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NVIDIA today is quietly launching a new entry-level graphics card for the retail market, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB. Based on a cut-down version of their budget Ampere-architecture GA107 GPU, the new card brings what was previously an OEM-only product to the retail market. Besides adding another part to NVIDIA's deep product stack, the launch of the RTX 3050 6GB also comes with another perk: lower power consumption thanks to this part targeting system installs where an external PCIe power connector would not be needed. NVIDIA's partners, in turn, have not wasted any time in taking advantage of this, and today Palit is releasing its first fanless KalmX board in years: the GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB. The GeForce RTX 3050 6GB is based on...
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 & GTX 1070 Founders Editions Review: Kicking Off the FinFET Generation
It has taken about 2 years longer than we’d normally see, but the next full generation of GPUs are finally upon us. Powered by FinFET based nodes at TSMC...
201 by Ryan Smith on 7/20/2016ASUS, Inno3D, & Gigabyte Tease Custom GeForce GTX 1060 Cards
Yesterday we saw the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060. Though NVIDIA is producing a reference Founders Edition card, as this is a more mainstream product, NVIDIA is leaving...
55 by Daniel Williams on 7/8/2016NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060: Starting at $249, Available July 19th
Excitingly, GPU Season 2016 is now in full swing. In the last two months we have seen NVIDIA launch a pair of high-end cards – the Pascal-based GeForce GTX...
228 by Ryan Smith on 7/7/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.69 WHQL Game Ready Driver
NVIDIA is back once again with their first driver release for the month of July. This latest update, 368.69 WQHL, is focused on the usual mix of fixes, along...
3 by Daniel Williams on 7/7/2016GIGABYTE Announces GeForce GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC
As the various board partners finally begin unveiling their custom GTX 1000 series designs, GIGABYTE has arrived with their latest entry in the Mini ITX game. GIGABYTE’s GeForce GTX...
21 by Daniel Williams on 7/5/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.39 WHQL Game Ready Driver, Adds GTX 1070 Support
As the GeForce GTX 1070 approaches, NVIDIA has prepared a driver release for the upcoming card. Along with support to the coming GPU and a list of fixes, we...
30 by Daniel Williams on 6/8/2016ZOTAC MAGNUS EN980 Detailed - A SFF VR-Ready PC with GeForce GTX 980
Several months ago, ZOTAC introduced its ZBOX MAGNUS EN980 PC featuring NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980 Notebook GPU. It was positioned as one of the world’s smallest VR-Ready systems. This...
18 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2016Zotac and EVGA Reveal Custom GeForce GTX 1080 Designs
A few weeks back we saw the announcement of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080. NVIDIA put the founders cards on sale first, with third-party cards set to be released later...
39 by Daniel Williams on 5/27/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.22 WHQL Game Ready Driver
As the news has been, new game releases means more driver updates. Alongside game ready support for more titles this week and a fix we also get a heads...
13 by Daniel Williams on 5/24/2016NVIDIA Posts Full GeForce GTX 1070 Specifications: 1920 CUDA Cores Boosting to 1.68GHz
Back when NVIDIA first announced the GeForce GTX 1080 earlier this month, they also briefly announced that the GTX 1070 would be following it. The GTX 1070 would follow...
137 by Ryan Smith on 5/18/2016The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Preview: A Look at What's to Come
Earlier this month NVIDIA announced their latest generation flagship GeForce card, the GeForce GTX 1080. Based on their new Pascal architecture and built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, the...
263 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2016Micron Confirms Mass Production of GDDR5X Memory
Micron Technology this week confirmed that it had begun mass production of GDDR5X memory. As revealed last week, the first graphics card to use the new type of graphics...
59 by Anton Shilov on 5/12/2016NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series: GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Arrive In May & June
After many months of speculation – and more than a little anticipation – at an event in Austin, Texas this evening, NVIDIA announced the next generation of GeForce video...
234 by Ryan Smith on 5/7/2016NVIDIA To Hold Special GeForce Livestream On May 6th at 6pm Pacific
NVIDIA has announced via their website and Twitter feed that the company will be holding a special GeForce livestream this week. The event be broadcast on NVIDIA’s Twitch channel. NVIDIA...
45 by Ryan Smith on 5/5/2016NVIDIA Releases 365.10 WHQL Game Ready Driver
With more game releases and open betas coming down the pipe this spring, driver developers are getting busy preparing our graphics cards for the new games. This time NVIDIA...
8 by Daniel Williams on 5/3/2016ZOTAC Quietly Releases GeForce GT 710 Graphics Card with PCIe x1 Interface
ZOTAC has quietly introduced a new video card which is compatible with virtually every desktop PC released in the recent years. The new GeForce GT 710 graphics card with...
55 by Anton Shilov on 4/22/2016EVGA Releases GeForce GTX 950 Low Power Graphics Cards with 75W TDP
EVGA this week unveiled their NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950-based video cards with reduced power consumption. As a result, these new cards do not require auxiliary power connectors and can...
26 by Anton Shilov on 4/7/2016The NVIDIA GTC 2016 Keynote Live Blog
We're here in sunny San Jose for the 2016 edition of NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC). With CEO Jen-Hsun Huang presenting, we're expecting a Pascal-heavy presentation about the...
48 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2016ASUS Unveils the VivoMini VM65N: a NUC-Like mini-PC with GT 930M
Intel’s NUC and Mini-STX form-factors are designed to build tiny PCs with decent performance with more or less standard components. However, these form-factors have traditionally not supported discrete graphics...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/17/2016