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New Linux laptop offers RTX 3080 and 144 Hz 17-inch screen

Enlarge (credit: Juno Computers ) Linux users like to game, too, and the Juno Neptune 17-inch V3 laptop announced this week ensures that people on Ubuntu can play their favorite titles on the go. Keeping up with the Alienwares, Asus ROGs, and other Windows-focused gaming brands, the new portable packs up to an RTX 3080 […]

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Review: Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti is a powerhouse—but good luck finding it at $1,199 MSRP

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 […]

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Nvidia will add anti-mining flags to the rest of its RTX 3000 GPU series

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. […]

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“Demand Will Likely Surpass supply”: Nvidia Clarifies RTX 30 shortages

The RTX 3070. Talking in the Credit Suisse electronic financial services seminar, Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress dealt with and partly clarified the current shortages of their corporation’s brand new RTX 30-series pictures cards such as the GeForce RTX 3080 along with 3070. She affirmed that wafer shortages at processor provider Samsung Foundry certainly are […]

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Nvidia RTX 3080 review: 4K greatness at $699—and good news for cheaper GPUs

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 […]