces EGX


Low latency AI on the Edge

The graphics card maker named after a Roman vengeance Daemon, Nvidia, has announced an accelerated computing platform that enables companies to perform low-latency AI at the edge.

Nvidia shrinks Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware
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Can fit under the bonnet of a laptop

The graphics card maker named after a Roman vengeance Daemon, Nvidia has shrunk its Quadro RTX 5000 graphics hardware to fit it into a laptop.