EVGA’s entry-level Nvidia RTX 3050, priced at $249. [credit: EVGA / Nvidia ] Until something changes, we will assume the worst about the supply-and-demand curves of the current graphics card market. The most pessimistic sign of things to come, sadly, comes from GPU manufacturers themselves, as both Nvidia and AMD have begun pricing new products […]
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition, going on sale this week for $599. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] In a normal GPU marketplace, Nvidia’s new GPU—the RTX 3070 Ti—would land either as a welcome jump or a power-per-watt disappointment. In the chip-shortage squeeze of 2021, however, both its biggest successes and shortcomings may slip […]
The RTX 3080 Ti. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] Nearly nine months ago, the RTX 3000 series of Nvidia graphics cards launched in a beleaguered world as a seeming ray of hope. The series’ first two GPUs, the RTX 3080 and 3070, were nearly all things to all graphics hounds. Nvidia built these cards upon the […]
Enlarge / Coming soon: Nearly identical versions of these GPUs, only with “LTR” logos—and new measures to reduce their mining hash rates. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3000-branded graphics cards are receiving an update off the factory lines starting this month: hardware-level flags meant to slow down the mining of the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum. […]
Behold: the all-important top-down keyboard view. [credit: Dell ] This time last year, we covered one of the first Ryzen 9 gaming laptops—Asus’ ROG Zephyrus G14. A year later, Dell is joining the Ryzen-powered gaming laptop party with its new Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition. Last year, the Achilles heel of Ryzen-powered gaming laptops was mediocre […]
Enlarge / The EVGA RTX 3060, as posed in front of some sort of high-tech honeycomb array. (credit: EVGA / Nvidia) The past year of graphics card reviews has been an exercise in dramatic asterisks, and for good reason. Nvidia and AMD have seen fit to ensure members of the press have access to new […]
There’s apparently an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000-series GPU inside of this laptop, and it’s apparently launching on or after January 26. [credit: Nvidia ] If you’ve been wondering when gaming laptops would begin a more serious push to 1440p panels, this week’s CES reveals from Nvidia are aimed directly at you. Behold: a generational jump […]
Speaking about the RTX 3070, Nvidia’s newest $499 GPU launch Thursday, October 29, is catchy concerning the time of the review embargo. As of now, the RTX 3070 is your greatest GPU inside this price industry by a huge margin. Back in 24 hours, this may alter –maybe radically. Ahead of AMD’s large October 28 […]
Your new favorite $699 GPU—unless AMD has anything to say about it in October. For some people, summarizing the Nvidia RTX 3080 difference may revolve around a slew of high-end—and sometimes proprietary—technologies. Ray tracing. Deep-learning super sampling. Crazy-fast memory bandwidth. In some cases, Nvidia’s new $699 GPU is at its best when software leverages its […]