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Last month during Computex, Nvidia and Rockstar announced that Red Dead Redemption 2 would be getting support for DLSS on RTX graphics cards. No date was announced at the time, but as it turns out, the update will be arriving next week.  Today, Rockstar announced the next content update for …

The graphics card pricing situation appears to be moving in the right direction. Last month, GPU prices were 81-91 percent above MSRP on average, but that number has been dropping. If GPU prices continue reducing at this rate, we might see some cards finally reach MSRP pricing. 

Following id Software’s RTX update for Doom Eternal earlier this week, some GeForce graphics card users began experiencing driver-related crashes. Fortunately for anyone experiencing this issue, a hotfix driver has now been made available. Earlier this week, Nvidia released the 471.11 driver, which enabled support for ray-tracing and DLSS in …

We check out ray tracing in Doom Eternal - how it does it look and perform?

Nvidia might be preparing to launch a new DLSS mode called ‘Ultra Quality'. Listed as a placeholder in Unreal Engine 5's DLSS documentation, details about this setting are still scarce, but looking at the 1.30x factor of the AMD FSR's ‘Ultra Quality', the new DLSS mode may follow that example. …

In Nvidia's first GeForce Now update for the month of July, the company has revealed that 36 games will be joining the library over the next few weeks. The first batch consists of 11 games and lands on GFN today.  Aside from a number of games joining GeForce Now today, …

Nvidia’s DLSS technology has slowly been making its way to more and more PC games – and for good reason too. While only available on Nvidia cards, the technology allows for a massive boost in performance while maintaining a high picture quality. EA has now confirmed that Battlefield 2042 will …

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After Nvidia announced plans to acquire ARM in a $40 billion deal, a number of tech companies raised concerns, including the likes of Qualcomm, Google and Microsoft. Now, several companies that license ARM technology are speaking out in support of Nvidia's takeover, providing counter arguments.  As reported by Bloomberg, this …

Nvidia started off this month promising to bring over 30 games to GeForce Now. As we near the end of June, the final batch of GeForce Now games for the month have been announced, with another 13 titles joining the library. Due to the inclusion of DLSS and ray-traced lighting …

To celebrate the ray tracing and DLSS coming to Doom Eternal, Nvidia and Bethesda have partnered up to create the Doom Eternal GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Limited Edition Demon Slayer bundle. The bundle is limited to 300 units, but first, you'll need to go through a lottery system just to buy one. 

Nvidia has just launched the public beta of Canvas, an app that turns sketches into beautiful landscapes. Using the real-time painting tool GauGAN, Canvas allows anyone with an RTX-powered system to create photo-like images out of their doodles. Through deep learning models and AI, Nvidia Canvas can turn basic strokes …

Nvidia keeps expanding the DLSS environment. With 57 games and counting, DLSS is now also supported on Unreal Engine 5 through a free plugin. Moreover, Nvidia will also introduce support for its upscaling technology on Unity 2021.2, but an exact date hasn't been set yet. As of today, DLSS is …

The latest phase of overpriced graphics cards might be coming to an end. According to a 3DCenter investigation into GPU market prices for current-gen AMD Radeon RX 6000 series and Nvidia RTX 30 series cards, the pricing of these cards is slowly reducing and stock is beginning to improve too. …

It is time for another GeForce Game Ready driver update. This time around, Nvidia is introducing RTX support for three titles – Lego Builder's Journey, DOOM Eternal and Rust. The driver also enables DLSS in Vulkan games using Proton to play on Linux-based systems.  Starting off with our RTX games, …

EK is launching a unique line of water blocks and fittings this week. The EK Lignum line blends the modern aesthetics of water cooling components with wood finishes. Each block has its own wood pattern too, making each one different to the next.  Based on the EK-Quantum Vector RE water …

We've seen a lot of game announcements over the last week and some of the biggest will be joining GeForce Now on day one. As part of this week's GFN update, we have confirmation on two major upcoming titles joining the service, in addition to ten more games joining the …

When Nvidia announced its deal to acquire Arm, several competing companies that rely on Arm spoke out against the move, including the likes of Qualcomm, sparking investigations into whether the deal should be allowed to go through. Nvidia is still confident that the deal will complete in 2022, but if …

Earlier this year, some reports claimed Nvidia would be re-launching the RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Super to meet the worldwide demand for graphics cards. However, a new rumour suggests that is no longer the case, as Nvidia will reduce RTX 2060 production to further increase production capacity for RTX …

In partnership with Nvidia, Colorful has opened up the world's first GPU History Museum in Shenzhen New Generation Industrial Park, China. As the first of its kind, the GPU History Museum is a tribute to graphics cards and everything directly related to it, showcasing its origins and evolution until now. …

A few weeks ago, updates to Nvidia's support pages suggested that support for Kepler-based GPUs would be ending later this year. Now, Nvidia has confirmed this, with plans to drop support for Kepler in October 2021. Nvidia's Kepler architecture has served well since launching in 2012 with the GTX 600 …

We put the RTX 3070 Ti to the test, with cards from MSI & Inno3D alongside Nvidia's Founders Edition

The PC GPU market continued to grow in 2021 despite supply constraints. Compared to Q1 2020, GPU shipments increased by 35 percent (year-on-year) in the first quarter of this year, coming close to matching Q4 2020 sales, avoiding the new-year drop off that we typically expect to see.  According to …

We are a few days away from the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, but the first benchmarks have already started to surface. The first benchmarks results are from Geekbench 5 and Ashes of the Singularity, which should give us a good idea of what to expect from …

With the RTX 3080 Ti now technically ‘available', it is time for a new Nvidia driver update. The latest GeForce driver brings day-one support for the RTX 3080 Ti, in addition to Nvidia DLSS and Reflex integration on several games.  Aside from day-one support for the RTX 3080 Ti, which …

Valve has been working to make PC gaming more accessible on Linux systems for a long time now, culminating in Steam Proton, a feature that allows almost any Windows game to run on Linux. Soon, Steam Proton may get an upgrade, as Nvidia is working with Valve to get DLSS …

RTX 3080 Ti is here - but does it need to exist?

Today at Computex, Nvidia announced the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards. Alongside these new GPUs, the company also announced a number of games getting RTX feature support, including the likes of Doom Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Rainbow Six Siege.  This follows on from rumours …

Today at Computex 2021, Nvidia officially announced the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, Nvidia's new gaming flagship. Up against the last generation RTX 2080 Ti, the 3080 Ti is said to be 1.5 times faster in games.  The jump to the Ampere architecture brought about 2nd Gen RT Cores …

Last month following Doom Eternal's 1-year anniversary, id Software confirmed that some major updates would be coming to the game later this year. It looks like one of those could be the long-awaited ray-tracing upgrade.  Nvidia is hosting a Computex keynote later today and Bethesda has confirmed that Doom Eternal …