Video Cards & GPUs News - Page 3

NVIDIA launched the 'world's first GPU' with the release of the GeForce 256 back on October 11, 1999 after announcing the card on August 31, 1999. It's now 25 years old. Wow.

NVIDIA changed the entire industry -- technology and gaming -- with the release of the GeForce 256, fast-forwarding to today and the "little-known brand" reached a milestone $3.3 trillion market cap and has been leading the charge in gaming and AI for years.

The GeForce 256 at the time introduced hardware transform and lighting (T&L) features directly into the GPU, previously these calculations were run on the CPU or required dedicated hardware (like everything did back in the 90s: sound cards, networking cards, graphic cards, MPEG2 decoder cards, and more). NVIDIA introduced the 'world's first GPU' with the GeForce 256, and the rest is history.

AMD is expected to unveil its new RDNA 4 GPU architecture later this year, with a smaller, mid-range focused range of Radeon RX 8000 series GPUs. One of those will be the Navi 44 XL GPU-powered card that should materialize into the Radeon RX 8600.

In a new shipping manifest, the Navi 44 XL GPU has been spotted, the second most powerful RDNA 4 GPU other than the Navi 48 that should power the Radeon RX 8700 or Radeon RX 8800 series graphics cards. Data miner "Orlak29" spotted the new Navi 44 XL entries in a new shipping manifest that you can see above.

The purported Navi 44 XL GPU would power the mid-range Radeon RX 8600 if AMD doesn't go through any name changes in the meantime, while Navi 48 will take the slightly higher-end, but no RDNA 4 cards will be competing in the high-end against NVIDIA. Hell, AMD's new RDNA 4 cards won't even be competing against AMD's previous-gen RDNA 3-based high-end Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs.

AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.8.1 is available now for all Radeon owners and supports a range of new games. The highly anticipated Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Open Beta kicks off this weekend for gamers who have pre-ordered the latest Call of Duty or are subscribed to Xbox or PC Game Pass, and support is included here.

There's also support for the dead-on-arrival Concord, the new Sony and PlayStation multiplayer title struggling to find an audience. Plus, popular new single-player games Star Wars Outlaws from Ubisoft and the long-awaited PC debut of Final Fantasy XVI from Square Enix.

AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.8.1 also adds new HYPR-Tune profiles for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which will automatically configure settings and enable AMD FSR 3. Also, AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 support for Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT has been added, and the company's low-latency tech is similar to NVIDIA Reflex.

AMD's next-gen RDNA 4 GPU architecture has been in the headlines a couple of times this week, now we're hearing that Radeon RX 8000 series cards will feature 48MB to 64MB of next-gen Infinity Cache.

In a new post on X, leaker "Kepler_L2" was asked about IC (Infinity Cache) sizes on AMD's next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs, to which he simply replied "64, 64, 48". The decode on that is that we will see the RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 8000 series (unless they stupidly insert AI-something into the name) in 3 different configurations.

AMD's first RNDA 4-based card rumored would be the Radeon RX 8800 XT and should have a 256-bit memory bus with 20Gbps GDDR6 memory and 64MB of next-gen Infinity Cache, the second (RX 8700 XT) should have a 256-bit memory bus with 18Gbps GQDDR6 memory and 64MB of Infinity Cache, while the last RDNA 4 card (RX 8600 XT) should have a 192-bit memory bus with 19Gbps GDDR6 memory.

AMD's next-gen RDNA 4-based Navi 48 GPU leaks suggest we can expect gaming performance of RTX 4080 levels, with far better ray tracing performance out of RDNA 4, too.

In his latest video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead notes that the rasterization performance is "expected to at least trade blows with the RTX 4080" while ray tracing performance is expected to "trade blows with the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and in some AMD optimized games, there's suggestion that it could get close to the RTX 4080!"

The leaker continues, explaining that Navi 48 will have "high volume" in Q4 2024, and that the company "hopes it will be a hit with system integrators". The new Radeon RX 8800 XT (or whatever it is called) will "have a reference cooler, but not be sold on AMD.com".

NVIDIA quietly announced the release of a new GeForce RTX 4070 variant that features the slower and cheaper GDDR6 memory. NVIDIA states the RTX 4070 GDDR6 variant will offer "similar" performance to its GDDR6X cousin.

Unfortunately, NVIDIA hasn't mandated any clear packaging guidelines for AIBs to inform buyers of the new card has the slower memory, as name "GeForce RTX 4070" features the exact same name as the GDDR6X variant. The lack of packaging change makes it extremely difficult for buyers that aren't familiar with technological terminologies to make informed purchasing decisions, especially considering NVIDIA's decision to price the GDDR6 variant at the same price point as the GDDR6X variant.

NVIDIA stating the new card will have "similar" performance means it won't be identical performance to the GDDR6X variant, which means it will likely fall within less than 5% on average of the GDDR6X card. Moreover, the GDDR6 variant doesn't have any special naming such as "GDDR6" on the box, or feature any monkier title such as "SUPER" or "Ti" to distinguish it from the original RTX 4070.

NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPU is rumored to have gaming performance at levels of the RTX 4070, while using less power.

In some new details from leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, who attended an event held recently by Chinese laptop and PC manufacturer, Shenzhen Hasee Compute Co. where during the event, the chairman of the company, Wu Haijun, talked about next-gen PCs.

During that chat, he talked about some details about NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series "Blackwell" GPUs. The Hasee chairman said that NVIDIA's next-gen GeForce RTX 50 series Laptop GPUs will use GDDR7 memory, and power consumption of the 60-level cards will be "greatly reduced" from 140W to 115W.

AMD's next-generation RDNA 4 GPU architecture has been teased again, with an RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 8000 series graphics card turning up on Geekbench.

The new graphics card in question is an RDNA 4-based GPU with 56 CUs (Compute Units) and 16GB of VRAM (which should be GDDR6 still, but faster 18Gbps GDDR6 memory chips). The GPU has a "GFX1201" device ID, which means we're looking at the Navi 48 SKU.

AMD's new Navi 48 "GFX1201" GPU is listed as 28 compute units, which results in 56 compute untis as the new RDNA 4 GPU architecture does things the same as RDNA 3: each GPU has a shader engine that features dual compute units, so we should see a doubling of the listed compute units (28 x 2 = 56).

The upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Beta timings have yet to be confirmed, but it's expected sometime soon. The full game is out on October 25 for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox - so we can expect that multiplayer first look soon. It could be here in a matter of days as the latest Intel Graphics Driver 32.0.101.5972 (WHQL Certified) has added support for the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Beta for Intel Arc graphics owners across mobile and PC.

Intel's latest driver also adds day-one support and optimizations for SMITE 2, Star Wars Outlaws, and Visions of Mana. The company added support for Black Myth: Wukong to its most recent non-WHQL driver release. Weighing in at 884.4 MB, Intel Graphics Driver 32.0.101.5972 is available now for Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems with discrete Intel Arc graphics cards and Intel Core Ultra devices with built-in Arc graphics.

Support for these new PC games looks to be the extent of the latest driver release, with several 'Known Issues' remaining unresolved. Here are the full release notes.

Intel has just published the first public driver for Xe2 graphics, with the release of this driver important because its next-gen Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" processors are launching next month.

We've heard through leaks that the Xe2 codename "Battlemage" GPUs would be called Arc 140V and Arc 130V, and it looks like the leaks were right, as Intel's own information lists support with the new Arc Graphics 32.0.101.5972 drivers that "Arc 140V" and "Arc 130V" GPUs are supported.

According to the last leaks, Intel's new Core Ultra 9 and Core Ultra 7 "Lunar Lake" processors will get Arc 140V with 8 Xe2-Cores, while the Core Ultra 5 SKUs will get Arc 130V with 7 Xe2-Cores. The highest-end Core Ultra 9 288V will have its Arc 140V GPU boosting up to 2.05GHz, while the lowest-end Lunar Lake chip will have its Arc 130V integrated GPU boosting at up to 1.85GHz.