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The US government has announced it will hand $6.4B to Samsung, in a bid to get more advanced chips produced on US soil. The company, headquartered in South Korea, is currently in the process of building chipmaking facilities, including a fab and packaging plant, in Taylor, Texas and this big influx of cash hopes to […]

The PC version of Horizon Forbidden West has been generally very well received, even if opinions of the original game are varied. That’s because it’s got the full gamut of upscalers on offer (DLSS, FSR, and XeSS), along with ultrawide monitor support, and even includes the use of DirectStorage. However, when it comes to frame […]

Reports of melting 12VHPWR power connectors surfaced almost immediately following the launch of the RTX 4090 back in October 2022. The issue was supposed to have been put to rest after Nvidia investigated the issue and released revised models featuring the updated 12V-2×6 connector, but it’s still rearing its ugly melted head in the year […]

Nvidia’s next-generation consumer GPUs, reportedly named Blackwell, are a hotly debated topic, especially now we seem to be inching ever closer to a likely release date. While Nvidia remains tight-lipped about its latest crop of graphics cards, the rumour mill does seem to be getting closer to a consensus with a report suggesting that board […]

When it comes to training large language models, the usual refrain is that the problem is a GPU shortage. Nvidia’s dominant chips, of course, are the ones all the various AI outfits beat each other up to acquire. But everyone’s favourite billionaire and tech prognosticator sees a different problem: We might not have enough power. […]

Intel’s next-gen Lunar Lake CPUs for laptops will majorly up the AI ante with 100-plus TOPS of AI processing power. So said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger at the company’s recent Vision 2024 event. In total, that’s about three times what Intel’s existing Meteor Lake can muster in terms of raw AI processing. Arguably more importantly, […]

You’ve probably seen posts on social media platforms before that go along the lines of ‘I ordered this product from that company, but they sent me something else.’ Sometimes the tales are genuine, sometimes it’s made up to garner attention, but it rarely goes any further than that. But when one Reddit user claimed that […]

Nvidia socialled up an image on its official GeForce X account earlier in the week that got tongues wagging. A large monolith-style graphics card obscuring the sun and tagged ‘Eclipse2024’? That’s clearly a portentous teaser for the RTX 5090 coming later this year, right? No wait, it’s an RTX 4090 Ti, isn’t it? Or should […]

Intel Battlemage will be the second modern generation of graphics card out of Intel, and likely to arrive before the end of the year. But when, exactly? Only Intel knows for sure, but new industry info points to a release date sometime before Black Friday. For non-Americans, the Battlemage launch is alleged to be sometime […]

Of all the issues that afflict PC gamers, whether it’s a dodgy driver, excessive fan noise, a buggy game patch or OLED burn-in, I would not have put the photodegradation of a GPU backplate in the top 100 of potential issues.  But apparently, it’s a thing. Two users on Reddit (via Videocardz) reported some photodegradation […]

Graphics card prices have been a contentious issue these past few years, with PC gamers having to cough up increasingly more money for a new GPU, thanks to inflation, fabrication cost rises, inventory restrictions, and a general lack of competition in the market.  Reports from China claim that Nvidia’s add-in board (AIB) partners are set […]

As SSDs have gotten ever cheaper, the appeal of traditional magnetic hard drives has waned. Well, for gamers if not some industrial scale storage applications. That’s remained true even with flash memory prices on the up of late. But if you want maximum capacity, there’s still no substitute for a spinning platter. Which is why […]

The US government has revised its sanctions (via Videocardz) on the level of GPU power it will allow to be exported to China. And it seems aimed specifically at stopping Nvidia selling its China-exclusive version of the RTX 4090 graphics card. With its “weighted TFLOPS” limit now being dropped down to 70 TFLOPS, that means […]

Correction 4/4/24: We’ve received clarification from Nvidia that export controls placed on systems will not impact Nvidia’s ability to export or sell the RTX 4090D in China. Nor has the US government regulation changed. The article has been corrected to reflect this. A document recently published by the US government clarifies sanctions on the level […]

There are plenty of familiar examples of technological marvels. Cramming billions of transistors into a computer chip is pretty amazing, for instance. But did you know just how cool streaming video is? Intel’s Tom Petersen recently gave Gamers Nexus a deep dive into the nuts and bolts of video compression and the details are genuinely […]

Barring an unforeseen late arrival, the Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPU families are complete for this generation. The underlying GPUs are a well known quantity at this point so now it’s just a case of seeing what fun things board partners can do to differentiate their cards from the rest of the market.  But it’s […]

CEOs of big tech companies often get together for promotional duties and PR events. Such meetings usually involve talking about a new project they’re working on or an investment of some kind worth billions of dollars. So, when Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia got together for a recent “jersey-swap” on Instagram, you […]

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are some of the largest chips made, and in just over a decade, the most powerful graphics processors have gone from comprising a few billion transistors to over 100. But even those figures will be tiny compared to what lies ahead in the future, according to TSMC, and it’s explained how […]

Fed up with silly graphics card prices? Then build your own, including the GPU itself, the PCB, drivers the works. That sounds like a silly, perhaps impossible, notion given the complexity of modern graphics cards. Heck, even the might of Intel has struggled with many aspects of entering the GPU market with its new Arc […]

The latest update for Diablo 4 has arrived, and with it comes the much-anticipated addition of ray tracing effects. Both ray traced shadows and reflections are now available to enable in the settings menu, along with some extra goodies, so I jumped in for a bit of testing to see what sort of performance you […]