Video Cards & GPUs News - Page 145
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 teased for Q2 2022, faster than GTX 1660 SUPER
NVIDIA is reportedly hearing up for the launch of the lower-end GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card in Q2 2022 according to the same rumors.
The rumors are coming from the same source that first broke that NVIDIA is working on a new GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, while in between we've been hearing plenty of rumors about the new mobile-focused GeForce RTX 3050 Ti.
VideoCardz is reporting that the non-Ti desktop GeForce RTX 3050 should come with 8GB of memory, but this could change -- we could see a 4GB variant as well. As for performance, NVIDIA's purported GeForce RTX 3050 would be faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER but slower than the GeForce RTX 2060 12GB (which isn't here yet).
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Intel 4th Gen Arc 'Druid' GPU teased for 2025, fights RTX 6090 SUPER
Intel has laid out its GPU roadmap right into 2025 and beyond, with what will start with the Intel 1st Gen Arc "Alchemist" GPU launching in Q2 2022 for the desktop and Q1 2022 for mobile.
But in a few years, we're going to see the Intel 4th Gen Arc "Druid" GPU arrive and that should be sometime in 2025. In a new tweet, Intel Arc Community Advocate and Driver Guru, @theBryceIsRt, replied to @Freeman2352 who joked and tweeted "2025: RTX 6090 Super | 800W".
Bryce replied, tweeting: "If all goes well, that could be when Intel ARC 'Druid' cards comes out" and ends it with adding "game on" with a controller emoticon and nice little wink tease. Interestingly, he used "ARC" in all caps which was recently noted to be "Arc" without the all-caps -- OCD to the side, the 4th Gen Arc "Druid" GPU should drop in 2025 which isn't tooooo far away.
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AMD launches Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled Edition costs $2000
AMD has unleashed its highest-end Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled Edition graphics card for the DIY market in Europe.
The Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled Edition graphics card sees AMD using a pre-binned Navi 21 XTXH GPU, with some of the very highest RDNA 2 GPU clocks in the wild. AMD explains: "AMD will be making a limited number of Radeon RX 6900 XT liquid-cooled reference design graphics cards available to select system integrators".
"System integrators are a critical part of the gaming ecosystem and offering this model through their channels helps ensure that as many of these products as possible get into gamers hands".
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AMD GPU shipments decline in Q3 2021, NVIDIA pumps up GPU shipments
GPU shipments are a bit funny right now and we all know it, with analyst firm JPR (Jon Peddie Research) posting a new report that details the global GPU market has hit a milestone of 101 million units in Q3 2021 alone.
JPR also notes that GPU shipments increased by 9% year-over-year while discrete GPU numbers inside of PCs is expected to hit 31% over the next 5 years leading up to 3.24 billion GPUs by the end of 2025. AMD had its GPU market share increase by 1.4% in the three-month period, while NVIDIA GPU market share increased by 4.86% in the same quarter.
AMD GPU shipments dropped by a decent chunk, by 11.4% in Q3 2021 while NVIDIA had its GPU shipments increased by 8% for the quarter. The latest numbers have AMD with 17% of the discrete GPU shipment market share, and NVIDIA with 83% of the dGPU shipment market share.
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AMD swindles 10% more $$$ from AIBs for Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs
The price of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs is about to be a little worse, with AMD reportedly ramping up prices of its RDNA 2 cards by 10%.
AMD's increased pricing on Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs is reportedly starting with the next batch of GPU shipments from AMD to its AIB (add-in board) partners. We should expect the new pricing to be reflected online and in-store in the coming weeks, right as we lead into the holidays.
There was a 9% increase in pricing of AMD's new Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs in November 2021 over October 2021, and now we have another 10% increase moving into December. TSMC wafer costs increasing are being blamed, so AMD has got no other move to make other than take the hit -- which isn't nice -- or boost pricing (also not nice).
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NVIDIA launches RTX A4500 workstation GPU: 7168 CUDA cores, 20GB GDDR6
NVIDIA has just announced its new RTX A4500 workstation GPU, which uses the GA102 GPU with 7168 CUDA cores and 20GB of GDDR6 memory.
The introduction of the new NVIDIA RTX A4500 workstation GPU offers its 7168 CUDA cores alongside 224 Tensor Cores, and 20GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 16Gbps on a 320-bit memory bus which will deliver up to 640GB/sec of memory bandwidth.
NVIDIA says the new RTX A4500 workstation GPU will have 23.7 TFLOPs of FP32 compute performance, while it has 46.2 TFLOPs of RT performance. NVIDIA's new RTX A4500 workstation GPU has a 200W TDP, which is 15% lower than the RTX A5000 and 17% slower.
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Modder beats NVIDIA to the punch: puts 12GB memory on GeForce RTX 2060
NVIDIA is reportedly preparing a beefed-up GeForce RTX 2060 release in January 2022, which will see the card be released with 12GB of VRAM -- an upgrade from the 6GB of RAM by default.
But before its announcement or release, Russian YouTuber and modder VIK-on has upgraded his GeForce RTX 2060 6GB to a GeForce RTX 2060 12GB. The original GeForce RTX 2060 launched with the cut-down Turing-based TU106 GPU, rocking 1920 CUDA cores, and 6GB of GDDR5 memory on a 192-bit memory bus, clocked at 14Gbps.
NVIDIA is expected to make the GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB official on December 7, with VIK-on testing the modded RTX 2060 with 12GB of VRAM in crypto mining and Unigine Superposition at first with roughly the same performance as the 6GB model -- duh. We should expect more official news and benchmarks in the coming weeks.
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GALAX RTX 3060 Metaltop Mini [FG] announced: Mini-ITX GPU for HTPCs
GALAX has just introduced the new GeForce RTX 3060 Metaltop Mini [FG] graphics card, a new GeForce RTX 3060-based graphics card on the super-small Mini-ITX form factor.
The new GALAX GeForce RTX 3060 Metaltop Mini [FG] graphics card rocks a single-fan design, while the "FG" in the name stands for "For Gamers". GALAX thinks by adding "FG" and it being "For Gamers" that the big bad crypto miners won't buy these... hah.
As for the measurements, we're looking at the card measuring in at just 16.8cm in length, 11.6cm in width, and 4cm in height. The single-fan design means it is nice and small and supports 0dB technology which means the single fan will disable when the GPU load is low enough (not gaming).
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Resident Evil 4 Mercenaries DLC coming to Quest next year
Meta today announced that the Mercenaries DLC package for Resident Evil 4 is officially in development for the Meta Quest. Along with that announcement, the company revealed that RE4 is the fastest-selling game on the platform. It's almost as if people really want AAA games in VR.
Capcom and Oculus (now Meta) released the Quest version of Resident Evil 4 on October 21st, and in just over a month, the game has become the fastest-selling title in the Quest platform's history. Meta has never released sales numbers for any of its headsets or games, but we know several titles have made millions of dollars in profits. Resident Evil isn't likely in the top-selling ranks yet, but it will be if the high sales volume continues. Beat Saber and Population: One have big head starts, though.
To keep the excitement about RE4 VR going, Capcom is working on a DLC expansion for the Quest title. The Mercenaries expansion will launch next year and let you experience more of Resident Evil in terrifying first-person VR. The Mercenaries expansion adds a hoard-mode experience to the game, where you need to fight off a never-ending hoard of Ganados until your rescue helicopter arrives.
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AMD: yeah, the Radeon RX 6500M, Radeon RX 6300M have our Navi 24 GPU
AMD has a couple of new graphics cards are coming: the Radeon RX 6500M and Radeon RX 6300M, which will both feature the Navi 24 GPU.
We have heard about the Navi 24-powered GPUs before from Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead, with the entry-level Navi 24 GPU taking care of at least 6 new graphics cards from AMD. We should see the Radeon PRO W6500M, Radeon PRO 6300M, and then gaming SKUs in the Radeon RX 6500M and Radeon RX 6300M.
These 4 graphics cards are expected to join the already-known Radeon RX 6500 XT and Radeon RX 6400 series desktop graphics cards -- also powered by the same Navi 24 GPU. What we do know about the Navi 24 GPU is that it has a PCI Device ID of 7420-743F which has been spotted in Linux kernel/driver leaks previously.
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