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Google is splashing around some cash acquiring VR developer Owlchemy, the team behind one of the best VR games out there - Job Simulator. Owlchemy also worked on the Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality game, which is available for both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

Owlchemy said in a statement that they will "continue building high quality VR content for platforms like the HTC Vive, Oculus Touch, and PlayStation VR". Google said in its own blog post that the two companies will be "be working to create engaging, immersive games and developing new interaction models across many different platforms to continue bringing the best VR experiences to life".

Like it was planned to be teased after NVIDIA's huge unveil of their next-gen Volta GPU on their new Tesla V100 graphics card, news appears through recent Linux drivers of a purported dual-GPU based on Radeon RX Vega. The new info points to specific code:

These codes are new Vega 10 IDs, so we should expect a larger family of Radeon RX Vega graphics cards - with the number 7 floating around in previous reports. The specific code we're looking at here points to a specific PLX chip, which is an ASIC board that splits PCIe lanes to bridge multiple components, like dual GPUs.

There's not much else here, but a dual-GPU Radeon RX Vega is something AMD will need to beat the new Tesla V100 graphics card, that's for sure. A dual-Vega graphics card could also hurt the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti... so we'll have to wait and see.

GTC 2017 - NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has come out with some fighting words for its main competitor AMD, and their upcoming Radeon RX Vega graphics card, with the Huang saying he's confident in NVIDIA's position in the gaming GPU market.

NVIDIA has no competition in the high-end market against their GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080, GTX 1080 @ 11Gbps, GTX 1080 Ti, Titan X(P) and the new TITAN Xp. AMD has their upcoming Radeon RX Vega graphics card family, but we're still weeks away from its release.

After NVIDIA's unveiling of their new Volta-based Tesla V100 graphics card, Blayne Curtis from Barclays Capital Inc. asked Huang: "I was just wondering if you can just talk about the competitive landscape looking back at the last refresh. And then looking forward into the back half of this year, I think your competitors have a new platform. I'm just curious as to your thoughts as to how the share worked out on the previous refresh and then the competitiveness into the second half of this year".

GTC 2017 - NVIDIA has officially unveiled its new Volta-based Tesla V100 graphics card, the most advanced piece of silicon in the world - on the 12nm node, with 16GB of HBM2 @ 900GB/sec, and so much more - but the AI research systems have also been announced, topping out at $149,000.

NVIDIA's new DGX-1 with Tesla V100 has 960 Tensor TFLOPs of performance, 8 x Tesla V100 graphics cards, NVLink Hybrid Cube technology, and is the equivalent of 400 servers in a box. NVIDIA says that it's capable of pushing down the required time on datasets from 8 days on TITAN X, to just 8 hours on DGX-1 with Tesla V100.

GTC 2017 - NVIDIA removed the wraps off of their next-gen Volta GPU architecture today at GTC 2017, with the new Tesla V100 graphics card and DGX-1 with Tesla V100 system that costs $149,000.

We know that there are over 21 billion transistors on the GV100 GPU, offering 15 TFLOPs of single precision compute performance backed up by 7.5 TFLOPs of double precision compute. But there are two variations of Tesla V100 graphics cards: single-slot, and dual-slot. The single-slot Tesla V100 has a 150W TDP, while the dual-slot Tesla V100 ramps up the TDP to 300W.

NVIDIA hasn't confirmed what the different in performance is going to be for the 150W variant of Tesla V100, and that's a very interesting question. Performance wise, we're expecting a pretty huge 40% performance per watt advantage over the previous Pascal-based Tesla P100, on the new 12nm FinFET process.

GTC 2017 - NVIDIA has unveiled its monsterous new Tesla V100 professional graphics card, the first with their next-gen Volta GPU architecture - and NVIDIA's second graphics card with HBM2 technology.

The new Tesla V100 packs 16GB of ridiculously fast HBM2 on a 4096-bit memory bus that provides a huge 900GB/sec of memory bandwidth. Tesla V100 is capable of a huge 15 TFLOPs of single precision (FP32) performance, while it packs 7.5 TFLOPs of double precision (FP64) performance - enough for the largest of datasets in datacenter/AI/deep learning workloads.

Inside, Tesla V100 rocks the company's next-gen Volta GPU architecture with a huge 5120 CUDA cores at 1455MHz boost clock, on the fresh new 12nm manufacturing process - something we reported on a couple of months ago now. If we compare this to the Pascal-based Tesla P100 that was made on the 16nm FinFET prrocess with 16GB of HBM2 at 720GB/sec, and only 3584 CUDA cores in comparison. NVIDIA's new Tesla V100 is an absolute beast.

GTC 2017 - NVIDIA is preparing to unleash its next-gen Volta GPU architecture at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, CA - with Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA saying that the company is building inventory for a new product announcement during his keynote in the morning.

At GTC 2016 the company unveiled its Pascal-based Tesla P100 professional graphics card powered by HBM2 technology, so I'm expecting a Volta GPU architecture announcement alongside the unveiling of the Tesla V100. I'm sure we'll see even more HBM2 on the purported Tesla V100 (The 'P' in Tesla P100 stands for Pascal, so V100 would be Volta, right?) and we could even see a GDDR6-based variant, but I think that'll be the GeForce GTX 20 series announcement for later this year.

Until then, what do you think we'll see unveiled at GTC 2017? Volta in professional form? A new TITAN Xv graphics card on the new Volta GPU architecture, or something completely different?

GTC 2017 - SK Hynix is displaying its next-gen GDDR6 technology at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, their new memory standard that will power NVIDIA's next-gen Volta GPU architecture, with Volta-based graphics cards set to arrive in 2018.

NVIDIA is currently using various different RAM standards on their graphics cards, with their Tesla P100 graphics card using HBM2 (yes, before AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega), GDDR5X at 11Gbps on the TITAN Xp, Titan X(P), GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and the new GTX 1080 11Gbps model, and then GDDR5 for the rest of its graphics cards.

SK Hynix displayed the differences between GDDR5 and GDDR6, with some huge increases in speeds and bandwidth - and up to 16Gb chips, while offering less power consumption.

We've been reporting on AMD's next-gen Radeon RX Vega graphics card family like mad, with our exclusive report that AMD will have less than 16,000 units available in the months post-launch. Now we're hearing rumbles of what Computex will hold for AMD's return to the high-end graphics card market.

Computex 2017 kicks off on May 30, which is only a couple of weeks away - and we'll be there. VideoCardz is reporting that PowerColor have been sending out invitations to the media for meetings during Computex, where they will be showing off "new technologies and other latest products", which could be a tease towards Radeon RX Vega.

I've personally heard from my own industry sources that Radeon RX Vega might show up, depending on whether AMD releases it before Computex - if they do, I've heard that AIB partners will indeed have custom Radeon RX Vega graphics cards on show. Computex 2017 is only a few more weeks away, so we'll have to wait and see what happens.

AMD will be releasing its next-gen Radeon RX Vega family of graphics cards in the next few weeks, and now I've had an exclusive industry source who has told me that AMD will have only a handful of Radeon RX Vega graphics cards at launch.

I've been told that there will be less than 16,000 cards that will ship in the first few months after it launches, something that will come down to the HBM2 used on the card. HBM2 is in extremely limited supply, and is expensive to use - and since there's not enough, that scarcity is driving up the production costs of the card - and will see AMD only having 16,000 cards or so in the months post-launch.

If this is true, AMD could be in a very rough spot with Radeon RX Vega - especially if it was to deliver on performance. There are hundreds of thousands of thirsty Radeon fans that want a next-gen graphics card, and the hype train for Radeon RX Vega is simultaneously withering out - and burning hotter than the sun. Personally, I want AMD to hit a home run with Radeon RX Vega - but at the same time, NVIDIA has completely secured the high-end market with the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti.

There have been a few leaks on AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega graphics card, and now we're seeing the 687F:C1 device ID once again, with some details on its HBM2 speeds and GPU clocks.

First off, I've been reporting for a while now that there will be a family of Radeon RX Vega graphics cards, with a new Vega 10 prototype being used and spotted on 3DMark's Fire Strike database. The card in question had its Vega 10 GPU clocked at 1200MHz, while its 8GB of HBM2 was clocked at 700MHz.

The Radeon RX Vega prototype was benchmarked with AMD's Ryzen 7 1800X processor, but how was the result of its run in Fire Strike?

AMD has said previously that it will be launching its next-gen Radeon RX Vega graphics cards in Q2 2017, with just over 6 weeks to go - we're cutting it close. AMD has said that it will be unveiling new information on its next-gen GPU architecture, and not just Vega - but Navi, which is destined for 2018/2019.

RTG boss Raja Koduri and Computing & Graphics boss Jim Anderson will join AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage at AMD's HQ in Sunnyvale to talk about the company's long-term vision, including Vega, Navi, and even Zen+.

As for what to expect on May 16, we should receive a few more details on Vega - but this isn't a launch, so we might just receive another few drips of info. We might see a revised GPU roadmap for Navi, with a tease of the 'next-gen' memory that AMD will be using on it, while Zen+ could be better detailed now that Ryzen is finally here.

MSI is continuing to add to its roster of custom GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards with the announcement of the GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X, the first custom GTX 1080 Ti with a full-cover water block.

MSI's upcoming GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X features a custom PCB, 8+2-phase power design, and 8+8-pin PCIe power connectors.

EK Water Blocks designed the water block, which features a gorgeous MSI dragon and logo, as well as NVIDIA's now-required GeForce GTX logo on the front. There's also a nickel-plated base cover on the GPU, memory, and VRMs.

AMD is preparing Radeon gamers for Prey with the release of the new Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.5.1 beta drivers, which even include some performance optimizations for the just-released Radeon RX 580 graphics card.

The new drivers feature a decent 4.7% performance boost for the RX 580 in Prey, but they also provide multi-GPU support for CrossFire owners who want to see additional performance from their RX 580 CF rig. There are the usual bug fixes and improvements in these new drivers as well, and AMD has also patched their auto updater so it no longer fails.

You can grab the new 17.5.1 drivers right here.

Colorful has one of the most interesting, and what will surely be one of the best GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards on its hands with the iGame GTX1080Ti Vulcan X OC.

The iGame GTX 1080 Ti Vulcan X OC has GPU clocks of 1620/1733MHz, and the usual 11GB of GDDR5X at stock 11Gbps on the 352-bit memory bus. Colorful deploys its impressive ROG-like SWORIZER cooler, but it's the inclusion of the built-in iGame Status Monitor, the LCD display, that has us excited.

Owners of the Colorful iGame GTX 1080 Ti Vulcan X OC will be able to see their GPU clocks and temps, as well as the fan speed and memory used on the LCD display - as well as a load level indicator.

There was a new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) update for Linux pushed out yesterday, with AMD sliding in some major Vega feature support into the open source OS.

We now know that AMD have some interesting things planned for Vega, including GPU sensors, partial resident textures, network visualization, non-contiguous VRAM mapping, and more. But it's the internal specs of Vega 10 that we're all here for, so without getting your excitement meter up too much - please, take some of this salt and throw it over your shoulder.

Vega 10 will supposedly rock 64 next-gen compute units, each with 64 GCN stream processors - with a total of 4096 next-gen GCN stream processors in 4 divisions, each with a single shader engine. Every 1024 stream processor shader engine has two Asynchronous Compute Units, one render back end and 4 texture blocks.

We've been hearing more and more about AMD's first truly next-gen GPU architecture in years, Vega - but now the company is getting official in PR statements for the Q1 2017 results.

In AMD's recent Q1 2017 highlights release, the company said: "AMD's "Vega" GPU architecture is on track to launch in Q2, and has been designed from scratch to address the most data- and visually-intensive next-generation workloads with key architecture advancements including: a differentiated memory subsystem, next-generation geometry pipeline, new compute engine, and a new pixel engine".

Exciting stuff, that's for sure. I'm sure we're going to see something unveiled just before, or during Computex - with a physical launch in the weeks after, sometime in late June.

In order to playback 4K content on Netflix, you need a few things: Windows 10, an Intel Kaby Lake-based CPU, and you have to use Microsoft's oh-so-meh Edge browser. If you don't, Netflix will load up to 1080p and that's it.

But, things are changing - slowly, and in not such a good way with NVIDIA preparing Netflix 4K support in the near future. In order for the Netflix 4K content support, you'll need:

NVIDIA seems to be providing very access to Netflix 4K content, as there are some large caveats right now: you need a GTX 10 series card with over 3GB of RAM, and now you can use the Netflix app from the Windows Store (instead of requiring Edge only), and you won't be able to use SLI at all.

Things aren't looking good for AMD with all of these lukewarm rumors on Radeon RX Vega, with the latest purported results of the HBM2-based graphics card barely edging out NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1070 in 3DMark TimeSpy.

The leaked result on Radeon RX Vega was powered by AMD's own Ryzen 7 1800X processor, with the system scoring 5950. If we compare this to our results, the GTX 1070 scores 5703, while the GTX 1080 pushes 6709, and the GTX 1080 Ti leaps ahead with 8312.

AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega seems to have its GPU clocked at 1GHz base, and 1.2GHz boost - at least in reference form. There's 8GB of HBM2 with 512GB/sec of memory bandwidth, and a TDP of 225W. If these results are true, Vega isn't exactly a GTX 1080 killer, let alone a GTX 1080 Ti killer. But then remember that AMD could be under delivering with performance right now, and things will change with tuned drivers and final hardware.

We're beginning to hear more on AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega graphics card, with the TechPowerUp GPU database being updated, and the upcoming Radeon RX Vega is now listed with 'relative performance' results at 1080p against various graphics cards.

TPU's relative performance chart shows the RX Vega being 5% slower than NVIDIA's stock GeForce GTX 1080, and 27% slower than the GTX 1080 Ti, at 1080p. Radeon RX Vega beats the Radeon R9 Fury X by 31%, and is just 11% faster than the GTX 1070 at 1080p. These results should be taken with massive handfuls of salt, and real-world testing will need to happen to ensure we're not being fooled.

The listing shows that AMD has 8GB of HBM2 on a 2048-bit memory bus, with the Vega GPU clocked at 1GHz stock, while it can be boosted up to 1.2GHz in reference form. The 8GB of HBM2 is clocked at 1GHz, and shouldn't be confused with the 11GHz+ on the GDDR5X on the new GTX 1080 11Gbps and GTX 1080 Ti cards because they use GDDR5X compared to the HBM2 tech on AMD's upcoming Radeon RX Vega.