Neowin News Feed for: Geforce

TechSpot: History of the GPU #4 - The Coming of General Purpose GPUs

Julio Franco — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:47:00 +0100

Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity by enlarging the die area, which increased vertex shader functionality in addition to boosting the floating point... Read more...

Nvidia Desktop Geforce 700 series might be unveiled as early as next month

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:07:12 +0100

Folks are expecting the new desktop Geforce 700 series to hit market early next year but a rumor says we might see the new graphics chips as early as next month before the Computex trade show. Read more...

TechSpot: History of the GPU #3 - The Nvidia vs. ATI era begins

Julio Franco — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:27:07 +0100

Prior to the Voodoo 5's arrival, ATI had announced the Radeon DDR as “the most powerful graphics processor ever designed for desktop PCs.” Previews of the card had already gone public... Read more...

NVIDIA announces new GeForce 700M series cards

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:51:46 +0100

NVIDIA has expanded its new mobile line of graphics cards, the first mobile cards to use the company's Kepler architecture. The cards also come with NVIDIA's new GPU Boost 2.0 technology. Read more...

NVIDIA shows off new roadmaps for graphics and mobile chips

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:20:04 +0000

NVIDIA revealed new roadmaps for its graphics and mobile processors today as part of its annual GPU Technology Conference Tuesday, along with a new computer server, the Grid VCA. Read more...

TechSpot: SimCity Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:21:37 +0000

Normally when we benchmark a first person shooter, finding a good portion of the game to test with is simply a matter of playing through the game until we find a section that is rather demanding... Read more...

TechSpot: Tomb Raider GPU and CPU performance

Julio Franco — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:50:01 +0000

Tomb Raider supports DirectX 11, which brings access to rendering technologies such as depth of field, high definition ambient occlusion, hardware tessellation, super-sample anti-aliasing... Read more...

TechSpot: GeForce GTX Titan Review

Julio Franco — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:08:21 +0000

After wearing the single-GPU performance crown for 12 months, the GTX 680 has been dethroned by the new GTX Titan. The Titan carries a GK110 GPU with a transistor count that has more than doubled... Read more...

TechSpot: Crysis 3 Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:11:23 +0000

PC gamers won't have to wait for graphical extras. Crysis 3 launched with high-resolution textures, DX11 support and plenty of customization options that set it apart from the diluted consoles builds. Read more...

TechSpot: Triple Monitor Gaming on a Budget

Julio Franco — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:50:25 +0000

Considering next-gen cards are still months away, we didn't expect to bring any more GPU reviews until the second quarter of 2013. However, we realized there was a gap: triple monitor gaming. Read more...

NVIDIA's massive $999 GeForce GTX Titan PC graphics card revealed

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:36:48 +0000

NVIDIA has officially announced its newest hardcore PC graphics card, the $999 GeForce GTX Titan, with 2,688 NVIDIA CUDA cores and the option to put in up to three of these cards in one PC. Read more...

TechSpot: Dead Space 3 Tested, Benchmarked

Julio Franco — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 19:49:12 +0000

The third installment in the Dead Space series was released this month, and considering the game made our list of 2013's most anticipated PC games we thought we would check it out to see how it... Read more...

NVIDIA GeForce Experience open beta launched

John Callaham — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:01:29 +0000

NVIDIA has launched the open beta for its GeForce Experience service, giving all PC gamers a way to check out its service that will optimize PC hardware settings for games via a cloud-based system. Read more...

NVIDIA releases new GeForce drivers to fix security exploit

John Callaham — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:50:35 +0000

NVIDIA released new GeForce drivers for its graphics chips this weekend to fix an exploit that had been discovered during the Christmas holiday that would allow a hacker to gain remote access to a PC. Read more...

TechSpot: Full AMD and Nvidia GPU Comparison with Latest Drivers

Julio Franco — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:08:45 +0000

With updated pricing and performance across the board, we figured it would be worth revisiting both company's offerings to see where you should spend your hard-earned cash this holiday season and... Read more...

NVIDIA releases new Linux drivers; Steam Linux beta begins

John Callaham — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:34:46 +0000

NVIDIA has announced it has released new GeForce Linux drives, with the collaboration of Valve, just as Valve begins its Steam Linux beta test for a limited number of users. Read more...

AMD and NVIDIA release new Windows 8 beta graphics drivers

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:51:07 +0100

Both AMD and NVIDIA have released new beta graphics drivers for their Radeon and GeForce graphics cards, respectively, that support Windows 8 as well as offer better performance in some PC games. Read more...

NVIDIA announces GTX 660, 650 for gamers on a budget

Anthony Tosie — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:11:45 +0100

NVIDIA announced two new Kepler-powered graphics cards yesterday, the GeForce GTX 660 and GTX 650. The GTX 650 costs $109, and the GTX 660 costs $229. Read more...

NVIDIA WHQL driver now available for Windows 8

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:56:48 +0100

Several weeks after the RTM launch of Windows 8, NVIDIA has finally gotten around to releasing new WHQL-certified non-beta drivers for Windows 8 users, through the 306.23 driver update. Read more...

Updated Windows 8-based NVIDIA beta drivers released

John Callaham — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:39:49 +0100

NVIDIA has released a new set of beta drivers for its GeForce family of PC graphics chips, with support for Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating systems. Read more...