graphics cards Latest news (6)

Conrad Hazi, 20 March 2020, 11:18

Microsoft has presented the latest version of its graphics library - DirectX 12 Ultimate. The novelties, which the company boast about, mainly concern DirectX ray tracing, which received version 1.1. Its operation can be seen in the attached demos.

Bart Swiatek, 13 March 2020, 11:15

An entry in the EEC (Eurasian Economic Union) database suggests that Nvidia is planning to improve the specifications of the GeForce RTX 2060, and more specifically, to add two additional gigabytes of VRAM.

Bart Swiatek, 12 March 2020, 15:41

There have been further leaks concerning new Nvidia graphics cards, based on the Ampere architecture. According to these reports, all GPUs in the series are expected to offer hardware ray tracing acceleration. Support for this technology will also be significantly improved over the Turing line.

Frozen, 07 March 2020, 21:22

AMD has decided to change cooling in the new generation 2 RDNA-based graphics cards. Things are to become quieter and much cooler from now on.

Bart Swiatek, 02 March 2020, 11:51

New models of Nvidia GPU have appeared in Geekbench database. Both chipsets performed better in the benchmark than GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. We're most likely dealing with Quadro GPUs (not for gamers), but top gaming products from Nvidia may have similar specs.

Paul Wozniak, 29 February 2020, 22:25

The new version of Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition (20.2.2) drivers fixes some of the problems recently faced by AMD GPU users. Unfortunately, freezing can still occur in some cases.

Bart Swiatek, 25 February 2020, 15:04

A recnet leak revealed the specs of the new AMD graphics card - Radeon RX 5950 XT. The chipset may have twice the performance of last year's 5700 XT, as well as 24 gigabytes of super-fast HBM2e memory.

Paul Wozniak, 25 February 2020, 11:53

Nvidia has released the official unboxing of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Cyberpunk 2077 Edition. The device will only appear in 77 copies and is only available through a competition organized by the company.

Jacob Blazewicz, 20 February 2020, 17:47

German hardware analyst Igor Wallossek obtained information about new Nvidia graphics cards. According to the expert, there is a possibility that earlier rumours of a 50% increase in performance will prove to be true.

Bart Swiatek, 18 February 2020, 10:42

Jensen Huang, President of Nvidia, believes that gaming laptops equipped with the company's technology will be the most popular „game consoles” on the market.

Mateusz Wrobel, 17 February 2020, 22:20

Nvidia presented the rumored custom GPU. New edition of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, called Cyberpunk 2077 Edition from Nvidia was created thanks to cooperation with CD Projekt Red.

Bart Swiatek, 17 February 2020, 13:00

A Twitter conversation between CD Projekt RED and Nvidia suggests that the latter may launch a collector's edition of one of its GPU models, associated with Cyberpunk 2077. The most probable candidate seems to be... GeForce RTX 2077.

Bart Swiatek, 14 February 2020, 13:33

AMD can't handle eliminating problems with the drivers for its GPU. Many users report bugs resulting in e.g. PCs crashing.

Bart Swiatek, 10 February 2020, 13:14

Mentions in the source code of the latest beta version of the MacOS suggest that new computers from Apple may use AMD components. This applies to both graphics cards and CPUs.

Bart Swiatek, 04 February 2020, 19:38

First benchmarks of the Intel Xe line GPUs have appeared on the web. The results of some tests suggest that dedicated Intel GPU, the DG1, may be up to 40% faster than AMD's mobile solutions. In other tests, Intel's graphics card is performing noticeably worse than competitive solutions.

Konrad Serafinski, 01 February 2020, 21:40

VideoCardz reports that AMD brings back Raise The Game sets. If you buy any of the manufacturer's GPU in the near future, you will receive a set of games as a gift, including - depending on the model - Resident Evil 3, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne and/or Warcraft III: Reforged.

Conrad Hazi, 26 January 2020, 19:59

AMD caused a lot of commotion by updating the vBIOS of Radeon RX 5600 XTs at the last minute. This decision was probably dictated by the moves of the competitors, but, as MSI claims, not every card can be made to work with higher parameters than those described before the changes.

Frozen, 25 January 2020, 23:52

Radeon owners should update their graphics card drivers as soon as possible. AMD Adrenalin 20.1.1, although not mentioned in the manufacturer's list of changes, addresses four major security gaps.

Bart Woldanski, 22 January 2020, 11:04

The launch of the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card is behind us. On this occasion, there wasa flood of reviews on the web. It shows that we are dealing with a very solid and well-priced equipment, which can become a good choice for Full HD resolution.

Bart Swiatek, 21 January 2020, 14:53

More unconfirmed information about new graphics cards from Nvidia, based on the Ampere GeForce RTX 3080 and 3070 architecture, has been released online.

Paul Wozniak, 18 January 2020, 17:40

According to HKEPC, the latest GPU from AMD, Radeon RX 5600 XT, should appear on the market with slightly better specs. Its timing and memory speed has been increased. This is probably an answer to Nvidia's reduction of GeForce RTX 2060's price.

Bart Swiatek, 17 January 2020, 13:38

Nvidia has decided to lower the price of the reference model of GeForce RTX 2060, which means custom designs will get cheaper as well. Nvidia's move is related to the upcoming release of the competing Radeon RX 5600 XT.

Bart Swiatek, 15 January 2020, 12:24

The names of several new graphics cards from AMD have appeared in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEC) database. These are the Radeon models RX 5950 XT, RX 5950, RX 5900 and RX 5800. The entries most likely concern the so-called „big Navi”, i.e. chipsets prepared for gaming enthusiasts.

Bart Swiatek, 10 January 2020, 14:19

Intel presented photos of its first design based on the Xe architecture. The company also provided some information about the individual model that will go on the market.

Bart Swiatek, 10 January 2020, 10:55

There is an entry in the OpenVR database that may represent a new gaming GPU from AMD - the so-called „big Navi”. It's 17% faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

Bart Swiatek, 08 January 2020, 11:53

It looks like Nvidia is planning to lower the price of GeForce RTX 2060, the weakest Turing-based chipset that supports ray tracing. The move will most likely be the answer to the January launch of Radeon RX 5600 XT.

Bart Swiatek, 08 January 2020, 11:18

The head of AMD, Dr. Lisa Su, gave an interview to the journalists of AnandTech. During the conversation, a thread of AMD's ray-tracing GPU appeared. The company is working on a new, powerful graphics card supporting this technology, which should appear on the market later this year.

Conrad Hazi, 07 January 2020, 14:09

During the presentation at CES 2020, Intel did not show too many products that may be of interest to gamers. However, some progress was made in the development of Xe graphics cards - we could see some of their capabilities.

Laty, 07 January 2020, 13:17

During the conference, which took place at CES 2020, AMD presented, among other things, new models of Ryzen 4000 and Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU. We also saw the world's first 64-core CPU from AMD, Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

Bart Swiatek, 03 January 2020, 10:26

According to the Taipei Times, Nvidia Ampere graphics cards can deliver up to 50% increase of performance of Turings, while consuming two times less power. All thanks to the improvements and the use of 7nm lithography.

Bart Swiatek, 30 December 2019, 12:13

We have learned the specs of the new GPU from AMD, the Radeon RX 5600 XT. The design will resemble the more powerful RX 5700 in several aspects, which can translate into performance above industry expectations.

Adrian Werner, 29 December 2019, 17:59

According to analysts, graphics card prices may increase next year. One reason for this will be the increased demand for GDDR6 memory due to the launch of Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.

Bart Woldanski, 27 December 2019, 11:55

Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, made it clear at GTC China 2019 that the GeForce RTX 2080 is more efficient than the chipset installed in next-gen consoles that will debut in late 2020.

Bart Woldanski, 12 December 2019, 21:48

Today was the official launch of AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU. It is the answer to the recently released Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super. The first reviews have appeared on the web and show that while the card is not bad, it is also not among the cheapest.

Laty, 11 December 2019, 22:48

AMD has recently released a new version of the software for Radeon GPU. The update brings a lot of new features and improves performance. In addition, we have received a number of add-ons improving gameplay.

Laty, 10 December 2019, 15:48

Nvidia has patented a new GPU line called Hopper. We might have just learned of the successor of Ampere series, which has not yet had its offcial launch.

Bart Swiatek, 05 December 2019, 14:30

Colette Kress, CFO of Nvidia, stated at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference 2019 that two-thirds of the GPUs currently sold by Nvidia support ray-tracing technology.

Bart Swiatek, 03 December 2019, 20:32

Valve has published another edition of Steam's hardware and software survey. In November, AMD increased its market share for both CPUs and graphics cards.

Bart Swiatek, 27 November 2019, 20:50

In the third quarter of this year, Nvidia's GPU enjoyed greater popularity than the products of the competitive AMD. The former can boast a market share of 72.95%, which is 5% more than in the previous three months.

Laty, 22 November 2019, 23:20

GeForce GTX 1650 Super, which launches today, has been put to the test for the first time. Nvidia made a successful lifting and brilliantly filled the gap in the middle segment of graphics cards.

Bart Woldanski, 22 November 2019, 13:38

First benchmarks of AMD Radeon RX 5500 GPU appeared on the web. The chipset tested by the German website Heise online was in the OEM version, designed for ready-made computer sets. The results were presented compared to Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 1660.

Laty, 21 November 2019, 12:07

First unconfirmed information about the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super appeared on Twitter. The presentation of the new graphic card with its powerful guts may take place at the beginning of next year.

Laty, 20 November 2019, 16:04

The first unconfirmed information about new Navi GPUs being created by AMD has appeared in the web. The chipsets are to have, among others, a very fast HBM2E memory and hardware ray-tracing support.

Bart Swiatek, 18 November 2019, 14:09

Jen-Hsun „Jensen” Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said in a press interview that the handling of ray-tracing in next-generation consoles is indirectly due to his company.

Jacob Blazewicz, 13 November 2019, 22:59

Crytek has released Neon Noir, a free benchmark for ray-tracing testing. Application based on the demo from GDC 2019 enables us to check this technology on popular graphics cards.

Bart Woldanski, 12 November 2019, 13:47

Recent leaks suggest that Nvidia is about to officially introduce the Ampere chipset in March next year at the GTC (GPU Technology Conference). A few months later, GeForce RTX 3070 and 3080 (Ti) graphics cards are to debut at Computex.

Jacob Blazewicz, 04 November 2019, 23:42

Nvidia has released an article on recommended graphics cards for Red Dead Redemption 2. It turns out that even a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is not enough to get a constant 60 frames per second if you want to play in 4K on high settings, not to mention Ultra.

Agnes Adamus, 28 October 2019, 11:35

Two new graphics cards coming in from Nvidia. The specs of GeForce GTX 1660 Super and GeForce GTX 1650 Super GPUs are now available on the web. New cards will hit the store shelves this year.

Paul Wozniak, 27 October 2019, 00:06

Intel CEO Bob Swan announced that the company has powered up and launched a GPU using the Xe architecture for the first time. However, we do not know how the device performed in tests, but Intel has already announced that in 2021 we will see 7 nm GPUs on the market.

Bart Swiatek, 18 October 2019, 10:18

Both data from online shops and industry websites, as well as financial results of Tul, owner of PowerColor, show that AMD Radeon RX 5700 family GPU are very popular among the customers.