Enlarge (credit: BTC Keychain ) Nvidia began releasing LHR (or “Lite Hash Rate”) graphics cards last year to slow down their cryptocurrency mining performance and make them less appealing to non-gamers. Late last week, crypto-mining platform NiceHash announced that it had finally found a way around those limitations and released an update for its QuickMiner […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Nvidia has agreed to pay $5. 5 million in fines to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in order to settle charges that it failed to disclose how many of its GPUs were being sold for cryptocurrency mining, the agency announced today . These charges are unrelated to the current […]
Enlarge / The RTX 3080 Ti. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Graphics card prices remain hugely inflated compared to where they were a few years ago, but the good news is that things finally, consistently seem to be getting better and not worse. To quantify this, Jarred Walton at Tom’s Hardware and analyst Jon Peddie have both pulled together data […]
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Enlarge (credit: AMD) When the PC industry’s two biggest graphics card manufacturers aren’t battling over benchmarks or chip shortage woes, they’ve been fighting over a different sales pitch: boosting performance for older GPUs. And while Nvidia has largely won that war, that has come with an asterisk of a proprietary performance-boosting system, DLSS, that requires […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft brought DirectStorage to Windows PCs this week. The API promises faster load times and more detailed graphics by letting game developers make apps that load graphical data from the SSD directly to the GPU. Now, Nvidia and IBM have created a similar SSD/GPU technology, but they are aiming it at the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Data extortionists who stole up to 1 terabyte of data from Nvidia have delivered one of the most unusual ultimatums ever in the annals of cybercrime: allow Nvidia’s graphics cards to mine cryptocurrencies faster or face the imminent release of the company’s crown-jewel source code. A ransomware group calling itself Lapsus$ […]
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Enlarge / Nvidia showed off the RTX 3090 Ti at CES 2022 in January. At CES back in January, Nvidia announced two new desktop graphics cards . One of them, the lower-midrange RTX 3050, got pricing and a release date, and the reviews have already come and gone . The other, the particular tippy-top-end RTX […]