Video Cards & GPUs News - Page 15

NVIDIA has released its new GeForce Game Ready 551.31 WHQL drivers, supporting the new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card. You can download the new drivers right here (633MB download).

The new GeForce Game Ready 551.31 drivers support the new RTX 4080 SUPER, as well as the latest games released with NVIDIA DLSS 3 technology, including Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, with further support added for new DLSS-supported games with Enshrouded, TEKKEN 8, and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, which supports DLSS Super Resolution.

The new drivers also add support for the just-released RTX Video HDR feature, as well as support for the "Auto" setting for RTX Video Super Resolution, and finally support for NVIDIA Ultra Low Latency Mode with DirectX 12-based games. You can download the new NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 551.31 WHQL drivers right here (633MB download).

The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Founders Edition arrives as the third entry in NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 sUPER Series GPU refresh and the second to receive a Founders Edition model after the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. Like that variant, this new SUPER model features a matte black finish that is stunning in person, shifting away from the bronze and chrome look of non-SUPER Founders cards.

Usually, we kick off our review coverage with a deep dive into the Founders Edition, using it as the baseline for comparison to other GPU models. Unfortunately, due to a delay in arriving at TweakTown HQ (aka my office, which is currently overflowing with GPUs), we haven't been able to fully test it out - because we only have it for a couple of days.

In the meantime, be sure to check out our reviews for the INNO3D GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER X3 16GB (which is an MSRP model) and the new beautiful MSI GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 16G EXPERT (a premium model that draws a lot of inspiration from the Founders Edition design). And ahead of our full Founders Edition review, check out these snaps of the card.

ASUS has just announced its new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Noctua Edition graphics card, and it is really a big boy graphics card... check it out:

This isn't ASUS' first rodeo when it comes to GeForce RTX series Noctua Edition graphics cards, with its beefy new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Noctua Edition featuring a huge Noctua heatsink and dual 120mm Noctua NF-A12x25 PWN fans. There's a vapor chamber cooler and heatsink, with ASUS increasing the frame to house the two Noctua fans.

The current ASUS GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card is one of the wildest-looking, most noise-efficient designs on the market, but it requires three fans. The new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Noctua Edition uses just two fans in comparison, cutting an entire fan from the card... so it should be even quieter.

Intel's next-gen Battlemage GPU architecture launches this year, but after that, its next-next-gen Celestial and Druid GPUs could be GPU Tiles on future APUs from Intel, according to the latest rumors.

In his latest video, Tom from Moore's Law is Dead reports from his sources that both Celestial and Druid have a single tile configuration and are listed (internally at Intel) as alternative flagships for their GPU architectures. This could suggest that Intel is "considering fully canceling" its discrete graphics cards and has already reportedly started the groundwork for Arc to only consist of GPU Tiles after Battlemage.

So, what does this mean for Intel's range of Arc GPUs? Well, Arc Alchemist is already on the market and hasn't been doing too badly... but it doesn't come close to competing with AMD's flock of Radeon GPUs or NVIDIA's fleet of GeForce RTX series GPUs. It's next-gen Battlemage GPU will be better, but it will still only compete with what's on the market now from both AMD and NVIDIA... but won't come close to next-gen GPU offerings.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card reviews were meant to go live today, but they aren't... NVIDIA has moved up the NDA until tomorrow, January 31.

The company originally announced its new GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER alongside the new GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER graphics cards back at CES 2024 in early January, with a review embargo on the RTX 4080 SUPER for January 30.

The reason for NVIDIA pushing the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card review NDA to January 31 is that some reviewers didn't get their samples on time, which makes sense. I reviewed graphics cards for TweakTown for 10+ years before the new GPU God in Kosta took over, so I know this has happened first hand before. It's not new, and it gives those reviewers who got their cards late time to catch up and those who have the RTX 4080 SUPER more time to complete their testing.

AMD has released a new graphics driver specifically for a single game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

The new Adrenalin Edition version 23.40.02.03 has an important fix for Suicide Squad, namely a cure for issues with graphics corruption when ray tracing is enabled.

Clearly, this must be an irksome enough glitch to warrant the deployment of a new graphics driver.

COLORFUL has just introduced its new Loong Edition graphics cards and motherboards, with the new series having an original name of "Year of the Dragon Limited Edition" but simplified for the global market.

The use of the name "loong" or "long" (Chinese: 龍; pronounce: lóng) celebrates the Year of the Dragon, with COLORFUL infusing a beautiful aesthetic dragon art on its white graphics card design. The new COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 40 Loon Edition series is now here, including the GeForce RTX 4060, RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and the new RTX 4080 SUPER graphics cards.

COLORFUL's new iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Loong Edition and RTX 4060 Ti 8GB Loong Edition graphics cards are derived from the iGame Ultra W design, which, personally, I think looks real, real nice. The higher-end RTX 40 SUPER Loong Edition graphics cards are derived from the iGame Vulkan White design, which looks equally as good.

GIGABYTE's EAGLE range of graphics cards has been one of the most popular options for PC gamers, and if you're aware of the variant, you'll probably be able to picture its grey shroud, black fans, and blue logo. Today, GIGABYTE has announced a range of new 'EAGLE ICE' variants, which, as the naming suggests, presents the iconic design in stylish white.

White-colored PC components, from cases to fans and everything in between, have grown steadily in popularity in recent years - and even though these aren't the first white GPUs from GIGABYTE, they still present a very different and more modern look for the EAGLE line-up.

As for the models, GIGABYTE now has EAGLE ICE product pages live covering the GeForce RTX 4060, GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, and the new GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GPUs.

2024 has only just begun, and we've had a major shake-up to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series thanks to the arrival of three brand-new SUPER GPUs covering the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER.

AMD has also launched its own mainstream GPU in the form of the Radeon RX 7600 XT with 16GB of VRAM for $329 USD - but it's the arrival of the SUPER trio that has led to a shake-up in Radeon RX 7000 Series pricing. Ahead of the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER's launch, AMD informed us that the price of its high-end Radeon RX 7900 XT was temporarily dropping to $749 USD and lower.

With the GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER replacing the GeForce RTX 4070 at $599, pushing its MSRP down to $549 - it now looks like the popular Radeon RX 7800 XT is not only sticking to its $499 price tag, but some models are dropping down to $479 over at retailer Newegg and Amazon.

NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has been used as an external GPU through an OCulink connector and benchmarked in 3DMark benchmarks with some surprising results. Check them out:

Chinese reviewer "Golden Pig Upgrade" has used both NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 and new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER graphics card with an OCulink connector, used as an external desktop GPU and into a new laptop powered by Intel's new Core Ultra 5 125H processor. We get to see some bottlenecks in action, which is very interesting to see.

Starting with the GeForce RTX 4090 connected through OCulink in the pictures above, we have 3DMark TimeSpy scores of 36487 points when used in desktop form, while in the graphics dock and internal display used, we have 28230 points (a larger 22.6% reduction in performance, while in the graphics dock and the RTX 4090 using the external display scoring 30429 points which is a 16.6% performance loss over OCulink.