Graphics Cards - Page 167

Puget Systems have built a new workstation to test out 4 x NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards in a single system, with some impressive performance and eye-boggling power consumption.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3090 have NVLink support for 2-way multi-GPU goodness, but you can have many more cards if you're using benchmarks and software that don't support SLI technology. There's benchmarks like RedShift, Octane, V-Ray and many other software applications that don't use SLI but will benefit from many GPUs.

The system was built with 4 x GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO graphics cards, rocking their blower-style coolers and their PCIe power connectors at the end of the card.

The latest rumors suggest that the previously rumored higher VRAM versions of the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 have been nixxed.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3080 comes with 10GB of VRAM, while a 20GB version was teased it is supposedly cancelled and not coming out in December. So too has the 16GB version of the GeForce RTX 3070, as well as the RTX 3070 Ti, too. The normal RTX 3070 with 8GB will be released on October 29.

AMD is coming out swinging with Big Navi and most of the of Radeon RX 6000 series cards supposedly rocking 16GB of GDDR6 -- beating out the 8GB and 10GB on NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, respectively.

We've heard about what to expect from AMD for its next-gen Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card, which you can read all about here -- but then there's the Radeon RX 6800 XT.

AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 6800 XT is based on the Navi 21 XT GPU, which is slightly cut down GPU from the flagship Navi 21 XTX inside of the Radeon RX 6900 XT. We have 72 Compute Units (compared to 80) and 4608 Stream Processors (compared to 5120).

The same 16GB of GDDR6 memory is here with a 256-bit memory bus, while GPU clocks should find themselves reaching 2015MHz game clock and under 2250MHz for boost clocks. Keep in mind these clocks are for the reference model of the graphics card, while custom cards will be faster -- by 100-200MHz or more.

AMD's new Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card has received some detailed specs, which gives us more of a pinpoint shot at what to expect with Big Navi in the coming week or so.

The flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card will feature 80 Compute Units (CUs) with 5120 Stream Processors, it will be an AMD exclusive -- think of it like the Radeon VII, an AMD exclusive with no custom cards. There will be limited cards made, so it'll be a hot item for 2020 and even into 2021.

AMD's new Radeon RX 6900 XT is said to feature 16GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit memory bus, with a game clock of 2040MHz and boost clock of 2330MHz.

NVIDIA has just announced that 12 games will be injected with beautiful RTX and DLSS technologies over the coming months, with some of the biggest games of the year included.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War launches on October on November 13 while Cyberpunk 2077 launches on November 19. But on top of that list includes a bunch of other games, but standing out from those games is Enlisted -- a new squad-based MMOFPS with ray-traced global illumination and DLSS 2.0 technology.

Enlisted is also part of the Xbox Series X/S launch as a Game Preview title and timed console exclusive, the developer teased on Twitter saying that it will have ray traced global illumination, 4K 60FPS, and much more on Microsoft's next-gen Xbox consoles.

COLORFUL has just unveiled another custom GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card, with an even more limited edition version of its card -- but in the mid-range of its RTX 3080 offerings. This is the new COLORFUL GeForce RTX 3080 iGame Ultra:

The card has a full-sized custom PCB and super-unique style with awesome holographic stickers, requires 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and available in both white and black. COLORFUL is making both the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 in its new iGame Ultra flavor.

COLORFUL is making sure this is a limited edition card, so I'm sure there will only be a few hundred cards made in total. The GeForce RTX 3080 is hard enough to buy as it is, so I'm sure this is going to be even harder. COLORFUL also doesn't make any other white graphics card, so this could be them tipping their toes in the white-graphics-card market.

ASUS has just unveiled its new GeForce RTX 3070 KO, with the special edition KO standing for 'Korean Origin' -- exclusive to the South Korean market.

The new ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 KO was made by a special team of designers and managers, who all took feedback from gamers in South Korean gamers on what they would love to see in a graphic card when it comes to design, noise, temperature, and pricing.

ASUS ended using the final design from 10 candidates to make the GeForce RTX 3070 KO graphics card, with everything from the card design itself, the color scheme, and the packaging from Korean culture.

We all know about the mess that has been the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series launch, so it's good to hear rumors that AMD has been listening -- taking notes -- and preparing better the historic launch of its new Ryzen 5000 and Radeon RX 6000 series products.

The news is coming directly from RedGamingTech on YouTube, which had a document that is reportedly from AMD and sent to their partners to curb scalpers from ripping the Ryzen 5000 and Radeon RX 6000 series launch to shreds. It's great to see AMD making these moves ahead of time, a luxury they get to enjoy since they're launching after NVIDIA.

AMD has the following rules in place:

AMD's upcoming Big Navi GPUs will be using a good chunk of power, just like their NVIDIA Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series competitors -- with some hot new numbers from Igor's Lab.

The power numbers on Big Navi are early, but we're being told to expect the highest-end Navi 21 XT will have a TBP (Total Board Power) of 320W, while the Navi 21 XT GPU will use 235W on its own. But then we have custom Navi 21 XT-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards will use up to 355W, while the GPU itself will use up to 270W.

Now don't compare these directly against the GeForce RTX 30 series cards just yet, as AMD is using TBP and not TGP like NVIDIA does. AMD is using the same 320W here with the Navi 21 XT-powered (and what should be the) Radeon RX 6900 XT, as the GeForce RTX 3080 -- while the custom cards will use a bit more power, just like custom RTX 3080s.

Basemark just announced that it will be updating GPUScore with a brand new ray tracing benchmark, which is a world-first coming later this year.

The new Basemark GPUScore benchmark will introduce what the company describes as a "hyper realistic, true gaming type of content in three different workloads: Relic of Life, Sacret Path and Expedition".

Relic of Life is a new benchmark to stress test high-end graphics cards, with fancy new real-time ray traced reflections. The biggest deal here is that Basemark's new ray tracing benchmark will work on both Windows 10 and the DirectX 12 API, as well as on Linux and on the Vulkan API.

AMD is about to launch its new RDNA 2-based Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, with news breaking from MyDrivers that the Chinese XFX branch has sold "almost all" of its Radeon RX 500 and Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards to crypto mining farms.

There's no confirmation of this news, but a machine translated excerpt from MyDrivers explains: "According to the information received, throughout September, XFX did not give agents several graphics cards in China. Almost all mainstream models on the market such as RX 580 8GB, RX 590 8GB, RX 5600 XT, RX 5700 XT, etc are out of stock. As for the reason, it is said that after XFX received these chips from AMD, they directly sold them to the miners , completely becoming "mining cards", causing the agents to not get the goods at all".

MyDrivers also notes that Navi 10-based graphics cards (Radeon RX 5600 and RX 5700 series) and AMD's older Polaris-based Radeon RX 500 series are very popular -- even with the release of NVIDIA's new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series, when it comes to mining.

EVGA has just released a new "XOC 450W BIOS" for its GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra graphics card, which allows up to 450W flow through the card.

The GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra has a stock 400W limit out of the box, with +5% offered with power limit increases -- but the new XOC 450W BIOS allows up to 450W of power flowing through the card, a larger +18% increase.

EVGA is now at the same level as the ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3080 OC Edition -- which I reviewed right here -- in terms of power limit. We should see near identical performance between the two, at least in stock form -- not taking into considering tearing it apart and putting each of the cards under LN2 cooling.

NVIDIA is currently making its Ampere GPUs on Samsung's new 8nm node, but according to the latest reports the company will be shifting over most production to TSMC in 2021.

DigiTimes is reporting that NVIDIA will shift over from Samsung 8nm to TSMC 7nm in the new year, which should see the new GeForce RTX 3080 20GB model, and mid-range GeForce RTX 3060 and other series cards that are expected towards the tail end of 2020 and more so into 2021.

DigiTimes explains: "It has also been reported that NVIDIA's previous annual masterpiece RTX 30 series uses Samsung Electronics' 8nm process at a considerable OEM discount, but will switch to TSMC's 7nm process in 2021. The order volume is not less".

ASUS just teased its Z490 ROG Maximus XII Extreme GUNDAM edition motherboard, and now we're seeing our first glance at the ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 series GUNDAM edition graphics card.

The new ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 series GUNDAM edition graphics card has the same GUNDAM-inspired style, with the same triple-fan cooler that the GTX 1660 Ti TUF X3 graphics card. We have the white, blue, red style that GUNDAM brings to the custom graphics card which matches the Z490 ROG Maximus XII Extreme GUNDAM edition motherboard.

Not only do we have the Z490 ROG Maximus XII Extreme GUNDAM edition motherboard and now ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 series GUNDAM edition graphics card in the GUNDAM (and ZAKU) designs but there is AIO cooling, PSUs, new cases, and monitors all on their way.

GIGABYTE has just unveiled four new custom graphics cards, with two new AORUS EXTREME and two new AORUS MASTER graphics cards in both the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090.

First up we have the new AORUS GeForce RTX 3090 XTREME 24G and AORUS GeForce RTX 3090 MASTER 24G, if you want the very best -- while mainstream 4K gamers will want to check out the new AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 XTREME 10G, and AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 MASTER 10G.

GIGABYTE receives some of the best-binned Ampere GPUs for its new AORUS graphics cards through its GIGABYTE GPU Gauntlet sorting technology -- while the cards are cooled with MAX-Covered Cooling technology. We also have a wicked embedded LCD monitor, which can display the status of the card, GIFs, text, and pictures.

AMD has just unveiled their next-gen Zen 3 architecture that will power next-gen Ryzen CPUs, but AMD did have just "one more thing" for gamers... a big tease of its next-gen Radeon.

During the Zen 3 reveal event, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed that the new RDNA 2-powered cards will be the Radeon RX 6000 series. There are no model numbers just yet -- so we could have the Radeon RX 6700 XT, or the rumored Radeon RX 6900 XT -- or something totally different.

AMD simply confirmed 'Radeon RX 6000 series'.

NVIDIA has just released its new GeForce Game Ready 456.71 WHQL drivers, which are optimized for the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War PC Beta coming on October 15.

The new drivers also enable NVIDIA Reflex in the beta, something that NVIDIA will be driving home with GeForce gamers in the coming months and into 2021. NVIDIA Reflex reduces system latency, which is a key part of having the absolute fastest response time between you (the gamer), your input (the mouse) and your display and the game.

Grab the new NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 456.71 WHQL drivers here.

ASUS has just unveiled its new GeForce RTX 3070 TUF GAMING series of graphics cards, with two models in the new RTX 3070 TUF GAMING family with an OC and non-OC model.

The new ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 TUF GAMING cards arrive in triple-fan coolers, in a 2.5-slot design. ASUS requires dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors on the new RTX 3070 TUF GAMING cards, with 3 x DP 1.4 and 2 x HDMI 2.1 ports on the back.

As for when the cards will be available, NVIDIA pushed the GeForce RTX 3070 out by two weeks so the new release is October 29. AMD will be unveiling its new RDNA 2-based "Big Navi" Radeon RX 6000 series on October 28, the day before the RTX 3070 becomes available.

It has been rumored before, but it appears AMD will have some aces up its sleeve with its next-gen RDNA 2 architecture in the form of Infinity Cache that should appear with the Radeon RX 6900 XT and the rest of the Big Navi GPU family.

What is Infinity Cache? Well, it is reportedly a special cache that is connected to the memory subsystem on the next-gen Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards. AMD registered the trademark for Infinity Cache a few days ago, seemingly confirming that it is coming with Big Navi.

Infinity Cache is close to the Infinity Fabric that AMD uses on its Zen CPUs, which is their in-house interconnect system architecture for CPU and GPU cores. We should expect Infinity Cache to be a new technology deployed as a super-fast cache that helps the slow-on-paper 256-bit memory bus and slow-on-paper GDDR6.

Over a month ago I wrote an exclusive story saying that NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series cards would have "tight supply" until the end of the year. Well, NVIDIA has just confirmed that.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang explained that we will see massive global shortages for the GeForce RTX 3090 and GeForce RTX 3080 (and I'm sure RTX 3070 once it launches) through until the end of the year, and into 2021.

Jensen explained: "I believe that demand will outstrip all of our supply through the year. Remember, we're also going into the double-whammy. The double-whammy is the holiday season. Even before the holiday season, we were doing incredibly well, and then you add on top of it the 'Ampere factor,' and then you add on top of that the 'Ampere holiday factor,' and we're going to have a really really big Q4 season".