Video Cards & GPUs - Page 306

NVIDIA has had a ray tracing graphics card on the market for close to a year now, with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang having some fighting words for gamers (and its competitor). In NVIDIA's recent earnings call Q&A session, Huang said you'd be crazy to buy a GPU in 2019 without ray tracing support.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said: "SUPER is off to a super start for and at this point, it's a foregone conclusion that we're going to buy a new graphics card, and it's going to the last 2, 3, 4 years to not have ray tracing is just crazy".

Huang continued: "Ray tracing content just keeps coming out. And between the performance of SUPER and the fact that it has ray tracing hardware, it's going to be super well positioned for throughout all of next year".

AMD posted a blog detailing the way that the GPU boosting algorithm and thermal management systems work on the new Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, just as the custom Navi cards are dropping.

There has been some mystery with how it all works but Mithun Chandrasekhar -- senior manager, product management, Radeon Technologies Group at AMD posted a lengthy and detailed blog on the official AMD website.

In the post, Chandrasekhar writes that with AMD taking its extensive network of thermal sensors spread out across the Navi GPU on the Radeon RX 5700 series cards to "intelligently monitor and tune performance in response to granular GPU activity in real-time".

SAPPHIRE launched its new Radeon RX 5700 XT PULSE OC graphics card today, one of the first custom Navi cards to be released and a kick ass offering for Radeon gamers. You can read my review on it here.

The new SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 5700 XT PULSE OC has more performance than the reference RX 5700 XT, runs significantly cooler (16C cooler in my testing), and much quieter than the reference model. It offers performance roughly 5-10% better than NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, and all for $409.

SAPPHIRE also includes a new feature in TriXX Boost, which reduces the rendering resolution and upscales it using Radeon Image Sharpening resulting in up to 10-15% more performance in games.

Update: AMD has issued a statement, clarifying the situation: "We expect there will continue to be strong supply of Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards in the market, with multiple designs starting to arrive from our AIB partners. As is standard practice, once the inventory of the AMD reference cards has been sold, AMD will continue to support new partner designs with Radeon RX 5700 series reference design kit".

AMD only launched its Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 just over a month ago now, and now we have reports from Cowcotland that the new Navi-based cards have been pushed into EOL status, or end-of-life.

The news is a surprise, but it does make sense if you think about it. The reference cards eat up AMD manufacturing time and most likely cost them a decent amount of coin to produce, and in a few days the third-party custom Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 cards launch.

This news is dripping with so much rumor mill juice that you're going to need both a bucket, and a tub of salt -- but according to RedGamingTech AMD is working on two new high-end Navi GPUs.

AMD's new Navi 21 and Navi 23 GPUs are reportedly known internally as "NVIDIA killers" with the latter powering a next-gen Radeon RX series graphics card that will dethrone NVIDIA (can't wait to see this go down). The new Navi GPUs are based on the second-gen RDNA architecture, will use the refreshed 7nm+ node, and battle it out against NVIDIA's next-gen GPUs.

NVIDIA's next-gen cards should arrive sometime in 2020 under the GeForce RTX 30 series, and will battle it out with AMD but on better footing this time. Ray tracing is going to be a gigantic deal in 2020 with both next-gen consoles launching with ray tracing support thanks to unreleased AMD hardware powering both consoles.

It seems like today is the day for custom Navi reveals, with the new HIS Radeon RX 5700 XT IceQ X2 teased and now something from GIGABYTE.

Here we have the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 5700 XT GAMING OC, with its triple-fan cooler and 2.5-slot design. It's nothing fancy and I would dare say that the OC this card is going to be mild, so that there's some distance between the GIGABYTE and AORUS (enthusiast/OC) models.

We still have a (plain) backplate, which will take some heat from the rear of the card.

MSI has officially teased its upcoming Radeon RX 5700 XT EVOKE OC graphics card, with an official image that they've shared with us to release now. It's not much...

... but it's all we were given. MSI's new Radeon RX 5700 XT EVOKE OC graphics card rocks a slick gold/black style by the looks of things, but this is just a tease. The company has shipped us a sample for review, so once the NDA is up on the custom Radeon RX 5700 card reviews you can be your bottom dollar (or should that be gold) that we'll have a review ready for you.

MSI's new Radeon RX 5700 XT EVOKE OC graphics card should have overclocked GPU frequencies and the same 8GB of GDDR6, all on a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot and should have 8+6-pin PCIe power connectors. We'll know more in the coming days.

The latest version of GPU-Z has improved support for AMD's new Radeon RX 5700 series graphics cards, with TechPowerUp detailing the new GPU-Z v2.23.0 in a new post.

TPU also added in support for additional variants of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 SUPER, while a bunch of other graphics cards on both Team Green and Team Red received added support in GPU-Z v2.23.0.

The new version has an updated icon and splash screen with high-DIP support, so high-res monitor owners and reviewers/benchmarkers willl enjoy that. GPU-Z is a staple of my life, so the new changes are welcomed. You can grab TechPowerUp GPU-Z v2.23.0 here.

Update: Lisa herself has responded to the rumor, slamming it -- and that she loves AMD and the "best is yet to come".

Prepare the salt because this rumor is a juicy one, but AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is reportedly looking at leaving the company and joining IBM. Shock horror, right? The latest rumor from Wccftech is a big one, and something I've heard whispers (but didn't want to believe them) of, too.

According to sources of Usman Pirzada from Wccftech: "Lisa Su is eyeing the #2 position at IBM with the eventual goal to end up as CEO and President of IBM, replacing Ginni Rometty. The advanced groundwork for this transition has apparently already been laid down as you will read further in this article. While I do not know the exact reasons for why Lisa would choose IBM of all companies to move to, I am told that this is something that she has wanted for a very long time".

XFX is swinging back into the market with its new custom Radeon RX 5700 series, with two new designs of cards coming out in the new RAW2 and THICC2.

Older gamers will remember the old school days of XFX with its custom Double Dissipation cards, which was a great design and popular at the time. XFX is bringing it back with the new Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC2 graphics card, with a 2.5-slot design and a wickedly-styled 1950s style grille on the end of the card.

XFX is using dual 10cm fans on the THICC2, a full metal backplate and is wider and longer than the PCB itself... so the XFX RX 5700 XT THICC2 is truly well endowed.