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Review: NVIDIA GTX 1060 Founder’s Edition
AMD’s launch of the RX 480 immediately prompted NVIDIA to release a high performance budget card, the GTX 1060, which was announced within a month after the release of the RX 480, as direct competition. Today we review the Founder’s Edition of the GTX 1060 and find out whether it delivers on what it promises. As you can notice, the GTX 1060 looks a lot like its other 10-series counterparts, with the same triangle design on the cooler shell, and the nickel alloy based cooler shroud. The top side of the card has a green LED GeForce GTX display which can be controlled with the Geforce Experience software and the card has 1060 displayed in chrome. The card comes with 1,280 shader cores, and 3 or 6 GB of GDDR5 memory, which makes it a rather nice product and decent succesor to the G...
Review: ASUS ROG G752 Gaming Laptop
Gaming laptops have gained immense popularity over the past few years. With great performance, and greater portability, gaming laptops can form a perfect companion for those who are constantly travelling but do not want to stay away from their beloved titles. To this, ASUS ROG have introduced their own beast of a laptop, the ROG G752. This 17.3″ laptop comes with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M graphics card with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM, perfect for high-resolution gaming at fast frame rates. Moreover, it uses vapor cooling technology to keep the GPU temperatures low, maintaining a smooth and stable gaming experience. It’s loaded with the Intel i7-6700HQ “Skylake” processor with a base clock speed of 2.6 GHz and max boost clock speed of 3.5 GHz. 6th-generation Intel Core i7-67...
NVIDIA Reveals New, All Powerful Titan X
Though it hasn’t been long since NVIDIA launched the GTX 1080, they’re here with a new kid on the block – the Titan X, claimed to be twice as powerful as its previous model, and quite expensive. Source: Geforce.com The new Titan X will feature the same Pascal architecture as the 10 series, and will cost about USD 1200, which is almost twice the cost of the GTX 1080 (talk about absurd). Compared to the previous Titan X which had 3072 CUDA cores and 6 teraflops of performance speed, the new Titan X boasts of 3584 CUDA cores and 11 teraflops. Not surprisingly, with 12 GB DDR5X memory, this card will offer premium next gen VR experience, run all your games in 4k. In short, the new Titan X is a beast (bordering on overkill, really). The complete specifications can be found he...
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 Revealed
NVIDIA has finally revealed their response to the RX 480, AMD’s high performance budget GPU – the GTX 1060. The card promises huge improvements, claimed by NVIDIA to be faster than the GTX 980 which comes at a price tag of about $400, while the GTX 1060 is said to cost only around $250. The GPU will have 1280 CUDA Cores, a base clock speed of 1.5 GHz with about 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8 Gbits/s. It will have about 4.4 Teraflops of computing power and is said to be VR ready with a TDP of only about 120 W. If the card delivers on what it promises, you can have a great GPU to run all your games in high settings without them straining your wallet. But while these specifications sound impressive on paper, we still need to find out how the card performs in real life and wheth...
NVIDIA Day Celebrations
GeForce is the ultimate GPU from NVIDIA for gamers who demand the best. GeForce® GTX™ GPUs are synonymous with offering an arsenal of game-changing technologies. This gives you the raw speed and performance to take on next-generation technologies like 4K, and experience the fastest, smoothest and most advanced desktop PC gaming possible — now, and in the future. Gamers will embark on challenges with Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Come celebrate NVIDIA Day gaming celebration in Chennai at PlayerZ. This is an invite-only gaming event, so sign up now! http://www.nvidia.in/object/nday-geforce-gaming-event-in.html WHAT’S THERE FOR GAMERS? Experience your favourite games on the latest hardware. Enjoy NVIDIA Game Time at the Experience Zone in Chennai. Take home exclusive NVIDIA merchandise. Visit the Off...
Reports: GeForce GTX 980 Ti Might be announced at Computex
Latest reports claim that NVIDIA might officially announce the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, PC gamers will surely rejoice in both splendor and awe for the new addition to the PC master race’s arsenal. This is what one of the latest rumours claims will be going down at the Computex Taipei 2015 trade-show. If the rumour proves true, then you can probably expect an announcement of the card’s sale date shortly after. Apparently, comfortable in their performance lead, NVIDIA has postponed the launch of the GTX 980 Ti from May to early in June. The truth of the matter is that AMD doesn’t have a direct rival for NVIDIA’s offerings, particularly the GTX Titan X, and there really isn’t need to unveil the GTX 980 Ti just yet. AMD does sell a dual GPU solution, the Radeon R9 295X2, but most enthusiasts prefe...
Nvidia releases first WHQL-certified video driver for Windows 10
Last week, Nvidia officially released new Windows 10 drivers for its family of graphics adapters. Normally, that would be no big deal–graphics hardware companies update their Windows video drivers all the time. The twist is that these new drivers, version 352.84, are certified for Windows 10 by the Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL), with full support for DirectX 12. After installation, Nvidia’s GeForce Experience app reports that “this driver … is the first WHQL-certified and latest recommended driver for all pre-release Windows testing.” If you have an Nvidia adapter and you’re running the Windows 10 Insider Preview, you can download the drivers directly from the company’s download site. WHQL certification is a big deal. It means the drivers hav...
GIGABYTE Extends G1 Gaming Lineup with GeForce GTX 960
GIGABYTE, the world’s leading premium gaming hardware manufacturer, today announced GTX 960 G1 Gaming graphics card, GV-N960G1 GAMING-2GD, the latest addition to the G1 Gaming family. For enhanced gameplay experiences, the new G1 Gaming graphics card powered by GeForce® GTX 960 is engineered to deliver powerful overclock capabilities and amazing acoustic performance when running all the latest game titles. Power up and go Super Overclock The performance-driven GIGABYTE GTX 960 G1 Gaming graphics card is forged with only the top-notch GPU core through the very own GPU Gauntlet Sorting technology that guarantees greater overclocking capabilities in terms of excellent power switching and thermal efficiency. The card further boasts 160W of total board power, which is backed by a 6-phase GPU po...
NVIDIA’s Maxwell GPU’s will bring you closer to Virtual Reality Gaming
We’ve seen it in movies. We’re read about it in books. Virtual technology is breaking into the mainstream with NVIDIA’s latest GPUs – built on the new Maxwell architecture – are ready. Maxwell is at the core of the new GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 GPUs, the most advanced GPUs from NVIDIA. Maxwell is designed to solve some of the most complex lighting and graphics challenges in visual computing. One of the biggest challenges: virtual reality. With screens positioned inches away from the user’s face, responsiveness is at a premium. Which is why Maxwell-based GPUs have been optimized for virtual reality. No margin for error: get VR wrong and gamers can get sick. Typically, it takes 50 milliseconds or more to render a scene in a virtual reality environment, from the time you move your he...