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Back in Q3 2018, Nvidia reported lower than expected results due to a weakened crypto-mining market and excess Pascal inventory taking longer to sell. Then for Q4 2018, Nvidia had to cut its earnings estimates due to weaker than forecasted sales in the gaming and datacentre markets. Now, we have …

Over the last few years, a company known as ‘Xperi Corporation’ has been throwing patent infringement lawsuits at some of the biggest companies in tech. In 2017, Xperi won a settlement and license agreement with Broadcom and managed to achieve the same result against Samsung in December 2018. Now, Xperi …

The latest Nvidia GeForce driver has arrived, bringing performance improvements and day-one optimisations for some of the biggest game releases this month. Today's driver release focuses on optimisations for Rage 2 and Total War: Three Kingdoms but should also bring a hefty performance boost to World War Z. World War …

Nvidia expands its laptop graphics offerings with the GTX 1660Ti and GTX 1650

Leo helped me build my first custom loop gaming PC - it was good fun - see how I got on !

So far today, we've seen plenty of announcements for the revamped, 2019 range of Acer Predator products, including a new monitor, a new desktop and two new Helios series laptops. Now, our attention is turning to the Acer Nitro series, which strikes a decent balance between price and performance. Today …

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, …

MSI makes some of the best aftermarket graphics cards around and the updated Trio air cooler design is a big part of that success. Still, sometimes you want the temperatures that only liquid cooling can truly provide. For those people, EKWB has announced today that it is releasing MSI Gaming …

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

KitGuru explores the many high-quality April Fools’ Day jokes that the tech world has put out in 2019.

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

It's got a Ryzen 5 2600 and GTX 1660 - but still costs less than £700

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

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

The specification of 8Pack OrionX2 has evolved from the previous OrionX (base spec £25k, typical spec £30k) with the main system migrating from Intel X99 and ten CPU cores to Intel X299 with 18 cores and 36 threads. The secondary system moving from quad core Kaby Lake to 8 cores of i9-9900K.

While many more companies are currently working on their cloud services, Nvidia’s GeForce Now has been around for quite some time. Unveiling its “GeForce Now Alliance” banner, Nvidia has revealed its first two partners which will help bring the subscription-based service to two “major gaming markets” in the East. After …

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

A stunning 144Hz IPS display matched to an RTX 2070 and Core i7.

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

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

RTX laptops are finally hitting retail but early adopters will want to double check their version of Windows if they want to take advantage of ray-tracing.