Graphics Cards - Page 165

AMD has just released its new Radeon Adrenalin 2020 20.11.2 drivers, which pack support for the new RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards.

AMD of course fixes some issues as they do with any driver release, but the big news here is support for Big Navi and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. As for the fixes, we're looking at custom fan settings after waking from sleep fixed on the Radeon RX 5000 series, Far Cry Primal and Serious Sam 4 fixes, and more.

AMD has now unleashed its new RDNA 2 architecture, powering the new Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards -- and world records are now being broken.

Overclocker 'Lucky_n00b' used his Radeon RX 6800 XT sample to topple the previous HWBOT 3DMark FireStrike record, beating out the previous champion in the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. The Radeon RX 6800 XT was overclocked to 2650MHz, powered with a new Zen 3-based Ryzen 9 5950X processor.

The Ryzen 9 5950X processor was overclocked to 5.4GHz and cooled by LN2 cooling, but to be clear just the CPU was chilled with LN2 -- not the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which was using its stock reference cooler. Lucky_n00b was able to achieve a huge 47932 graphics score, beating out the ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 3090 OC by (just) 225 points.

NVIDIA has just announced its new second-gen DGX Station A100 server, which is powered by the new Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs. Check out the awesome video on it below:

The newly-upgraded NVIDIA DGX Station A100 is for those working with AI, machine learning and data science workloads. It is the fastest server in a box dedicated to AI research. Inside, were looking at up to 4 x A100 Tensor Core GPUs with 80GB of HBM2e each -- so 320GB of HBM2e memory in total.

We also have a 64-core, 128-thread AMD EPYC CPU, up to 512GB of system memory, up to 7.68TB of NVMe M.2 SSDs for storage. You'll also have 3rd-gen NVLink, 200GB/sec bi-directional bandwidth between any GPU pair, and a kick ass new maintenance-free refrigerant cooling system.

AMD has just announced its next-gen CDNA GPU-based Instinct MI100 accelerator, which packs 7680 stream processors, and 32GB of HBM2 with an ultra-fast 1.23TB/sec of memory bandwidth. Check it out:

Inside, the new Instinct MI100 accelerator is a 7nm CDNA GPU with 120 Compute Units, or 7680 stream processors. We've heard of this GPU before as it is codenamed Arcturus, powering the new Instinct MI100 accerlator. The GPU itself is clocked at around 1500MHz with 11.5 TFLOPs of FP64 performance, 23.1 TFLOPs of FP32 performance, and a huge 185 TFLOPs of FP16 performance.

AMD has used 32GB of HBM2 memory, where systems with 4 or 8 GPUs will use the new Infinity Fabric X16 interconnect with bandwidth of 276GB/sec. The HBM2 memory is capable of hitting up to 1.23TB/sec of memory bandwidth which is huge -- it doesn't quite compete with the 1.53TB/sec pumping away from NVIDIA's new A100 which uses HBM2e memory.

AMD allowed reviewers and YouTubers with their new RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6000 samples to write, or film unboxing articles and videos. Paul's Hardware had something exclusive to show off, with EK Water Blocks' new EKWB Radeon 6000 Water Cooling Kit unboxed on video. Check it out:

Paul unboxes the huge package that EKWB sent over, with the EKWB Radeon 6000 Water Cooling Kit for what AMD calls (and once you see benchmarks, you'll understand) the "Ultimate Gaming Platform". This is when you join forces between a Radeon RX 6000 series and Ryzen 5000 series GPU and CPU together.

In the kit, you'll get a waterblock that will fit onto the Radeon RX 6800 XT or Radeon RX 6800 graphics card with a backplate, too -- joining that is a custom waterblock for an AM4-based Ryzen 5000 series CPU. You'll also get an EK D5 pump attached to a reservoir with an acrylic plate with an AMD logo.

NVIDIA is preparing to launch its new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card, something that should be launched at under $400 and offer performance that beats the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER.

The new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has been detailed in new leaks from our friends at VideoCardz, which is reportedly a slide that was sent to the press. There weren't any performance numbers apart from relative performance comparisons between the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 2060 SUPER and RTX 2080 SUPER -- VideoCardz measured the bars and has provided some rough performance numbers from the charts.

NVIDIA's desk compares rasterizing performance, ray tracing performance, and rendering performance -- of which the RTX 3060 Ti kicks some ass across the board -- but really dominating in rendering performance thanks to the advancements under Ampere and the GDDR6X memory.

AMD's new Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards are nearly here, with my unboxing of Big Navi right here -- but the bigger question is will you actually be able to buy one at launch?

NVIDIA has had a horrible launch with its GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, selling out worldwide with stock trickling in at times. But it appears AMD will be going through the same thing which isn't a shocker, where Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards will be hard, if not impossible to find this year.

Now Australian YouTubers HardwareUnboxed have said: "(Availability) of these cards will be a hot topic when they release. So technically they are being released on the 18th (that's when you are going to see our review) [...] but I'm not really expecting you to buy one. I have spoken with quite a few retailers and stock seems pretty terrible, like RTX 3080 terrible. It will differ from region to region (I have only spoken to Australian retailers)".

You might not be able to buy a GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card anywhere on the planet right now, but that's not stopping AIB partners from releasing new models.

GALAX has just unveiled its new GeForce RTX 30 series Work the Frames (or WTF) which doesn't have any NVLink or power connectors in its simplified form, unveiled during a virtual expo. The new GALAX GeForce RTX 30 WTF series features a black shroud, with translucent fans -- it definitely looks great from the pics.

You can see there's a lot of RGB lighting going on here, with a triple-fan cooler and 2.2-slot design with RGB lightning not just on the front of the card -- but also around on the back, too. Check it out:

AMD is about to launch its new RDNA 2 architecture that powers the Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards, with soemthing NVIDIA doesn't have: Smart Access Memory.

AMD's new Smart Access Memory (SAM) requires a new RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card, mixed with the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 series processors and X570 motherboard. You can read all about AMD Smart Access Memory right here.

But now NVIDIA is chiming in with some news, with GamersNexus tweeting that NVIDIA said regarding SAM: "The capability for resizable BAR is part of the PCI Express spec. NVIDIA hardware supports this functionality and will enable it on Ampere GPUs through future software updates. We have it working internally and are seeing similar performance results".

EVGA has just unveiled its new GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Hydro Copper graphics cards, with the GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hydro Copper being the flagship model in the new series.

EVGA uses its Hydro Copper full-cover VGA waterblock on the new cards, built for the demands of "high-end gaming, rendering, Folding, Crunching, Benchmarking, or whatever tasks your system is built to perform". The new cards rock solid copper and nickel plating, keeping the card cool enough for silent gaming as there are no fans.

You will of course need a custom watercooled PC with all of the components ready to go, with EVGA providing its new GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 Hydro Copper series graphics cards prepared to slot in, plug into your existing system, and then rock and roll.

ASRock is preparing its custom Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card should should be the new Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi, which will succeed the ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT Taichi OC+ that I reviewed last year.

It looks like ASRock has made some nice design tweaks to the purported Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi graphics card, which would feature a dual-BIOS switch with P and Q settings (which should be performance and quiet profiles for the card).

There's also another switch that lets you totally disable the RGB lighting, which is a nice touch if you don't want the RGB lighting glowing up your case. It rocks a hefty 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connector setup, which is a considerable jump on the dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors of AMD's own reference Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card.

It's not only Cinebench R23 that was released today, but the V-Ray 5 CPU and GPU benchmark suite was released by Chaos Group, too. It's free to download -- which you can download right here.

The new V-Ray 5 GPU benchmark has support for RTX technology, so if you have a GeForce RTX 20 or GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card then you can stress test your machine with a new GPU benchmark. There's also a super-intensive CPU benchmark included, too.

"Today, Chaos Group released V-Ray 5 Benchmark, a free standalone application that lets users quickly test their rendering speeds on any combination of CPUs and GPUs. The Benchmark launches with three complex test scenes designed to assess V-Ray performance on CPU, GPU CUDA and GPU RTX cards".

XFX has just teased its new Big Navi-based graphics cards in a big way, with a video teaser posted on Twitter showing them crashing into the Earth in what seems like an ELE, check it out:

But instead of seeing the Radeon RX 6800 XT or Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards from XFX, I can't not see that XFX has branded the card "Radeon RX 6800 XL". It oculd be a mistake, but I don't see how the marketing peeps at XFX could not see this and pump the video out -- the one and only about custom Big Navi cards from XFX.

We do have a triple-fan cooler, a smaller PCB (interesting) and should have it released in the coming weeks. I hope to have my hands-on samples as soon as humanly possible.

MSI just let us know that it plans to #ChangeTheGame on November 20. MSI says to mark our calendars for the new MSI Game Changer in a little over eight days and five hours from now.

In the teaser image supplied to us by MSI, it's impossible to make out exactly what will be released. But we can obviously see that we are dealing with a graphics card - specifically a graphics card with what is likely going to include three 80mm cooling fans. Beyond that, we can't figure out much else.

We will likely be dealing with a high-end graphics card, but which one? Could it be the GeForce RTX 3090 Lightning or RTX 3080 Lightning? Or could it be something completely new and different? Maybe an entirely new line with mega insane overclocks out of the box? We really don't know. We're just going to have to wait and see what MSI has cooked up for us gamers.

SAPPHIRE has just teased its next-gen Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards, with 5 new cards on the way -- the RX 6800 XT NITRO+ SE, RX 6800 XT NITRO+ (non-SE), RX 6800 XT PULSE as well as non-XT versions of the same cards.

The cards all use a large triple-fan cooler and 2.7-slot design, with dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors across the board. The flagship SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO+ "Special Edition" has RGB lighting through the fans, with a USB Type-C connector like the reference Radeon RX 6000 series cards.

The other card is the Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO+ which drops the RGB lighting from the front fans and has it around the back only -- and it also drops its USB Type-C connector.

AMD is about to unleash its RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, with the Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 graphics cards launching on November 18.

The company already teased back just a couple of weeks ago that its RDNA 3 teams were "in execution" and getting things done. But now during an interview between AMD's Executive Vice President, Rick Bergman, and The Street, has some big bombs dropping about the next-next-gen RDNA 3 architecture.

Bergman said: "Let's step back and talk about the benefits of both. So why did we target, pretty aggressively, performance per watt (improvements for) our RDNA 2 (GPUs). And then yes, we have the same commitment on RDNA 3".

We continue to hear more and more about the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, where according to the latest rumors it'll be dropped in January 2021.

But now we're hearing some specs on the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, where it will reportedly be powered by the GA102-250-KD-A1 GPU and pack 10496 CUDA cores. This CUDA core count on the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti would give it the same CUDA core count as the GeForce RTX 3090, and way more than the RTX 3080 which packs just 8704 CUDA cores in comparison.

The new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti would be released with 20GB of GDDR6X memory, on a 320-bit memory bus while it will reportedly have a TGP of 320W. This new RTX 3080 Ti would battle AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards.

MSI is close to the release of its GeForce RTX 3090 LIGHTNING it seems, with a new custom GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X leaked and pictured below:

The new images show us that the new SUPRIM X series looks very close, almost identical to the look and style of the GAMING X TRIO that MSI has released in the GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080, and GeForce RTX 3070 graphics cards released so far.

We have the same triple-fan cooler, but the metal backplate is new -- compared to MSI using the ABS plastic backplate on the current GAMING X TRIO graphics cards.

AMD is set to unleash its next-gen RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics cards, but it looks like they'll be selling out in mere minutes.

The custom ASUS Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards will reportedly be sold out in just minutes after the launch, and that's not a rumor -- that's directly from the ASUS Nordic brand rep David Hammer on the Sweclockers forums.

The ASUS rep explained the Radeon RX 6800 XT stock: "It will be quite limited: more RX6800, fewer 6800XT ... as with basically all graphics cards now, we expect that everything will be gone in a few minutes so you need to hang on the lock. Then it is 1-2 weeks later until we start delivering our Partners cards, too early to say what the supply looks like there, but the demand will probably continue to be great".

We've just seen the ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 6800 XT and its custom BIOS and huge GPU clock speeds, more on that here -- but now it's time for SAPPHIRE's newly-teased Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO+ graphics card. Check it out:

SAPPHIRE's own official Twitter account teased the picture, with this being the Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO+ and its huge triple-fan cooler. We should expect a black color scheme on the cooler, with some gorgeous RGB that I'm sure SAPPHIRE is going to have blinging up your gaming PC.

AMD's new Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT are available November 18, and we will have day one reviews of both. As for the custom cards, I can't wait to get my hands-on the SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 6800 XT NITRO+ and give it a whirl when they drop, which should hopefully not be too far behind the reference Big Navi cards from AMD.