Video Cards & GPUs News - Page 2

If you missed AMD's RX 7800 XT when the GPU had been reduced to a tempting $480 earlier this year, well, we've got some good news - the graphics card can be had at this asking price again.

VideoCardz was hawk-eyed enough to pick up on the RX 7800 XT dropping to $480 at both Newegg and Amazon in the US.

This is for the ASRock Challenger model of the 7800 XT and you'll need to use the provided discount code to get the price knocked down by a further $10 to hit $480.

NVIDIA is expected to announce its next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs later this year, where it seems we'll be introduced to the new top-end GeForce RTX 5090 and high-end GeForce RTX 5080 at first.

In a new post about NVIDIA increasing the price of its GPUs by an average of 10% by UDN, the report added that as NVIDIA continues to dominate the AI GPU market, graphics card-related products will also see new products later this year.

AIB partners are expecting NVIDIA to unveil its next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series in Q4 2024, where initially, NVIDIA will focus on the new top-end GeForce RTX 5090 and high-end GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards. UDN says that its sources are optimistic that the launch of next-gen RTX 50 series GPUs will help AIB partners shipments, and drive up the average unit price of graphics cards.

MSI is expanding its GeForce RTX 4090D line-up for China with a new VENTUS 3X model that looks identical, design-wise, to the GeForce RTX 4090 24G VENTUS 3X. The release will present Chinese gamers with a more affordable GeForce RTX 4090D model compared to its GeForce RTX 4090D 24G Gaming X Slim or GeForce RTX 4090D 24G Suprim X variants. As affordable as an RTX 4090 can get.

The GeForce RTX 4090D 24G VENTUS 3X features the exact dimensions (322 x 136 x 62 mm) as the non-D version. Still, it has the lowered out-of-the-box RTX 4090D Boost Clock speed of 2,520 MHz (which can be pushed to 2,535 MHz with MSI Center software) and fewer CUDA Cores to comply with new U.S. regulations for selling GPU hardware in the region. The RTX 4090D does retain the same 24GB of GDDR6X memory at 21 Gbps on a 384-bit memory bus.

As part of the VENTUS line-up, the card still features a triple-fan cooling design with a metallic shroud, a focus on airflow, and a nickel-plated copper base. Visually, it follows the same black and silver aesthetics and style as other Ventus cards in MSI's GeForce RTX line-up.

NVIDIA is reportedly increasing the price of its GPUs used inside gaming graphics cards across its GeForce series of GPUs, with prices estimated to increase by around 10%.

The report comes from UDN, citing industry sources that the supply of NVIDIA's current GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card has been "reduced recently" and that as the previous wave of market inventory was exhausted, "demand exceeds supply, resulting in price increases."

NVIDIA introduced its new GeForce RTX 3050 with 6GB of VRAM as an entry-level graphics card in February 2024, just two months ago now. At the time, it was expected that NVIDIA would increase the price of this chip. Fast-forward to April 2024, and we're hearing 10% price increases are coming.

Intel XeSS (Super Sampling) is the company's answer to NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR. It was developed primarily for the company's discrete Intel Arc desktop GPUs and the integrated Arc Graphics found in the new mobile Intel Core Ultra series of processors.

Intel XeSS is platform agnostic and works with Radeon and GeForce RTX graphics cards. It also takes advantage of AI technology, and when paired with an Arc GPU and AI hardware, it can deliver even better results. Although adoption is far from the level of DLSS, XeSS support can be found in over 100 titles.

Today, Intel announced that XeSS 1.3 is coming soon. This update dramatically improves performance in several games while offering "more detailed reconstruction, better anti-aliasing, less ghosting, and more temporal stability." Impressive stuff.

Yesterday, we got news that MSI was resurrecting its 'Duke' lineup of graphics cards with the arrival of a new 'Gaming Duke' GeForce RTX 4060. Today, a new wave of potential GPUs is coming from MSI and ASUS courtesy of EEC regulatory listings (via Videocardz), and for MSI, it looks like there's more Duke coming and more EXPERT GPUs.

MSI's EXPERT line-up debuted with the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER (check out our full review here), sporting a push-and-pull cooling design reminiscent of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 40 Series Founders Edition models. According to new EEC filings, MSI is on track to release a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16G EXPERT and an EXPERT CLASSIC. There's also a GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER 'EXPERT CLASSIC' coming.

As for what CLASSIC means, it may signify the same all-metal build with more traditional cooling or something else entirely. We'll have to wait to find out.

The latest NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 552.12 driver is here. It optimizes Season 3 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone, which features DLSS 3 and Reflex. The new driver also supports Diablo IV's new ray-tracing update, and NVIDIA's internal benchmarks showcase that you'll need to enable Frame Generation for playable performance.

On the plus side, at 1080p, it's playable with max settings and ray-tracing on a GeForce RTX 4050 or RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, with the latter hitting close to 100 FPS. Looking at Call of Duty: Warzone, with DLSS 3, the flagship GeForce RTX 4090 can hit an impressive 235.9 FPS at 4K, followed by the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER with 184.3 FPS.

In addition, the new driver adds more one-click optimal settings in GeForce Experience and the NVIDIA App for nine new titles, including Dragon's Dogma 2 and Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition.

MSI's Duke series of graphics cards was last seen during the Turing generation, with the flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce RTX 2070. The Duke series slots between MSI's affordable Ventus line-up and the more OC-ready Gaming series. However, it was a no-show during the Ampere generation of GeForce RTX 30 Series cards, leading many to believe that MSI has simply retired the Duke in favor of the popular Ventus and gaming models.

Well, the Duke is back - at least for those in the Chinese retail market, with MSI launching a GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming Duke 3X in the region. As per the name, this new GPU features a triple-fan cooling setup with a physical design that is all-black and closer to the Gaming series than Ventus.

It's a long one, measuring 319 mm, but thankfully, it's a slim design with a two-slot thickness that includes a black brushed aluminum backplate for additional support. Three fans for a GeForce RTX 4060 is overkill, but that should mean that the Gaming Duke runs quiet and coolly.

NVIDIA has released a new version of its Streamline tool for developers (SDK 2.4.0), which includes DLSS 3.7.0 - the latest version of its upscaling and Frame Generation tech. Streamline is a tool developed by NVIDIA to make it easier for game developers to implement DLSS technologies in their projects.

It's also similar to Microsoft's upcoming DirectSR in that it's open-source and supports third-party plugins and upscalers like Intel XeSS and AMD FSR.

The updates were spotted by the creator of DLSSTweaks (on Reddit), a popular tool that lets users update a game's version of DLSS and add support for DLAA. So, the arrival of DLSS 3.7.0 is the more exciting update for gamers, and people are already testing it to see what difference it makes.

The US government is clamping down even harder on high-performance GPUs and AI GPUs being imported to China, with beefed-up US trade regulations stopping the cut-down GeForce RTX 4090 D graphics card, and H20 AI GPU.

We've seen NVIDIA and AMD restricted on the number of silicon it can send to China, depending on specific performance metrics by the Biden administration. Starting on April 4, GPUs with rated compute performance that is over 70 TFLOPs -- including the cut-down GeForce RTX 4090 D and H20 AI GPUs -- are now restricted, as they offer over 70 TFLOPs of compute performance.

The updated SEC document explains: "License is required (NLR) for computers with an "Adjusted Peak Performance" ("APP") not exceeding 70 Weighted TeraFLOPS (WT) and for "electronic assemblies" described in 4A003.c that are not capable of exceeding an "Adjusted Peak Performance" ("APP") exceeding 70 Weighted TeraFLOPS (WT) in aggregation".