Video Cards & GPUs News - Page 273

NVIDIA first unveiled its mysterious TITAN Xp Collector's Edition just a few days ago, but in the meantime we've seen RTG boss Raja Koduri depart the company in full, and now NVIDIA has hit again with a full unveiling of the best looking graphics cards the company has ever made.

The new TITAN Xp Collector's Edition cards will be sold in two Star Wars themed variants: Jedi Order and Galactic Empire editions. They will be available exclusively on the NVIDIA store, with pre-orders opening up tomorrow. The price is $1200, just like the current non-Star Wars themed TITAN Xp graphics card.

This means we have the GP102 GPU with 3840 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR5X overclocked to 11.4Gbps.

So I'm sitting at my PC playing some Battlegrounds, and I get an email from NVIDIA's PR agency with the heading 'It's Coming' and a link to a YouTube video. It's a 13-second clip of a new graphics card, days after NVIDIA launched their GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, and it's a new TITAN X.

NVIDIA's new graphics card is teased at the 11 second mark as 'TITAN X Collectors Edition' and that's all we know. At the time of viewing the video had just 440 views, so this is fresh as hell. Now I want to know what it is. TITAN Xp isn't that old and is the 'full-fat' Pascal GPU, so what the hell is this new card?

It looks like NVIDIA is bringing some major styling to the TITAN X range with this shot, with some clear RGB LEDs on show - in both green and red. A nice touch to AMD/NVIDIA and the Red/Green battle. BRING IT ON.

Will you look at that: XFX has teased their upcoming custom Radeon RX Vega graphics card with one of the most unique placements of PCIe power connectors I think I've ever, ever seen.

You can see from the leaked photo that the PCIe power connectors are in the middle of the card, between the two fans. I don't think I've ever seen a set up like this before, and I'm kinda digging it, XFX. By the looks of the 8+6-pin PCIe power connectors, we should have a custom RX Vega 56 on out hands.

I've got to say, the backplate on XFX's upcoming mystery Radeon RX Vega graphics card looks HOT AS HELL. I love that 'V' logo for Vega, I just need this - heck, two, in my life. Now to see if it runs just as hot as the custom ROG Strix RX Vega 64.

AMD announced its new Radeon Pro SSG during SIGGRAPH 2017 a few months ago, with AMD's fastest-ever workstation graphics card now available without much fanfare when it launched on November 1.

AMD had a price of $7000 on its Radeon Pro SSG, but on launch day it had a huge $2400 discount with some online e-tailers listing it for $4598.99, close to $2400 from its original MSRP of $7000. Our friends at Fudzilla picked the news up by checking online retailers, where they report: "AVA Direct currently lists the card at $4,947 (as a special order), while NextWarehouse currently offers it up at $4,864 with free shipping directly from the manufacturer".

As Squires notes, we're not quite sure whether this discount on Radeon Pro SSG was sanctioned by AMD, but with a $2400 drop in price... surely there's not that much mark up on one of the most premium cards AMD has ever made on LAUNCH DAY.

NVIDIA is in the process of launching their new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card, something that is a direct response to AMD's new Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card, and now ASUS has unveiled their fleet of custom GTX 1070 Ti graphics cards.

ASUS will have three different GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics cards on offer, with the custom ROG Strix GTX 1070 Ti 8G GAMING graphics card and its triple-fan cooler and Aura Sync RGB for personalization. ASUS uses its advanced cooling tech and the best overclocks for the ROG Strix variant, but there's also the Cerberus and Turbo variants, both with their own unique takes on the GTX 1070 Ti.

All of the graphics cards that ASUS make go through their Auto-Extreme technology, with is an industry-first 100% automated production process. ASUS uses Super Alloy Power II components for "enhance efficiency, reduce power loss, decrease component buzzing under load, and lower thermal temperatures for unsurpassed quality and reliability".

AMD has had a huge year with Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper CPU launches, but the release of Vega was lukewarm, and the main driver behind GPU sales for AMD has been the huge cryptocurrency mining phenomenon.

AMD share prices were trading at just over $6 late last year, readhing heights of around $14-$15 this year, and now they've sliding back down to $11. Morgan Stanley downgraded AMD to "underweight" status, with expectations that the console busines will decline, and graphics card sales due to cryptocurrency mining will "fade from here".

Joseph Moore, an analyst with Morgan Stanley, writes: "We believe that AMD's graphics surge has been caused by a sharp increase in sales of graphics chips to cryptocurrency miners. We expect this to meaningfully decelerate next year". Morgan Stanley downgraded their price target for AMD from $11, down to $8 per share.

NVIDIA has prepared its massive base of GeForce users with their new Game Ready 388.13 drivers, ready and optimized for not just Call of Duty: WWII but also Need for Speed Payback and Nioh: Complete Edition. You can grab the new drivers right here.

NVIDIA also recommends the new 388.13 drivers for GeForce GTX gamers playing Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Speaking of Call of Duty: WWII we have the Story Trailer above, with the full game being released in a few days on November 3. The recommendations for the PC version are out, with the following spec needed:

Call of Duty: WWII PC Recommended Spec

Square Enix has revealed the PC requirements for Final Fantasy XV, with gamers needing an Intel Core i5-2400 or AMD FX-6100 processor, with at least 8GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 760.

The developer recommends NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060 for the game, as well as the Core i7-3770 or AMD FX-8350 processor along with 16GB of RAM. Considering how good Final Fantasy XV looks, a GTX 1060 as the 'recommended' graphics card is actually quite tame.

For those with enough PC horsepower, Square Enix is including 4K textures, Dolby Atmos support, NVIDIA GameWorks technologies like TurfEffects for realistic grass, HairWorks, Flow, HFTS shadows, and NVIDIA VXAO. Final Fantasy XV is expected in early 2018, with no solid release date just yet.

ASUS is getting into the spirit of Ubisoft's new Assassin's Creed Origins release, with the companies teaming up on the new ROG Strix GTX 1080 Ti Assassin's Creed Edition graphics card.

As you can see, it's one of the most unique graphics cards on the market (that hasn't been modded post-release), with an awesome brown/gold shroud and backplate that has been decorated with hieroglyphs.

ASUS uses a fully custom design with 12+2 phase VRM and 8+8-pin PCIe power connectors, with the same clock speeds as ASUS' current ROG Strix OC model, but slightly slower than the GTX 1080 Ti Poseidon.

PCI-SIG, the organization behind the PCIe standard has released the finalized specs on PCIe 4.0, with some highlights that impress. We have up to 16GT/s of bandwidth with PCIe 4.0, up from the 8GT/s of bandwidth offered on PCIe 3.0 - but it's PCIe 5.0 that has my mouth watering with a huge 32GT/s of bandwidth, and will arrive in 2019.

As for the PCIe 4.0 highlights, this is what Chairman and President of PCI-SIG, Al Yanes, had to say:

What will PCIe 4.0 provide us, other than just ridiculous amounts of bandwidth? As Tom's Hardware points out, PCIe 4.0 will provide the bandwidth to make cheaper NVMe SSDs possible, as they'll need just half the PCIe lanes, while 10GbE connections over a single PCIe lane would be made possible. That kind of speed is impossible right now with limited PCIe lanes.