More Nvidia RTX Ampere details show up
Earlier pictures might be real as Nvidia hunts for the leak
There were a couple of leaks of Nvidia's upcoming RTX Ampere lineup during the weekend, and it appears these could be real as Nvidia is now hunting for the leak. In the meantime, we now have a bit more information about the upcoming lineup.
AMD and Nvidia have little to fear from Intel's DG1
No great shakes after all
Intel's crack at a discrete GPU Xe DG1 graphics card has been spotted in a 3DMark benchmark and scored 5,538 in 3DMark’s Fire Strike test (paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K processor) and hit a graphics score of 5,960.
Nvidia Geforce NOW takes a different approach with publishers
Big cleanup possible as of May 31st
Nvidia is has decided to adopt a new Geforce NOW approach for publishers and while the service has been used by millions of gamers around the world and has over 200 publishers on board, things might change on May 31st.
Nvidia rolls out Geforce 446.14 WHQL driver
Game Ready driver for Valorant and DirectX 12 Ultimate
Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 446.14 WHQL driver which brings both support for some new and upcoming games as well as the new Windows 10 May 2020 update with DirectX 12 Ultimate.
Nvidia trains Pacman to beat Pacman
Army of AI managed it
Nvidia built an army of AI routines, dubbed GameGAN (short for "generative adversarial networks"), trained to build a playable Pacman game from scratch.
Next-gen consumer GPUs rumored to launch in September
From both Nvidia and AMD
According to a report from Digitimes, next-gen consumer graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD could launch in September.
Nvidia surprises Wall Street
Data centres prop up second quarter
Nvidia forecast second-quarter revenue above analysts’ estimates, as demand surges for its chips used in the data centres that power the shift to working remotely because of the new coronavirus outbreak.
Nvidia launches Mellanox ConnectX-6Lx SmartNIC
To meet growth in enterprise and cloud scale-out workloads.
ConnectX-6 Lx, the 11th generation product in the ConnectX family, is designed to meet the needs of modern data centers, where 25Gb/s connections are becoming standard for handling demanding workflows, such as enterprise applications, AI and real-time analytics.
Nvidia DGX A100 AI System runs on AMD EPYC Rome CPU
Two AMD EPYC 7742 64-core/128-thread CPUs
At its digital GPU Technology Conference 2020 which kicked off today, Nvidia officially announced the new Amper architecture based GA100 GPU, including the A100 Tensor Core GPU which will be a part of the DGX A100 AI System, and it appears that that same system will be powered by none other than two AMD EPYC CPUs.
Nvidia unveils the A100 Tensor Core GPU
GPU compute beast for DGX A100 AI system
The focus of the GTC 2020 was Nvidia's new A100 Tensor Core GPU, which is based on the new Ampere architecture GA100 GPU, and will be a part of Nvidia's new DGX A100 AI system. As a direct successor of the V100 accelerator, the A100 will bring both significant compute performance improvements and new features.