Video Cards & GPUs - Page 335

If you want to cool that $3000 graphics card of yours, then your TITAN V deserves EK Water Blocks' new EK-FC TITAN V full cover GPU water block that will keep your GPU, HBM2, and VRMs nice and cool.

NVIDIA's super-fast TITAN V is a dual-slot graphics card in stock form, but the EK-FC TITAN V water block will reduce it to a sleek single-slot beast. EKWB's water block directly cools the GPU, HBM2 memory, and VRMs so that you can hit maximum overclocks without any part of the card cooking too much and reducing your OC headroom.

EKWB's new EK-FC TITAN V is available through EK's own Webshop and the Partner Reseller Network. It's availabble in four different varieties:

I've just gotten off the phone with a well-placed source in the industry who has told me that NVIDIA will indeed be launching a new GeForce GTX series at GTC 2018.

During NVIDIA's own GPU Technology Conference we should see the company launch the GeForce GTX 2080 and GTX 2070, although the naming scheme on them could change. We could see the GTX 1180 and GTX 1170, which wouldn't surprise me. Inside, the card will be running a refreshed Ampere architecture that should have even more power under the hood, as well as improved power efficiency over Pascal.

NVIDIA should be launching their new cards in late-April or early-May. NVIDIA traditionally hosts an Editor's Day to unveil their new GeForce graphics cards, but my source said this is being shifted around to GTC 2018.

ASUS has just unveiled their latest in their line of Phoenix branded graphics card with the new GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Phoenix, coming in with a compact design.

The new ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Phoenix is short, at just 18.3 inches long on a custom-made PCB. ASUS cools the new card with a simple aluminum heat sink, spiral-looking fans, and an 80mm cooler.

ASUS ships the GTX 1060 6GB Phoenix with NVIDIA's reference clocks, so we have 1506/1708MHz for base/boost GPU clocks, respectively. There's 6GB of GDDR5 memory on-board at its stock 8Gbps frequency.

BITNAND sent out an email overnight letting everyone know they have their new stock of NVIDIA P106-090 6GB Mining Cards about to drop, where they will begin shipping later this month.

The new NVIDIA P106-090 Mining Card can be purchased directly from BITNAND for $389, with individual card performance varying from batch to batch. BITNAND notes that the "overclocked performance is not a guarantee and will depend on individual card's performance". This is what BITNAND are promising, but these results will vary from card to card slightly:

As for the technical specifications of BITNAND's new NVIDIA P106-090 Mining Card:

AMD have just released their latest Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.2.2 drivers that are optimized for some of the latest, and biggest games on the market.

The new RSAE 18.2.2 drivers are optimized for the just-released Kingdom Come: Deliverance, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Epic Games' runaway hit Fortnite. There are performance gains for the Radeon RX 580 and RX Vega 56 in Kingdom Come: Deliverance of 4% and 3%, respectively.

The new drivers improve Fortnite performance on the RX Vega 56 by 5%, while PUBG enjoys an additional 7% on the RX 580.

NVIDIA kicks off its GPU Technology Conference late next month and now we're hearing that the company will be launching its new Turing GPU architecture during GTC 2018.

Reuters is the source behind the news so we have some credit behind it, but the site says that Turing will be NVIDIA's new 'gaming GPU' which leads me to believe that my world exclusive story from a couple of days ago is right: NVIDIA will launch two new GPU series, with one focused on gamers and one for miners.

Turing is an interesting choice as the codename is a nod to Alan Turing who was "highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine" according to Wikipedia. Since Turing has roots in cryptography, it would make sense that the Turing-based card will be for miners, while Ampere will be aimed at gamers.

It's no surprise that COLORFUL has dived right into the world of Battlegrounds, as it is one of the biggest AIB partners of NVIDIA, and the biggest GeForce GTX 10 seller in China - one of the largest markets for gaming in the world.

COLORFUL has double downed on the entire PUBG frenzy, with the company releasing a performance chart that tallies up all of COLORFUL's custom GeForce GTX 10 series cards, starting from the GTX 1050 Ti right through to the GTX 1080 Ti.

As you can see, starting with the GTX 1060 3GB you can safely play PUBG at 1080p 60FPS on Ultra settings, which is not too damn bad at all. If you're after 120FPS or higher, that is GTX 1080 Ti territory, while the middle of the road GTX 1070 Ti pushes 103FPS average.

NVIDIA is poised to release its new GeForce GTX 20 series in the next couple of months, with sources telling me it'll happen in March and then other sources saying April. Whatever the release is, it's comign in the next couple of months and it's going to be big. I recently wrote one of our biggest stories of the last 12 months with 'Could NVIDIA block GeForce 20 series cards from mining' and have been thinking about it ever since.

We should see the revised Ampere GPU architecture with it being a refreshed Pascal GPU, but made by Samsung on their 14nm FinFET node, versus Pascal's entire GP10x lineup that is on 16nm by TSMC. On top of the refreshed Ampere GPU we'll see the introduction of GDDR6 which is really going to change things at the high-end side of memory bandwidth.

The perfect card for NVIDIA's new Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGDs), as driving the 65-inch 4K 120FPS with G-Sync and HDR isn't going to be easy, even with the current flock of GTX 10 series cards. But with all of this purported brute speed and bandwidth, the GTX 20 series cards will be even better in miners' eyes as they'll have what should be some amazing hashing rate for cryptocurrency miners.

NVIDIA is preparing a new GTX 20 series of graphics cards that should debut with the purported GeForce GTX 2080 in April under the new Ampere GPU family, a refresh of the industry-leading Pascal GPU family released in 2016.

This reveal would see the new GeForce GTX 2080 revealed, which would have to pack more performance than the GTX 1080 from nearly two years ago. But how much faster can it be before it beats the GTX 1080 Ti? What if the new GTX 2080 could beat the GTX 1080 Ti at a price point of $599 but it is not capable of cryptocurrency mining?

NVIDIA will be shooting themselves in the foot with a refreshed GA104-based GeForce GTX 2080 that even comes close to the performance of the GTX 1080 Ti, because at that point gamers won't want to buy a graphics card from March 2017 when the new GTX 20 series is here. So NVIDIA has to find a way to make its GTX 1080 Ti relevant in a market where the GTX 2080 is out, and that could be from a GPU-level ban of crypto mining on the GTX 20 series cards.

The latest rumor for NVIDIA's refreshed GeForce GTX 20 series is that the company will be unveiling the new Ampere-based series in April, close to two years after the reveal of the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 in Austin, Texas.

The new rumors are coming from readers that were posting on German site 3DCenter, teasing that TSMC has stopped production of GP102, the GPU that powers the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. This would mean that current-gen GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN X graphics cards would stop, or at least heavily slow down throughout the rest of 2018 for the unraveling of the GTX 20 series from NVIDIA.

I've been talking about the GeForce GTX 2080 since October 2016... if you can believe it... and it seems we should expect big things from the GTX 20 series. Now that GDDR6 is ready, we'll see NVIDIA use the super-fast new VRAM technology on a smaller bus than the GTX 1080 Ti (and soon GTX 2080 Ti).