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At GDC last year, we saw multiple tech companies begin discussing the potential for bringing real-time ray-tracing to video games. Nvidia was the first to really begin pushing that boat with the launch of RTX graphics cards, featuring specific hardware to make ray-tracing faster and more efficient. From today onward, …

Intel has confirmed that former Nvidia technical marketing director and distinguished engineer, Tom Petersen, has joined the Intel Graphics team.

Intel's hiring spree continues as reports claim that Tom Petersen has departed NVIDIA to join Team Blue.

RTX 20 series pricing is looking better this week as price cuts swoop in at OCUK

The introduction of GDDR6 has significantly closed the gap in memory standards, resulting in Samsung revising its high-bandwidth HBM2 architecture. Introducing HBM2E at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) earlier this week, the manufacturer promises up to 33 percent faster speeds and larger memory buffers while targeting artificial intelligence. Samsung dubbed …

Shadow of the Tomb Raider finally has RTX features - are they worth turning on?

Back when Nvidia began showing off RTX and DLSS running in games for the first time, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the few big titles supporting the technology. Unfortunately, the last six months have gone by without any word on when the RTX patch would arrive. That …

Soon you'll be able to turn ray-tracing on with your non-RTX graphics card.

There has been a lot of talk surrounding real-time raytracing over the last year. Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD all announced plans to begin supporting the technology at GDC 2018. Now this year, Crytek is carving out its own piece of the pie, releasing a real-time raytracing demo for CRYENGINE. CRYENGINE …

GTX 1660 has launched and we look at MSI's flagship Gaming X model

Since the launch of the DirectX 12 API, Microsoft has kept it exclusive to Windows 10. At this point, while there are 800 million Windows 10 devices out in the wild, there are still a good chunk of users running Windows 7. Now, those people will get access to DirectX …

A major acquisition isn't the only talking point floating around Nvidia today. We are also seeing the company end support for two of its products soon, the first being 3D Vision and the second being the last remaining Kepler-based mobile GPUs. 3D Vision debuted back in 2008 on the cusp …

Nvidia is set to make the biggest acquisition in its history. Today, team green announced that it has reached “a definitive agreement” to acquire Mellanox, a company that specialises in cloud computing, data centres and networking. Nvidia will acquire all issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per …

It's a triple-fan GTX 1660 Ti from Gigabyte - but with a £300 price tag

With the boom in popularity of the battle royale genre drawing millions of users per day, there has been an increased focus on squeezing every last bit of performance out of hardware. Better components certainly offer more frames per second, but Nvidia wanted discern whether more frames truly translated to …

Nvidia has kicked off this week with three announcements. For starters, a new Game Ready driver is debuting today with optimisations for Apex Legends, we've received news that the list of ‘G-Sync compatible' displays is expanding to include more options and a new RTX GPU bundle is also on the …

It's a dual-fan 1660 Ti from Gigabyte, priced at £269 - but is it any good?

Nvidia’s first security patch of 2019 fixes eight security issues that were present in the GPU Display Driver software.

While livestreaming is more accessible than it’s ever been before, many professionals continue to utilise a second PC in order to maximise performance. Nvidia is aiming to make this a thing of the past, as the latest version of OBS has improved support for the company’s proprietary NVENC hardware encoder, …

Nvidia has officially unveiled its Turing-based GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card, starting at £259.99/$279.

GTX 1660 Ti is official - is MSI's Gaming X model any good?

When Nvidia first announced the RTX 20-series, ray-tracing was just one of the features being heavily pushed. The other was of course DLSS, which uses machine learning cores on the GPU to analyse in-game frames and provide better anti-aliasing compared to other methods. Unfortunately, DLSS performance has been giving questionable …

It is an absolute MONSTER of a graphics card from MSI, with a price tag to match

This is a very busy week for videogame releases. We've got Metro Exodus, Crackdown 3, Far Cry New Dawn and Anthem all coming out at once. Nvidia GPU users planning to jump in to one of these games this weekend will want to check out the latest driver update. Nvidia's …

Over the last decade, laptop manufacturers have started to add high-end graphics capabilities to their repertoires as a means of securing a slice of the booming gaming PC market. However, as any gamer can tell you, even the best laptop GPU won't match a similarly-equipped desktop PC, and will still …

It has been just over one month since we first learned that DICE would be adding Nvidia's DLSS technology into Battlefield V. At first, we thought that the update would arrive at the same time as the RTX 2060 launch but that did not come to fruition. Fortunately, the DLSS …

From Software has spent the last few years focussing on the Soul series but now, it is time to move on to something new. Next month, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice will be launching on consoles and PC. For those planning on picking it up for the PC, the minimum and …

The NDA has been lifted on the Radeon VII graphics card. The reviews are in and retail listings are now starting to go live. Here in the UK, there are several Radeon VII options available at launch, each with a three-game bundle, with prices starting at £650.

Can AMD challenge in the high end graphics market with its new Radeon VII?

Sources speaking with KitGuru have confirmed that Radeon VII will be reference-only, with no custom versions from board partners.