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Perhaps the one and only thing that could potentially derail NVIDIA's ability to continue raking money in hand over fist in the AI era would be a design flaw that impacts chip yields. That's exactly what NVIDIA has been contending with in regards to its Blackwell GB200 silicon. However, NVIDIA's chief financial...
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Have you tried the NVIDIA App yet, dear reader? It's a new piece of software from NVIDIA that combines most of the functions of GeForce Experience with the system configuration capabilities of the venerable NVIDIA Control Panel. You can download it right now; we've been using it for months. However, that version is a...
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang had high praise to offer for Elon Musk and his team at xAI, calling them "superhuman." In an interview with YouTube channel BG2 Pod, Huang remarked that Elon's specific combination of engineering smarts and project management is "singular", and credited both the X owner and NVIDIA's own...
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Most of the early attention on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card has been on the flagship GeForce RTX 5090, along with the two other GPUs that are expected to be announced at (or at least around) the same time—the GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5070. Historically, there can be a longer wait for...
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NVIDIA is widely expected to unveil its GeForce RTX 50 series lineup at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, 2025, where company CEO Jensen Huang is on the docket for an opening keynote. If past launches are any indication, we'll get a glimpse at the top three models—presumably the flagship GeForce RTX...
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Go ask analysts, investors, and tech bros what kind of company NVIDIA is and they'll immediately shoot back with "AI". It's definitely true that AI has fuelled the company's meteoric rise to become the largest company in the world by market cap in recent years. However, NVIDIA's expertise is in creating massive...
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As the end of the year quickly approaches, new tidbits of information start to indicate what NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series may be like. While a 2024 release is unlikely, all hints point to a potential announcement at CES 2025 in January. One interesting rumor relating to VRAM is how the GeForce RTX 5080 will stack up...
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Move over AMD, Intel, and especially Qualcomm, and make room for MediaTek, which is rumored to be making a serious move into the PC space with an intriguing AI chip collaboration with NVIDIA. While nothing has been officially announced yet, it's notable that NVIDIA and MediaTek have teamed up before—NVIDIA's DRIVE...
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We know with reasonable certainty that NVIDIA is planning to launch a new flagship graphics card in the not-too-distant future, and very likely the GeForce RTX 5090. There are too many leaks and rumors to suggest otherwise. What we don't know yet, at least not officially, is when exactly the GeForce RTX 50 series will...
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As with the cycle of life, GPUs come and go in regular succession. NVIDIA has not yet announced its next-generation Blackwell RTX 50 series GPUs, but rumors suggest they are likely to come as soon as early 2025. With that said, the current inventory of GeForce RTX 4080 Super and RTX 4090 GPUs may start to seriously...
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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 is a powerful GPU, dominating the charts across virtually all games today (see our GeForce RTX 4090 review). The RTX 4090 variants found in mobile laptops, while still powerful in their own right, are not the same GPU with performance on a much lower tier compared to their desktop...
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We never did end up seeing a Ti or Super variant of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 like there was with the previous generation's top SKU (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti). That ship has sailed at this point and instead, all eyes are looking ahead to NVIDIA's next-generation Blackwell lineup. While we wait for the eventual...
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There are multiple reasons to think that discrete graphics cards would see a decline in shipments during this time of the year, such as typical seasonality and this being the tail-end of the current generation product cycle for AMD (Radeon RX 7000 series), NVIDIA (GeForce RTX 40 series), and Intel (Arc A-series)...
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In all likelihood, it will be another few months before NVIDIA unveils its GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards based on its Blackwell GPU architecture. While we wait, the leaks and rumors are piling up, as are some events that could affect the eventual launch of NVIDIA's next-gen gaming GPUs. One of those events is...
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NVIDIA reached out to ask if we wanted to test one of their RTX 40 Laptops "for STEM students," and my ears perked up. Not only because I'm two years into a Neuroscience PhD and enjoy being catered to by tech companies, but because this use case doesn't get a lot of attention compared to things like gaming...
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NVIDIA has served up yet another record quarter, as revealed in its latest earnings release that reflects $30 million in revenue for the three-month period ended July 28, 2024. That's up 15% sequentially and 122% compared to a year ago. Not unexpectedly, it was more record performance in NVIDIA's Data Center division...
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These days, virtually every monitor—certainly every gaming monitor—supports at least some form of variable refresh rate technology. NVIDIA's G-SYNC was the pioneer, but AMD's FreeSync is far more ubiquitous largely due to its lower costs and less stringent requirements. Essentially, FreeSync simply requires a monitor...
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When we talk about technological advancements in video games, there are a few things that always spring to mind: new rendering techniques or paradigms, advanced physics simulation, or perhaps new ways of presenting the game, like streaming. There's an area where nothing has really changed in 40 years, though, and...
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World of Warcraft is one of the longest running game franchises in history, with an ardent following amongst its fans. Likewise, NVIDIA is the current champ of anything gaming in the world (in terms of GPU hardware and advanced features like real-time ray tracing), so it is befitting both work in synergy. As such...
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While gamers anxiously wait for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series to release sometime inn the near future, there is some other minor news afoot. The GeForce RTX 4070 may be old at this point, but it may still get some changes—a new variant of the RTX 4070 from Galax, an NVIDIA partner, has popped up.
Apparently, this...
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Gaming enthusiasts are no longer the only party in town patiently anticipating NVIDIA GPUs; investors bent on the AI craze are just as anxious. In its fourth quarter earning call, Super Micro Computer reveals that the new Blackwell GPUs from NVIDIA are simply not ready yet.
The highly anticipated NVIDIA Blackwell...
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Amid unofficial chatter that NVIDIA is postponing the launch of its next-generation GeForce RTX 50 series powered by its Blackwell architecture, there's another unconfirmed report stating that the previous-generation GeForce RTX 3060 has just been put on the chopping block. No big deal, right? Sure, except that also...
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