Video Cards & GPUs News - Page 254

AMD refreshed the Polaris 10 GPU a couple of months ago when we exclusively revealed the Radeon RX 500X series was going out to OEMs with the Polaris 20 GPU inside, but now there's rumors that AMD will refresh the refresh with the purported Polaris 30.

The rumors have started on Chiphell and we haven't confirmed them with any AMD sources, but Polaris 30 will reportedly be made on the 12nm process compared to the 14nm node that AMD used on the Polaris 10/20 and Vega 10 GPUs. The rumors are hot, stating that AMD could launch the 'new' Polaris 30-based graphics cards as soon as next month, ahead of the new Vega 20 GPUs made on 7nm.

We are being told to expect a 15% performance improvement over the RX 500 series, which should be enough to get the purported Radeon RX 680 (that's what I'll call it for now) to be getting close to GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080 performance. Hell, it'll start competing with the Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64 at that point, which won't be good for AMD unless Vega is discontinued - which it should be at this stage.

NVIDIA has just unleashed their new GeForce RTX series graphics cards led by the flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (our review here) as well as the new GeForce 411.63 drivers (that you can get here) and now it's AMD's turn for some Radeon news.

AMD has just released their updated Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.9.2 drivers (download them here), which include or add support for games like F1 2018 with up to 3% more performance on the Radeon RX Vega 64 at 1440p. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is one of the latest games out, with the new RSAE 18.9.2 drivers being up to 4% faster on the RX Vega 64 at 1440p.

Even Fortnite receives some optimization under the new drivers, with up to 5% more performance at 1080p on the Vega 64 while Star Control: Origins is up to 14% fastrer on the Vega 64 when on native 4K.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX series graphics cards are finally here and it did NOT take overclockers very long to get into them and start pushing the new Turing GPU and super-fast GDDR6 memory technology to their (current) limits. I'm sure we'll see more records broken as time goes on, and as more custom cards with custom PCBs and power delivery systems arrive.

Legendary overclocker KINGPIN has used the new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition with EVGA's Precision X1 overclocking software and pushed the cards to limits that I thought we wouldn't be at for a while. The new Turing TU102 GPU was pushed up to 2415MHz (I could only do 2100MHz on stock cooling) while the 11GB of GDDR6 was ramped up from its already fast stock clocks of 14Gbps up to 17Gbps (I could reach 15-16Gbps stable, depending on the bench). All of this was done with LN2 cooling, so the Turing GPU and GDDR6 is being kept as cool as humanly possible.

KINGPIN volt modded the card himself, passing the voltage limits that NVIDIA put in place, so that he could overclock the hell out of the RTX 2080 Ti. Using LN2, KINGPIN was able to take the #1 spots in all 3DMark benchmarks: TimeSpy Extreme, TimeSpy, FireStrike Ultra, FireStrike Extreme, and FireStrike. The system packed an Intel Core i9-7980XE processor cooled with LN2 and overclocked to 5.5GHz on all 18C/36T, an EVGA X299 Dark motherboard, and 32GB of G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4-3800 RAM.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX graphics cards are here and while tech reviewers have been using internal early drivers, the company has now officially unveiled the new GeForce Game Ready 411.63 WHQL drivers which you can download right here.

The new GeForce 411.63 WHQL drivers weigh in at a hefty 517MB but offer support for the new GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards, as well as providing the best optimizations for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Forza Horizon 4, and FIFA 19. There are some added/update SLI profiles thrown into the new 411.63 drivers, as well as some of the usual bug fixes.

If you haven't read my review on the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition, you should check it out - it's choc-full of of benchmarks, breakdowns of the various new Turing technologies, and more. Spoiler alert: it's hella fast, offering beyond 4K 60FPS performance.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards are nearly here, with MSI updating its OC software with the release of Afterburner v4.6.0 beta 9 (built 13319) that adds support for Turing GPUs. It also features MSI Overclocking Scanner, which is powered by the new NVIDIA Scanner that auto overclocks your GeForce RTX series graphics card.

The changelog for the new version of Afterburner includes:

The new Afterburner v4.6.0 beta 9 sees a bundled MSI Overclocking Scanner application which works on RTX 20 series graphics cards on 64-bit OS only. MSI says that the "MSI Overclocking Scanner is powered by NVIDIA Scanner technology, which is using proprietary algorithms to quickly and reliably test manually overclocked GPU stability or find the maximum stable GPU overclocking in automatic mode with a single click. The scanner is using embedded NVIDIA test load to stress GPU. The scanner provides you two functional modes".

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards are right around the corner, with TechPowerUp updating GPU-Z to v2.11.0 and with it, support for the new Turing-based GeForce RTX family of graphics cards.

GPU-Z v2.11.0 now supports the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, and RTX 2070 as well as AMD's upcoming Vega 20 GPU that is being made on the 7nm node, an industry first. There's also support for GDDR6 memory, 16Gbps memory chips, and support for BIOS parser to USB-C output.

The updated software also adds the option to minimize GPU-Z on close, adds a system RAM memory usage sensor, and temperature monitoring offset for AMD's new second-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs.

ASUS has just unveiled a bunch of graphics cards that will fill out its GeForce RTX 2070 family, with ROG STRIX, DUAL, and TURBO branded cards all unveiled. There's no GPU clocks just yet, but we'll know that in the coming days anyway.

ASUS has seven GeForce RTX 2070 graphics cards in total across the three brands, with three SKUs each of the ROG STRIX and DUAL cards while there's a single RTX 2070 TURBO. We are looking at triple-fan coolers on the ROG STRIX cards, dual-fan coolers on the DUAL series and a single blower-style fan on the new TURBO graphics card from ASUS.

The new RTX 2070 ROG STRIX cards

EVGA until now has only revealed two of its custom GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards, but that has all changed with the company adding another three custom RTX 20 series cards that brings their family of cards to five members.

We already have the XC and FTW3 series announced, but EVGA has just taken the wraps off of their new Hydro Copper FTW3 and Hydro Copper XC, both of which rock EVGA's custom water blocks.

The Hydro Copper FTW3 has a wider water block while the Hydro Copper XC has a smaller PCB, hence smaller water block.

Metro Exodus was one of the RTX showcase games during NVIDIA's huge reveal of the next-gen GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards, and while we knew that the demo 4A Games showed off during the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ran at 1080p 40FPS, we are finding out more details on included NVIDIA technologies.

In an article by PCGamesHardware, the site talks about Metro Exodus and its technical prowess with and without NVIDIA's new RTX technologies. Metro Exodus will be an RTX-powered game, but it'll also include other NVIDIA technologies such as HairWorks and Advanced PhysX. HairWorks hasn't been used in too many games, with the latest one being Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition, and before that it was COD: Ghosts (2013), Far Cry 4 (2014) and The Witcher 3 (2015).

HairWorks puts a large strain on any graphics card, so it'll be interesting to see how the new Turing-based GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards handle it. Maybe the new RT cores and deep learning technology can help out with performance and not bring it down so much when HairWorks is enabled. Because if gamers are turning on RTX, HairWorks and Advanced PhysX... it could bring the frames down below 30FPS, and that wouldn't be good at all, not on a new $1199 graphics card.

Mega Rumor and Trigger Warning: This is all rumor territory, and I'm just reporting from various sources who are providing the relative performance of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti against the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.

Yesterday I reported about the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti being 35% faster in the 3DMark Time Spy run over the GTX 1080 Ti, but now new information has surfaced which drives the tease-o-meter up to 11/10. 3DCenter.org has compiled a list of relative performance gains over the GTX 1080 Ti from the it-still-doesn't-have-drivers GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

Some of the results are freaking impressive with games like Far Cry 5 expected to receive a huge 55% performance upgrade at 4K, while PUBG will see a large 45% increase. The list includes Call of Duty: WW2, For Honor, GTA V, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Rainbow Six: Victories, The Crew 2, and The Witcher 3.