Graphics Cards - Page 137

Intel has teased its very future-gen Arc Celestial GPU, its 3rd Gen Arc discrete GPU codenamed Celestial will enter the "Ultra Enthusiast" segment in 2024+.

The company revealed the plans of its next-gen Arc Battlemage for 2023-2024, and then its next-next-gen Arc Celestial for 2024+. Intel's first-gen Arc Alchemist GPU will be offered in multiple SKUs that will handle the Entry, Mainstream, Performance, and Enthusiast segments.

Intel's next-gen Arc Battlemage will handle everything and then reach the new Ultra Enthusiast segment, while in 2024 and beyond we'll have Arc Celestial that will burst through that Ultra Enthusiast.

Intel's upcoming Arc Alchemist is still a few months away and while it'll use the new DG2 GPU, the DG1 GPU is being put to --- well, I wouldn't say "good use" but more like some use -- by Chinese company GUNNIR.

The new GUNNIR Iris Xe MAX Index V2 is the "flagship" one of the DG1 GPU bunch, which has been joined by the Iris Xe Index V2 and then the DG1 low-profile. The cost isn't too high at all, with the highest-end DG1-based GPU costing around $110 while the low-profile model is $90.

GUNNIR's new Iris Xe MAX Index V2 graphics card includes 96 EUs (768 shading units) and a GPU boost clock of up to 1.65Hz. There's 4GB of LPDDR4X memory clocked at 4.2Gbps on a 128-bit memory bus that is capable of just 68GB/sec. You won't be playing Crysis or Cyberpunk 2077 on this graphics card, that's for sure.

AMD has pushed out its new Radeon Adrenalin 22.2.2 drivers which have some pretty damn good performance increases in a bunch of games, as well as support for Total War: Warhammer III.

The performance improvements come from AMD Smart Access Memory (SAM) technology, where if you've got a newer Ryzen GPU and play Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Battlefield 5, Borderlands 3, F1 2021, Gears 5, Fortnite, and Cyberpunk 2077.

You've got up to 24% more performance in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla @ 1080p Ultra High settings when using an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with the new driver, versus the previous 22.2.1 driver. In something like Borderlands 3 you can enjoy up to 18% more performance with the Ryzen 9 5900HX and SAM enabled in Borderlands 3 @ 1080p Badass settings.

SK hynix has just announced a next-generation memory chip with onboard computing capabilities, with the introduction of GDDR6-AiM (Accelerator In Memory).

The company revealed its first sample of GDDR6-AiM memory clocked at 16Gbps at ISSCC (The International Solid-State Circuits Conference) which is being hosted virtually between February 20-24. GDDR6-AiM does things differently by adding computational functions to the GDDR6 memory chips, where GDDR6-AiM and a CPU or GPU -- instead of regular DRAM -- will speed up computational speed by up to 16x.

SK hynix is aiming its new GDDR6-AiM memory for machine learning, high-performance computing (HPC), big data computation and storage. GDDR6-AiM is at 1.25V, lower than the 1.35V on GDDR6 -- but then PIM reduces data movement to the CPU + GPU -- reducing power consumption by a huge 80%.

NVIDIA's new flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is nowhere to be seen, now a month since I exclusively revealed to the world that NVIDIA had ordered AIB partners to "halt production" of the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.

It's still not here... and no one knows why.

The Verge spoke with NVIDIA UK staffer Jen Andersson, who at least had some words to say... versus the total silence every single other person who works for NVIDIA. Andersson said: "We don't currently have more info to share on the RTX 3090 Ti, but we'll be in touch when we do". I'll tell you: this is more BS, kicking that can (of Whoop Ass) down the road a little.

NVIDIA has released its new GeForce Game Ready 511.79 WHQL drivers, which offer the best day one experience for new games including Elden Ring, GRID Legends, Total War: Warhammer III, and Martha is Dead.

The new drivers also pack support for the latest updates in games including Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, and iRacing which now includes NVIDIA Reflex support. The new NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 511.79 WHQL drivers also include support for NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPUs.

You can download the new NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 511.79 WHQL drivers here (768MB download).

NVIDIA has launched its new entry-level Ampere GPU with two variants, with the GeForce RTX 3050 8GB graphics card arriving soon with a more efficient GPU.

The current GeForce RTX 3050 8GB graphics cards on the market, including the two I've reviewed here on TweakTown with the EVGA and MSI RTX 3050 8GB cards, is the GA106-150 GPU. This is a cut-down version of the full GA106 GPU, with 2560 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit memory bus.

But the new GeForce RTX 3050 8GB graphics card will feature the GA107 GPU, something that was rumored a few months ago now. But why is NVIDIA pushing out the new GA107-based RTX 3050 8GB? Well, the new GA107 is more energy-efficient with a 115W TBP compared to the 130W TBP on the GA106-based RTX 3050 8GB.

Intel is preparing for a new mobile GPU with development kicking off in the UK, and Team Blue posting a new job listing looking for hardware design engineers for its new energy-efficient GPUs for mobile devices of the future.

The company has posted a new job listing on their career section, seeking out a new Senior Hardware Design Engineer.

In an excerpt from the Sr. HW Design Engineer job description in the Intel Xe Architecture and IP Engineering (XAE) Low Power Group, it explains: "We are building a brand-new team in the UK to focus solely on class-leading low power GPU architectures and designs to enable the next generation of portable computing. This requires proven skills in a range of engineering disciplines from architecture, hardware design, software driver design all with low power as the key focus".

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card is nowhere to be seen, now may be coming out at some point in the future -- possibly, (call me) maybe -- who the hell knows. But the PCB has reportedly been spotted, at least for NVIDIA's own GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition.

In a new filing listing with the Eurasian Economic Commission, there is the "PG136C" PCB which should be for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition. NVIDIA uses the PG136 or PG132 PCB reference board designs for the GeForce RTX 3090 -- PG136 is for the RTX 3090 Founders Edition, while PG132 is the reference board for AIB partners and their custom RTX 3090s -- and there's a big difference.

PG136 has the awesome, smaller V-shaped PCB design that's used on NVIDIA's own GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition, rocking the exclusive (and much smaller) 12-pin PCIe power connector. PG132 on the other hand is available with only dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors (and some custom RTX 3090s have triple 8-pin PCIe power connectors).

ASUS is working on its new flock of GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards, with the flagship ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Liquid Cooled Edition.

It looks like ASUS will have three different GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards, with the flagship ROG Strix LC RTX 3090 Ti, and then two variants of the TUF Gaming RTX 3090 Ti. ASUS will have the TUF Gaming RTX 3090 Ti OC which is factory overclocked, and the TUF Gaming RTX 3090 Ti.

We're looking at the following models, and also the following eye-watering prices for the ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards:

Palit's new flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GameRock series of GPUs has been teased on their own website -- well, at least their Turkish website -- with the flagship Palit GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GameRock OC graphics card.

The new Palit GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GameRock OC graphics card was spotted alongside the non-OC regular GameRock edition on Palit's official Turkish website. They've been removed since, but they were kept thanks to Google web cache.

VideoCardz reports that Palit's upcoming flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GameRock OC graphics card will have 1890MHz GPU boost -- 30MHz above the RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition from NVIDIA -- and 10W higher than the reference RTX 3090 Ti specs.

AMD will be spitting out its refreshed RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6950 XT graphics card in the coming months, with new rumors suggesting GPU clocks will be over 2.5GHz.

The new rumors for the AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT graphic card are coming from Greymon55 on Twitter, where he said that the RX 6950 XT boost "seems to be over 2.5GHz". This is 250MHz higher than the air-cooled RX 6900 XT and around 65MHz faster than the RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled Edition.

AMD's air-cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT rocks the Navi 21 XTX GPU while the liquid-cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT and some of the custom RX 6900 XTs from AIB partners use the higher-binned Navi 21 XTXH GPU. The new Radeon RX 6950 XT should also use the Navi 21 XTXH GPU but with even higher clocks (2.5GHz+) and faster GDDR6 memory.

NVIDIA teased us with the new monster flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti reveal at CES 2022, but then nothing... literally nothing since.

I exclusively revealed production issues on January 14, where an industry source of mine told me that NVIDIA demanded that AIB partners "halt production" on the new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, and we still don't know why. That doesn't mean that AIB partners are sitting around on their hands, they could've made a few... or they'd at least know what the coolers will look like, as they're sitting around doing nothing without GPUs and VRAM underneath.

Even though there's a GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 Ti EX Gamer teased in Vietnamese retailer Minh An Computer, with a pre-order listing price of 86,990,000 VND which works out to around $3840. That's a lot of Benjamins, but hey... what did you expect for a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24GB graphics card? I think we'll see the price even higher than this, and not many on the market at all... if NVIDIA ever gets around to releasing it.

NVIDIA is going to be one of, if not the biggest GPU ever made when it unleashes its next-gen Hopper GPU architecture -- with fresh rumors teasing it rocks a Godzilla-sized 140 billion transistors -- 2.6x the transistors of the Ampere-based GA100 GPU.

The new rumors are coming from Chiphell, which states one of the flagship NVIDIA Hopper GPUs will have a huge 140 billion transistors, and be made on TSMC 5nm. We might see a monster monolithic design in the GH100 -- but also a multi-chip module (MCM) design in the GH102 -- with 140 billion transistors somewhere in the 5nm mix.

NVIDIA's new Hopper GPU architecture whether it be in monolithic or MCM GPU design, will be going up against AMD's next-gen Aldebaran GPU -- a new MCM-based GPU with up to 128GB of HBM2e memory and on TSMC 6nm -- as well as Intel's upcoming Ponte Vecchio GPU (which will use an Intel 7 base GPU tile, TSMC N7 for Xe-Link, and TSMC N5 for the compute tile) with up to 128GB of HBM2e memory.

AMD's new RDNA 3-based GPU architecture is going to be unleashed later this year, with a new leak coming from an AMD employee who listed some new details on the Navi 3X GPUs coming in the next few years.

We haven't had confirmation on which process nodes that the new RDNA 3 chips will be made on, but the post by the AMD staffer (who is the Principal Member of Technical Staff - Infinity Data Fabric Silicon Design Team) posted some details about his projects in the pipeline that included Navi 31, Navi 32, and Navi 33.

Navi 31 would be on 5nm + 6nm, Navi 32 on 5nm + 6nm, and then Navi 33 on 6nm. The post also includes past and current projects that include Vega 10, Vega 11, Vega 12, Navi 10, Navi 12, Navi 14, Navi 21, Navi 22, and Navi 23 -- all made on 7nm. The AMD employee has also worked on the higher-end workstation-focused Vega 20, but then there's also the MI100, MI200, and MI300 (which will be on 6nm).

"Production isn't just halted, the RTX 3090 Ti has been delayed indefinitely".

Yeah, it has happened... but how did it start? NVIDIA announced the new flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card back during its CES 2022 press conference and said that it would tell the world more later in the month. Well, that month was January 2022 and that month has passed, and is now in the rear view mirror.

I exclusively revealed back on January 14 that NVIDIA had ordered its AIB partners to "halt production" on the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, and then in the weeks after it became obvious the new monster GPU was nowhere to be seen. NVIDIA has been absolutely silent on the matter, not a single word about the RTX 3090 Ti in weeks -- only from me on January 14, and now Tom @ Moore's Law is Dead has said his sources told him that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has been "delayed indefinitely".

ASRock is about to unleash a monster... well, not-so-monster entry-level Navi 24-powered Radeon RX 6400 Challenger graphics card, but in Mini-ITX form.

The new ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger Mini-ITX graphics card will be powered by the new Navi 24 GPU, which is made on the fresh new 6nm process node by TSMC, and will just 4GB of GDDR6 memory. The new AMD Radeon RX 6400 was never meant to see the light of day in the DIY market, but it looks like OEMs and system builders will be using the RX 6400.

We're hearing about the new Radeon RX 6400 through new listings with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and some new filings from ASRock. The new ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger Mini-ITX will not require any PCIe power connectors, and will solely be powered by the motherboard. We'll know more details in the coming weeks, I guess.

NVIDIA has released its latest batch of GeForce drivers, with the introduction of the GeForce Game Ready 511.65 WHQL drivers offering Game Ready support for Dying Light 2 Stay Human.

NVIDIA explains its new drivers: "This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Dying Light 2 Stay Human, which utilizes NVIDIA DLSS to maximize performance and features several DirectX 12 Ultimate ray-traced effects. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest new titles and updates including Sifu".

Not only that, but there's also built-in support for NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU, and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU. These new gaming notebooks will be floating out into the market over the coming months, with the new GeForce Game Ready 511.65 WHQL drivers ready to go.

Well, here we are boys and girls... we're in the month of February, which means NVIDIA has completely missed its launch window of January 2022 for its flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card. The reason for this article is because I noticed our friends at VideoCardz writing a new article titled "Did NVIDIA just forget to launch GeForce RTX 3090 Ti?" and yeah... of course they did, and TweakTown knows why.

If you remember, over two weeks ago now on January 14, I exclusively reported that NVIDIA had "halted production" on its new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. After NVIDIA revealed the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at CES 2022 and Jeff Fischer himself said to "tune in later this month for more details".

It's now past January, and we're into February and the only details you've gotten about NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3090 Ti firstly came from me here at TweakTown exclusively -- production on the RTX 3090 Ti has been halted -- secondly, EVGA teased its highly custom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN graphics card... aaaand that's it.

In what I think most people would consider expected at this point in order to win against GPU juggernaut NVIDIA and AMD which is kicking ass once again, but Intel is promising millions of Arc GPUs for years to come.

PC Gamer mentioned the "nightmare GPU crisis" that has destroyed the GPU market, and while both companies can do everything they can, they're limited by multiple other factors that are out of their control. TSMC manufacturers everything for AMD and has been filled with orders for years, while facing supply shortages, and then NVIDIA is tapping Samsung which is facing the same (and more) issues.

But once Intel stomps onto the GPU market, it's going to be an issue of supply -- but now Intel GPU boss Raja Koduri has himself said: "I am with you, PC Gamer. This is a huge issue for PC gamers and the industry at large. Intel Graphics is working hard to find a path towards the mission - getting millions of Arc GPUs into the hands of PC gamers every year".