Nvidia unveils RTX raytracing technology at GDC 2018
Teams up with Epic, Remedy, and others for some impressive tech demos
While it was already clear that there won't be any new graphics cards announced from Nvidia at the Game Developers Conference 2018, held this week in San Francisco, Nvidia did reveal some interesting stuff, including its Nvidia RTX Technology for real time raytracing and the new Gameworks SDK modules for raytracing.
Futuremark shows DirectX Raytracing tech demo at GDC 2018
Says DXR benchmark is coming
Following Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing (DXR) announcement, Futuremark has unveiled its new DXR tech demo at the Game Developers Conference held in San Francisco, showing a first glimpse of what can be achieved with Microsoft's latest DirectX 12 feature.
Nvidia releases Geforce 391.24 WHQL driver
Support for Sea of Thieves and bunch of bug fixes
Nvidia has released its newest Geforce 391.24 WHQL graphics card driver which brings optimizations for the Sea of Thieves game as well as fixes a bunch of bugs seen with the earlier driver releases.
AMD cuts some Ryzen and Threadripper CPU prices
Ahead of Pinnacle Ridge launch
Ahead of the rumored launch of its second-generation Ryzen CPUs next month, AMD has announced a price cut for some of its current Ryzen-desktop and Ryzen Threadripper processors.
AMD rolls out Radeon Software 18.3.3 driver
One to have for Sea of Thieves and A Way Out
AMD has released its newest Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.3.3 driver update which brings support for Sea of Thieves and A Way Out games, support for Vulkan 1.1, as well as fixing a couple of bugs.
Kingston expands its HyperX Fury and Impact DDR4 memory lineup
Reaching frequencies of up to 3,466MHz
Kingston has announced that it has expanded both the Fury desktop and Impact mobile DDR4 memory lineup with frequencies now reaching up to 3,466MHz for the desktop and 3,200MHz for the mobile lineup.
ASRock teases new Phantom graphics card lineup
It is not about crypto mining after all
ASRock has released a teaser video for its upcoming Phantom Gaming graphics card lineup, which confirms that the motherboard maker is going after the gaming market rather than the crypto mining one.
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X shows up briefly on Amazon.de
Said it should ship on April 19th
German Amazon has leaked one of the AMD's upcoming Pinnacle Ridge CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600X, with the shipping date set for April 19th.
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 7 2700X spotted in Geekbench
Higher-clock and higher scores
Both the upcoming Ryzen 5 2600X and the Ryzen 7 2700X have been spotted in the Geekbench database, revealing most of the details about these two upcoming Ryzen 2000 series CPUs based on 12nm Zen+ CPU architecture.
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ officially launched
Higher clock, much better connectivity and the same price
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has made the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ official during the official Pi day yesterday and the new model comes with the same, but improved Broadcom SoC with higher 1.4GHz clock, much better connectivity with dual-band WiFi and faster Ethernet, and the same price of $35.