Radeon 5700 Navi doesn’t have Ray tracing
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
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
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
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.
Nvidia teases something “super”
Could be anything
Nvidia is beginning to tease an announcement of something “super” ahead of Computex.
Huawei ban hurts US tech too
Intel, Qualcomm, Google, Microsoft
The four above are just the tip of the iceberg and probably the companies that will most suffer from the ban, but ISV like Adobe, antivirus makers, any US-based software maker on Android or Windows selling to Huawei will be affected too.
Nvidia revenue forecast beats expectations
Gaming chip demand rises as revenue fall
The maker of graphics chips named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia, has surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with some better than expected revenue forecasts.
Nvidia releases Geforce 430.64 graphics driver
Day-one support for games and performance improvements
Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 430.64 graphics driver which brings day-one support for RAGE 2 and Total War: Three Kingdoms games, increases Vulkan performance in World War Z game, and brings some bug fixes and SLI profiles.
Raja Koduri announces OneAPI launch in Q4 19
28X improvement in deep leering
It is easy to forget about the software behind the hardware that everyone gets excited about, but without drivers, OS, and general API support, there would not be any platform.
Raja points out Nvidia and AMD datacenter weakness
GPU only strategy, or tiny software ecosystem
As a part of its software update and a One API strategy announcement Raja Koduri, the SVP of Intel architecture, graphics and software took time to mention two main competitors and used green for the company that has a GPU centric strategy and red for the company that has both a CPU and GPU.