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Chances are, if you have $3000 or £2,700 to spend on a graphics card like the Nvidia Titan V, then you'll have a bit extra to invest in proper cooling. It has taken a little while to develop, but Titan V owners can now shift from the GPU's reference cooler …

Last year, the graphics industry had a major shakeup, with Raja Koduri switching to the blue team to take the reins on discrete GPU development for Intel. Since then, things have been somewhat quiet, but this week that changed with some discrete GPU prototype details making their way onto the web.

While Intel's integrated GPUs have never been a particularly strong option for PC gaming, it is an option that many still use to this date. In fact, Steam's hardware survey will often show Intel iGPUs among the most used. To help those users, Intel is introducing a new feature to …

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The graphics card rumour mill has been spinning back up recently, with reports claiming that Nvidia's next gaming graphics cards will be here in less than two months time under the name ‘Ampere'. However, a wrench was thrown into the works today thanks to the folks at Reuters, who claim …

Nvidia wasn’t shy of the success brought about by the current cryptocurrency boom during its earnings call on Friday, but it similarly hasn’t forgotten the huge problem it has been presenting gamers. The company has taken the time to reiterate previous statements, reassuring that gamers are still the number one …

At this point, Nvidia has surely reached the end of the Pascal life-cycle with no additional launches planned. While many of us were expecting Volta to feature in the next generation of GeForce graphics cards, a report back in November said otherwise, claiming that ‘Ampere' would be Nvidia's next generation …

Graphics cards have been harder to get over the last few months, in large part due to demand from cryptocurrency miners. Prices have gone through the roof and it looks like retailers want to cash in on the mining craze further, with Amazon and Newegg beginning to list graphics card …

This week, AMD has announced that it is teaming up with Valve to bring support for AMD's TrueAudio Next technology to Steam in an effort to improve audio in virtual reality content. By baking TrueAudio Next in with Steam Audio, virtual reality titles will get increased acoustic complexity and detail, …

Back in November, we heard that SUMCO, one of the largest silicon wafer producers in the world, was planning to increase prices by 20 percent this year, with another price increase planned in 2019. Now, it looks like other Silicon wafer manufacturers are joining in, with Taiwan's GlobalWafers confirming that …

Nvidia acknowledged the short supply of graphics cards last week, prompting retailers to step in and prioritise gamers over cryptocurrency miners. Now, AMD has addressed the issue, attempting to solve the problem entirely by ramping up the production of more units. The root of the short supply of GPUs surrounds …

AMD has filled Raja Koduri's shoes with two industry veterans, Mike Rayfield and David Wang, who will now lead the Radeon Technologies Group.

It took some time, but over the last few months we've seen custom RX Vega cards finally making their way out. On the Sapphire side, we've seen Nitro+ versions of the RX Vega 64 and 56. Now this week, Sapphire is expanding its lineup with the RX Vega 56 Pulse Edition, opting for a dual-fan custom cooler known as the Dual-X.

It’s no secret that now isn’t the best time to build a custom PC, with the prices of hardware going through the roof. Part of the problem is cryptocurrency miners, but now Nvidia has spoken out against retailers selling to digital miners, asking for gamers to be prioritised instead. The …

Hot in the heels of Samsung's 16-gigabit GDDR6 announcement last night, SK Hynix has also begun listing its own GDDR6 memory modules as ‘available'. We've known for a while that SK Hynix has been working on GDDR6 with a 2018 roll out date in mind, though these chips won't be …

Samsung is preparing for the next wave of graphics cards by kicking off mass production on the industry's first 16-Gigabit GDDR6 memory

Earlier today, AMD officially updated its 2018 roadmap with new information on its second generation Ryzen CPUs, APUs and 400-series motherboards. However, CPUs weren't the only focus of AMD's pre-CES festivities, as a small update has also been made to AMD's 2018 to 2020 GPU roadmap. Last year, AMD launched …

Intel has unveiled its full lineup of G-series processors sporting Radeon RX Vega M graphics. We have the full spec sheet, alongside some early indications of performance.

Last year, Intel and AMD made its long rumored collaboration official, with Intel announcing that its new Core-H series processors would use on-board graphics from AMD's Radeon team. Since then, things have grown quiet, but this week, Intel began listing the specs for its Core i7-8809G CPU, featuring RX Vega. …

In the tech world, revised PCB designs aren't exactly uncommon and often go unnoticed. However, this week we've come across the rare occasion where a PCB design change has introduced some compatibility issues. Recently, Asus introduced a revised PCB design for the ROG Strix GTX 1080Ti, which EKWB has warned …

Micron has been working on GDDR6 graphics memory for quite some time, announcing earlier this year that the time frame for release had moved up this year. While we won’t see commercial launched until next year, the company has made good on its promise as it increases production ready to …

KitGuru readers are always active on social media, so over the weekend we asked our Facebook readers to let us know what they thought of Nvidia's current graphics card pricing. Close to a thousand of you shared your thoughts with us so today, we are sharing the results of the …

With AMD's RX Vega now out and about, it is time to start looking towards the future. We've known for some time that Vega will be followed up by ‘Navi' at some point between 2018 and 2020. Now, we know that progress is being made as AMD's next-gen GPU has …

It's getting close to Christmas, so we are getting in the holiday spirit! For day four, we are teaming up with PALIT, giving readers the chance to win a Palit GTX 1070Ti Super JetStream graphics card!

Graphics card pricing has been in flux throughout 2017, with prices going up more often than down. Here at KitGuru, we’re running a short poll to see how our readers feel about the current pricing across Nvidia’s line-up of GPUs and would love to hear your thoughts down in the …

We finally get hands-on with a custom Vega 64 card - just how good is it?

This is a monster card - and its on sale this week at OCUK for £100 off. One not to miss!

Titan V benchmarks have been cropping up for the past week, giving us a deeper look into Nvidia’s new Volta architecture across a variety of tools. This time, the card is put through its paces against modern games using the ever-popular Futuremark 3DMark benchmarking software. Oh, hi Mark. Under the …

While AMD provide incremental updates to its Radeon Software throughout the year, it’s taken to comprehensive annual overhauls since the release of Catalyst Omega at the end of 2014. Now, it welcomes the Adrenalin Edition, getting Radeon owners’ blood pumping with a focus on latency reduction. It might not be …

Last week, Nvidia surprised us with the launch of its first Volta graphics card, the Titan V coming in at an eye watering price of $3000. It seems that the Titan V might just be living up to its price, as Unigine Superposition benchmarks show impressive results. Nvidia's Titan V …